“We Are The Drum – A Rhythm In Wisconsin” 2012

Drum 2012

CAPITA (City At Peace In The Arts) Productions Presents…
“We Are The Drum – A Rhythm In Wisconsin” 2012
Inspired by a distinctive movement for racial justice in Milwaukee and throughout Wisconsin.
http://capitaproductions.org/
North Division High School Campus Auditorium
1011 West Center Street, Milwaukee, WI 53206

Calling All Civil Rights Leaders Past & Present in Milwaukee

Selma of the North

We are calling on those who lived this experience to share their stories with us in special listening sessions Tuesday, November 15th and Wednesday November 16th from 5 pm to 8 pm and again November 19th from 10 am to 1 pm. We will meet at North Division Room #102, 1011 West Center Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
We are looking for all those who participated in the demonstrations, served on the NAACP Youth Council, Commandos, and all organizations that led or joined in some way, the historic Milwaukee’s Civil Rights Movement.
If you are interested in attending and would like more information please call 414-397-8661 or email arsmusic00@aol.com. Otherwise we would love to see you at the meetings. Please share this announcement with everyone. We want to make sure we honor and thank you for your courage and brave acts that moved Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the nation so powerfully.

Housing and the government solution?

Crony capitalism combined with big government solutions is a bad mix, this is the legacy of Democrats from New York to Detroit and yes here in Milwaukee. It sucks the vitality out of our communities and harms the good families that sustain them.

Milwaukee faces racial disparity in employment (video)

You know it’s bad when Al Jazeera is doing a news report on Milwaukee African American Joblessness. G -

Too Important to Fail. TONIGHT!!

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Across America, less than 50% of young Black males will graduate from high school!!
Tonight on PBS Tavis Smiley Presents Too Important to Fail.
In a series of candid and emotional encounters, Tavis goes behind the statistics to get to the heart of the matter: the struggle so many African American teenage males face when trying to stay in school and succeed.

MLK Memorial Still Brews in Controversy for Building with Chinese Workers

The original post form “Your Black World” July 2011 article. I think it is an outrage that the MLK Memorial looks Asian, appears angry, and is minus African American workers or artists!!

Ah-Ha….The Old “Keep ‘em Focused on Nonsense Trick”.

  Black people, African Americans, Nubians, Bilalians, Niggers, whatever you call yourself or choose to answer to, please stay focused.  When did gay marriage, immigration reform, Basketball Wives or Casey Anthony become critical issues in the pursuit of Black Power?   Do not be deceived….watch for the hand behind the scene.  Tavis and Sharpton fueding or whether The President … Read more

Rev. Sharpton FBI Informant… Old News Or Relevant Today

Activist say that without doubt, Reverend Al Sharpton tried to set up for the re-capture the FBI wanted escapee/fugitive Joann Chesimard aka; Assata Shukur! By Ron Howell, Newsday, Friday 21 October 1988 The Rev. Al Sharpton, who has worked as a federal informant, tried to set up a meeting with black fugitive radical JoAnne Chesimard in … Read more

No Longer Stuck… in the Valley of the DOLLS

This piece is being written specifically to hopefully shed  luminance on the BLACK DOLL, WHITE DOLL Syndrome: Why a Black child will chose a White Doll over a Black doll. This started first coming to the world’s wonderment when in 1939, husband and wife psychologists, Kenneth Clark and Mamie Phipps, devised a study where it was … Read more

Say What?…Black families protest the NAACP?

Here is another example of the news you don’t get because it exposes hypocrisy within the ranks of liberal groups.

Black Voting Rights – The other side of the story.

Schools today do not teach actual history bet you didn’t know! http://www.mrctv.org/embed/102104