Show Purpose: To explain the importance of closing the skills gap among those that are unemployed and employed; in hopes that closing the gap will allow people to retain the gain employment they secure.
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Dr. Mutulu Shakur was born on August 8, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland Since the age of 16, Dr. Shakur has been a part of the New Afrikan Independence Movement. As a part of this movement Dr. Shakur has been a target of (COINTELPRO).
During the late sixties Dr. Shakur worked with the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika, and the Black Panther Party. In 1970 Dr. Shakur was employed by the Lincoln Detox (detoxification) Community (addiction treatment) Program and became certified and licensed to practice counseling and treatment of withdrawal symptoms with acupuncture, later becoming the Program’s Assistant Director and remained associated with the program until 1978.
From 1978 to 1982, Dr. Shakur was the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA) and the Harlem Institute of Acupuncture. Where, at Lincoln, Dr. Shakur had managed a detox program recognized as the largest and most effective of its kind by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Acupuncture Research Society and the World Academic Society of Acupuncture, at BAAANA he continued his remarkable work and also treated thousands of poor and elderly patients who would otherwise have no access to treatment of this type. Many community leaders, political activists, lawyers and doctors were served by BAAANA and over one hundred medical students were trained in the discipline of acupuncture. Dr. Shakur’s work in acupuncture and drug detoxification was both nationally and internationally known and he lectured on his work at many medical conferences, and was invited to the People’s Republic of China.
Dr. Shakur was the founding member of the National Committee to Free Political Prisoners. He has been a leader in the struggle against the illegal U.S. law enforcement programs designed to destroy the Black movement in America and has worked to expose and to stop the secret war against its Black colony.
In March 1982, Dr. Shakur was charged with conspiracy and participation in eight incidents of actual and attempted expropriations from several banks. In addition he was charged with participation in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur. After five years underground, Dr. Shakur was arrested on February 12, 1986. Dr. Shakur is the father of six children and his son, Tupac, was assassinated in 1996.
Guest Speaker
Bro. BILAL SUNNI-ALI is a musician, performer, composer, educator, community activist and advocate. He has performed live, on stage with Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson, Doug Carn, Stevie Wonder, Wynton Marsaillis, American Symphony Orchestra, Jimmi Hopps-Esspirit, Earl Turbinton, Pharoah Saunders, and many, many more. He was also a Black Panther who was a co-defendant in the United States vs. Dr. Mutulu Shakur case.
President Obama reveals much about his thinking when it comes to specifically addressing issues specific to Black people. He recently told Black Enterprise that “I am not the President of Black America”. Let the Obama apologists and spin doctors begin.
Speaking of issues specific to Black America, particularly Black men, Green Party candidates for elected office have been speaking out against police violence directed towards Black men. It is a pretty sad day when White and Hispanic women and men can openly discuss the need to address this problem while a Black president ignores it.
MoveOn is targeting Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO telling him to stop selling to stop supplying and selling high capacity magazines for assault rifles. It wasn’t that long ago that Black Talk Radio reported that one of the Dick’s Sporting Goods stores in Charlotte refused to sell a rifle to a Black man and his wife. Where was MoveOn at that time?
American hurdler Lolo Jones is upset with a New York Times article questioning why she has received so much more media coverage and corporate support when more deserving female athletes were shunned. Lolo misses the point entirely while she has one wWhite parent and one Black parent, she seems ignorant to the cultural bias of corporate America. There is also another lesson, hard work, values and perseverance does not always lead to reward if you are Black in America.
First it was an attack on Serena William’s golden C-walk dance after handily defeating Russian Maria Sharapova, now it is gold medal winning Gabby Douglass’s turn to be targeted by suspected racist host and guest collaborators.
Black Talk Media Project launches “Watch A Cop” citizen journalism project. Speaking of video and police brutality, Maryland cop caught on cell phone camera hitting and slapping a man restrained in handcuffs and another officer.
Another dirty NYPD cop has been caught breaking the law in a kidnapping scheme but has yet to be charge. Where is the Grand Jury?
