Everyone's Blog Posts - Oppressed Peoples Online Word...The Voice Of The Voiceless2024-03-19T01:17:37Zhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?xn_auth=noSheikh Khalil Abdur-Rashid PhD: The Legacy of the 'American Caliph.tag:oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com,2024-03-14:6273430:BlogPost:2163242024-03-14T17:00:00.000ZBilal Mahmud المكافح المخلصhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profile/2frvdhko3jtbx
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</p>2024 Abu Bakr Awards Program Honors Sidi Bilal Mahmudtag:oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com,2024-03-13:6273430:BlogPost:2158902024-03-13T22:59:35.000ZBilal Mahmud المكافح المخلصhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profile/2frvdhko3jtbx
<div>2024 Abu Bakr Awards Program Honors Sidi Bilal Mahmud </div>
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<div>The Abu Bakr awards program is not only a tribute to one the Pious Predecessors in Al-Islam, but also is an…</div>
<div>2024 Abu Bakr Awards Program Honors Sidi Bilal Mahmud </div>
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<div>The Abu Bakr awards program is not only a tribute to one the Pious Predecessors in Al-Islam, but also is an expression of appreciation to the sisters and brothers, who tirelessly work towards the betterment of the Islamic Community and the society at large.</div>
<div>This year one of the recipients of this prestigious award is Sidi Bilal Mahmud. Sidi Bilal was born in Richmond, Virginia, and lived there until he was six years old. He then moved to Roanoke Rapids, N.C., where he lived until 1969, at which time he joined the United States Marine Corps. It was during his tour of duty in Vietnam that he was introduced to Islam and later becoming a Muslim.</div>
<div>Sidi Bilal relocated to the Atlanta region in 1976, and dedicated himself to cultivating the Islamic Community in the area. Sidi Bilal was also an instrumental figure in the establishment of the Al-Farooq Masjid of Atlanta, he played a vital role in constructing one of the first Masaajid built from the ground up in the Atlanta Muslim community. Over the years Sidi Bilal has served as a Board Member of Al-Farooq Masjid, and is currently the senior member of the Board of Trustees, having served since 1981 as one of the founding members.</div>
<div>As Board Chairman Sidi Bilal facilitated the implementation of the Dar Uloom Hifz Quranic memorization program, this program enables students to memorize the entire Quran in Atlanta Georgia.</div>
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<div>The distribution of Zakat which is a religious obligation for Muslim, was also overseen by Sidi Bilal on behalf of a waqqaf established in memory of the first Imam at Al-Farooq Masjid, under the Ibrahim ONour Charitable Fund. He ensured that needy Muslim Families in the Atlanta metropolitan area received adequate resources.</div>
<div> Furthermore, Sidi Bilal served as one of the four Khatibs for more than two decades. </div>
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<div><span>In 2004, Sidi Bilal began blogging and established the Oppressed Peoples Online Word blog (<a href="https://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/" id="m_-143593416016251217OWAdc48a77c-263e-f24a-4638-7df8f1f0fb5e" target="_blank" rel="noopener" name="m_-143593416016251217OWAdc48a77c-263e-f24a-4638-7df8f1f0fb5e">Oppressed Peoples Online Word...The Voice Of The Voiceless - Dedicated to disseminating news & information not found in mainstream media.... (ning.com)</a>, giving Muslim a platform for disseminating Islamic news and information not found in the mainstream media. </span></div>
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<div><span>His selfless dedication and work promoting the Islamic community and providing assistance to those in need exemplifies the ideal of service and compassion, of Abu Bakr As-Siddeeq. </span></div>
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</div>How Black socialite Mollie Moon raised millions to fund the civil rights movement...tag:oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com,2024-03-13:6273430:BlogPost:2164052024-03-13T22:05:55.000ZBilal Mahmud المكافح المخلصhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profile/2frvdhko3jtbx
<p>When we think of the Civil Rights Movement, opulent parties are probably not the first thing that come to mind. But it turns</p>
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<p>out, they were a big part of the fight for racial justice — especially the events organized by Black socialite Mollie Moon in the 1940s, '50s and '60s.</p>
<p>Known as one of the most influential women of the civil rights era, Moon served as president of the fundraising arm of the National Urban League and is credited with raising millions to…</p>
<p>When we think of the Civil Rights Movement, opulent parties are probably not the first thing that come to mind. But it turns</p>
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<p>out, they were a big part of the fight for racial justice — especially the events organized by Black socialite Mollie Moon in the 1940s, '50s and '60s.</p>
<p>Known as one of the most influential women of the civil rights era, Moon served as president of the fundraising arm of the National Urban League and is credited with raising millions to build economic and racial equality in the U.S. But historian Tanisha Ford says she only heard of Moon accidentally, while doing research for another project.</p>
<p>"I stumbled across the name Mollie Moon in the newspaper clippings of the early 1960s. ... She was hosting this amazing beauty pageant that celebrated the beauty of Black women," Ford says. "So I just tucked her name in the back of my mind and thought, 'I'm going to write something about this woman.' "</p>
<p>As Ford gathered press clippings about Moon, she realized there was a larger story to be told, "one that made people aware of this great leader of the Civil Rights Movement who had fallen out of the narrative</p>
<p>Full article: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/10/30/1209018407/mollie-moon-our-secret-society-tanisha-ford?fbclid=IwAR1xOj8NIPo4eJUNZWj3vRtfVfJHNm8JqNE-6ZbQdn6HiixHoEvXq4CoRFs">How Black socialite Mollie Moon raised millions to fund civil rights : NPR</a></p>Shaun King Reverts To Al-Islam 1 Ramadan 1445 A.H.tag:oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com,2024-03-11:6273430:BlogPost:2164032024-03-11T18:32:07.000ZBilal Mahmud المكافح المخلصhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profile/2frvdhko3jtbx
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</p>BMLC: Nation's first council for Black Muslims Leadership Council launched in Philadelphiatag:oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com,2024-03-10:6273430:BlogPost:2161332024-03-10T18:00:00.000ZBilal Mahmud المكافح المخلصhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profile/2frvdhko3jtbx
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<p><span>At Friday’s organization launch and press conference we had participation by over 10 different media outlets, including television, radio, and print media! I’ll be posting…</span></p>
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<div class="subscriber-preview"><p>The nation’s first Black Muslim Leadership Council, or BMLC for short, was launched in City Hall on Friday with hopes to engage political leaders with Black Muslim voters and hear about their concerns.</p>
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<div class="subscriber-preview"><p>The new entity aims to raise the representation and political influence of Black Muslims and set the agenda in the public and private sectors as the presidential election inches closer.</p>
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<div class="subscriber-only"><p>“The council is a result of countless hours by so many dedicated, brilliant individuals, and I am thrilled that this day is finally here,” said the council’s founder and CEO Salima Suswell. “It means even more to me to launch BMLC in Philadelphia, a city where my parents were pioneers in the Black American Muslim community, a community of which I am a devoted member.”</p>
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<div class="subscriber-only"><p>Suswell was joined by Muslim leaders nationally and locally, including: Ryan Boyer, business manager of the Laborers District Council; Catherine Hicks, president of the Philadelphia chapter of the NAACP; Omar Sabir, city commissioner; Quaiser Abdullah, director of the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Muslim Engagement; state Sen. Sharif Street; Mika’il Stewart Saadiq, BMLC project manager; and Brittany Smalls of Black Voters Matter Pennsylvania.</p>
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<div class="subscriber-only"><p>The group anticipates that its formation will lead President Joe Biden and other political leaders to connect more with Black Muslim voters and hear about their concerns over issues such as affordable housing, disparities in Black maternal health, economic opportunities and education policies for young people.</p>
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<div class="subscriber-only"><p>“The issues that affect Black Muslims are issues that affect lots of other folks,” Street said. “Black people’s journey to Islam is one that cannot be separated from the civil rights movement and our journey to civil rights. Often those who are least educated, most likely to be affected by mass incarceration, most likely to be shot, most likely to have all the problems others folks have, and also those who are most likely to have the highest levels of education because Islam grew in the Black community, both in colleges and in prisons.”</p>
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<div class="subscriber-only"><p>Black Muslims are the second-largest population of American Muslims. Roughly 70% to 80% of the Philadelphia Muslim community is Black, according to BMLC’s press release. The group advocates to no longer be neglected in a social, economic and political sense.</p>
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<div class="subscriber-only"><p>Street noted the SEPTA bus shooting that left teenager dead and four others injured on Monday. The teen, Dayemen Taylor, received a Muslim funeral, a Janazah.</p>
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<div class="subscriber-only"><p>“A young man who was killed from Imhotep,” Street said. “He was a Muslim. In 2021, my nephew was shot at Ashby and 60th Street. There are Muslims dying in the streets as well. We care about their lives.”</p>
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<div class="subscriber-only"><p>Suswell said that while the overall Muslim community is prioritizing conflicts in the Middle East, the Black Muslim community is positioned to help reflect the interests of the larger civil rights community.</p>
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<div class="subscriber-only"><p>“The Black Muslims have also become a significant voice,” she said. “When it comes to voting and advocating to drive those voters to the polls, their voices will be instrumental in ensuring a greater turnout to the polls and to our voting system.”</p>
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</div>Dr. Cornel West to visit Atlanta Masjidtag:oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com,2024-03-08:6273430:BlogPost:2160762024-03-08T23:00:00.000ZBilal Mahmud المكافح المخلصhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profile/2frvdhko3jtbx
<p><b>Cornel Ronald West</b> (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, theologian, political activist, social critic, actor, and</p>
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<p><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_intellectual" title="Public intellectual">public intellectual</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West#cite_note-15">[13]…</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16"></sup></p>
<p><b>Cornel Ronald West</b> (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, theologian, political activist, social critic, actor, and</p>
<p><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12397748661?profile=RESIZE_930x&width=737" alt="Dr. Cornel West"/></p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_intellectual" class="mw-redirect" title="Public intellectual">public intellectual</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West#cite_note-15">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West#cite_note-16">[14]</a></sup> The grandson of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a> minister, West's primary philosophy focuses on the roles of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(classification_of_human_beings)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (classification of human beings)">race</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender" title="Gender">gender</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_conflict" title="Class conflict">class struggle</a> in American society. A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialist</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West#cite_note-17">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West#cite_note-18">[16]</a></sup> West draws intellectual contributions from multiple traditions, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_church" title="Black church">black church</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism" title="Democratic socialism">democratic socialism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_populism" title="Left-wing populism">left-wing populism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopragmatism" title="Neopragmatism">neopragmatism</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism" title="Transcendentalism">transcendentalism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pragmatic_19-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West#cite_note-pragmatic-19">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-blackbio_20-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West#cite_note-blackbio-20">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West#cite_note-21">[19]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West#cite_note-22">[20]</a></sup>Among his most influential books are <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Matters" title="Race Matters">Race Matters</a></i> (1993) and <i>Democracy Matters</i> (2004).</p>
<p>West is an outspoken voice in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Left" title="American Left">left-wing politics in the United States</a>. During his career, he has held professorships and fellowships at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Theological_Seminary_(New_York_City)" title="Union Theological Seminary (New York City)">Union Theological Seminary</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College">Dartmouth College</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepperdine_University" title="Pepperdine University">Pepperdine University</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Paris" title="University of Paris">University of Paris</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AmericanAcademy_23-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West#cite_note-AmericanAcademy-23">[21]</a></sup> He is a frequent commentator on politics and social questions in many media outlets.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West#cite_note-24">[22]</a></sup></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><sup class="reference">Click Link: Slideshow Of OPOW Photos: <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipObJ0g0m5lcNS4qGo6juSGdMypJwMWSSLzfK0N1A-2yx2fQQotMWBMCYt20xVwMvg/photo/AF1QipPTWRVjKwt5KqZOoRgyS1Sxho3NTA89xczvW03t?key=REEzUFJ3OWJJenZKcFJ5RzkyY2l2aDdOU0U1RVd3">Video - Google Photos</a></sup></strong></span></p>For Immediate Release: Majlis AShura Of Metro Atlanta 03/05/2024tag:oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com,2024-03-07:6273430:BlogPost:2162042024-03-07T14:30:00.000ZBilal Mahmud المكافح المخلصhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profile/2frvdhko3jtbx
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Majlis Ash Shura Of Metro Atlanta</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"> For Immediate Release</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">3/3/24 </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Majlis Ash Shura Of Metro Atlanta</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"> For Immediate Release</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">3/3/24 </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Majlis Ash Shura Of Metro Atlanta Press Conference At The Masjid Al-Muminun 1127 Hank Aaron Drive 3034 03/05/24 at 1:30 pm.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Contact: Imam Nadim Ali</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Majlis Ash Shura Of Metro Atlanta will be convening a press conference to address the issues facing the people of Gaza. The Majlis consists of several masjid’s(mosques) throughout Atlanta. The majlis has been displaying billboards throughout the metro Atlanta Area, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The death and destruction that has taken place is a disproportionate response to the events of October 7. The United States has a moral responsibility to put restraints on its Ally Israel. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Should Israel not respond to this call for restraint, measures should be put in place,and they should be given consequences for the lack of response to the multitude of voices throughout the world calling for a ceasefire. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The United States has to begin to show parity to the nations of the world. If the death of civilians are unacceptable in Ukraine it should also be unacceptable in Gaza. As a body representing a multitude of voices around the world .</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Majlis Ash Shura Of Metro Atlanta Demand The Following:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The United States Call For an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza.</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">End The Sale Of Military supplies to the State Of Israel should they not comply.</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cease using the security council veto which is viewed by the world as co-signing Israeli actions.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br/></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Gaza over 30,228 people, have been killed including more than:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">12,300 children</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">8,400 women</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">More than 71,377 have been Injured, including at least:</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">8,663 children</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">6,327 women</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">As of 3/1/24 there are more that 8,000 people Missing.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> In the Occupied West Bank:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Killed: at least 417 people, including more than:</span><ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">108 children</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Injured: more than 4,600</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Israeli Settlers have confiscated acres of Palestinian land since October 7th.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br/></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Majlis As-Shura of Atlanta Georgia is an organization established in Atlanta, Georgia. The purpose of the Majlis is to serve as a collective voice for the member Masjid’s in the city of Atlanta. The Majlis is composed of Imam's representing each of the associated Masjids in the area.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"> ### </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2394158477?profile=RESIZE_180x180&width=139" alt="Georgia CAIR Executive Director Edward Ahmad Mitchell is now a member of OPOW..."/><br/> <span>Full Video: <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP9m8VvAlbZgCZ-iXlTdP7Kl3LiC1x27R-ghat2t3xQJy06YhELH8kEyO7TLhnkfg?key=NWpYQ2VGVXBJcVd6elE4VVhKaU15T0NjWm9OMEd3">Shared album - Bilal Mahmud - Google Photos</a></span></span></p>
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<p></p>"OG" Sister/Comrade Susan Ross The Eye Of Atlantatag:oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com,2024-03-07:6273430:BlogPost:2162092024-03-07T12:28:09.000ZBilal Mahmud المكافح المخلصhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profile/2frvdhko3jtbx
<div class="c-articleMetaContainer b-contentMaxWidth b-margin-bottom-d30-m20 isSingleColumnArticle"><div class="c-articleMeta"><div class="c-articleMetadata"><div class="b-flexRow article-byline b-margin-bottom-d7-m7"><div class="byline"><span>By <a href="https://www.ajc.com/staff/natrice-miller/" rel="author">Natrice Miller</a></span></div>
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<div class="c-articleBodyContainer isSingleColumnArticle"><div class="c-section b-sectionHome-padding full-width b-clear-both b-margin-bottom-d40-m20"><div class="c-contentElements"><p class="story-text">If you have ever been to any<b><span> </span></b>Black art exhibit, jazz concert or community event in Atlanta, there’s a chance you walked past a short woman with curly gray hair snapping photos.</p>
<p class="story-text">Her name is Susan Ross and for the past five decades, she has told the story of Black Atlanta through her thousands of images of politicians, artists, literary giants, community leaders, musicians and just plain people.</p>
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<p class="story-text"><span>Most people know her simply as Sue.</span><b><span> </span></b><span>She isn’t a member of the media and although she worked for the City of Atlanta for almost 40 years, mostly in minority and female business development, photographer was never one of her official titles.</span></p>
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"OG" Sister/Comrade Susan Ross:<a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-black-history/photo-griot-sue-ross-has-documented-black-atlanta-for-decades/YEJZVOUNBBFVDNA5QZZKKQ6TPQ/#">https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-black-history/photo-griot-sue-ross-has-documented-black-atlanta-for-decades/YEJZVOUNBBFVDNA5QZZKKQ6TPQ/#</a></div>
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<p class="story-text">She calls herself the multi-hyphenated: “participant observer - documentary photographer -cultural activist,” just working in the city she refers to as “Magical Atlanta.”</p>
<p class="story-text">Before my big move from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Atlanta in 2014, I searched online for Black photographers in the city. Although I had a couple of contacts, I was ultimately starting fresh and wanted to make more connections.</p>
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<p class="story-text">I came across the website of<span> </span><a href="https://www.photogriot.com/about_me" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susan J. Ross the Photo Griot.<span> </span></a>I was mesmerized by her extensive archive and decided to send her an email.</p>
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<p class="story-text">She never returned the email, but I guess the photo gods had better plans for me.<b><span> </span></b>A few months later, I saw her at a photo exhibition and introduced myself.</p>
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<p class="story-text">“Hi, my name is Natrice. I’m a photographer and I just moved here. I saw your work online and wanted to introduce myself.”</p>
<p class="story-text">“Hey!” she responded with a friendly smile.</p>
<p class="story-text">I don’t remember what she said about the email, but I do remember her saying: “You should come to a Sistagraphy meeting!”</p>
<p class="story-text">Full article AJC: <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-black-history/photo-griot-sue-ross-has-documented-black-atlanta-for-decades/YEJZVOUNBBFVDNA5QZZKKQ6TPQ/?fbclid=IwAR1fjHhs0317Z3-DER25xL3pSn6tgSGG7pwckeUpUEBuyFvZ9Nq-dvZKukI">Atlanta photographer Susan Ross is one of Atlanta’s most enduring documentarians (ajc.com)</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A national nonprofit organization dedicated to policy advocacy for urban communities, voter turnout, civic education, and leadership development and training. (March 1, 2024)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img alt="Black Muslim Leadership Council" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12384142281?profile=RESIZE_930x&width=737"></img></span></p>
<p><b>Black Muslim Leadership Council is the first Black American Muslim-led organization of its kind in the nation.</b></p>
<p><b>History of Black Muslims in America </b></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A national nonprofit organization dedicated to policy advocacy for urban communities, voter turnout, civic education, and leadership development and training. (March 1, 2024)</span></p>
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<p><b>Black Muslim Leadership Council is the first Black American Muslim-led organization of its kind in the nation.</b></p>
<p><b>History of Black Muslims in America </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Black Muslims have been in America since the Transatlantic Slave Trade. They now make up the largest percentage of the American Muslim population at 28%. This community wields enormous social, economic, and political influence. </span></p>
<p><b>Policy Advocacy </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Black American Muslims are impacted by the same issues as all Black Americans and Muslim Americans, as well as a variety of issues specific to the Black Muslim community. Our advocacy efforts focus on addressing the vital needs of our community through effective, sustained action with an emphasis on addressing systemic discrimination. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to: economic equity; education; public safety; health care; criminal justice; and environmental justice.</span> <b>Voter Turnout </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Casting one’s vote translates our voices into tangible impacts and helps guide the direction of our nation. To drive voters to the polls, we will run voter registration, canvassing/door knocking, and phone banking efforts, provide resources about voting rights, and partner with local mosques and other organizations to empower the community. </span></p>
<p><b>Civic Education </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Engagement with the civic system is how change is made. This can take many forms: from building advocacy partnerships to meeting with elected officials and beyond. We will provide workshops run by experts to educate the community on the various aspects of civic engagement as well as opportunities for involvement. </span></p>
<p><b>Leadership Development and Training </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Black American Muslim community has always been an extremely influential, dedicated force for justice and equality. This power is rapidly growing, and it is essential that we develop leaders of all ages and backgrounds to mobilize our community in pursuit of collective advancement.</span> <b>Black Muslim Leadership Political Roundtable </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This group of national leaders, experts, scholars, and activists meets monthly to establish the Black Muslim Policy Agenda and build strategies to organize and empower Black Muslim communities.</span></p>
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<p><b>Contact us : <a href="https://blackmuslimleadership.org/?fbclid=IwAR0P3DhIa6YOcf6wBrPL41oUw67FzZr4NFxsxJuwJ5bcOMg3mKcaVTHjuxA">Home - Black Muslim Leadership Council</a></b></p>There Is No Reward For Good, Other Than Good...Black Family Rents To Asian Family 1939tag:oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com,2024-03-06:6273430:BlogPost:2160892024-03-06T18:30:00.000ZBilal Mahmud المكافح المخلصhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profile/2frvdhko3jtbx
<p class="">In 1939, the Dongs, a Chinese American family in Coronado, California, found themselves unable to rent a house amid racially restrictive housing laws that favored white buyers and renters.</p>
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<p class=""><span>By </span><span class="byline-name">Lynda Lin Grigsby</span></p>
<p class="">Emma and Gus Thompson, a Black entrepreneurial couple in town, allowed the family to rent and eventually buy their Coronado property when nobody else would. Now, to thank…</p>
<p class="">In 1939, the Dongs, a Chinese American family in Coronado, California, found themselves unable to rent a house amid racially restrictive housing laws that favored white buyers and renters.</p>
<p class=""><img src="https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-03/240301-Lloyd-Jr-Ron-Dong-al-1152-82bc58.jpg" alt="Lloyd Dong Jr., left, and his brother Ron stand outside of their childhood home on C Street in Coronado, Calif. "/></p>
<p class=""><span>By </span><span class="byline-name">Lynda Lin Grigsby</span></p>
<p class="">Emma and Gus Thompson, a Black entrepreneurial couple in town, allowed the family to rent and eventually buy their Coronado property when nobody else would. Now, to thank the Thompsons for helping them get a toehold in American society, the Dongs are donating $5 million to Black college students using proceeds from the sale of the house. </p>
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<p class="">“It may enable some kids to go and flourish in college that might not have been able to otherwise,” Janice Dong, 86, said about the plan to sell the family home they later purchased, as well as an adjacent property.</p>
<p class="">The Dong family will also work to have<span> </span><a href="https://sacd.sdsu.edu/black-resource" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Diego State University’s Black Resource Center</a><span> </span>named after Emma and Gus, who was born into slavery in Kentucky. </p>
<p class="">Lloyd Dong Jr., 81, said the Thompsons gave their family a start with the land, and it is time for them to do the same for others.</p>
<p class="">“Without them, we would not have the education and everything else,” Lloyd Dong Jr. said. </p>
<p class="">Full article: <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-chinese-family-coronado-california-rcna140717">Black couple rented to a Chinese American family when nobody would. Now, they're donating $5M to Black community. (nbcnews.com)</a></p>OPOW: Abu Bakr Annual Awards Dinnertag:oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com,2024-03-03:6273430:BlogPost:2160602024-03-03T12:30:00.000ZBilal Mahmud المكافح المخلصhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profile/2frvdhko3jtbx
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<p><span>A new national organization called the Black Muslim Leadership Council is hoping to pressure elected officials to call for a permanent cease-fire in the Middle East.</span></p>
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<p><span>A new national organization called the Black Muslim Leadership Council is hoping to pressure elected officials to call for a permanent cease-fire in the Middle East.</span></p>
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<p class="">But the organization is also making clear that many of its members are focused on U.S. domestic challenges and do not support abandoning the president at a time when a movement by another group of Muslims is pushing to do just that.</p>
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<p class="">Salima Suswell, founder and chief executive of the Black Muslim Leadership Council, said the group will be focused both on the thousands of civilians killed in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas, and on domestic issues such as mobilizing voters in swing states and pushing lawmakers to lay out policies to improve the lives of Black Muslims living across the United States.</p>
<p class="">Biden is facing a backlash for his refusal to demand a permanent cease-fire in the war, and other Muslim groups are seeking to grow an effort they have dubbed “abandon Biden,” which calls for people not to support the president at the ballot box in uncompetitive primaries and potentially in the fall election.</p>
<p class="">“I am focused on building and definitely not abandoning,” Suswell said. “I believe that we need to continue to have open dialogue and conversations because this is how democracy works. And so, my duty first is to my community, and it is my job to fight for my community to ensure that the government is working for us. And so Biden, along with every other political leader at home and globally, needs to hear what we need as a community right now.”</p>
<p class="">She added, “While we’re heartbroken about the humanitarian crisis overseas, we want to be open and available to discussions to achieve the goal of freedom and justice not only for Palestinian people, but also for our communities domestically.”</p>
<p class="">Suswell, who also runs her own government affairs and community engagement consulting firm and worked for the Biden campaign in 2020 as a political adviser, stressed she is not ready to publicly say how she plans to vote in November. “At the present, I have not abandoned Biden,” she said. “But I am uncommitted.”</p>
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<p class="">Suswell said the Black Muslim Leadership Council will focus much of its efforts on turning out voters in three swing states, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. It will have both a political action wing that will be endorsing political candidates, as well as a nonprofit arm for nonpartisan activities such as voter turnout drives and election education classes. The group will also be open to backing a third-party presidential candidate or endorsing only down-ballot candidates and staying silent about the presidential election options.</p>
<p class="">Suswell said she and others hope the group’s formation will lead Biden and other political leaders to engage more with Black Muslim voters and hear about their concerns over issues such as affordable housing, disparities in black maternal health, economic opportunities and education policies for young people.</p>
<p class="">Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general and a vocal supporter of Biden’s, said in an interview that he has been meeting with members of the Black Muslim Leadership Council as they map out a way forward and that he supports their work.</p>
<p class="">“We don’t have the luxury of just caring about one thing. We have to care about a lot of things, and those things have got to be weighed out carefully,” said Ellison, the first African American and the first Muslim American elected to statewide office in Minnesota. “I feel like there are people who want to restore Jim Crow and that their representative is Donald Trump. And so for me, just saying ‘abandon Biden’ doesn’t work.”</p>
<p class="">Full article: <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/new-black-muslim-group-wants-put-pressure-biden-not-abandon-rcna140897">New Black Muslim group wants to put pressure on Biden — but not abandon him (nbcnews.com)</a></p>
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<p><b>Fanon saw violence as the only language colonizers truly understand</b><span>. Through violence, imperialists instilled a sense of inferiority in the colonized, and it was therefore through violence that the colonized could regain a sense of self, a sense of culture, and the physical reality of statehood…</span></p>
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<p><span>Fanon's basic assumption—that colonialism is <b>a machine of “naked violence,” which “only gives in when confronted with greater violence”</b>—had become uncontroversial across Asia and Africa wherever armed mutinies erupted against Western colonialists.</span></p>
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<div class="LGOjhe"><p><strong>Frantz Fanon is a French-Algerian physician, activist and philosopher born in 1925, who joined the Algerian National Liberation Front and wrote about the issues of colonialism and its de-colonization, looking at the revolution of the peoples and the dismantling of the alienation (social alienation) that colonialism causes to its victims.</strong></p>
<p>His ideas inspired militants in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and marked the first field of "postcolonial studies" focusing on what the colonizer left to exploit indigenous peoples in colonized lands, and his death in the flower of his youth in 1961.</p>
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<br/> Fanon joined the French army in World War II and was a turning point in his thought (social media)<br/> <br/>
<h2>Birth and upbringing</h2>
<p>Frantz Fanon was born on July 20, 1925 in Fort-de-France on the Caribbean island of Martinique, part of the French Overseas Territory.</p>
<p>His family belonged to petty bourgeoisie: his father, Casimir Fanon, worked as a customs inspector, his mother Eleonor Felicia Medlis was a merchant, and Franz was fifth among eight brothers and sisters.</p>
<p>In a biography of his life, his brother Joby Fanon describes the atmosphere of his upbringing, where their father was deeply convinced of the importance of studying and urged them not to be satisfied with what they received from teachers.</p>
<p>Despite the family's financially comfortable situation, Jobe describes the city that embraced Frantz's childhood and adolescence as a "failed city" where the manifestations of poverty were shocking.</p>
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<h2>Study and training</h2>
<p>Fanon studied in his hometown of Schwilshire High School and became addicted to reading in its library, where he became acquainted with the writer and politician Amy Césaire, who was then a teacher there, although he did not study with him directly.</p>
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<p>He applied early for his high school diploma, decided to retreat in the library and focus on reading to Renaissance writers, and his brother Jobi describes how Franz used to memorize by heart long passages of these readings.</p>
<p>Franz succeeded in the written part, but was initially excluded from the oral part of the exam, and later obtained his high school diploma after returning from his first attempt to volunteer in the Free French Forces, an attempt he began on July 13, 1943 despite the opposition of those around him, as he viewed the war in his environment as "a war between whites that does not mean anything to the colonizers", but justified his position by saying, "Wherever freedom is affected, I feel that I am concerned, we are all concerned no matter what. Our colors were white, black or yellow."</p>
<p>Coverage of World War II reached Martinique on radio and followed closely by Fanon, then he joined the Fifth Battalion of the Free French Forces and sailed with them on March 12, 1944, to North Africa.</p>
<p>Although he and his comrades were tired of training and routine military instructions "because they had joined the army to fight the Germans", he proved his worth on the battlefield and was praised and encouraged by his commanders, but he was wounded during the battles near Geneva, spent a period between treatment and convalescence, and returned to the front.</p>
<p>Fanon was discharged on May 18, 1945, after France's war against Nazism was completed, returned to Martinique on September 12, 1945, and during his conscription experience experienced anti-black racism and became more aware of colonial issues.</p>
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<p>After returning from the battlefront, Fanon received a scholarship that was available to those who fought in the war, then moved to Lyon, France, where he began studying medicine, and in addition to his studies, he continued to attend lectures in philosophy and literature, and participated in student activism.</p>
<img class="wp-image-5386103 size-arc-image-770" src="https://www.aljazeera.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/9-2-1.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C534&quality=80" alt="Frantz Fanon Lives! 60 Years After His Death, Fanon’s Ideas Remain the Weapons of the Oppressed"/><br/> Fanon announced his resignation from the medical profession in protest against colonial practices, so France decided to exile him from Algeria (foreign press)<br/> <br/>
<h2>The experience of Algeria</h2>
<p>With his graduation as a doctor, he wanted to work in his native Martinique, and because there were no vacancies, he tried to join a sub-Saharan African country, but eventually moved to work at the Blida Hospital in Algeria, where he arrived in December 1953, about a year before the outbreak of the liberation revolution on November 1, 1954.</p>
<p>Coming from a colonial country, he recognized himself in another country occupied by the same colonial power, according to his wife, Josie Fanon, and his work as a psychiatrist and his contact with patients and nurses gave him an understanding of the situation, and soon he saw firsthand the psychological effects of colonialism, not only on its victims under oppression and torture, but also on its soldiers involved in torture and atrocities.</p>
<p>Fanon worked for years in the treatment of the mentally ill, and applied new methods in psychotherapy, such as the abolition of the use of the "jacket of the insane" that was widely used before the discovery of neurological tranquilizers, and adopted means related to the culture of patients such as games, singing and stories, and rejected the racist medical concepts that prevailed at the time, such as relying on the shape of the skull and others.</p>
<p>In addition to his medical mission, he worked as a scalpel in the reflection and anatomy of the phenomena of colonial reality with which he was in contact, and the young doctor gradually began to approach the National Liberation Front, with which he had contacts and contributions, and ended up resigning from the medical profession through a letter in which he criticized the practices of colonialism and its "hatred" against Algerians.</p>
<p>"I can say that I have been placed at this crossroads and I stood terrified of the magnitude of the alienation suffered by the inhabitants of this country, and if psychology is the medical means that seeks to allow man not to feel alienated in his environment, I must confirm that the Arab who is always alienated in his country lives in a state of absolute uprooting of personality," he said</p>
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<p>After his resignation, the colonial authorities issued a decision to expel him from Algeria, so he joined the National Liberation Front in Tunisia and worked for its media outlets, including the newspapers "Algerian resistance" and "El Moudjahid".</p>
<p>Fanon assumed diplomatic missions for the Front, where he was its representative in sub-Saharan African countries, during which time he traveled with a passport issued by the Kingdom of Libya in the name of "Omar Ibrahim Fanon".</p>
<p>Map of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisa and Libya: <a href="https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/algeria_map.htm#google_vignette">Political Map of Algeria - Nations Online Project</a></p>
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<h2>Against racism</h2>
<p>The shape of the book "Black Skin... White Masks", published by Fanon at the age of 27 in 1952, is his first intellectual work, and the book shows his ability to use the tools of different fields of knowledge, such as psychoanalysis, philosophy, linguistics, literature and early concepts of the "Negro" current to analyze the state of collective neurosis caused by colonialism.</p>
<p>In the book, Fannon attempts to understand the foundations of anti-black racism in consciousness and society, and his ideas about anti-black racism and how to "shape and then distort" the subjectivity of both black and white together represented a basic precursor to understanding the multiple levels of colonial oppression and the conditions for overcoming it.</p>
<p>Later, the experience of Algeria and sub-Saharan countries broadened Fanon's interests, and after focusing on anti-black racism in his first work, he made a shift with his 1961 book The Wretched on Earth, which addressed colonialism as a broader issue affecting the oppressed in the southern part of the world.</p>
<h2>From patriotism to humanity</h2>
<p>Fanon seemed keen to convince the colonizer that colonialism had no favor on him in the path to independence, since "what the colonizer obtains through political and armed struggle is not the result of the colonizer's goodwill or the goodness of his heart," but rather a translation of the fact that the colonial power now sees postponing concessions as impossible.</p>
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<p>He did not fail to pay attention to the loopholes that enable colonialism to continue, and he seemed suspicious of what the national parties are witnessing from "the coexistence of the will to break colonialism with another will, which is friendly understanding with it", and even happens, as he says, that colonialism leaves areas that have not been sufficiently exposed to the tremors of the struggle for freedom, and we find "cunning intellectuals" maintaining the behaviors and forms they received during the experience of the colonial bourgeoisie as they are unchanged.</p>
<p>Fannon understands the invocation of national and local identities in resisting colonialism, but stresses the need to go beyond patriotism in the end towards a human struggle, because struggle is what makes change that is not brought about by simply "showing a culture or traditions from the past", colonialism "will not feel shame if we present unknown cultural treasures before its eyes", he says, and to avoid these consequences, Fanon suggests paying attention to the countryside and focusing on educating the masses "who can lead themselves by themselves."</p>
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<p>Fanon's influence exceeded his limited production in number, as his intellectual activity lasted only about a decade, something that does not compare to other thinkers, according to John Drabinsky, who edited a lengthy essay on Fannon in the Stanford Book of Philosophy.</p>
<p>Fanon does not seem to have taken into account the profound impact of his ideas, whose central concern was the liberation of man, since, as quoted by his wife, he hoped to continue working as a psychiatrist and did not aspire to be a politician.</p>
<p>His book "Black Skin... White Masks" and "The Wretched in the Earth" are his most important works, while the rest of his books were collections of separate articles and studies, some of which were published posthumously, although his impact was great, as activists in Latin America relied on his visions, as happened in Africa and South Asia.</p>
<p>At the academic level, his thought influenced Edward Said, Ali Shariati and others, and his influence in cultural studies was tangible, and his concepts were used to address issues of race, nation, immigration and others, and the most prominent works of Fanon were:</p>
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<li>"Black skin. White Masks", published in 1952.</li>
<li>"The Fifth Year of the Algerian Revolution", published in 1959.</li>
<li>"The Wretched in the Earth", published in 1961.</li>
<li>"For the African Revolution", published in 1964.</li>
<li>"Texts on Dispossession and Freedom – 2011 Collection".</li>
<li>"Texts on Dispossession and Freedom – 2018 Business Collection 2".</li>
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<p>Fanon died on the sixth of December 1961 in the United States of leukemia at the age of 36, and his body was transferred to Tunisia and from there to Algerian territory according to his desire, where he was buried in the Martyrs Square in Ain Karma in the El Tarf region northeastern Algeria.</p>
<p>It should be noted that because of the despotic nature of the French during that era, they refused to allow his body to be buried in Algeria, As Allah would have it, he was buried in the Martyrs Square in Ain Karma (<a href="https://pocketsights.com/tours/place/Martyrs%27-Square-42363:4947">Martyr Square In Algeria</a>) which was at that time part of Tunisia. In later times it became part of the Northeastern region of Algeria. So not only was he buried in Algeria as he wished, he was honored to be buried in the Martyrs Square. </p>
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<p>Full article: <a href="https://www.aljazeera.net/encyclopedia/2022/11/21/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2-%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%81%D9%83%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D9%8A-%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B6%D9%84">Frantz Fanon. French thinker who fought against colonialism in Algeria and the world | Encyclopedia | Al , Jazeera Net (aljazeera.net)</a></p>
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<div><font size="6">نزل جبريل بالقرآن، و أصبح جبريل أفضل الملائكة<br></br></font></div>
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<div><font size="6">نزل القرآن على محمد فصار سيد الخلق<br></br></font></div>
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<div id=":1tk" class="Ar Au Ao"><div id=":1tg" class="Am aiL Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY"><font size="6">عجبا لأمر القرآن<br/></font><div><font size="6"> </font></div>
<div><font size="6">نزل جبريل بالقرآن، و أصبح جبريل أفضل الملائكة<br/></font></div>
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<div><font size="6">نزل القرآن على محمد فصار سيد الخلق<br/></font></div>
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<div><font size="6">جاء القرآن على أمة محمد،فأصبحت خير أمة؛<br/></font></div>
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<div><font size="6">نزل القرآن في شهر رمضان،فأصبح خير الشهور<br/></font></div>
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<div><font size="6">نزل القرآن في ليلة القدر،فأصبحت خيرا من ألف شهر<br/></font></div>
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<div><font size="6">فماذا لو نزل القرآن في قلوبنا؟<br/></font></div>
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<div><font size="6">اللهم اجعل القرآن ربيع قلوبنا<br/></font></div>
<div><pre class="gmail-tw-data-text gmail-tw-text-large gmail-tw-ta" id="gmail-tw-target-text" dir="ltr"><span class="gmail-Y2IQFc" lang="en">How strange is the command of the Qur’an <br/><br/> Gabriel revealed the Qur’an,<br/><br/> and Gabriel became the best of the angels <br/><br/>The Qur’an was revealed to Muhammad and he became the master of creation <br/><br/> The Qur’an came to the nation of Muhammad, and it became the best nation. <br/><br/> The Qur’an was revealed in the month of Ramadan, and it became the best of months <br/><br/> The Qur’an was revealed on the Night of Destiny, and it became better than a thousand months <br/><br/>What if the Qur’an was revealed in our hearts? <br/><br/>Oh God, make the Quran the spring of our hearts</span></pre>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto">Her dedication to empowering future generations through education, social justice, and community engagement continues to light the way for those who follow in her footsteps.</div>
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</div>Zambia's Rachel Kundananji becomes most expensive women's footballer in historytag:oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com,2024-02-15:6273430:BlogPost:2157502024-02-15T12:53:06.000ZAbu Ruyaahttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profile/AbuRuyaa
<p>The 23-year-old forward, who scored 33 goals in 43 Liga F games for Madrid, has agreed to a four-year contract with the</p>
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<p>American club, with the option of a further year. Bay FC will make their National Women's Soccer League debut this year.</p>
<p>Kundananji's transfer fee breaks the previous record held by England midfielder Keira Walsh, who transferred from Manchester City to Barcelona for £400,000 in 2022.</p>
<p>The deal also exceeds the reported £384,000 that…</p>
<p>The 23-year-old forward, who scored 33 goals in 43 Liga F games for Madrid, has agreed to a four-year contract with the</p>
<p><img src="https://cms.ghanasoccernet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/132631874_rachealkundananjimadr.jpg" alt="Zambia's Rachel Kundananji becomes most expensive women's footballer in history"/></p>
<p>American club, with the option of a further year. Bay FC will make their National Women's Soccer League debut this year.</p>
<p>Kundananji's transfer fee breaks the previous record held by England midfielder Keira Walsh, who transferred from Manchester City to Barcelona for £400,000 in 2022.</p>
<p>The deal also exceeds the reported £384,000 that Chelsea paid for Colombian striker Mayra Ramirez from Levante, with add-ons potentially bringing the total to £426,600.</p>
<p>Speaking to BBC Sport Africa, Kundananji expressed her excitement about the move, saying, "People in Zambia will be surprised but they will be so happy. I want to give the [Bay FC] fans what they want - to enjoy the games, to enjoy seeing me playing and scoring."</p>
<p>Bay FC will pay an initial $785,000 for Kundananji, with a further $75,000 in add-ons.</p>
<p>The club has already signed Nigeria striker Asisat Oshoala and former Arsenal defender Jen Beattie, making them a force to be reckoned with in the women's football scene.</p>
<p>Kundananji began her career with Zambian side Indeni Roses before moving to BIIK Kazygurt in Kazakhstan in 2019.</p>
<p>She then joined Spanish top-flight side Eibar and later Madrid CFF, where she scored 25 goals in 29 league games and helped the team achieve a fifth-place finish, their best ever. She has also represented Zambia internationally, scoring 10 goals in 18 games.</p>
<p>The recent surge in big-money moves in the women's game is reflected in Fifa's report of a 165.5% increase in transfer fees in January, despite a mere 0.3% rise in the number of international transfers.</p>
<p>Full article: <a href="https://ghanasoccernet.com/zambias-rachel-kundananji-becomes-most-expensive-womens-footballer-in-history?fbclid=IwAR1DMtoiimwaOE16kOwQp-_jLAipe6qXkpkYs59RGvi0XLb1bsWUpFIlVoQ">Zambia's Rachel Kundananji becomes most expensive women's footballer in history - Ghana Latest Football News, Live Scores, Results - GHANAsoccernet</a></p>How El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Got His Wingstag:oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com,2024-02-15:6273430:BlogPost:2156942024-02-15T11:00:00.000ZBilal Mahmud المكافح المخلصhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profile/2frvdhko3jtbx
<p dir="ltr"><span>How El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Got His Wings</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">By: Khalid Abdullah</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>In a few days, people all over the Afrikan Diaspora will be commemorating and giving homage to the life and legacy of the most important revolutionary figure in American history for people of Afrikan descent. On 2-21-1965, an act of fanaticism committed by misguided, narrow-minded…</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>How El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Got His Wings</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">By: Khalid Abdullah</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>In a few days, people all over the Afrikan Diaspora will be commemorating and giving homage to the life and legacy of the most important revolutionary figure in American history for people of Afrikan descent. On 2-21-1965, an act of fanaticism committed by misguided, narrow-minded negroes led to the death of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz/Malcolm X. It was a political assassination, carried-out by brainwashed, envious, gullible misfits who were too simple-minded to comprehend the underlying currents that contributed to the circumstances that led to him being ostracized and forced-out of the Nation of Islam. Ignorant to the truth, overcome with envy and compelled by self-hatred; a group of jealous, sinister, uninformed, thugs, who lacked the ability to think for themselves, lashed-out in a ‘fool's-act’. It set the movement for the independence, liberation and self-determination of American Born Afrikan descendants back decades: causing such harm that it is still proving to be almost irreparable. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>Fast forward to the present day 21st century, the masses are being misled as they embrace the ideas, opinions and thoughts of the ‘oppressor-class’. They are engrossed in, and preoccupied with, ideals, norms, standards and values based on ‘money and the things money buys’. As a direct result of ‘social-conditioning’; the overwhelming majority are obsessed with materialism. Giving very little, if any, thought at all to qualities and virtues such as character, chastity, dignity, honesty, honor, morality, respect and sobriety; the black community is rife with self-aggrandizing, ‘wanna-be’ business owners – cannabis dispensary operators – entertainers – movie-stars – politicians – sports figures and the like...all hoping to become millionaires. Just like the dumb, ignorant, self-hating lackeys who killed El-Hajj Malik, they are a bunch of confused, dumb-witted, opportunistic, misguided ‘sell-outs’. This sad state of affairs has produced a vast vacuum. So preoccupied with trying to get rich by getting their ‘piece of the pie’; they are totally aloof from the reality of their own oppression. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>We should ask ourselves what we think would be Hajji Malik’s take on the genocide unfolding before the ‘eyes of the world’, if he was alive today? Would it be reflective of the shameful attitude expressed by biden’s press secretary or the numerous; other high-profile celebrities who command attention in the fields of entertainment, journalism, politics and sports? Would his stance concur with the disgraceful, disgusting position of the current ‘house minority leader’ who enthusiastically endorses the u.s. governments’ support of the zionists in supplying the weapons being used to conduct said genocide? Would he applaud the ‘secretary of defense’ who, in his narrow-minded stupor of slave mentality, doesn’t seem to see anything wrong in his actions as he takes some sort of twisted pride in being involved in perpetrating this atrocity? </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>This is a question that it would behoove all of us in the Afrikan Diaspora to ask ourselves as a means of informing what type of response should be forthcoming from our collective, global body. Most people would agree that he would never endorse what’s happening in Gaza by assuming any of the above mentioned postures in any shape, form or fashion. It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out what he’d be calling for. </span></p>
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<div><p dir="ltr"><span>There are many today who hold a respectful opinion of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. They can be appreciated for their acknowledgement of the need for change in the world and their desire and/or interest in doing the necessary work to actualize such a tangible transformation. Yet, in far too many cases, it is baffling, dumbfounding and frustrating to find so many of them exhibit a total lack of awareness, or outright disregard and rejection, of the fact that it was Islam that provided the ideological basis for his analysis of, and perspective on, the underlying intricate dynamics of our political reality as well as his commitment and dedication to the struggle for human-rights, liberation and self-determination and the course of remedy to which he subscribed.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>This narrow mindset of denying and disregarding the influence Islam had in his development is just like talking about the Black Liberation Army while discounting the importance of armed–resistance; discussing the Black Panther Party while rejecting the idea of revolutionary struggle; or referring to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King without addressing the need to eradicate capitalism, imperialism, militarism and racism. It’s sheer asinine and ludicrous!</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>In an excerpt from the Autobiography of Malcolm X he mentions how central Islam was in molding him into the man he had become… </span><span>“Standing there by that Harvard window, I silently vowed to Allah that I never would forget that any wings I wore had been put on by the religion of Islam. That fact I never have forgotten . . . not for one second.” </span><span> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>If the quality of life is to ever improve for the downcast and underprivileged in society, the people are going to have to comply with the dictates governing the way of life that El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz embraced as it is summed-up in the following ayyat [verse] of Qur’an: “</span><span>Never does ALLAH change the condition of a people until they change what is within themselves.” Sura Al-Rad 13:11</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>This author would like to applaud and commend the valiant stand of the people of South Africa who – under the leadership of their President, Cyril Ramaphosa and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr. Naledi Pandor – have taken action to expose and oppose the zionist and their collaborators in the horrific genocide and crime against humanity being committed against the people of Palestine. May we all develop the assertiveness and resolve required to rise-up; do what needs to be done to rid this world of evil, falsehood, injustice, oppression and tyranny and do away with those who perpetrate such horrific wrongs.</span></p>
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