Posted in Blogging on May 31, 2007 | 11 Comments »
I have three related announcements dealing with AfroSphere initiatives.
Announcement #1: BronzeTrinity has put out a call to recruit more members to AfroSphere. She has outlined seven ways all current members can spread the word:
Put a “Want to Join” or “Click Here to Join” link to the Afrospear Forum or somewhere else so that people [...]
Posted in Activism, Asia, Blogging, China, Feminism, Life, Myanmar, News, Politics on May 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi house arrest was quietly extended for another year by the military dictatorship of Myanmar, a southeast asian country formerly known as Burma. It was “quiet” in the sense that there was little to no media coverage of this event. In the early 90’s I remember hearing about Suu Kyi’s ordeal, hunger strikes and the violent [...]
Posted in Abortion, Activism, Blogging, Feminism, Health Care, Life, Politics on May 29, 2007 | 14 Comments »
One of my favorite bloggers is my “Circle” sister Aulelia. On her blog page, Charcoal Ink, she consistently drops thought provoking posts on sensitive issues. Her latest post is on abortion: The “A” Question: What Does Abortion Mean? Now although I don’t totally agree with her opinions on this issue, she asks some very hard hitting questions: “One [...]
Posted in Activism, African-Americans, Black History, Blogging, Business, Crime, Extreme Color Arousal, Genocide, Leadership, Life, News, Pan Africanism, Politics, R/WS, Racism on May 26, 2007 | 7 Comments »
THE RISE OF THE BLACK MATRIX
In 1968, after the death of Dr. Martin Luther king Jr., there was much unrest, discord and wide-spread violence that which increasingly placed the peace and stability of the nation in dire jeopardy. This resulted in the decline of national stability and loss of lives and property that cost the [...]
Posted in Activism, Africa, Black History, Blogging, Business, China, Darfur, Genocide, Islam, Life, News, Olympics, Pan Africanism, Politics, R/WS, Racism, Religion, Sudan, Work on May 22, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Here is an interesting article on China, Darfur and the 2008 Olympics by Bart Mongoven from Stratfor Intelligence Group:
Posted in Activism, African-Americans, Blogging, Crime, News, R/WS on May 22, 2007 | 44 Comments »
Thin Black Duke of Slant Truth has created a Facebook group and cause for the Jena Six. Much obliged, man; much obliged. There are a couple of other groups dedicated to the Jena Six too, if you’re interested in joining them. The most important thing is to spread the word.
THE PETITION IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR [...]
Posted in Activism, African-Americans, Black History, Blogging, Crime, Extreme Color Arousal, Genocide, Life, News, Pan Africanism, Politics, R/WS, Racism on May 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Electronic Village forwarded a post from his blog entitled: Manic Monday: Graphic. It deals with lynching in America and the efforts of James Allen, who collected photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at some of these events. Mr. Allen published them in a book called: Without Sanctuary. As EV explains some of the history of lynching, he also provides [...]
Posted in Activism, African-Americans, Black History, Blogging, Culture, Extreme Color Arousal, Leadership, Life, News, Pan Africanism, Politics, R/WS, Racism, Work on May 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The second part of the discussion of racism vs. extreme color arousal by Francis Holland.
Posted in Activism, African-Americans, Black History, Blogging, Culture, Extreme Color Arousal, Genocide, Leadership, Life, News, Pan Africanism, Politics, R/WS, Racism, Work on May 20, 2007 | 22 Comments »
I have been following a conversation over at thefreeslave entitled: Francis Holland On The Non-existence of Race. Although I didn’t comment, I was surprised and enlightened on the different perspectives we have as a community on the issue of race and racism. It also had me contemplating deeply my beliefs and perspective on this issue.
Francis [...]
Posted in Activism on May 19, 2007 | 6 Comments »
This post was supposed to be my introduction to the readers of the AfroSpear, and me giving a little background about who I am. But honestly, I don’t even feel like it. I don’t feel like introducing myself, or giving a background about myself, or any of that. I know that all the members of the AfroSpear circle agreed [...]
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