Unwavering belief in self!

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Torin Ellis
It’s about assenting intellectually with certainty...always is. Today we talk about the fourteen-dollar millionaire (words paint a better picture). Everyone knows Kenneth Cole. He is also socially in tune with issues that play in the space of humans the world over. An icon for some. One of many no doubt. His second start is interesting. After creating his first line of shoes, Cole had two options: take up space at a trade show side by side with thousands of other sellers or set up a fancy showroom.

Self-Determination and Nationalism

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Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD
In order for the African Community in the United States of America to continue our fight for self-determination and dignity, it is important that we remind ourselves of the nature of the American dynamic.



Essentially, and at the foundation of the American-European dynamic, is the fact that it is made up of many nations who migrated to this country and continued to fight for, and develop their national interest, inside this country. At the same time they maintained their economic, political, cultural, and social relationships with their country of origin.


Click Clack

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Click Clack
Click clack.  To most it means get low.  I’m taking aim this week at a fallacy around activity.  Left standing...a good thing.  All others get up... content is not a coincidence.  



Careful analytics of the Blackberry, Ipaq, I-phone, Palm, and Treo devices signal the scurry of activity day after day after long day.  Swollen with conference calls, cold calls, meetings, presentations, seminars, trainings, and travel to and fro...we rise early and retire later.  Each day is filled with red lines of over lapping appointments and to do items that warrant our conviction and sincerity.


Garvey's Birthday And Lessons In Learning

ImageIt is quite clear that African people in America continue to be mis-educated. This problem is discussed in a variety of ways in conversations everyday in our communities throughout America.



From time to time we should consult the wisdom of those who have addressed this problem whom we may have forgotten. One such person who addressed this problem is the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, when he presented his formula for learning in his courses on African Philosophy in the 1930s. I think it is only appropriate to review Mr. Garvey's formula for learning as we continue to build the Reparations Movement and seek specific guideposts to our development as a people.   


Shock Value

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Shock Value
Automobile racing is commonly used to support any claims of superior tire technology.  Fast speeds while hugging the track visuals work in creating product belief.  Bridgestone Corporation decided to launch a series of commercials from a different and more compelling angle.  These 30 second spots focus on the dramatic landing of a large commercial aircraft. 

Muhammad Nasserdeen -- A Life Dedicated To Black Economic Empowerment

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Anthony Assadulah Samad, Ph.D.
The founder of the most credible black economic empowerment movement in Los Angeles, and maybe the country, died last week. Muhammad Nasserdeen, President and Founder of Recycling Black Dollars (RBD), started a movement based on a very simple premise -- putting the black dollar in another black hand -- and for the last twenty years, advocated for the building of black businesses and black economies nationwide.

Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to the Mayor of Jena

Black Agenda Report
Dear Mayor Murphy McMillin,

I hear that you're angry. Me too. But it appears our outrage is directed at decidedly different targets.

I, for one, am angry at the three young white men in your town who, last year, hung nooses from a tree after a black student dared sit under it, thereby touching off several months of racial tension. And I'm mad at their parents for whatever it is they taught their kids - or failed to teach them - that would allow their children to believe such a thing appropriate.

But it is not these persons who have elicited your anger.


Battle of the Sexes

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Battle of the Sexes
Certain conflicts are as common as the air we breathe.  The Battle of the Sexes is one of them.  To argue its’ origins, one would have to study examples such as the Ethiopian story of seduction of the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon.  Or look at the historic Sept 20, 1973 match when Billie Jean King defeated Booby Riggs.  A victory that spawned a movement for sure.  Did that victory give rise to this interoffice conflict?  Another argument.