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AMERICA’S CHILDREN are disproportionately facing a dismal future in spite of being loved and cherished in the world’s richest and most powerful nation... that ideally is the  land of the free.

Are Children Marked?

“To me, it just seems like Black people are marked.  We have so many troubles and problems.’  That simple, yet profound conclusion was expressed by Bernadette Washington (a 38-year-old homemaker from Orleans Parish, who was forced to sleep under a bridge with her husband and five children after Hurricane Katrina ravished the coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama), should give every person of African descent throughout the world cause to pause and ponder, not only if Black people are marked, but by whom?”  If one dared to replace “Black people” with children, in the excerpt from African- AmericanNews&Issues’ Sept. 28 - Oct. 4, 2005 front page feature (Are Black People Marked?), it certainly would be apropos to address the heartbreaking plight of today’s children worldwide.

~See full article by Bud Johnson~

Millions More Movement Flexes Muscle in Fort Worth

Unity in Community Conference Strikes Harmonic Note at Dunbar
 

“There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”              -Malcolm X

It was about speaking truth to power and the message was strong, yet simple.

Black America must be united and promote the need for all African Americans to shed skins of fear, ignorance and defeatism and embrace the historical connection to our African ancestors.

~See article by Darwin Campbell~

MABLE GREEN BOYD always remembered the 1940s fondly. Mainly, because it was the year she married Cezar Boyd on November 3, 1940. That year also  held special significance because the specter of an impending war made the most racist Americans realize that a divided nation could not fight, or win a war. That mindset was captured in Richard Wright’s 1940 bestseller, Native Son, a fierce protest novel about race relations in America. Ironically, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. became the U. S. Army’s first African American General in 1940. The role of African Americans in the military predictably expanded after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and pulled the United States into World War II on December 5, 1941. African American soldiers did, indeed, change the way America looked at their people

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Despite Ailment, Old Warrior Not Broken; Vows to Fight On
 

“A warrior must only take care that his spirit is never broken.”                                     - Shissai

While some are trying to write an epitaph for Dallas Councilman James Fantroy, his message to them is simple: “I Ain’t Dead Yet.”

This old African warrior is still very much a perky spirit in the hunt and up to the challenges of taking care of business at Dallas City Hall.

“People have painted me like I had one foot in the grave and was about to die,” Fantroy said.  “My condition has nothing to do with my brains and my desire to work for the people.  I have the energy and spirit and I will not stop fighting.  I will continue to speak about injustice and nonjustice and my kidney disease has nothing to do with it.”

~See full article by Darwin Campbell~

Community meetings are the only way that African Americans can come together as a people across America!  In the mind of this journalist, the lack of unity and understanding among our people is the main reason we can’t come together as one.  Think about it; not all African Americans think alike. Community meetings called by conscious and aware Black people of the community have the necessary ingredients to bring people who normally couldn’t get together any other way.  I know it sounds simplistic, but a lot of the bad things that happen to Black people almost daily in this nation could be prevented, if we had community meetings that addressed those issues.  Community meetings also have the ability to bring poor whites and Mexican Americans, who often live in and around Black communities, into the meetings.  “Together we stand, divided we fall.”

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Community Volunteers Needed for TLC- activities in Dunbar-Ramey MLK Senior Center

After retiring years ago, Catherine Tave stays busy making daily trips to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Fort Worth for fun and fellowship with other senior citizens.

   At the center, Tave enjoys watching television and talking with others about days and times gone by.  However, she does not hesitate to help keep the place looking good. Whether cleaning the table or washing the coffee pot, Tave amazing energy and sense of humor and love for life show in her smile and perky spirit.

~See full article by Darwin Campbell~

Think Mother Africa: “It’s Open for Business to African-Americans”

African Americans thinking about going into business should set their eyes on opportunities in Mother Africa.

“Africa is a general store opportunity,” said Minister Akbar Muhammad, international representative for the Nation of Islam, who spoke at the Unity in the Community Conference in Fort Worth.

“Whatever you do Black man and Black woman, your skills are needed because Africa is open to trade.”

 ~See full article by Darwin Campbell~