• SLAPPED

    by  • May 7, 2012 • 0 Comments

    By Ruben Wilson

    Do you remember this scene from the roots series. News of nat turner’s quest for freedom reaches a nearby plantation where there’s a party . during the hysteria the white men decide to defend the home and put the women in the cellar for safety. Wouldn’t you know the house negroes were all in a tizzy and just as frightfully hysterical. They were about to enter the cellar when one of the white women literally slapped them back to reality and refused to let them enter. Remember the bridge incident during katerina. This is for all you who think you are accepted.

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    The Detroit Control (Consent) Agreement – An Analysis

    by  • April 25, 2012 • 0 Comments

    by David Rambeau

    Introduction

    Back in the 60s when there was much social and political ferment in our communities, many of those involved in “The Struggle ” were regularly reading writers like Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, W. E. B. Dubois, Walter Rodney, Malcolm X and a host of others to use as references to make points during the heated public discourse that occurred. 

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    Hearing on Lawsuit against NAACP

    by  • April 10, 2012 • 0 Comments

    It’s important to attend the NAACP/Pinkney hearing (details below)because it’s part of a big picture:The most oppressed town in Michigan is again fighting back.Benton Harbor is under constant attacks, from ever changingangles, by Whirlpool Corporation.In this case, the NAACP is collaborating with Whirlpool to oust Rev. Pinkneyfrom the office of president of his local NAACP [...]

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    You Do The Math

    by  • April 5, 2012 • 0 Comments

    By Ruben Wilson

    Blacks cry bout no jobs , but spend big$ with folk that won’t hire them
    Blacks whine bout being oppressed then support those that do the oppressing black folk lament they taking over, making us hostage, yet we give ,them the tools to dominate

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    Pinkney Files Lawsuit against NAACP

    by  • April 3, 2012 • 1 Comment

    Press Release

    On April 2, 2012, Rev. Edward Pinkney, president of the Benton Harbor/Twin City NAACP branch, filed a lawsuit against Ben Jealous, nat’l NAACP president, and state president Yvonne White and Vice Pres. James Gill.

    Defendants White and Gill knowingly and willfully entered into a joint agreement with Whirlpool employee Marcus Robinson (Whirlpool’s Consortium for Community Development, and Band of Brethren) to take over the BH/Twin City NAACP, and to suspend membership fees for new people Robinson brings to NAACP.

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    Andy Dillon’s Decree – Government Betrayal

    by  • April 3, 2012 • 0 Comments

      The consent decree offered by Andy Dillon, state treasurer, and supported by Governor Rick Snyder is an extreme and poor method of governing. The governor and Dillon have announced this decree ahead of their own financial review board. They have circumvented their own process and in doing so have portrayed Mayor Bing as a [...]

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    City Of Detroit Financial Review Report

    by  • April 2, 2012 • 0 Comments

    Written by Tom Barrow
    Dear Ebony:
    I have read in detail the report presented to the governor of the state of Michigan purporting to be from the Detroit financial review team dated March 26, 2012. And in so reading, bear in mind that the preparers of this document have information which is not been made available to the Detroit City Council or others who may have a different point of view.

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    Letter to Detroit City Council

    by  • March 13, 2012 • 0 Comments

    By Russ Bellant

    Dear Members of the Detroit City Council;

    I am writing to ask that you not approve the decertification of the City of Detroit Human Services Department (DHS) as requested by Maura Corrigan, Director of the Michigan Department of Human Services.

    Based on Corrigan’s testimony before Council on March 2 we know that if DHS is decertified that her intention is to permanently disqualify Detroit from ever running DHS programs again.

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    Michigan A Great State, Except for all the Racists

    by  • March 12, 2012 • 0 Comments

    Is the State of Michigan a good place to raise a family? Build, grow or locate a business? Can Michigan offer advantages over other states, or even other countries, to encourage people to locate here, or discourage current residents from moving? Should someone live in Michigan? Can people prosper in Michigan? Does Michigan exhibit the best qualities as written in our countries constitution?

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    Will Lawmakers Follow the Law?

    by  • March 11, 2012 • 0 Comments

    Michigan’s Public Act 4 of 2011 (The Emergency Manager Law) has been used to place an EM over the cites of Flint, Pontiac, Benton Harbor and Ecorse as well as the Detroit Public School district. A group called Stand up for Democracy has collected over 200,000 signatures to place the law before voters in the November 2012 election and suspend all activity under PA 4. There is a strong concern by the backers of this law that Michigan voters, both republicans and democrats would vote to repeal this law. Additionally once the signatures are turned in and certified, the law is suspended. All activity under the law must cease and the provisions within the law cannot be used until the voters vote on retaining or abolishing the law.

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    What Message did Brian Dickerson Send?

    by  • March 9, 2012 • 1 Comment

    Brian Dickerson, columnist for the free press, wrote a column on the recent vote in Troy (Michigan) to reject federal funding and not build a transit station. The column, “In Troy, an all too familiar fear of the other” December 22, 2011. It’s a critical article against the Troy government elected persons who voted against the transit center and Detroit City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson who had nothing to do with the vote and nothing to do with the issue.

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