photograph copyright © 1964 - 2012 by Stan Daniels,
Editor, Urban Cartographer Online
THE POWER OFPOSITIVE YOUTHCopyright © 1994-2012 Intercity Sports Review www.icasports.org Reprinted with permission
Thanks to irresponsible and greedy elements of the information and entertainment media, many people have an inaccurate and distorted picture of many of today's young people. Outstanding academic, artistic, humanitarian and athletic achievements and contributions by our youths are often ignored or buried deep in print and electronic news reports somewhere between the obituaries, department store sales and classified ads. Meanwhile aberrant (and often abhorrent) sensational acts by a few confused and misguided products of a society that has been unable and/or unwilling to properly educate them grab the banner headlines.
Public policies in many localities, disconcerted by this mentality, annually flush billions of dollars into feeble attempts to treat the effects (rather than deal with the causes) of our predictable and preventable tragic social failures. Meanwhile, in many families, religious, educational and social institutions and communities, the positive people quietly stayed focused on building and preparing for a better future. This publication is a record that resulted from the efforts of a few of them. It is the tip of an iceberg from a glacier of concerned people who are building for a better tomorrow.
The power, potential and influence of positive young people should never be underestimated. (Just think back to the Human Rights movement in the United States during the 1960's.) The achievements outlined on this Web site, and many of those with which it is linked, are a testimony of that fact.
The ball is now in YOUR court.
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If you think you are too small to make a difference,
"WHAT'S IN YOUR HAND"
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Distinguished Journalist & Educator:
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SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference
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"In the sixties we were filled with inspiration
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First Lady Travels to South AfricaFirst Lady Michelle Obama traveled to South Africa and Botswana during an official visit focused on youth leadership, education, health and wellness.
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FREEDOM IS NOT FREE!
Democracy is HARD Work!
The way to safeguard our Human and Civil Rights and Liberties
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America's
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A MESSAGE OF SUPPORT
Dear Justice O'Connor:
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from the
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
After the successful outcome of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, its leader, Martin Luther King wrote Stride Toward Freedom (1958).
The book described what happened at Montgomery and explained King's views on non-violence and direct action.
Stride Toward Freedom was to have a considerable influence on the Civil Rights movement.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsncc.htm
From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee
SNCC and SCLC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in 1960 by young people dedicated to non-violent, direct-action tactics.
While Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders had hoped that SNCC would serve as the youth-wing of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the students remained fiercely independent of King and the SCLC, generating their own projects and strategies.
Although ideological differences eventually caused SNCC and SCLC to be at odds, the two organizations worked side-by-side throughout the early years of the Civil Rights movement.
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/article/student_nonviolent_coordinating_committee_sncc/
The Basis of Black Power
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Position Paper: The Basis of Black Power
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/SNCC_black_power.html
Development of SNCC
Created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 15, 1960, SNCC's activities initially included coordinating student-led sit-ins
in Greensboro and later throughout the Deep South, supporting these activists, and helping to publicize their activities.
With leaders like Stokely Carmichael, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, and Julian Bond, among others, the group eventually led the charge against segregation and discrimination in the U.S.
Its efforts during Freedom Summer led to the registration of thousands of voters as well as the creation of the MFDP.
http://www.usm.edu/crdp/html/cd/sncc.htm
The Sit-Ins Energize Freedom Movement
On February 1, 1960, a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North
Carolina where they had been denied service.
This sparked a wave of other sit-ins in college towns across the South.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "snick"), was created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh two months later to coordinate these sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities.
Over the next decade, civil rights activism moved beyond lunch counter sit-ins.
In this violently changing political climate, SNCC struggled to define its purpose as it fought white oppression.
Out of SNCC came some of today's black leaders, such as former Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry, Congressman John Lewis and NAACP chairman Julian Bond.
Together with hundreds of other students, they left a lasting impact on American history.
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/index.html
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Volunteers put their lives on the Road!
Please read
May 4, 1961:
Freedom Rides.
http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom%20rides.htm
http://www.usm.edu/crdp/html/cd/rides.htm
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/freeride.html
Freedom Riders
Please read
Freedom Riders
The story behind a courageous band of civil rights activists called Freedom Riders
who in 1961 challenged segregation in the American South..
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
Even Some Athletes Dared
to Stand up for Human Rights!
Please read
Silent Gesture
The Autobiography of Tommie Smith.
http://www.tommiesmith.com/
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The Sports Connection: Troy Davis, John Carlos and Taking a Stand
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"Soundtrack For A "Soundtrack for a Revolution" is the story of the music and songs that inspired the civil rights movement.
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Civil Rights Movement Veterans
"We who believe in freedom cannot rest,."
Ella J. Baker
Civil Rights Movement Veterans - CORE, NAACP, SCLC, SNCC.
http://www.crmvet.org/
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement
"This website was created by students in honor of the Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement - they were ordinary people who played extraordinary roles in the cause of social justice, equality, and freedom."
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement
http://flightline.highline.edu/cjaja/Civilright/civilrghtshome.htm
"Freedom School Curriculum"
In the summer of 1964, more than forty "Freedom Schools" opened in Mississippi.
These schools were part of "Freedom Summer," a project of the Southern Human Rights Movement, with the goal to empower African Americans in Mississippi to become active citizens and agents of social change.
If we review the lessons of the "Freedom Schools" we can apply the relevant elements to our 21st Century circumstances. We certainly have many more technological tools and resources available today.
http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/ED_FSC.html
"Lessons From Freedom Summer"
"Ordinary People Building Extraordinary Movements"
by Kathy Emery, Linda Reid Gold and Sylvia Braselmann with Introduction by Howard Zinn
"Freedom Summer" ended the isolation of Mississippi from the rest of the nation, and was the point of no return for legal segregation in the country.
http://www.commoncouragepress.com/index.cfm?action=book&bookid=388
Eyes on the Prize
"Eyes on the Prize"
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965) is a documentary series about the American
Civil Rights Movement.
It originally aired on PBS in early 1987 with six initial parts; eight more parts were
broadcast in 1990 as Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads (1965-1985), for a total of fourteen episodes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_on_the_Prize
Then came "COINTELPRO"
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"OPERATION CHAOS"
and other destructive elements!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS
http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Operation%20Chaos.html
http://www.cia-on-campus.org/surveil/chaos.html
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Rap COINTELPRO: Subverting the power of Hip-Hop
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http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Entertainment_News_5/Rap_COINTELPRO_Subverting_the_power_of_Hip-Hop_2114.shtml
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Related Information of Interest
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Highest Priority:
"CLOSE the
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John Hope
Franklin
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"From Where it all began until now!" Please read the transcripts as
and "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
Another Call to Conscience:
Another Call to Conscience:
Another Call to Conscience:
Another Call to Conscience:
Another Call to Conscience:
and "The Drum Major Instinct"
and "I've Been to the Mountaintop!"
For more information about the work of Dr King,
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
and
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WAKE UP EVERYBODY!
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH REFLECTIONS OF A YOUNG MILITANT
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
We are Honored to be
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President Obama
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Rescheduled Dedication of
Atonement, Reconciliation and Responsibility
16th Year Anniversary of the Million Man March
On October 16, 1995, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan led more than 2 million men in taking this pledge during the historic Million Man March in Washington, D.C.
I PLEDGE, that from this day forward I will strive to love my brother as I love myself. I, from this day forward, will strive to improve myself spiritually, morally, mentally, socially, politically and economically for the benefit of myself, my family and my people.
I PLEDGE, that I will strive to build businesses, build houses, build hospitals, build factories and enter into international trade for the good of myself, my family and my people.
I PLEDGE, that from this day forward I will never raise my hand with a knife or a gun to beat, cut, or shoot any member of my family or any human being except in self-defense.
I PLEDGE, from this day forward I will never abuse my wife by striking her, disrespecting her, for she is the mother of my children and the producer of my future.
I PLEDGE, that from this day forward I will never engage in the abuse of children, little boys or little girls for sexual gratification. For I will let them grow in peace to be strong men and women for the future of our people.
I WILL NEVER, again use the 'B word' to describe any female. But particularly my own Black sister.
I PLEDGE, from this day forward that I will not poison my body with drugs or that which is destructive to my health and my well-being.
I PLEDGE, from this day forward I will support Black newspapers, Black radio, Black television. I will support Black artists who clean up their acts to show respect for themselves and respect for their people and respect for the ears of the human family.
I will do all of this so help me God.
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The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz
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Some Sobering Thoughts
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Some of the Last Concerns of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Is THIS The Latest Version
of "COINTELPRO" ?
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It reads like a horror story from the middle of the 20th Century.
Unfortunately it is 21st Century reality and is much more ominous.
Tea Party Nationalism
A Special Report
A documentary Bastards of the Party is a 2006 documentary film produced by Antoine Fuqua and directed by former Bloods gang-member Cle Sloan.
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February 11(A New Beginning)2011
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James Brown
James Brown Speaks
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RAPPERS EXPOSED: New York City rapper releases video that brings the truth about Hip-Hop into schools
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On a planet Around the world we see dysfunctional households, domestic disputes, divided communities, international atrocities, acts of terrorism and genocide.
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People are standing up
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but each of us has a piece, and together we have the answer.”
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