Black History Month
About Black History Month
We re celebrating Black History Month by shouting out some of our favorite sons and daughters throughout the month of February.
Commemorating our sacred Alkebulan-Afrikan Story
January 31, 2021
A bust memorializing Breonna Taylor, who was murdered by police in Louisville, Ky., was recently destroyed in downtown Oakland. The artist, Leo Carson of Oakland, has said he will try to piece it back together or build a new one. Asé. – Photo: Baba Jahahara
by Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at
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Africans deserve Reparations! ‘Cause Black Lives Matter!
Blessings of Imani (faith) victorious g-o-ds, esteemed elders, sis-stars, bro-stars and youthful revolutionaries!
How ya’ll be? With emphasis on da be! We pray this new season is off to a solid beginning for you and yours! May our Divine Mother-Father Creator of and in All and incredible Ancients and Ancestors from millennia past, yesteryears and, literally, yesterday, find you and your extended family staying healthy, safe and keeping a positive spirit.
Shakur, whose real name is Joanne Deborah Chesimard, is a convicted cop killer who fled the United States in 1979 after a prison break. She is also the first woman to make it onto the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list, on which she remains today.
The Instagram post also features a photo of Shakur’s book cover, which promotes a foreword by Marxist activist Angela Davis, who has also appeared on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List.
Davis came to prominence in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party U.S.A., and is best known for being the second black woman to make the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List for her role in a courtroom shootout that resulted in the death of Judge Harold Haley.
Madison in the Sixties – the last week of January.
1963 The UW Protection and Security Department hires its first female investigator, Nancy Marshall, a former member of the Madison Police Department’s Bureau of Crime Prevention. Campus police chief Albert Hamann says Marshall will handle investigations involving women and juveniles.
In 1964, teenage romance turns to trouble, as high school gangs rumble all over town. An Edgewood HS girl entices the Verona boy she’s dating and four of his friends into an ambush at Peppermint Park, the carnival area on the far west side, where they are severely beaten with clubs and rubber hoses by a gang of 16 led by her other boyfriend, from Madison West. Police thwart a rematch rumble, set for a Verona gravel pit, after getting an anonymous tip. Days later, another two-timing teen is the focus as eleven students from East, La Follette, and Monona Grove High Schools battle with fists, clubs, and switchblades in the 2400 block of East W
George Seldes: Speaking Truth To Power
In his autobiography,
Three SOBs, Seldes relates an interesting tale in chapter 22 of this book, “Lenin Speaks of His American Mentors.” Seldes was in Moscow for the fifth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. He was one of the few American journalists who met V. I. Lenin and spent personal face-time with him. Lenin discussed the tremendous impact two Americans had had upon him. First, the Socialist politician and writer Daniel De Leon, who had shaped Lenin’s interpretation of Marxism, and second, former U. S. Senator Richard Pettigrew, author of
Triumphant Plutocracy, which Lenin was presently reading. Seldes made a note of the title of this work, which he wanted to promptly obtain when returning to America. Seldes put down the title as