They Will Not Be Forgotten. Chicago Street Journal for January 24, 2018

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Emmett Till
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
LaQuan McDonlald
Medgar Evers
Sandra Bland
Fred Hampton
Erick and Erica Gardner
Blair Holt
Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner
Trayvon Martin
Malcolm X
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Every Saturday, for the
next 10 weeks, in Chicago, Illinois,
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and girls to read well, think
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increase self-esteem, and move into action to improve
their communities. Call 773.285.9600 to register your child for
another FREE term of Saturday University! Boys 9:00 am to
11:00 am. Girls 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.
BOOKS – Reading is fundamental, but apparently not to
NYC gatekeepers for incarcerated persons. Most of you know
that 50% or more of those imprisoned read below any standard
testing level, now their families are being barred from donating
books. Inmates can only purchase books from state selected
vendors.
Could this be that it is about controlling what is read, as well
as, the enhancement of the school-to-prison money pipeline?
According to one article, there were only 77 book titles available
and 24 were coloring books. Thanks Enoch Mubarak for
the heads up on this info.
SMALL BUSINESSES – This is the 5 th year that SCORE
has hosted its American Small Business Championship
(ASBC) competition. Two small business owners from every
state and DC will receive a reward of $15,000 as a show of
support for their success and to provide help to them for future
projects. Tell them what makeS your business unique and
win. Apply online here: https://championship.score.org/
CRIME – In a recent trip to New York, Cook County Commissioner
Richard Boykin met with the U.N. Assistant Secretary
General to discuss possible deployment of peacekeeping
troops to Chicago. Everyone agrees that the communities,
who experience a high level of violence on a daily basis are
most certainly in need of peace. But, are the UN troops the solution
to problem?
ELECTIONS – Twenty-one year old, Jewell Jones became
the youngest state representative ever in Michigan in 2016.
CSJ is now wondering where is Chicago’s “under 30” future
elected officials? Could it be “you” that we’ve been looking?
BE A CRIME FIGHTER – Cook County Crime Stoppers is
offering up to $1,000 dollars for information leading to arrests.
It pays to help clean up crime. Visit their website for details.
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CELEBRATING
KWANZAA
Contributor Lionel Nixon
On the day of Nia I
visited the South Side
Community Arts Center
and Chicago State
University Kwanzaa
Celebrations.
They both were just
wonderful programs
that lifted one's spirit.
I took a picture at the
South Side Community
Art Center with one of my community heroes Pemon
Rami and at Chicago State University with well-respected,
known and highly regarded social activist, community organizer
and entrepreneur. Afrika Porter.
Afrika is the granddaughter of Chicago legend Dr. John R
Porter Phd, pastor, author, historian, professor and social
activist who I have known and looked up to for a very
long time, even from childhood. She is the daughter of
computer scientist, son of Dr. Porter and longtime friend
Robert Porter.
One of my greatest friends, teachers and counselors, the
late Peb Ali brought, was in our Black history class from
Hyde Park High School. Dr. Porter actually introduced us
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all to Malcolm X, when I was 14 years old at his church in
Englewood, where Malcolm X spoke to a group of us.
This gathering happened only a few months before was
Malcolm X was assassinated.
To this day I will never forget Malcolm X walking down
the aisle of that church and stopping directly in front of
me and saying to all of us, "Don't struggle only within the
ground rules that the people that you're struggling against
have laid down."
At both events I shared some copies of the African News-
World Newspaper . "A Media That We Control", published
in St Louis and circulated in many cities across America
and in some in other parts of the world by the Universal
African Peoples
Organization,
Zaki Baruti
President/
General of
which I am a
member in good
standing and I
serve as UAPO
Chicago Chapter
and National
Correspondent.
RESPECT!
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Celebrate Black History Month by Circulating Black
Dollars in Black Communities
Once and for all, let’s get this straight. America has gotten
out of the Black people business! No help is coming from Washington,
D.C. No help is coming from state government. No significant
help is coming from city and county municipal governments.
No useful help is coming from
foundations and corporations. We,
Black people, are on our own. And, really,
for centuries, we were always on
our own.
Most jobs that Blacks once had in
America are now done by computers
and robots. Many of the other jobs that
we used to have are now taken by immigrants
or have grown beyond our
collective skillsets. Black leadership is
still using protest tactics and methodologies
from the 1950’s to address 2018
economic problems. Those won’t
work. There is no more cotton for
Black people to pick, and many of us
still have a cotton picking and sharecropper mentality.
Even if Black people continue acquiring wealth at our present
rate and White people stop acquiring any additional wealth, it
would take 228 years to close the racial wealth gap. As of 2013,
White households had $116,000 in median household net worth
and Black families had $1,700.00 of median household net
worth. It is projected that by 2053 Black median household net
worth will be at zero dollars. Black people’s net worth will be at
the same level as when we came out of slavery in 1865.
Good news: Black people in America have a gross national income
of about $1.3 trillion. Bad news: Only 2% or about $26
billion of those $1.3 trillion are re-circulated in the Black community.
If Black dollars were more re-circulated in Black American communities,
Black dollars would produce Black companies, help
hire Black employees, support Black families and rebuild Black
communities. Instead, our $1.3 trillion income makes other people
rich including Whites, Arabs, Koreans, Pakistanis, Indians,
Latinos, Chinese, Polish, even Blacks from the Caribbean and
the continent of Africa.
Black people need a simple plan to alter our trajectory. Here’s a
plan: One – Ask The Black Star Project for a “Circulate Black
Dollars in Black Communities”
stamp. Two – Stamp all of your paper
money with this stamp (legal according
to Title 18, Section 333 of the United
States Code and Title 18, Section 475 of
United States Code) and use your dollars
as you normally would. Three –
make a conscious effort to spend your
Black “stamped” dollars with Black people
for at least one year.
You will be reminded to spend your
Black dollars every time you see a
“stamped” dollar. If 43 million Black
people move their spending efforts from
2% with Black people to 4% with Black
people, $26 billion more will be infused into the Black economy.
If Black people can move their spending power from 2% to 10%
with Black people, an additional $104 billion will be generated.
Theoretically, $104 billion would produce between 400,000
and 750,000 new jobs and geometrically accelerate Black financial
and social well-being.
As Black spending becomes more intentional, our social and
economic issues will disappear. We won’t have to wait for others
to give us financial permission or support to fix our own
problems. We will declare a new freedom and help take control
over the lives of everyone in our communities. Your dollar is
your most potent weapon in a capitalistic society. We must learn
to use our dollars to reward those who help and support us, and
to punish those who don’t.
By Phillip Jackson, Founder and Chairman of the Board,
The Black Star Project, 3509 South King Drive, Chicago, Illinois
60653, 773.285.9600.

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Glenwood has demonstrated its commitment to taking a whole
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Glenwood Academy is proudly accredited by North Central
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They Will Not Be Forgotten!
Philando Castro
Shanta Myers and her children, Jeremiah “JJ” Myers, and Shanise Myers
and her friend Brandi Mells
Mike Brown
Members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church

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1955 – Emmett Louis Till - On August 28, 1955, a 14 year old
boy from Chicago was abducted, tortured and killed in Mississippi
for allegedly making inappropriate gestures at a white woman. His
body was shipped back home by Pullman Porters and his mother
insisted that his casket be left open, so that the world could witness
what had been done to her child. The brutal murder of Mamie
Till’s son changed the world and ignited a movement.
His original casket is being preserved at the Smithsonian, after being
discarded like garbage in a Mississippi cemetery in 2005.
Chicago Street Journal (CSJ) dedicates this issue to those who gave
their lives, so that we may live. “They Will Not Be Forgotten.”
1968 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - At risk to himself and his
family, he became a profound activist for equal rights and brought
the plight of the African-American to the world stage. He was in
Memphis to show support for the striking garbage workers of that
city, when he was killed. It was in Tennessee, the night before his
assassination that he gave the infamous “I’ve Been To The Mountaintop”
speech.
2014 – LaQuan McDonald - Videos show that CPD Officer Van
Dyke was on the scene less than 30 seconds before he started firing.
It wasn’t until November 2015 that the video showing that
McDonald was shot 16 times was released to the media and public
and only then by court order.
1963 – Medger Evers – In 1954, on behalf of the NAACP, he
became their 1st Field Secretary in Mississippi. Thirty years after
he was shot in the back, in front of his home, his killer was brought
to trial for the third time. In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith, a founding
member of Mississippi's White Citizens Council was sentenced
to life in prison.
2015 – Sandra Bland – It could have your daughter, sister, mother,
aunt, cousin, neighborhood or co-worker, stopped for a traffic
violation and “found” dead in a cell three days later. It could have
been you. Instead of “Serve and Protect”, maybe squad cars should
carry the following warning… “It has been proven again and again,
that driving while Black will lead to your death.”
1969 – Fred Hampton – From TheNation.com, “Ultimately, a
federal grand jury determined that the police had fired between
eighty-three and ninety shots–the Panthers a maximum of one. The
grand jury indicated that, if the Panthers fired at all, it was one shot
that Mark Clark fired–apparently after he had been shot in the
heart. If the cops had, in fact, demanded a ceasefire on three occasions,
they were talking only to themselves. The official explanation
amounted to a cover-up, and a massive one.” After almost 60
years and many more cover-ups later, we find that CPD is still in
need of a ceasefire on civilians.
1964 – James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael
Schwerner – In the words of Nina Simone “Mississippi Goddam".
Three young men volunteered to assist with the voter’s registration
campaign in Mississippi that summer and their bodies were found
weeks later near a dam. The investigation into their deaths were
part of the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act for which
Congress set aside funds to investigate and prosecute racially motivated
murders before 1970.
2017— If you can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, then we can
breathe. Eric Gardner’s pleads were heard around the world.
His daughter, Erica Gardner, who took up the baton for justice
past away late year.
2007 – Blair Holt - What happens in your life when someone
dies so that you may live? Some of us will never know, but some
of us have heroes who step in front of speeding bullets for us. The
editor of Sister-to-Sister made a statement, after her son was shot,
to the affect that simply indicates that your child may not harm anyone,
but there are those out there who will harm your child.
Blair’s killer was “resentenced” to 75 years in prison, but for his
family that does not compare to an eternity of loss.
2012 – Trayvon Martin - Doesn’t seem like it was that long ago,
does it? So many have been shot down in the street and we continuously
see the lives of so many flashing before our eyes as breaking
news and on social media. If you’re Black, you can also die
from eating Skittles and drinking iced tea, while walking. 17 year
old Trayvon Martin did.
1965 – Malcolm X - Most don’t finish, where they start as they
are constantly evolving into who they will become along their journey.
Jailed and troubled along the way, he become one of the greatest
advocates for human rights in our time. Black-on-Black crime
is not new. Assassinated by his own kind, because its easier for
them to get close to you. But, as Fred Hampton said, “You can kill
the revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.”
1991 – Rodney Glen King - Police brutality videos are “old
skool” as King’s video made world-wide news and once again
showed that the power of “moving” pictures is worth more than a
1000 words. King knew how to start a LA riot.
1944 – Junius Stinney – Executed at age 14. He was accused to
killing 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 8-year-old Mary Emma
Thames in South Carolina. It’s difficult to go back 70 years and
ascertain what took place but according to Wiki, “On December
17, 2014, his conviction was posthumously vacated 70 years after
his execution, because the circuit court judge ruled that he had not
been given a fair trial; he had no effective defense and his Sixth
Amendment rights had been violated.[7][8]” But, you can’t vacate
that execution, can you?
1885 – It is estimated that 8 million Africans died under the reign
of The Butcher of Congo: King Leopold II of Belgium, who controlled
the populace from 1885 to 1908. Congonese who did not
meet production quotes or who had to be controlled were maimed.
2016 - Philando Castile was shot during a traffic stop in Minnesota
with his fiancée and child in the car with him. The world
watched this young man, who knew the names of all the children
he served in the school cafeteria where he worked, dying in front of
their eyes.
1963 - Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins,
and Cynthia Dianne Wesley were killed and another 20 people
were injured in a bombing at The 16th Street Baptist Church in
Birmingham, Alabama.
1917 – What is known as the East St. Louis Race War has
been repeated throughout history of the African in American.
2017 - Shanta Myers and her children, Jeremiah “JJ” Myers,
and Shanise Myers and her friend Brandi Mells were found tied up
with their throats slashed in Troy, New York. Two Black men have
been arrested for the crime. The screams and protest against our
own self-destruction should be deafening to our own ears and our
stand again Black-on-Black crime should send the message, to all
that stand against us, that NO CRIME AGAINST OUR PEOPLE
IS ACCEPTABLE.
2014 - "Hands up, don't shoot." The shooting death of Michael
Brown br ought inter national focus on the events in Ferguson,
Missouri, The officer charged was acquitted. But, the
"Hands up, don't shoot" slogan has not die with him.
2015 - Dylann Roof mur dered nine African Americans at the
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown
Charleston, South Carolina. Do we forgive white supremacist
for their actions? Maybe. Do we forget? NEVER!
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BLACK IN AMERICA IS…
Black in America is a poem written in blood,
pain filled stanzas of people reduced to mud
on a plantation of snow.
It is living with anxiety that goes undiagnosed,
silent conversations with ancestral ghost
while Marvin’s Make Me Wanna Holler plays
in the background.
It is being fearful of traffic stops
by agenda having cops
who are eager to turn us into hashtags.
It is a worldstar video full of wide hips and tatted backs
playing against the echo of cotton field whip cracks
which dominate legislative voting floors.
It is watching hipsters “discover” your neighborhood;
appropriation of our culture into consumer goods
because wanting to be black is an American pastime.
It is standing in line for $300 J’s;
fire from religious pulpits condemning all gays
while pastors baptize their side chicks.
It is being more comfortable with the people living in
your phone
rather than with the people living in your home
because sometimes illusions are kinder than reality.
It is Grandma’s hands and Pop-pop’s storytelling,
family get togethers full of food, laughing and yelling;
matriarchs and griots mimicking the sun.
It is remembering black love unafraid and intense;
velvet paintings and nag champa incenses
inspiring many raised fist romances.
It is kids who love STEM writing algorithms and code,
blerds, anime watches and gamers who dream bold;
silent architects of future rebellions.
It is the night feared by those only loving the moon,
scared that darkness will ultimately consume
their precious alabaster shine.
Black in America is a poem written in blood,
pain filled stanzas of people reduced to mud
on a plantation of snow.
© 2017 abruvanamedsly
The Official Black Poetry Cafe, affectionately
known as the BPC, was founded by poet
and author Mark Goggins and began as a
highly successful online poetry forum on
March 3, 2005.
It was created out of a sense of dissatisfaction
that Mark had with some other online poetry
outlets at the time. Some of those outlets had
membership fees while others either censored
poets or had so many restrictive rules that
Mark felt it was hindering a more creative
atmosphere. So instead of complaining about
it, Mark decided to create his own free forum
that was also free from censorship and what
he felt were unnecesarily restrictive rules.
Thus, The Black Poetry Cafe was born.
As social media began to take hold, Mark decided to evolve with the
times so he morphed the BPC into a Facebook group in 2011 and
achieved an even greater poetic audience. There are currently over 15,000
members. The group allows poets to post poems and encourages the
members to comment on the works of others as well in order to facilitate
an artistic environment where there is interaction between the poets.
There are also weekly poetry challenges or prompts that are assigned to
the group by one of our nearly 20 admins who oversee the group. These
admins rotate weekly issuing these challenges. Every few months Mark
will intercede and issue a challenge of his own and award the winner a
trophy called the BPC POETRY SUPERSTAR AWARD. The award is a
crystal trophy standing 14 inches high and engraved with the winner's
name. These special challenges typically last 2-3 weeks and the entries
are judged by the group's admins who then select a winner via admin
vote.
Our latest challenge was titled the, BPC BLACK IN AMERICA CHAL-
LENGE and was won by a very talented poet that goes by the name of
'Abruvanamed Sly.' We intend to continue our weekly challenges and periodic
challenges that offer a chance to win the coveted BPC POETRY
SUPERSTAR AWARD trophy as well. We further intend to continue to
grow and challenge our artists via these challenges to learn different poetic
styles and forms as well as engage in a wide variety of topics. BPC is
committed to the integrity of the art and strives to maintain a healthy artistic
atmosphere that educates as well as entertains in a censorship free
environment with the exception of nude depictions. And while we are the
BLACK Poetry Cafe, all ethnicities are welcome to take part and add
their own distinct flavors to our poetic mix.
Mark Goggins,
Founder
The Official Black
Poetry Cafe

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