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Answer The Call!!!
Apply To Be A Firefighter-EMT
Your chance to become one of those who serve best
A Chicago Firefighter-EMT
Work 2 days per week,
Earn $50,000 to $60,000 per year,
Have Great Benefits
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Please RSVP AT 773.285.9600
to learn what it takes to become
a Chicago Firefighter-EMT
on
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
at The Black Star Project
3509 South King Drive, 2B
Chicago, Illinois 60653
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Applicants must have high school diploma,
pass a drug test,
be in good physical conditions,
be between 18- and 38- years old
and you must RSVP for yourself.
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Application Deadline - September 16, 2014
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The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers - Local 134wants you to become an electrician
Earn one of the best jobs in America, become an electrician! Learn how to become an electrician
on:
Thursday, September 18, 2014
at The Black Star Project
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
3509 South King Drive, Suite 2B
Chicago, Illinois
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The rate for union electricians is currently $44.00 an hour for work and about $72.00 an hour for work and benefits. Applicants must have a high school diploma and be able to pass a drug test. Please call 773.285.9600 to RSVP for the opportunity to learn about this apprenticeship. You must RSVP for yourself.
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University of California Riverside Grad Speaks Out On Fatherhood & Teen Parenting
What: Million Father March + Baby Item/Diaper Drive Riverside County
When: Saturday, September 13, 2014
Where: Riverside Adult School. 6735 Magnolia Ave. Riverside, CA 92506
Who: Terrance Stewart
Why: Fatherhood Back-to-School Rally & Teenage Parents
Riverside, CA.- Terrance Stewart was born to teenage parents; his father was 17 years old when he was arrested for robbery. As a result, they spent little time together. His mother was a teenage parent that did her best to raise him; she encouraged Terrance to go to school. However, without a positive male role model, he often became involved in activity that deemed him an "at-risk" youth.
In school, Stewart could not go on field trips or dances. In junior high school he could not go to the basketball games; kicked out of public school by ninth grade, he grew up on the streets. A young men succumbed to ideas of grandeur and masculinity, jail became his rites of passage and Terrance soon found himself within the confines of prison.
On September 13 this now University of California Riverside alum, currently working on his Master's Degree, who remained on the Dean's List 7 out of 8 quarters as an undergrad, will be the keynote speaker during the 2014 Million Father March. The event will be held from 9am - 1pm at Riverside Adult School. 6735 Magnolia Ave. Riverside, CA 92506.
During his address he will share how he overcame great personal challenges as a child to troubled teen parents. Stewart will also discuss significant experiences he hopes teen, young and "would-be" fathers will take to heart.
Currently, Stewart works with the homeless and under housed youth residing in the Downtown Riverside area.
He also works with All of Us or None (AOUON) and the Children of Prisoner program, where they fundraiser for backpacks, school supplies, food, and trips to small amusement parks for children with incarcerated or formerly incarcerated parents.
The Million Father March will also feature a Dadcussion on teen and young fathers, with an emphasis on mental health. Panelist include: Joe Nieto, Riverside USD; Dad's University. Karina Sicarios, Riverside County Dept of Mental Health; Mental Health. Dr. Richard Kotormori, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. And, Rosa Elena Sahaun, Immigration Attorney. |
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Activists say violent, vulgar lyrics in music 'dehumanizing our youth'
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Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson (center) serves on panel. - (Gary Middendorf/for Sun-Times Media)
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By Lisa DeNeal
August 28, 2014
GARY, Indiana - Vulgar and violent lyrics and their effect in the minds of young people was the subject of "Detrimental Impact of Obscene, Violent Lyrics on the Youth," a panel discussion hosted by the Gary Commission on the Social Status of Black Males on Wednesday at Ivy Tech Community College.
Bennie Muhammad, executive director of the group, said he was inspired to host the seminar after learning about the "Clear the Airwaves Project," led by Gary activist Kwabena Sadiki Jijaga Rasuli.
"I chose to put this together in an effort to help shield the ears of our black youth," Muhammad said. "While I am not trying to launch an assault on the rappers and artists who perform these songs, I believe theses artists are manipulated into producing and performing these songs from the music industry and record labels."
Rasuli did a presentation on the history of rap and hip-hop music, beginning with 1979's popular, fun dance rap, "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang, conscience and educational rap in the '80s, the birth of gangsta rap in the '90s to today's rap and hip-hop music.
Fellow panelist Jerry Crisler, 20, of Gary, is a spoken word artist and part of the Arise Group Organization in Gary. He said he wants to be a part of the youth who make changes in music. And while he knows his positive messages are not considered popular, he won't let that stop him.
"If we cannot respect each other, how can we expect others to respect us?" he said.
"We can say take it away, but they will download the songs to their iPods or computers," Phillip Jackson said. "What do you give back to them? We cannot make this an us-against-our-children movement. We cannot blame our children for the environment they are put in. We as adults have to set examples," Jackson said.
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Opinion
Ferguson isn't about black rage against cops. It's white rage against progress.
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Police using tear gas to disperse a crowd protesting the shooting death of Michael Brown. (Charlie Riedel/Associated Press)
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By Carol Anderson
August 29, 2014
When we look back on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., during the summer of 2014, it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage ignited by yet another police killing of an unarmed African American male.
But that has it precisely backward. What we've actually seen is the latest outbreak of white rage. Sure, it is cloaked in the niceties of law and order, but it is rage nonetheless.
Protests and looting naturally capture attention. But the real rage smolders in meetings where officials redraw precincts to dilute African American voting strength or seek to slash the government payrolls that have long served as sources of black employment.
It goes virtually unnoticed, however, because white rage doesn't have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislatures and governors, who cast its efforts as noble, though they are actually driven by the most ignoble motivations.
White rage recurs in American history. It exploded after the Civil War, erupted again to undermine the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision and took on its latest incarnation with Barack Obama's ascent to the White House. For every action of African American advancement, there's a reaction, a backlash.
The North's victory in the Civil War did not bring peace. Instead, emancipation brought white resentment that the good ol' days of black subjugation were over. Legislatures throughout the South scrambled to reinscribe white supremacy and restore the aura of legitimacy that the anti-slavery campaign had tarnished.
As Reagan's key political strategist, Lee Atwater, explained in a 1981 interview: "You start out in 1954 by saying, 'N-----, n-----, n-----.' By 1968 you can't say 'n-----' - that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like 'forced busing,' 'states' rights' and all that stuff.
Add to this the tea party movement's assault on so-called Big Government, which despite the sanitized language of fiscal responsibility constitutes an attack on African American jobs. Public-sector employment, where there is less discrimination in hiring and pay, has traditionally been an important venue for creating a black middle class.
So when you think of Ferguson, don't just think of black resentment at a criminal justice system that allows a white police officer to put six bullets into an unarmed black teen. Consider the economic dislocation of black America. Remember a Florida judge instructing a jury to focus only on the moment when George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin interacted, thus transforming a 17-year-old, unarmed kid into a big, scary black guy, while the grown man who stalked him through the neighborhood with a loaded gun becomes a victim.
Only then does Ferguson make sense. It's about white rage.
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2014 Silas Purnell College Expo
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Tuley Park, 90th and King Drive
Chicago, Illinois
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ADMISSION: FREE
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Come and meet representatives from Historically Black Colleges and Universities nationwide and colleges and universities throughout Illinois. For more information, call the Chesterfield Community Council at (773) 651-3958 or visit: www. chesterfieldcommunitycouncil. org. |
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"YEAH I SAID IT!"
TRIBUTE TO THE BOYS OF SUMMER
By Stella Foster
August 28, 2014
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KUDOS AND CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BEYOND AWESOME JACKIE ROBINSON WEST U. S. WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS FROM THE SOUTHSIDE OF CHICAGO . THESE precious little leaguers deserve all our love and support and best wishes that they will live on to become the best adults that can be despite the streets trying to claim them. These babies are the young black boys that we have to protect and shelter from the.thugs that plague our beautiful communities. These babies deserve to live, prosper and to become future teachers, doctors, lawyers, business owners, CEOs and whatever they desire to be.
YOU GANG MEMBERS AND THUGS GIVE THESE YOUNG BEAUTIFUL AND TALENTED YOUNG BOYS a break....leave them alone. Don't make them responsible for how your life did not turn out so great! See past that and let these young and decent young boys live and thrive in our neighborhoods. We do not want to read in the future that one of them has been taken from us through senseless violence at the hands of one of our own people!
GOD BLESS THESE BEAUTIFUL BABIES AND OTHER YOUNG BOYS IN OUR COMMUNITIES, WHO MAY NOT BE PLAYING OR EXCELLING IN THE GAME OF BASEBALL, BUT TRYING TO EXCEL IN THE GAME OF LIFE and in the pursuit of higher education.
YEAH, I SAID IT......STELLA IN THE CITY!
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