“Robert Moses was America’s greatest builder. He was the shaper of the greatest city in the New World. But what did he build? What was the shape into which he pounded the city? To build the highways, Moses threw out of their homes 250,000 persons- more people than lived in Albany or Chattanooga, or in […]
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How Films Make Puppets Out Of Film Watchers
“You will now start to notice how, over the sense, what the really great artists- the people who make us laugh and cry and wonder; the people who fill our world with color and dark stories that can fill us with fear and provoke us to action; the people who fill the world with music […]
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The following book excerpt outlines tactics that were used to destroy the unity between Black activist groups in the 1960s and 1970s. These divide and conquer tactics seem very similar to tactics that were likely implemented in the 1990s among hip hop artists. “SNCC IN DECLINE AFTER 8 YEARS IN LEAD PACE-SETTER IN CIVIL RIGHTS […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “Kill The Messenger” By: Nick Schou
“[Gary] Webb spent more than a year uncovering the shady connection between the CIA and drug trafficking through the agency’s relationship with the Nicaraguan contras, a right-wing army that aimed to overthrow the leftist Sandinista government during the 1980s. The Sandinistas were Marxist rebels who came to power in 1979 after the collapse of decades […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Corporate Mindset vs. The Entrepreneurial Mindset
“And that’s the absolute difference between corporate and entrepreneurial mindsets. A suit looks at reports. If reports say this is selling, it’s design more of this. The entrepreneur says, ‘I feel a change coming around the bend, we need to get out of this and start getting into that, That is the new trend.’ the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “The Makings Of Black Revolutionaries” By: James Forman
“I stood alone on the veranda of the Villa Silla, looking out into the dark night. Around me grew the rich, tropical vegetation, and below the waves of the Atlantic Ocean lapped against the coast. The night was still. I wonder if my ancestors had come from this land. I wondered if they had been […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “The Debt: What America Owes To Blacks” By: Randall Robinson
“Racist behavior in our society is largely static, unnoticed, unremarked, and unconsciously accommodated by Americans of all colors. Everyone essentially behaves as everyone always has. Habit dulls senses, even the victims, especially when the victim sees that that crimes against the voiceless do not count.” -From, “The Debt: What America Owes To Blacks” By: Randall […]
Read the rest of this entry »Anecdote Of The Week: Fighting A Pride
A tiger, when attacked, fights alone. Even when the imperiled tiger is surrounded by fellow tigers, the tigers that are not in imminent danger do nothing to help. Lions defend against attack as a pride. No tiger attacks a lion within sight of another lion. A single lion, however, had it the will to, could […]
Read the rest of this entry »Be Wise When It Comes To Fools
“Do not send a fool in an important matter when you can send one that is wise. Do not instruct a fool lest he hate you for it. When one instructs a fool, he or she says ‘What they are doing insults me.’ The friend of a fool is a fool. The friend of a […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “Selections From The Husia” By: Maulana Karenga
“Be diligent as long as you live, always doing more than is commanded of you. Do not misuse your time while following your heart, for it is offensive to the soul to waste one’s time. Do not lose the daily opportunity to increase that which you have. Diligence produces gains and gains do not endure […]
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