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We at theblackbottom.com want you to take some time out to remember Chicago Black Power Movement Activist Fred Hampton!
Fred Hampton: (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He was killed as he lay in bed in his [...]

Two weeks ago while in the hood shooting his latest street anthem Jizzle. Young Jeezy over heard some of the parents in the community talking about how the kids were getting ready to go back to school yet still lacked supplies. Atl’s kids going without weighed heavy on Jeezy’s mind over the weeks while on [...]

I do not remember much about August 28, 1963 because I was just shy of my seventh birthday. In my young forming mind I was not thinking about Martin Luther King, Jr. or the protest that had been waged in Birmingham, Alabama that spring. The thing that most concerned me that August was my baseball [...]

In 1990, Activist and Legendary actors, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis visited Fort Wayne, IN to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Gingerbread House Preschool center. A portion of their Panel Discussion appeared on a talks show entitled “A New Generation”.
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Green the Block is a campaign led by the Green For All and Hip Hop Caucus, and a coalition of over seventy organizations. This is a national campaign and coalition aimed at helping low-income communities of color become driving forces of the clean-energy economy. On August 4th, 2009 we publically announced Green the Block at [...]

Antiviolence Ritual From a Faraway Land
By RACHEL CROMIDAS
August 12, 2010
After years of frustration, Cheryl Graves was ready to consider a different solution to Chicago’s problem of youth violence.
Ms. Graves, a community organizer, had spent more than 10 years training representatives of the intervention group CeaseFire and administrators of violence-ridden Fenger High School in conflict-resolution techniques [...]

Source: Kalamazoo Gazette
NEW YORK — Jazz singer and actress Abbey Lincoln, 80, died Saturday in New York, according to the New York Times.
Lincoln, who was born Anna Marie Wooldridge, graduated from Kalamazoo Central High School in 1949.
Her death was announced by her brother David Wooldridge, according to the Times. Lincoln had lived in New York [...]

Let me say I did not wish to be a part of this blog. I thought that I was too busy trying to further my career as an academician and public intellectual, but thank God for my children who thought otherwise. One of the co-founders of this blog, Jonathan Jelks, pursued me relentlessly for over [...]

Rev. Jesse Jackson joined local NAACP leaders and clergy members in Detroit on Tuesday evening, suggesting the need for a new federal economic stimulus plan while pushing for job creation and racial parity in the automotive industry.
Jackson spoke at Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church as a prelude to Detroit’s upcoming “Rebuild America: Jobs, Justice and [...]