President Obama Speaks at Morehouse Commencement

"President Obama touched on race, opportunity, tradition and commitment, carefully couched within familiar anecdotes and colloquialisms designed to give signs and signals to black America that he is still our guy."
Jarrett L. Carter  HuffPost

"Obama gets personal about race and manhood in Morehouse College speech"
By Philip Rucker Washington Post

Was President Obama Being Disrespectful to Morehouse Men? Some are Saying “Yes”

The heart of Happy Hollow

All I can say is have fun with this book. Lots of good reading here.

Looking Back... How Newark welfare mothers brought about a necessary change in the community.

With No One To Help Us (1967)

Documantary demonstrating how the formation of a food-buying club by a group of
Newark welfare mothers brought about a necessary change in the community.
Nice images of African-American neighborhood in Newark.

This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Production Company: U. S. Office Of Economic Opportunity
Sponsor: Head Start Programs
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w
Keywords: need keyword
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

The Attica prison Protest and Massacre

Attica: A Political Broadcast (November 8, 2011)
Some very telling dialog here.

On Sept. 13, 1971, New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller ordered armed state troopers to raid the prison in Attica, New York, ending a prison uprising to protest inhumane conditions at the facility. Troopers then indiscriminately shot over 2,000 rounds of ammunition, killing 29 prisoners and 10 guards. Recently released audio recordings provide a glimpse into the bizarre savage rituals of US federal and local rulers coming together.

"I think the combination of age and a greater coming together is responsible for the speed of the passing time."
--Sam Melville, from a letter written shortly before he was killed by troopers in Attica

Complete audio of Rockefeller-Nixon Attica dialogue available at:
http://www.archive.org/details/AtticaUprisingTheRockefeller-nixonTapes


This movie is part of the collection: Community Video

Producer: junya
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: attica; prison uprising; rockefeller; nixon; massacre
Contact Information: https://www.youtube.com/user/justJunya

Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal

Assata ... are there POWs in US Prisons?

In these times when people are planting bombs, committing mass murders, stealing billions of dollars at a clip from the economic system and trying to dissasemble our basic civil rights. Who exactly decided that Assata Shakur, isolated in Cuba as she is, can really be one of the ten most dangerous threats and how could they justify this? Excuse me, did I say most dangerous? I guess most wanted is a little different. How different do you think?

 Some people such as those in the following video, believe that the featured people have been subjected to political arrests and assassinations, do you think this is true?

Political Prisoners and POWs in the U.S


The lives and words of Malcolm X, and the Black Panthers, and the Puerto Rican Independentistas are the framework for the histories of Geronimo Pratt, Dylcia Pagan, Mumia Abu Jamal and Alejandrina Torres. The isolation, physical abuse and injustice endured by the young activists trapped by COINTELPRO twenty years ago make a mockery of United States human rights policies. With Assata Shakur and William Morales, they are powerful voices for justice and self-determination. Coordinating Producers: Ada Gay Griffin (NY, NY)