Ain't nuthin like Hip Hop music with some ol school R & B up in the mix...
Rain, Mosadi, Outcast, Lauryn, Public enemy (yeah boy), 2pac, Biggie, Stevie, Marvin, Mr. Marley, India, Jill, Arrested Development... Nina Simone sangin deep from the soul...
And the underground where revolutionary seeds grow.
Movies
Sankofa, The Spook that sat by the door, The Matrix (cause ya know Neo was a brotha)
Television
None!!! (well maybe some Law and order)
Books
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Assata, For Colored girls, The prisoners wife, There eyes were watching God, The rose that grew from Concrete, The Big box
Heroes
Besides You and Me... Coach D cause she ain't never givin up... Malcolm & Huey, Assata, Angela, Fred, Ashanti, Evans & Larry (Panthers NC)... And Harriet who WAS the revolution... Langston, Haki, Audre, Ntozake, Zora... Shabazz, Howard, Mama Nayo, Cimarron, Vince, Alexis, Ebony, Zach and Mama Nan
Peace be to all the Ancestors who laid the path...
About me: SPIRITHOUSE’S Choosing Sides Program grew out of both our successful experience working with community youth and parents, as well as this mounting crisis of violence among young people of color. It is a comprehensive approach to teen violence that begins not just with the “problem” but also grapples with particular ‘intersectional’ (age, race, education, and socioeconomic status) challenges that young people of color face. Students are presented with challenges allowing them to analyze teen roles, responsibilities and the shared fate of their community.
Thank You to NEW HORIZON'S and Coach D, The Rites of Passage program of Durham and The Durham Civil Rights Project for trusting us to work this revolution the best way we know how (in community with you).
thanks for the add! i wanted to let you guys know that i am still seeking 2 more spoken word/hip hop artists for the "derelickt diva" show on the 24th. . .
also, if you know anyone who is interested in attending- PROMO! please! much love and light!
Thanks for adding us. Your support is much appreciated.
What do you think of these newly discovered crime scene photos (viewed at Abu-Jamal-News.com)?
I have been personally contacting every media outlet I could find and still the mainstream media has completely ignored the story. Many independent media outlets have covered it, but the only independent outlet that has actually published one of the photos is the national Black newspaper, The SF Bay View (click here).
This is just the latest episode in a long history of corporate media bias (and arguably racism) towards Mumia and other political prisoners.
Wont you help spread the word and join us this saturday so we can pack the house and get asked back to this nice venue next to brigham circle across the street from JP licks
Hope U can make it
For all those who know that “it is better to speak…”
A CALL TO ACTION
Creating a World without Sexual Violence
National Day of Truthtelling
April 28th, 2007
Durham, North Carolina
For all who ARE survivors of sexual violence…
For all who choose to BELIEVE survivors of sexual violence…
For all who KNOW WE CAN end rape culture…
…join us on April 28th, 2007, in Durham, North Carolina, as we come together—across divisions and disempowering silences—to create a world full of the safety, possibility, dignity, justice, and peace that we all deserve. Stand with us as we dare to imagine a world free from sexual violence and ALL forms of oppression.
Meet us in Durham to speak, teach, learn, demonstrate, and tell the truth. Together, WE can make this world a reality!!!
Questions? Contact us at dayoftruthtelling@gmail.com or check us out on My Space at www.myspace.com/ubuntunc
This event is being organized by: the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Ubuntu, Men Against Rape Culture, SpiritHouse, Raleigh Fight Imperialism Stand Together, Southerners on New Ground, Independent Voices, Black Workers for Justice, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization/OSCL.
“What would happen in one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.”
- From: "Kathe Kollwitz" by Muriel Rukeseyer
Thank you for the add request and for sharing the truth about what happen to Sean Bell. The oppressive weight of this society must be lifted from all people and the truth must be told. This is an evening in which my own rights were violated. I was busking in the subway after a Celtics game and before the crowd of people came I was forced to "shut it down" by the transit police. I hope you don't mind if i post the poetry that has gotten me kicked out of now two train stations, this time with the proper permits and breaking no laws other than speaking the truth.
Monday, December 11, 2006
THE LIGHTS (truth by Cap Tin)
Current mood: awake
Category: Writing and Poetry
Liven in the land of own your own hunger
Listen to the man who roam the loan wonder
Pacifist learn to pass on fisticuffs
Forget the bluffs clear your eyes you've been lied to
By a nation that ill buy and deprive you
Of you so called rights well here come the lights
Ask yourself this question the lesson part one
People shouldn't doubt my son
How can a man turn fifteen million into nine billion dollars?
Well! Here's some facts you won't hear on the radio
911's no joke so let me say it slow
"The controlled demolition of the world trade center complex was impart a cover up for the ENRON scandal"
Aw dam uncle sam you can't handle
spark'n a flame for the fame of twelve candles
Pacifist learn to pass on fisticuffs
Forget the bluffs clear your eyes you've been lied to
By a nation that ill buy and deny you
Of your freedom of choice
to chose to love one another
where all here cuz were from the same mother
Pump'n bar bells until my arm's swell
To shake with a firm grip let the perm rip
Cuz the day I flip that's.. total destruction
Bombs at the junction of cultural survival spirit revival
Now is the time take a look in your Bible
Or holy Koran the moment is on
Don't ever call me an average man I'm an African
Roots more blacker than their whole faction
Diggin for truth cuz its time to take action.
Pacifist learn to pass on fisticuffs
Forget the bluffs clear your eyes you've been blinded
By a tyrant who's criminal minded
Indigenous home land mulatto my motto … cuff the system
Got the preachers son for a drummer me sister she want a hummer gonna start a revolution do under with dumb n dumber right about now shinen the reason just love and rhym'n scream'n cuff the system
If you didn't know were the one that's gonna bring the walls down
Been around the world since we bailed from Paul's town
hell bound hell no were not goin society's the one that's gonna reap what its sow'n
say it loud now … cuff the system never bow down
Probably get shoot by the CIA but that's ok if they kill me ill come back as a martyr in a day scream'n cuff the system!
Cuff the system
This democracy's a mockery
Cuff the system
Cuff the system
This democracy's a mockery
Cuff the system
Cuff the system
This democracy's a mockery
Cuff the system
This democracy's a mockery I've seen the white devil inside me try n to rob me of my sanity I plan to be more than just a modern day slave in this land of the free stolen home of the brave.
What's free? For the man to tax me takes it out my check and he don't even ask me
cuz their try n to fund a war they need more weapons once the corps hits the shore there's no contest n Cuff bush both the old and the young for try n to do the middle east the way the west was won.
Got em Liven in the land of own your own hunger
Listen to the man who roam the loan wonder
Pacifist learn to pass on fisticuffs
Forget the bluffs clear your mind you were lied to
By a nation that ill buy and deprive you
Of you so called rights well here come the lights
Now get up stand up and join the fight…….
