"The House I Live In" Screening & Forum
Saturday, June 1st, 2013 @ 2PM
Martin Luther King Labor Center / SEIU 1199
310 W. 43rd Street @ 8th Ave.
New York, NY
Petition on the War on Drugs
Forty-two years after President Richard M. Nixon declared a “War on Drugs” under the guise of halting trafficking in drugs in the United States,the evidence is clear: The War on Drugs has been a “war on us,” a politically motivated, racially biased strategy which has disproportionately targeted African Americans and other people of color.
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End the War on Drugs
Statement by Dr. Ron Daniels
Dr. Ron Daniels to Speak at Conference Honoring Amilcar Cabral
At the invitation of the Honorable Pedro Pires, former President of Cape Verde, West Africa, Dr. Ron Daniels will speak at an international conference dedicated to the memory of the late Amilcar Cabral.
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Vantage Point by Dr. Ron Daniels
A National Disgrace: Joblessness and Fratricide in America’s “Dark Ghettos”
The Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) is gearing up for a Day of Direct Action June 17th in Washington, D.C. to demand an end to the War on Drugs and mass incarceration and call on President Obama to invest in marginalized urban inner-city Black communities across the nation. While ending the war on drugs as a devastating racially-biased policy is essential, we in IBW have …
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Malcolm X: A Complex Legacy
By Gloria Browne-MarshallMalcolm X was a complex man. The beating death of his grandson, Malcolm Shabazz, 28, in a Mexico City bar, days before his grandfather’s birth date, only adds to this complex legacy. For the life and death of Malcolm X is unlike any other civil rights icon.
Malcolm X is remembered as an impassioned speaker who demanded change by any means necessary. Malcolm X said things aloud about White oppression …
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Realities in Black and Brown: Critical Concerns and Common Ground
By Dr. Maulana Karenga
There is no easy way or walk to freedom; no shortcuts to justice; no quick fix for conceiving and constructing the good and sustainable society and world we all want and deserve to live in.
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By Julianne Malveaux
When Beyonce Knowles sang the Etta James song “At Last” at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, the song could have had several meanings. At last we have an African American President? At last, the muscle of the Black vote has been flexed? At last, there is some hope for our country to come together with [...]
Read MoreReparations in order for 1963 bombing
By Rev. Jesse Jackson
It was terror that shook the nation. On Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, a bomb exploded in the basement of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in …
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By Walter L. Fields Jr.
The State of Black America shows there is much work to be done.
Read MoreVictory to the Ongoing Bolivarian Revolution: US Imperialism Hands-off Venezuela!
The Black Left Unity Network (BLUN) salutes the victory of Nicolas Maduro Moros as the new and democratically elected President of Venezuela.
Read MoreOfficial Reports for State of the Black World Conference III
Representatives from 21 states in the USA, 15 countries and 20 colleges and universities convened November 14- 18th 2012 in Washington DC for the State of the Black World Conference III (SOBWC III) at Howard University. To read the reports from this historic gathering of leaders, organizers, elected officials, scholars and students from around the African Diaspora, click on the link below.
Read MoreMartin Luther King/Malcolm X Community Revitalization Initiative
Martin Luther King/Malcolm X
Community Revitalization Initiative
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Haiti Oasis Institute
The War On Drugs Is A War On Us
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