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Yolande’s Yard: Mumia, Long Distance Revolutionary (video)

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By Yolande Brener

“There is nothing correctional going on in correctional facilities,” said Mumia Abu-Jamal. “You cannot correct people by putting them in a box and denying them every so-called right that is entitled to every person.” Continue reading

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Jamal Joseph Panther Baby Book signing party at Columbia (video)

Join Jamal Joseph, Afeni Shakur and Dorian Warren for an evening in celebration of the release of the autobiography, Panther Baby, (Algonquin) by Jamal Joseph.

A conversation follows with Jamal Joseph, Afeni Shakur, author, political activist, member of the Black Panther Party and mother of noted Hip Hop artist Tupac Shakur, and Columbia University political science/public affairs professor Dorian Warren.

Harlem’s Award winning, Oscar and Grammy nominated IMPACT Repertory Theatre will conclude the evening with a special performance.  Continue reading

Michael Tabor, Black Panther Harlem Native

Michael Aloysius Tabor (December 13, 1946 – October 17, 2010) was one of two children of Grace and Michael Tabor Sr. He joined the Panther Party when he was 19 and went by the name of a 19th -century Zulu king, Cetewayo. He was an member of the Black Panther Party who was charged and tried as part of an alleged conspiracy to bomb public buildings in NYC and kill members of the New York Police Department. Continue reading

A Newsroom Grows In Harlem

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newsroomCable news radiates from the giant flat-screen television over the green-tile fireplace with a jutting wooden mantel. The rest of the apartment, in a regal town house on Strivers’ Row in central Harlem, is crammed with computers, office furniture, handheld video cameras and other electronic equipment.

Two young men sitting side by side edit video reports on large computer monitors. Their boss, Joseph Hayden, occasionally glances up at the television as Nellie Hester Bailey, the director of the Harlem Tenants Council, stands nearby, suggesting ways to promote Mr. Hayden’s one-man crusade — building a “CNN for Harlem.”

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