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NATIONAL BLACK UNITED FRONT
The "Black United Front" is an organization made up of concerned and committed individuals and organizations who have united to assume responsibility for working and leading the struggle for a better life for themselves and their children. The Black United Front is a broad-based organization which includes all social, political, religious and cultural sections of the Black community. It is the young, the elderly, the students, the imprisoned, the workers, and the dropout all working together to overcome our common problems. In the words of Marcus Garvey, "Up you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will."
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A smoothed out mix of jazz, poetry, hip hop and Black Power.
National Black United Front PO Box 7776 Atlantic City NJ 08404
347 422 7823
http://www.UjamaaMarket.net
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National Black United Front
National Martin Luther King Symposium Where do we go from here: Education or Incarceration?
Organizing for Community Control Over Education
EZ Street of 93.9 FM - WKYS
Ajamu Webster NBUF Kansas City Chapter Chairperson
Nsaa Dance Ensemble
Adeyemi Bandele NBUF/The East
Dr. Conrad Worrill Director, Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies of Northeastern Illinois University
Taylor Amos President, Delta Sigma Theta, Alpha Chapter President
Shirley Jones, Esq. President, Black In Government (Region XI)
Dr. Greg Carr Chair, of Howard University Afro-American Studies Department.
Charis Goff President, Greater Washington Urban League's Thursday Network
John Chapman City Councilman, Alexandria VA
Blackburn Center Digital Auditorium Howard University Washington DC
Friday Jan. 17 Doors open at 6:30pm
Free Admission
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All Roads lead to Howard University July 10-13, 2014 for the 35th NBUF National Convention
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National Black United Front Black Arts Movement
Dedicated to the Ancestors of the Civil Rights Movement
Emergence Community Arts Collective 733 Euclid St. NW Washington DC
Sat. Jan. 18
7:30pm $10 in advance $2 more at the door
Where Art Meets Activism
Hosted By Jennifer Bryantat
Featuring: Kymone Freeman The Flawed Logik Band DJ 360 Degreez LaKeisha Hungryfor'Knowledge X Zsudayka Nzinga Pierre Batchler Culture Brown Akua Benjamin Davina N McKoy Taji-Hakim Imani S. and more.
Food provided by Tambra Raye of NativSol Kitchen
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All Roads lead to Howard University July 10-13, 2014 for the 35th NBUF National Convention
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Shades of Blackness III - A soulful mix of Spoken Word, Activism, Jazz and Hip Hop.
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The National Black United Front will be sponsoring a trip from Washington DC to Harlem NY, to participate in the 51st Annual Malcolm X Day Piligrimage to the eternal resting place of Malcolm and Betty Shabazz. In addition to the ceremony, paticipants will also be able to visit the historic 125th Street in Harlem NY.
Buses and Cars will assemble at the Harlem State Office Building on 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd at 9:00 AM and proceed at 10:00 AM to Ferncliff Cementary in Hartsdale, NY. The Ceremony will last approximatelyone hour after which we will return to Harlem to take part in several activities and rallies sponsored by many organizations throughout the day.
The O.A.A.U. initiated the pilgrimage in 1965, after the burial of Malcolm X, to honor and show respect for our people’s fallen leader as well as to educate future generations about the legacy of Malcolm X and his effort to liberate African People’s minds and bodies. The ceremony was designed by Sister Ella Collins, the sister of Malcolm X, then President of the O.A.A.U., and was directed by her until Rodnell Collins, Bro. James Small and Bro. Willie Stark were appointed to continue the pilgrimage. Today the pilgrimage is led by a new generation of young leaders.
Transportation will depart the Anacostia Metro Station at 4:00 am and return at 10:30 pm.
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MLK Feed the Hood Day of Action is intended to empower individuals, strengthen communities, bridge barriers, create solutions to social problems, and move us closer to Dr. King's vision of a "Beloved Community."
Dr. King once said, "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" Therefore Commissioner Salim Adofo, NAACP DC Branch, and the National Black United Front will provide opportunities to serve the community and your country in deep and meaningful ways. You can help us fight homelessness by providing 1,000 care packages for at risk families in the Nation’s Capital. If you are unable to volunteer, please feel free to make a donation to help us reach our goal.
Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in a nation of freedom and justice for all, and encouraged all citizens to live up to the purpose and potential of America by applying the principles of nonviolence. MLK Feed the Hood Day of Action is a way to honor his life and teachings by engaging in community action that continues to solve social problems. Service breaks down barriers by bringing people from different experiences together – volunteering can unite Americans of all ages and backgrounds while building stronger communities.
Partnering Organizations Include: Serve DC - The Mayor's Office on Volunteerism and Partnerships Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Blacks In Government Black Millennial’s for Flint Bullying is not Dope Commissioner Salim Adofo Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Department of Energy and Environment Department of Parks and Recreation East of the River Services Grambling State University Alumni Association DC Chapter Macedonia Baptist Church Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School NAACP DC Branch National Black United Front National Society of Black Engineers Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. So Others Can Keep Striding Washington Bar Association - Young Lawyers Division
Volunteers are asked to donate $10 towards the preparation of the care packages.
Gilbert “Gil” Scott-Heron was born April 1, 1949 in Chicago to Jamaican soccer star Giles “The Black Arrow” Heron and opera singer/teacher Robert (yes, “Robert,” as named by her father Robert), better known as Bobbie, Scott-Heron. When he was two, his parents separated after his father moved to Scotland. Immediately following the separation, Gil’s mother moved to Puerto Rico to teach. Before going, she sent him to Tennessee to live with her mother, a dignified and religious woman, who was pivotal in creating the man we know of today. Lillie, as she was called, loved gospel music. She made arrangements for him to entertain her friends by playing gospel on a broken-down piano she bought for him. And she hired a neighbor to teach him to play. By the time he was eight, he found himself attracted to what he was hearing on a local blues-oriented radio station in Memphis. Although he couldn’t really appreciate what he heard, he liked it. Accordingly, he began to mimic it on his piano- but only when grandma wasn’t around, because she was no fan of the blues.
It wasn’t just music that Lillie brought into his life. It was also Black consciousness. She introduced him to the literary artistry and social activism of Langston Hughes, whose work would become a motivating force in Gil’s life. She explained to him what racism means. She became his rock and inspiration. And he loved her dearly for that. One day in 1962 when he was 12, he noticed she had not come downstairs for breakfast, so he went up to wake her. She had died in her sleep.
His mother returned to New York and moved them into a Bronx apartment. But when she no longer could afford the rent there, she had to relocate them to a public housing project in the run-down Chelsea section of Manhattan.
As a sophomore at the neighborhood DeWitt Clinton High School, Gil excelled, primarily in writing courses. And one of the English teachers was so impressed that she got an interview for him at the elite Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Riverdale, a prosperous section of the Bronx. He was accepted on an academic scholarship but was disappointed to discover he was just one of five African-Americans in a class of 100.
He later enrolled at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He chose that school because it was where his hero Langston Hughes had attended. In fact, he actually met Langston Hughes there once. And it was at Lincoln in 1969 where he met the Last Poets and told member Abiodun Oyewole that he was so moved by their rhythmic revolutionary poetry that he “wanted to do that” in life. Although he never joined this historic spoken word and percussion group, he did begin to blossom as a musician and activist, especially when he hooked up with follow student Brian Jackson and formed the Black and Blues band. He remained at Lincoln for two years and then went on a sort of sabbatical to write two powerful and still relevant novels, The Vulture and The Nigger Factory, the former published in 1970 and the latter in 1971. In addition, he wrote a volume of poetry. And he earned a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University in 1972.
Music became his life when he started recording with small labels, and things expanded in 1975 when he was signed to Arista Records, making him the first artist ever on that mega-label. It was then that his Midnight Band debuted. The band’s “First Minute of a New Day” album reached Billboard’s “Top Ten Soul Album” chart. And he headlined as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live- and that was at the insistence of Richard Pryor. He toured in the early 1980s with Stevie Wonder after replacing the terminally ill Bob Marley. He also performed with the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Miles Davis.
Gil had become exactly what he always wanted to be: a jazzman, a soul-man, a poet, a composer, an author, and a bluesman. He also became a “bluesologist,” meaning, in his words, “a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues.” He listed his influences as John Coltrane, Otis Reading, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Richie Havens, Huey Newton, and Malcolm X.
Although many of us Hip Hop aficionados like to say Gil is the “Godfather of Hip Hop,” the man himself half-seriously and half-jokingly once said in 2010, “I don’t know if I can take the blame for that.” But he was referring only to the heartless materialism, the gratuitous violence, and the cartoonish posturing of commercialized Hip Hop. That’s why he had no problem with unadulterated and conscious Hip Hop, which is the reason he performed with Common and Talib Kweli, permitted sampling by Mos Def, Tribe Called Quest, and Kanye West, allowed his songs to be remade by The Roots and Queen Latifah, and recorded with Blackalicious. Chuck D of Public Enemy said “… we do what we do and how we do because of… (Gil).”