Posts tagged with activist

Black History Presents – Daily knowledge: Cornel West (Day 7)

0 comments, 07/02/2012, by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness, Black People, Blair History Month, General

Cornel West Cornel West is a philosopher, author, critic, actor, civil rights activist and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. West is a 1973 graduate of Harvard University and today he is a Professor at Union Theological Seminary, where he will teach Religious Philoso... Read more...

Anonymous Attacks MPAA, RIAA, DOJ, BMI, & HADOPI

7 comments, 23/01/2012, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Technology, World News

Anonymous, the rogue group responsible for some of the most, if not expansive, blunt online activist movement of all time is well underway in proving to major corporations and government agencies around the world that they are here to stay – in more ways than one. Techland, a Time magazine divisio... Read more...

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Becoming Barack (Full Movie)

6 comments, 28/12/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Documentary, Movies, Politics As Usual, Video

I'm not sure how much of this is true... but its entertaining. So I guess Barack is black...again? An Intimate Portrait of a Young Man Destined to Make History, Including a Never-Before-Seen “Lost” Interview Becoming Barack: Evolution of a Leader traces the early path of a man destined t... Read more...

U.S. Court Throws Out Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Death Sentence; 180 Day Window

3 comments, 26/04/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Freeing Slaves, Jail, Movies, News, Politics As Usual, World News

#FreeMumia A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered a new sentencing hearing for convicted police killer and death-row activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, finding for a second time that the death-penalty instructions given to the jury at his 1982 trial were potentially misleading. The 3rd U.S. Circuit C... Read more...

Eric Blair Presents – Daily Knowledge: Maulana Ron Karenga (Day 25)

1 comment, 25/02/2011, by Mr. Blair in Blair History Month

Maulana Ron Karenga is an Afro-American author, political activist, convicted felon, and college professor best known as the creator of Kwanzaa. Karenga was active in the Black Power movement in the 1960s and 1970s and founded the black nationalist group Us Organization which remains active to thi... Read more...

US Gov. Software Creates ‘Fake People’ on Social Networks to Promote Propaganda

4 comments, 23/02/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Politics As Usual, Propaganda, Protest/Activism, The Facebook Killer, twitter, url, World News

The US government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage "fake people" on social media sites and create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues. The contract calls for the development of "Persona Management Software" which would help the u... Read more...

Eric Blair Presents – Daily Knowledge: Fela Kuti (Day 17)

2 comments, 17/02/2011, by Mr. Blair in Blair History Month, Music

Fela Kuti was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, and human rights activist. The musical style performed by Fela which is a complex fusion of Jazz, Funk (especially the music of James Brown), Ghanaian/Nigerian High-life, psychedelic rock, and traditio... Read more...

Civil Rights Activist Dorothy Height Dies At 98

2 comments, 20/04/2010, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Death, News, program, World News

Dorothy Height, a leading civil rights pioneer of the 1960s, died Tuesday at age 98, Howard University Hospital confirmed. Height died at 3:41 a.m., said hospital spokesman Ron Harris. No cause of death was given. Height, who had been chair and president emerita of the National Council of Ne... Read more...

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