Introducing USA Radical Black – the New “Brother” Blog of IBNN
By Kandis Style – Staff Journalist/IBNN
London, UK/Minneapolis, MN. – Nov. 12 / IBNN News/ – USA Radical Black is pleased to announce the launch of its controversial new web site www.usaradicalblack.com . The site is the result of the massive demand for information related to the American Black experience. Our goal is to provide our visitors with a virtual experience that is compelling and life altering and to inspire the marginalized, and voiceless.
“The virtual world can never match being present at a protest, or a rally; however, we strive to ignite a cyber movement “in real time” every day,” say Don Allen, Editor in Chief of IBNN and Minister of Information for USA Radical Black.
User can easily access archival and cross-referenced information and use our links and references for researching issues and forming their own opinions. The upgraded site also enables our online visitors and members an easy, instant, and secure way to register for programs, make donations, and purchase products from USA Radical Black online store.
The site allows our visitors to create individual profiles indicating specific topics of interest for communications and specialized website content. Users will also enjoy that their profiles will be securely saved for future transactions and can be updated at any time by logging in. Bookmarking and social media tags are also embedded throughout the site so that visitors can share USA Radical Black news and information with others on sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Del.icio.us.
In the future, expect to see live webcasts, high profile interviews, watch dog activities, and strategic alliances with progressive organizations that truly make a difference in people’s lives.
About USA Radical Black
“USA Radical Black – Truth to the People/Power to the People…Now!”
USA Radical Black was created by the Independent Business News Networks editor in chief Donald W.R. Allen, II to address disparities in Black and minority-ethnic leadership roles in the United States.
USA Radical Black also covers News and Information about Politics, Education, Money, Community, Religion, Race, Status and Class as it relates to us.
USA Radical Black is themed to be a “wake-up call” to people of color in the United States who have done the same thing the same way, creating insanity by electing the same party officials that have created problems over-and-over again while in the background tasking people they feel comfortable with to “solve” problems for pay and political favors.
We will explore the changing of the Black Church as it pertains to us as a people of color getting back to our roots with God, Family and Prosperity. Does a well funded Foundation or Social Service Agency have more power than GOD?
Join USA Radical Black for Truth to the People and Power to the People – if not now, when?
The WAVE Project on KFAI-FM 90.3 with Lennie Chism, IBNN’s Don Allen and local comedian “KJ” Sunday, July 26, 2009 from 6 – 7 p.m.
Tune into KFAI-FM Radio at 90.3 for the show “Mobilizing Impoverished Wealth.”
We will discuss strategies to improve and enhance local neighborhoods through community involvement are presented by Lennie Chism and his special guest the Independent Business News Network’s Editor and Chief Don Allen, who lately has a lot to say about “process” and why the same people are always at the table with little to no results. You can read his online Blog at www.ibnn.org.
Also included in this show will be live music by Soulasious along with special guest comedian and one of Twin Cities hottest up and coming comedian Kelechi Jaavaid. (KJ is the brother from the whopper freak out commercial. See more of KJ at (www.myspace.com/kjay02).
Subject of Program:
The questions of the day: “Why does everyone try to escape the high cost of Black address in an impoverished community?” What’s with the “attacks” on Black people from the news media to local “stratified” politicians whom have forgotten that in most cases some of them represent the poorest neighborhoods in Minneapolis?
- Why hasn’t the foreclosure crisis (opportunity) been solved? Who are the players that have created a new industry while throwing $100 million dollars at a “crisis” and still have no measurable results – should it be tolerated?
- The Minneapolis Department of Civil Right…Should they stay or go? This brings up an interesting topic that will be discussed in detail by Mr. Allen, who in his own words says, “They have not done the job for the minority-ethnic community – heads must roll, starting with the replacement of the director of the MDCR and Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak and most of the Minneapolis City Council. The City Council should at least look like the communities they represent.”
- What role should north Minneapolis non-profit social service play…and why is the Minneapolis Urban League so dysfunctional?
- The mayor’s use of the “N” word. “North Minneapolis.” We see no measurable results, but a plan to uproot a community.
- We will discuss the rolls of local social service agencies that have become an institution unto themselves with money in and no “pipeline” to the community.
We will explore the strategies to cure the stigma of having an impoverished address. The community problem solver often spends an enormous amount time addressing the symptoms without finding the cures. Example: We are so busy swatting the flies but often neglect to remove the excrement that draws them.
What kind of people will be interested in this program and what will the listeners gain?
Grassroots community organizers who strive to improve the lot of the impoverished community will find the strategies practical and put them into action.
We will take an “inside” view of local politics and “process” that have left communities of color on the outside looking in.
Our community has been denied information for over 40 years. This is an opportunity to tell what’s really going on.
Tune in Sunday, July 26, 2009 from 6 p. m. to 7 p.m. on KFAI-FM Radio – 90.3 on your FM dial. Listeners can also tune in via the Internet by going to www.kfai.org.
A member of the community “comments” about the Minneapolis Urban League
In 2008 it was, "Yes we can!" In 2009, "What it be?" Help needed!
The following article was sent to IBNN in response to the story “Minnesota Department of Education needs to take a closer look at service providers for SES Title I after school tutoring “outreach” for failing African-American children and other children of color”. (Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this comment are views and opinions we fully agree with!)
The person who wrote the comment goes by the name of “Silence Dogood”
“…Since when does any African American person that lives on the North side of Minneapolis, not one of the insiders “born here / raised here”, good old boy network of the Urban League even deal with the Urban League in Minneapolis. They are unfortunately only about themselves not about the community.
This is one of the organizations that could not even keep a grocery store or corner store in the area for impoverished families to have a “little” convenience and relief. It is weird they closed Snow Foods Grocery store stating there was drug trafficking in the parking lot…..the PARKING LOT IS ATTACHED TO THE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT BUILDING FOR THE 4TH PRECINCT!
The Urban League has lost grants and money before for miss-allocation of monies how they keep getting them, ruining it for minority organizations with integrity is unbeknown to many. The Urban League along with other self-proclaimed African American Community Leaders, only arrive on the scene if the television cameras are present. How many of them actually live in the community anyway? Too many of them do not! But they want to speak for the community….? No not really, they only want to get in where they can fit in to get Mammon, the money, and then take it back out into their nice suburban communities.
Everyone knows why there is so much poverty in any urban city area. Black professionals make it and forget where they came from….and do not want to look at it again.
Then there are those who are carpet-baggers, they sling into the community as though they are there to help, but instead they rape more resources out or away from the community then blame the community members for not accessing resources that were never made readily available. There is not accountability for outcomes promised in these “grants” or monies given to help the impoverished communities.
Now that we are seeing reverse suburban flight, there is nothing new under the sun, the impoverished people are being relocated or dislocated, made homeless, as their homes that were miss-financed are being sold to suburbanites for a mere pittance of what the home owners were told they had to pay for it along with a ten-thousand dollar grant to fix up the property. Isn’t it amazing the HUD monies that were allocated for the neighborhoods, the North side monies only made it into the hands of friends of friends of Urban League workers? The only way the monies would be released to anyone else in the community is IF the situation was deemed an emergency, no furnace etc.
Where was the Urban League while this was going on? Were they even aware? No – of course not. It was not affecting their neighborhoods?
How many of their children attend their school?
I bet none.
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