Dr. Martin Luther King ,Jr.

‎"Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks to so dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored."

~Martin Luther King Jr (Letter from Birmingham Jail)

President Obama Delivers Remarks at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial...

THIS IS BLACK HISTORY (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

MARCH AND RALLY ON WASHINGTON

FROM THE EMANCIPATOR (ABRAHAM LINCOLN) TO THE LIBERATOR (MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.)
THE COLLECTIVE JOURNEY OF CIVIL RIGHTS TO BE REAFFIRMED

Why we must stop the Banks

Bill Moyers Journal . This is Usury -  2008
Why we must stop the Banks

For Troy Davis

Fire In Their Eyes (For Troy Davis)
by Author Diane Vincent on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 11:37pm


Cries for justice spew out like roaring thunder unto the heavens

But it's ears have grown deaf.

And the wicked will once again destroy hope

As the innocent becomes but a statement to a Blackman

That he is still less in this chalky wilderness

That has become a Diaspora of presidential ignorance

A cultural decadence and diatribe on freedom, justice and equality

Innocence is not the fight.

No this war is waged to maintain a hierarchy of oppression

For all which they have stolen and murdered to possess.

In this pale, bloodless, waxed cold wilderness.

And the people of the world eyes burn like flames of fire

As they look into the future of their existence

Rummaging through the receipts of their past

Trying to find that one they can return

For their sold integrity, souls, consciousness, and conscience

In hope it will barter them mercy as the last spectrum bends

The sky and the flames from the hell they made

With the brush of their careless hands and the turn of their cheeks

Reflect from their damned eyes.

We are cursed to see the final judgment

Of our own lack of fortitude, and lose of determination.

For we’ve closed our eyes on the struggle.

Young, Gifted, and Black(Live)- Donny Hathaway

Morehouse College - We Shall Overcome

BeBe Winans - I have a dream

Yolanda King Interview with Caleb Crump

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial

MLK - A Knock at Midnight

BeBe Winans - I have a dream

An AMAZING Michael Jackson Tribute "Earth Song"

IKEA Unfair to American Workers

Tell IKEA to let its workers organize for fair wages and a safer workplace.

In Sweden, IKEA's factory workers are paid $19 per hour and get five weeks of paid vacation every year. In America? Not so much.

IKEA's Swedwood plant in Danville, Virginia is the most dangerous plant in the wood furniture industry -- workers there have suffered more than 1,536 days of lost work due to accidents on the job in a 30-month period. According to the LA Times, IKEA's Danville workers are paid as little as $8 an hour and face racial discrimination from their managers. Workers often find out on Friday night that they'll be forced to work for the entire weekend -- and if they can't make it, they face disciplinary action.

In Sweden, IKEA's factory workers are unionized, which is one reason they receive better wages and have a safer workplace -- but the company is going all out to prevent American workers from receiving those same rights and protections. Please sign the petition to tell IKEA to give its American workers the freedom to organize.

The workers in Danville have filed for an election to start a union of their own -- the election could come as soon as six weeks from now. But rather than pay its workers fair wages, Swedwood pays the notorious union-busting firm Jackson Lewis thousands of dollars a day to hold mandatory "captive audience meetings" with the Danville workers. At these meetings, the Jackson Lewis associates inundate the workers with anti-union propaganda and veiled threats that are backed up with random firings. 

Here's the good news: The publicity surrounding this organizing drive has already made a difference -- last month, Swedwood announced that Danville workers would no longer be forced to work mandatory overtime. But Liz Cattaneo of American Rights at Work stresses that continued public pressure is extremely important: "If IKEA thinks the public isn't paying attention, they're going to play hardball … throughout the election process - which could mean more firings and more union busting."

Now that the workers have filed for a union election, you can bet IKEA will redouble its efforts to squash their rights. They need our support now more than ever.

Please sign the petition to tell IKEA's head of Corporate PR that we are paying attention, and we expect IKEA to treat its American workers just as well as its Swedish workers:

http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-ikea-to-respect-its-workers

Thanks for taking action,

REV. DR L. WALTER CREWS

Remembering my Father, the Preacher: REV. DR L. WALTER CREWS (Pt 1).
by Gwen Crews on Saturday, June 18, 2011

"Only What You Do For Christ Will Last""
My father, the Rev. Dr. L. Walter Crews was born at home on the family farm in Johnson County, NC. Son of Walter and Pocahontas Wyche Crews, great grandson of slaves, Rev Harry Blacknall Crews & Zenia Philpott. Knew at an early age that he had a calling, so as a youngster, he would preach to the cornstalks. He was licensed to preach at Riley Hill Baptist Church in Wendell,NC and ordained by Rev. A.Ross Brent at Shiloh Baptist in Plfd. where he served as Assistant Pastor. Went on to pastor Second Baptist in Metuchen and under his leadership a new church was erected. Over100 Masons from his Lodge in New Bruns. helped lay the cornerstone which reads, "Upon this rock, I'll build my church." He pastored 20 years and died while in service to the Church. He was the a Chaplain for the Middlesex Cty jails, a member of Plfd Concerned Clergy, and a missionary and Bible school teacher at 1st Baptist in South Bound Brook and part of the District Union and MC Ministers Assoc. His calling was sincere, he was committed, he stayed prepared, he lived the life he preached about, he was humble and he loved the Lord. I count myself blessed to have had such a wonderful God-fearing earthly Father that pointed me in the direction of knowing my Heavenly Father. To God be the Glory!

Rev. Walter Crews Jr. Graduation from Manhattan Bible Institute 1967

REV. DR L. WALTER CREWS

Acapella - Lift Every Voice

First lady Michelle Obama in South Africa

First lady Michelle Obama and her family paid their respects Tuesday to Nelson Mandela during a private visit at the home of the former South African president and revered statesman.
It was the first meeting, and likely a moving one, between America's first black first lady and the political prisoner who later became his country's first elected black president.

Mrs. Obama, daughters Malia, 12, and Sasha, 10, and her mother, Marian Robinson, were being shown some of Mandela's personal papers during a stop at his foundation when, according to White House officials, he sent word from his nearby home that he wanted to meet the Obamas.
The family was then driven to Mandela's home in a well-manicured Johannesburg neighborhood, where they spent about 20 minutes with him and his wife, Graca Machel, who is a former first lady of Mozambique.
Mrs. Obama's niece and nephew, Leslie Robinson, 15, and Avery Robinson, 19, who are traveling with her, were also invited to meet Mandela.

White House officials had no immediate comment on the meeting. No aides, except for photographers for the foundation and the White House, witnessed the meeting.
Mandela, who stepped down in 1999 after serving one term as president, is rarely seen in public anymore. At age 92, he is in fragile health and was briefly hospitalized in January with an acute respiratory infection. But he apparently felt well enough Tuesday to invite the Obama family to visit.

Mrs. Obama is traveling without President Barack Obama, who met Mandela on a previous visit to Africa when he was a U.S. senator. Obama and Mandela have spoken by telephone several times since Obama took office, most recently last June, the White House said. Obama also wrote a foreword for Mandela's book, "Conversations with Myself."
Mandela spent 27 years in prison for his role in the movement against apartheid, South Africa's now-abolished system of racial separation.

The First Lady's Trip to Africa

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