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The chosen journey begins on their 11th birthday. Whisked away to an unfamiliar town and an unknown academy that's modeled on Marcus Garvey's philosophies and a Black History curriculum. The academy provides support and guidance. As the instructors wade the chosen through tempestuous self-doubt and to the realization that they are Black Beauty and Black Excellence.

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 APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!

Today, I feature a poem celebrating the majestic and exquisiteness of a Beautiful Black Sister, written by a Revolutionary Brother and former Black Panther.

OBATUNDE

REVOLUTIONARY BLACK SISTER

Soft Black skin

Radiant Brown eyes

wooly black hair

Black is Beautiful,

Beautiful black sister

Majestic

Standing strong and alone

when others give up hope and die,

Exquisite in design

Natural in form

Beautiful black sister,

eyes toward freedom

Agile mind

Determined soul

And in your eyes,

the twinkling of the universe.

Beautiful black sister.

For centuries carrying burdens of

heartbreak

sorrow

pain

Mama Africa proud of you

Afro-princess,

Black-strong-soulful.

Beautiful black sister.

Freedom's near

Sorrow be gone tomorrow,

Brothers gett'n together now

No time to mourn

Work to be done - Freedom's near

Beautiful black sister.

Mama heard you crying again last

night,

No one else saw

Dewdrops trickling down your

tender cheeks,

or heard your muffled moans,

Allah has answered

Freedom's near.

Mama saw freedom yesterday,

out there among the stars and stuff

Daring, dashing 'bout the

heavens.

Like Bobby

dodging, ducking cars, billy-

clubs, bullets

Freedom's near

Beautiful black sister.

Mama tasted some sweet freedom

today,

wonder if it taste like

Fried chicken

Potato salad

and collards?

or maybe like

limas

cornbread

and knuckles?

Velvety black skin

Moist lips

Determined soul

Beautiful black sister,

Freedom's coming

Keep on pushing, keep on

struggling

Freedom's coming:

by any means necessary

Revolutionary black sister

 April Is National Poetry Month!

Today, I shine the spotlight on an Iconic Revolutionary Sister, a Black Panther Party member of The Harlem Chapter, New York Black Panther 21. A Poet, Author, and Writer. A Teacher. An Entrepreneur. A Philanthropist. The mother of the late Tupac Shakur. Rest in Power!

AFENI SHAKUR

HOLINESS

I took a walk, the other day

Down the tormented streets of my community,

I saw a tree that grew broken wine bottles

I saw a flower that bloomed empty milk cartoons

I heard a bird that sang a funeral hymn

I felt contempt for the signs of Spring--

I saw a pig assault an old grandmother

(Honor thy mother and thy father that thy days

may be long)

I saw a church with a pepsi cola sign

I heard a deacon say, "I've been saved, sanctified

and filled with the Holy Ghost"

And I wondered why I had never seen him in

a Panther office.

I saw a wino with his head busted open

I took him to the church and told the deacon

to do unto others

The deacon told me I was dirtying the house

of the Lord

I wondered if he was an imposter

We left the deacon and went to the hospital

A nurse told us to go get sober

We left the hospital and went to the office

The Black Panther Office-

Where we found Jesus

He was disguised in nigger clothes

He spoke in the language of the ghetto

He walked like a war counselor for the Disciples

And he cleansed the wounds of those afflicted

Jesus, the Panther, gave food to the hungry

Jesus, the saviour gave comfort to the weary

Jesus, the merciful had mercy on the suffering

masses

He came again! To bring the message to the

world

To set an example of True love for all mankind

To uplift the poor, oppressed masses

He came with a gun and a shield

He used them for the salvation of mankind

He was betrayed time and time again

He was falsely accused at every opportunity

And yet, His people, the lumpen--the field

nigger

Never allowed him to be destroyed

They slept at his side, they ate when he ate

When he dropped his gun, They picked it up

They shared his spirit, his will to live

And together they defeated the devil of Humanity

They turned the liars out and opened a new book

This one began: "We want land, bread, housing,

education, clothing, justice and peace."

Fight on Jesus!

APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!

Today's spotlight shines on a Political Activist, a once Mayoral Candidate of Oakland, and former member of the Black Panther Party. Power to the People!

LOTHARIO LOTHO

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

Our task is indeed a grave one

We realize for us, time has stopped

For others have been here

And tried to spread the word

The prophets have spoken

Malcolm told us what to do

He lived a revolutionaries life

Then he was given a warriors death

He like Jesus was betrayed by

Judas

This sent steel ripping through

his heart

Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, even

Martin Luther King

Did not their work mean a thing

The Vanguard knows the answer

We'll show the people the way

Then the voice of dissension will

grow

From a fierce threat to a deadly

blow

Then the whole world will know

The cry for freedom shall be

heard

Men shall be men and Black men

shall be black

No more living on the other side

of the track

No more shucking

And no more jive

If you ain't on your jobs

You might not survive

So now it's time for all of us

to get ourselves together

To be prepared to fight in all types

of weather

Huey must be free

What's that mean to you

Does it make you feel Black and

Blue

Malcolm's dead but his spirit is

still in our souls

Let us be like Eldridge

And all through life profess our

goals

Black is beautiful

Little Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby,

Little Bobby Hutton was Black

Big Bobby, Big Bobby, Big Bobby

Seale

Big Bobby shall not be killed

Big in soul

Like a man possessed, he travels

days without rest

Crying Huey must be free

Still the Negroes don't understand

Queen Kathleen, Eldridge's wife

Their work has become their life

Shouting on the courthouse doors

Huey must be free

Off the pigs

The sky is the limit

Glittering

 APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

An Iconic Revolutionary Sister, a Political Activist, former Black Panther Party Leader of both The New Haven Chapter and Los Angeles chapter. A Political Prisoner, Poet, Writer, Mother, Wife, widow of John Huggins, and an Educator. She was the director of the renowned “Oakland Community School,” a Black Panther Party liberation community-run child development center and elementary school. Today, the spotlight shines on this amazingly strong Iconic Sister.

ERICKA HUGGINS

(From Insights & Poems)

We are just

and yet they say they have created "justice";

we suffer with the pain of hunger

and they give us handcuffs

instead of bread.

We believed in their constitutions

and they violate it in their courts.

We defend ourselves from attack,

they murder us and claim self-defense.

We run from their rifles, guns, sirens---

they shoot us and call it justifiable homicide...

they have all the rights, we have none,

they try to co-opt the land in all of its beauty,

while we fill the jails, the prisons,

the internment camps

but----

We have strength;

We have hope;

We have faith in the people,

Who have suffered

Who have died,

Who have tasted

their own blood---

and died a million deaths,

 APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!

Today, I spotlight a Revolutionary Poem that's hipping you to the Big Black Cat! Written by a Revolutionary Brother, former Black Panther Party member For Self-Defense.

CHICO GRANT

DIG IT BABY

Black Brothers and Black Sisters

Listen to what I say,

The white man is getting funkier

each and every day;

so wake up Black people

Stop playing the fool,

Whitey is out to get you

And he don't play by the rules;

Now you and I both know that

The pig has always been on top,

and to bring him down baby

Will take more than sticks & Rocks;

Come out of the Ghettos

Come out of the Shacks,

Let's get together Brother

And become one hell of a

Big Black Cat. (BLACK PANTHER)

 APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!

Today, the spotlight shines on a Revolutionary Brother. A Revolutionary Poet. A former Black Panther and Political Editor of The Black Panther Party Intercommunal News Service.

J. White

PANTHER POEM

"Tell me about the Panthers"

The pretty sister cried

"I want so much to be Black

I've tried and tried and tried."

Well--The Panther are a party

for people like me and you.

They're trying to get rid of the

racists,

Like Johnson and his Crew.

They base their words on action

and hope for the little man.

They're going to change this

country,

cause the panthers have a plan.

They organize the people

around a common goal,

of liberty, freedom and justice

and the beauty of having a soul.

They stress the need for power.

They demand the right to choose,

When Tom's say let's not fight,

Panthers ask what we got to

lose.

The white man raped your mother

your daughters and sisters too,

and now the coldest shot of all

The man is fucking you.

These devils took our manhood

The Panthers want it back

If we can't get if peacefully

The Panthers will attack.

That's the story of the Panthers.

I think it's quite a lot

When you start looking around

you'll find

They're are the only men you've got.

 

APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!

Today, I honor a Revolutionary Sister. A Political Activist, A Revolutionary Poet. An Author and Recording Artist. A Revolutionary Educator. An Influential Professor. Sarah Webster Fabio taught Black Studies at Merritt College and The University of California, Berkeley. Many of her students were Black Panther Party members.

FREE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

SARAH WEBSTER FABIO

The pen

is a weapon;

it can discharge

volleys of

meaning

hurled toward

the bull's eye

of truth;

It can deafen

the ear with

the roar of

a people's voice

clamoring for

justice.

It can kill

lies emitted

in ink from

oppressor’s presses

making beasts

of holy men

justifying

their slaughters

Black people

righteous men

throw away

those water pistols

what we need

are stoners to

riddle America's

bastions of

bigotry

which have

kept the black

man back

the poor people

poor

the dispossessed

and isolated

estranged from

the mainstream of life.

The pen

has always

been a white

weapon; it

must be wrested

from the oppressor’s

hands by

black power.

It must blast

forth the fire

of black

consciousness,

creating new images

of our people,

by our people,

for our people;

the black panthers

are the holy men

of our time;

they are the

last practitioners

of the judeo-christian

ethic - all others

have turned their

priesthoods into a mafia

protecting not man

but status quo.

Free Huey

Free American justice

Free Leroi

Free creativity & art

Free Rap

Free free speech

Free Bobby

Free love, respect and power

Free Eldridge

Free our souls on ice

Free black panthers,

Free humanism

free black men

Free goodness & honor

Free Hue, now

and Free us all.

APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!

Today, I shine the spotlight on an Iconic, Influential figure, a Revolutionary, a Political Activist, Poet, Author, U.S. Congressional Candidate, National Minister of Defense. Co-Founder of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. A Revolutionary Black Nationalist organization dedicated to black liberation and ending police brutality, empowering Blacks through economics, social, and political means. Without further ado, PUMP YA FIST!

HUEY P. NEWTON

REVOLUTIONARY SUICIDE

By having no family,

I inherited the family of humanity,

By having no possessions,

I have possessed all,

By rejecting the all of one,

I have received the love of all.

By surrendering my life to the revolution,

I found eternal life.

Revolutionary Suicide.

 APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!

It's the 4th annual April Is National Poetry Month Celebration! 30 days of celebrating Black Revolutionary Poets. Normally, I would begin by paying homage to Langston Hughes. Not this year. This is the year of the Big Black Cat! Previously, I have featured MANY of these Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters poems, Assata Shakur, Ericka Huggins, Marvin X, Afeni Shakur, Zayd Malik Shakur, Sonia Sanchez, Eunice Saunders, the list goes on.

Before Black Lives Matter. These Brothers and Sisters were vocal about excessive PIG force and the senseless killings of unarmed BLACK men, the ZOODICIAL SYSTEM, and the RACISM within americkkka. There was the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.

Every day for the month of April, I will post a Panther poem written by a former Black Panther Party member or someone that was closely affiliated.

WARNING: SOME OF THESE POEMS CONTAIN EXPLETIVES: Pigs, whitey, F-bomb's, the n-word, etc.

BEFORE I BEGIN:

I want to give an honorable mention to DIANE di PRIMA.

A Poet, an Author, and Political Activist. A Sister in the Struggle for Black Liberation and contributor of the Black Panther Party Intercommunal News Service that featured many of her badass Revolutionary Letter # poems. A former member of THE WHITE PANTHER PARTY. REST IN PEACE!

GO SETAPHIRE TODAY!

 GO SETAPHIRE TODAY!

The chosen journey begins on their 11th birthday. whisked away to an unfamiliar town and an unknown Academy that's modeled on Marcus Garvey's philosophies and Black History curriculum. The Academy provides support and guidance as the instructors wade the chosen through the tempestuous of self-doubt and to the realization that they are Black Beauty and Black Excellence.

SETAPHIRE is available at the following Ebook retailers

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GO SETAPHIRE!

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Nicole Hammett

Author/Publisher/Editor/Illustrator

Quirky, Historical, Educational, and Entertaining!

Setaphire is a coming of age story of an awkward African American adolescent who’s gifted an unusual present on her 11th birthday. The Truth! What is this truth? Her name is not Sapphire. It’s Setaphire! What is Setaphire supposed to SET A FIRE too? Follow her and her woes as they embark on an adventure to discover self!

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Download SETAPHIRE!

Setaphire is now available at major and small online book retailers. Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Amazon, Scribd, Kobo, and Walmart!

Download your copy today at Barnes and Noble!

SETAPHIRE

Nicole Hammett

Author/Publisher/Editor/Illustrator

Quirky, Historical, Educational, and Entertaining!

Setaphire is a coming of age story of an awkward African American adolescent who’s gifted an unusual present on her 11th birthday. The Truth! What is this truth? Her name is not Sapphire. It’s Setaphire! What is Setaphire supposed to SET A FIRE too? Follow her and her woes as they embark on an adventure to discover self!