Carmichael to lead soul session• here BLACKNEWA'RI( ---- ::Jhe Voice o/ ?tewark'-1 .Jlnner eity VOL. I, NO. I NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, APRIL, 1968 IOe Newark Black Convention set /or lune Black church, fraternal, social every segment of the Black Com persons in Newark are Black , and and anti-poverty groups are now munity to take part in the conven it is estimated that by 1970, 7 of lining-up delegates and contribut tion so that the candidates chosen every 10 persons in Newark will be ing finance to the Black Political will represent as diverse a repre Black. l Convention to be held here June sentation as possible. -78 of every 100 children in Stokeley Cannic'hael 21 thru 23 at West Kinney Junior The groups responding to the the Newark Public School system To give policy statement High School here in Newark. This Black Convention call expressed are Black. The mayor of your city Singers, dancers slated is the first step in the Black desires to work with the United appoints the Board of Education Brother Stokely Carmichael People's efforts to gain self-go-. Brothers in all areas, especially in members who in turn are respon will take a few hours from his vernment by 1970. the voter registration coming up sible for the second class education Black Nation-organizing to come t.o The thr~day convention will this summer. that Black Children are receiving Newark and let Black People know be a history-making event in which The communique from the in Newark's schools. what's happening throughout the the Black Poulation will come to Brothers said: -The Black Communities of Black World. The Brother will be gether and pick Black Candidates "Self-government is a must by Cleveland, Ohio and Gary, Indiana the featured speaker at an evening for every available city office. 1970. Newark City elections are 30 helped themselves in 1967. The . of Black Soul and Black Culture at The Black Convention is being months away, but now is the time Black Community of Newark must Central High School, Friday, April convened by the United Brothers for the Black Comuunity to get to the same in the elections of 26. The affair will begin at 7 p. m. of Newark, an all-Black group of itself together." 1970. our time, and will cost a tray ($3). profesional , business, and lay-men It listed these pertinent Black -Newark has 5 city council This spring cultural event is of the Black Newark Community. Facts : men-at-large, but only 2 are Black. one in a series being presented by The Brothers have appealed to -Today almost 2 of every 3 We must act NOW to gain greater the United Brothers of Newark . city government representation! The Brothers are showing our peo Newark drunk after King's murder; Direct personal invitations ple what a righteous place Newark have been sent to individuals can become if controlled by the thought to have influence in the Black majority population. These United Black ~rothers maintain peace Black Communities. The Brothers affairs have already proven to be In the wake of Brother Martin forces keeping our Black Youth feel this is the most important better than anything ever put on Luther King's death a drunk calm from getting slaughtered on the area to cover in order to avoid ne in Newark Symphony Hall. sat on this cracker -ruled city and streets by trigger-happy racist po groes becoming pawns of the crack Brother Carmichael will speak its Black People. licemen. er esta:blishment. on his efforts to continue the work Sirens baited. But no g:uns. From the Tuesday of Brother However , most Black People of the late great Brother Malcolm King's funeral, when the mad whine are expressing deep concern about X as regards internationalising the Days before police director of television lies drove our people the inefficienc y of the present Black People's Struggle. He is also dominicy Spina told poet Leroi Jone out of their houses to the streets mayor , city-councilmen, and other expected to rap on the hunky's in dominick Spina told poet Leroi to seek relief from an age old frus city officials. Over three-fourths of tentions to perpetrate genocide on Jones that he had ordered his po tration, the Brothers were out in the groups contacted have res black People throughout ehe world. lice not to shoot our people for ponded with delegate names and Brother Carmichael has called the streets . They told the people- taking stuff out of stores. financial contributions. this a very important engagement young and told-what was happen Agreeing with one citizen (at ing, and to be cool in the face of because he will make a major least in theory) that a man 's life policy statement. It will be one of what could have been a bloody was worth more than a six pack. defeat. his rare public appearances since But how long will such humane BlackMen must unite During the critical Thurday his international diplomatic mission reason continue? Yo guess is as last year. good as anybody's. and Friday evenings that followed, formed school jobs the Brothers were on the .streets Though Brother Carmicael has Hours after the murder of walking-trying to do what was Brothers will have to organize -,see CARl\UCHAEL, page 8 - Brother King by an average white best for Black Survival. to cop a gig in the construction of man, administration officials in the forthcoming Medical College. Newark walked , around in a daze Remember: You never fight an Black enemy unprepared, or when he trying to get Black Men to tell Black People must have an expects it. Always choose the time, CollegeStudents them how to run the city they organized group for each trade that the place, and the method; anything think they own. will be needed in the construction. else is suicide. And Brother you organizingthis month All the crackers sat around We have an opportunity to have better believe it: No matter what The 26th of April has been set (the superintendent of schools was one third of all journeymen and the bushsmokers and abstract "re red and drunk . .. do he teach your aside by the National Black Anti volutionaries" might tell you. one half of all apprentices in each children drink-study?) pumping trade. War Anti-Draft Union as the day But one thing the crisis did for students throughout the Third Black Men for the low-down. prove is that it is Black People who This is one of the few things World to join the Black Students Black Men best come together should run Newark, because only the cracker gave up after he saw of the United States in an Interna and decide what to do with Newark. Black People could have dealt with the Black People were nC\t going to tional Student Strike. Then dictate policy to chuckie that racial situation without blood It also the day Black Stu babe. He's ready to be took. let him have the whole thing is shed. without a fight. dents from all over the racist u. s. During the recent disturbances Now it is up to us to take this will covene at Shaw University in In order to make these groups by the crackers,the UnitedBrothers town ,and turn it into something effective, Brothers will have to - STUDENTS, pagel - Security Unit was one of the main we need. - IIED OOU.EGE .JOBS, ..... ' _ April, 1968 Page 2 BLACK NEWARK MartinLuther King Let Us Not ForgetThis Time
Evenif you do not now accept this. brothe1·, was only another in a seemingly What we are saying what we have to do, it is endless line of black deaths .. lives flung unless fantasy deadness on yom· part BLACK on the line for the pearl of great price. They man to deny the final stroke of madness in call it free-dam or Liberntion, Equa l Rights. reservoir. It is where we have been totally the words flow from th e places. chumped off in America by these same And Doctor King made a place a system swine our mountains of dead brot hers have of asking for this gift, or even, demanding tried futilely to find ways to live with. this "Free -dam" as a right. He sa id, "non * * * violently", so as to place himself as idealist Doctor King was ahead of his time. and as he said, dreame1·. He said, "non-vio Black men do not rule yet. Only we under lence" to dr aw the contract between his own stand the need for non-violence. Only black spir itua lity and the sick materialism of th e ·,i; men dealing in a world made benevolent and world arou nd him. All men of feeling and Saint Malik (Malcolim X) intelligent, shaped in the image of our own soul are non-violent, unless their lives hav e true black souls, feel the eternal peace ·our been distorte d so they hate themse lves, or bear upon the essential question of the power higher nature demands, and move the world the y have been attack ed by wild beasts. It less ness of Black People in America. He through the sources and resources of the was the beasts propagand a that they were would have led a voter registration voter Great Peace. themselves men that fata lly misled Doctor education drive in Newark, for the purpose Doctor King was of course ahead of his King. of achieving power for Black People , that time. Being the enlightened preacher of * * * is Black Power . peace, in a world contro lled by meat savages The newspapers say and the white But the sick distorted minds that killed who spell the word piece , and only und er statesmen say, how tragic that a sick distort him , would also like to kill the idea of black stand it that way. In a world controlled by ed mind has killed Docto r King . I rr.:.r,t agree, people governing themselves, these sick it was a sick distorted mind. Just like the dumb people and insensitive materialists , a mind s would like to wipe out from our hearts sick distorted mind that set off the bomb dying race, seeking to draw us al1 down in the yearning we have, the natural will we in Birmingham killing the littl e chur ch the savagery of their savage fall. Our bro have to acquire power, to rule our own lives. ther , was ahead of his time, out of his ele children , or the sick distorted mind that ment. How can you speak of love in a world shot a Newark youth 39 times in the 67 But they have killed our bodies before, of hate? You must move to make a world reb ellion, or the sick distorted mind that but the .v have never stopped us from movin' of love. But to make that world you must killed Medgar Evers, or Emmett Till, or or 9n up. They never will, even by taking our first have the power to survive the old one derded the deat h of Malik, yes we agree, all gentle priests of love & reason . . . in fact, and its beasts and defend the visions and sick distorted minds. It is just that there all they will do is show us that perhaps love actualities of the new. are so many of them in this white man owned and reason is not what these monsters need. * * * country, so many sick distorted minds. Yes, come to think about it, that is exactly Doctor King said, "He had a dream". He Doctor King was killed by these sick what they have shown us. (And they have told you like that was: Tha t it was, yes cer distorted minds because he was moving to shown us innumerable times before.) Let us tainly, a dream. A dream of freedom, for set ,up a United Black Front, a liberation not forget this time. all men. But men will be free only in a front, that would include all persuasions of world governed by a species that need all blackn ess, United, against a common enemy. men free, only by breed of man who is in That enemy being the same sick distorted deed brother of all the world. Our dead minds that he rallied, marched, prayed against . The same minds that killed him. * * * Doctor King foresaw a giant voter regis- tra tfon driv e in these Black Cities. Our own Black city was right up at the top of the list. He was going to bring his influence to Fre edom Is not some lav ish dish that the federal government 01 · the white man will pass out on a silver plaller while th e Neg ro mer ely furnish es the appetite . If int egm lion Is to be a reality. the Negro must suff er for It. -M. L. King Human right s come before civil rights . Human rights are int er natio nal. They are God-given rights . You can never get civil right s until you get human rights. . . . -Malcolm X We have come to the point wh ere we are able to say to those who will even use violence to block us, we will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our ca pacity to endure suffering. . . . -M. L. King All these non-violent approaches were good In their day . But this Is n new day and It's a new negro. -Malcolm X Before the victory\ w;n m":i.ybe some more will have to get scarred up, lose jobs , face the problem of being called bad names. Before the victory's won, maybe some more wm have to face the Medgar Evers Funeral tragedy of physical death. -M. L, King Reverend King with sons ,, f. I APril, 1968 BLACK NEWARK Page 3 COLUMN #I
RAISE!RAISE! "BE YOUR SELF NOW" ... words trailed off the phone , Somebody tawkin always bees tawkin to each other . We meets and stands arounds and dbaits . All these things , push it past walls. And dead Ends. We always looki.ng for new forms . We know from deep what ~hese ol ones is. What they make . Look out the window at all that dead shit. Piled in front of our eyes da'J & night. Listen , somebody just got murdere . You look out the window, somebody laid out in the street , this ol woemin at the unemployment staft run dopiedoops contraption . IA nigger sd. Dress A 300 pound woman in a red sideways nin' her mouth and sendin letters to the house . ed like a preacher, standin in front of the wig bustles br.1 trying to get inside befo the My husbin told me I was gon get in trouble." actual god with a name like Benjamin Fran k blood cqngea • Borrowed a life. Never once All of it droops around us. Images of des lin .. , .a white dude who discovered electric t~ay thought about Italians . May a seen one. pair and rottenness soak in around us, and we 1ty l A contraption that won't work long. No A cop, looking out 'the window thinking about wan~ more than that. We want more than that . body ctin self" ashes . But what about catholics big butts and a sergeant and wrestling on tele We are more than that. But balding anglo and their ash Wednesday commerce. That aint vision. Even a night course in social economics saxons tell us what the world is . , . knowing (?) even enough to sustain. The whole of Pruden to raise his dead ass up a rung in the killer what it is for them . tial a big religious ash -5upplier. Aha , mabe called Newark Pleez. Italians with sagging bellies foll us they thass what them dudes in the green and them Not thinkin about Italians the sister dis are our leaders and lead us into Rat ruled dudes in the purple ('the ones whose related appears and not 'thin kin about Mayors and stuff compounds pa'trolled by their trigger happy to the dude discovered America. Whre was or reports from airways dusteaters old and new lunatic offspring . They know what the world it? I a int sure.) Fire Fire Fire Fire Fire Fire zionist conspiracies. Money makin she might is, and what we need. Feet up to the sun, a Iii' Fire Fire Fire Fire Fire. think about. Or money gettin . . . but from di.rt sprinkl .ed on our eyes, They got jobs. "Get ready", my brother Chuck Jackson where , Nigger cross the street got money. Boxa They get a red white & blue picture television sings, his own slick heads traded in for soft food went in %ere, Money. Got to get some. with famous products for free sometimes on spiritual wool, his beautiful voice instructs us. "Hada job down neck, this ol jew was the morning shows. They own basketball teams "Get ready, Here I Come ." The Impressions, payin me nuthin. 37 dollars a week. Hada and they c.an't play basketball. They own fight "Do what your leaders ~ell you to" ... all of lotta porduhrihcuns workin down there ... you racket can 't even fight. I Muhammad Ali was us gonna get ready. Rea .dy to tear down what know them folkes work for nuthin . , . then he not, contrary to 1975 television shortstories, a needs to be tor down. But ready readier to didn't wanna gi-me no vacation time money. cracker. l They own music bizness and you for build what needs to be builded . BE YOUR I had that money comin to me. I told ~hat ol sure done heard what goes own in them ele SELF. BLACK MAN . FOR GOD'S SAKE. guy I wuddin gon stand for that. Them ol vators bea1le wet diaper sounds for investi And then some cracker sits in space with produhribcuns'II work for nuthin." gating blank walls where somethin spose to be a part in his skull anrf lectures <1bout what we Be yr self . Can you remember that, all of writ, need. What we need. What we need first is We own despair. And a piece of Addo- us. Black People. "Naw I ain got no job. Then for him to cut out. -LeR.oi Jones
UNITEDBROTHERS OF NEWARK BLMK NEWARK Page 4 ~tad'3fl~ What is ''getting it togethel'?" How does it mean? •• At an "Evening of African Soul & Culture" given by the United Brothers of Newark at South Side High School, a Sister spoke. She was "au naturelle" at the top and "the less a man sees of you the more he respects you" at the bottom. She spoj{e of female support, J1 of standing un and behind the Brothers. Se told the female audience that they could show their support by attending a "sisterood" meeting PRODUCTIONS at the Spirit: House. She gave the day and time of the meeting. The audience clappel and roared their approval and forgot all the Sister ffsl]@®/2~ had said. No one showed at the meeting, not even the Sister who called hy I/IHA1J for it and no one seemed to know what had happened. ~LACI( Ml(/ BEAU-flFUL ! What is "getting it together?" How does it mean? SouL A,fvs1cFoL.L OF BLACK POWER ,µul The "negro" Book Of a Month Club called itself doing something G'liNHJS. Y11sEFIM!r!vJ/H€ J//IAD Sin7ers,~ to get it together . Recently picked up a Summer 1967 copy of their i.EKOI JaNES) reo.diYlj 33t.P 5 off-spring, The Afro-American Woman magazine. Front cover shows (and I mean shows) four Black women attired in beautiful African j,-.",I(?xBEAUTl,Qe. 1°_g._ prints. Honestly, there was more of them out than cloth. One of the tl.hoid' tJi~ be='1 Of hla.ck women . Lf!i d,sc four owned a straightening comb and had used it to the hilt! This kind of business is shaded, tinted, coloured, but it's not a beautiful SoNNYt1iME NowI Bill-Okimage. SoNNt MuR11.AY,bUA'>t,O;At.BERT AraR, f~"''"'i For their movie review they had "Blow-Up" which was written, DoNCHERRY, UUNHpd.; HENRY GR1MES,b~; directed and produced by italians. The Afro-American Woman magazine Louis WoRREt.t.,h0-4.bj LERo,JtJNcs,reo,:lw,'t• lapped it up; they just raved about it! The theatre review was on ·Bu,'-1{ARr." 3"3 t.P s~ Leslie Uggams' hit, "Ha llelujah, Baby ." They dragged the play through RECENr RELEASES the mud; said it wasn't worth it. May you think these are small, trivial things; but I think it's all a part of getting it together. Last (and ~- 'PR,C£S least) was the Hair-Do of the Month. Are you ready? A blond wig. 1 AFRO·AP3SAN1HOLo&Y. g9. This, really, is not it. N ew worK b<1LMrq Neo.J) Q.R. HAND) Karenga teaches . . . "think Black, act Black, buy Black, love ben co.ldwell) Le'Roi Jones, YvsEF !MAN, Black ... " DAVID 1-/ENDERsoN, S0N1A $MICHE:Z, Instead of mouthing the phrase "getting it together," sister, JoSffH W1-11r'c)£d Sprin,o) µ,tmrno= let's act on the phrase and GET IT TOGETHER! ! 'leJiv$, BLACK ART. . 199- tlewPot;W1S by LeJlo' Jones ~tad'?~ NOTFOREVER 1'EA'ft'o. t~ In developing a total and complete "black personality" we must fl 0 e,m.o '[jy Ct..1tRENC€ J?u.D be aware of the fact that every projection of ourselves is a projection
of this personality. · SLAVE Shi . 0 . 1~ How we dress is a very important aspect of our "personality" A one-o..c+ P{:'I b'f Le'fl ' Jones and our clothes should be more than just body coverings or attention BLA CI'- W o MANS Role INTHE J?EVtJlUTIONf getters. A f'II IJ.Ch needed re-d~finin:,; op ~'I (lln JIMAQ 1'.o.'8oX663 Newo.rkJ N.u. April, 1968 Page 5 MAULA.."A RON KARENGA - Foun PICTURES ON THIS PAGE REPRESENT a few ot1 the activities that were offered to Black Newark at der-Chairman of "US" Black Nationalist the recent Black Soul, Black Culture Affair sponsored by the United Brothers of Newark. In the t.op flick Cultural Organizati on. Firing words of BABA OSERJIMAN, KATACHER, and OYAYEMI lay down some boss African American s ound s, while wisdom at the hw ulr Pd~ of Black faces that attended this ii;ht of Blackness. the sisters in the middle picture takei care of serious business. The brothers in the bottom picture are ready "We are the last revolutionaries In Amer to take care of some straight up action in case the prie st is attacked. In the lower right flick BROTHER ica. If we fail to J.eave a legacy of revolu HESHAM JAABIR drops some pearls of wisdom on the audience. tion for our children we have failed our mission and should be dismissed as un .!l9f! important." Teaeh l\la.ulana.. West Africa Stew 1 4 lb. to 5 lb. smoked tongue 4 mediwn onions 1 lb. fresh spinach 1 No. 2 can ot tomato sauce 1 teaspoon very hot dried red pepper 1. Simmer smoke tongue until tender, in salted water to cover with 3 thinly sliced mediwn onions. 2. When meat is tender, skin and cube. 3. Save broth . 4. Cook 1 lb. fresh spinaoh, drain . 5. In a dutch oven : pour broth, No. 2 can o! tomato sauce, 1 teaspoon very hot dried red pepper, add tongue and spinach. 6. Simmer 40 minutes on a low fire . 7. Brown a sliced onion in peanut oil, add to stew , serve. Makes 8 to 10 servings. Stew can be served over rice or w:ith mock tutu . Recipe follows. Res! African fufu in made from cassava., which is an inexpensive vegetable of the gourd family . Apparently it is not avail· able in this country .. However the mock tutu goes very well with the African stew. Mock FuFu Mix a large package of instant mashed potatoes (enough to serve eight) or in stant farina, use less water than called for on the package so that the potatoes are firm, knead until elastic. Break oft chunks to dip in ste w .. Fried Plantain Fried plantain is not a sweet dish and ls generally s e r v e d for breakfast in Africa. Plantain is the hard green banana one sees in Spanish groceries. 1. Slice the plantain very thin. 2. Brown with peanut oil in skillet. Serve hot. EATS A NURSERY RHYME DOCTOR'S EYEGLASS PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED DOG EAT CAT MOSr REPAIRS DONE WHILE YOU WAIT CAT EAT DOG DAILY:10 AM to 6 l"M SATURDAYS:10 AM to 4 PM EAT ANYTHING 285 CLINTONAVENUE BUT DON'T EAT HOG . NEWARK I, NEW JERSEY 218 1512 - SANDRA WHITEURS "My Aim ls To Please Everybody" CHARLESMEAT MAIKff PERRY'SCONFECTIONAIY RAY'S CRESCEN.T MEATS• POULTRY• GROCERIES I GROCD.Y STORE FllOZEJII FOODS Home Cooking Restaurant COMMUNITY GROCERS A Compl•te UH of Groc.,ies SPECIALTY'BAR-8-QUE-RIBS CHICKEN SPE~~v~~iJ:~u\~~N~~IPS Sp•ci1lising in Fr"'"•n Foods, Veg•t•bl•s ond NonltiH I Beef, SauHg• I 81con FULL COURSE DINNERS PIOPS: P. DOYEi, H. WILSON,J. NANCE 144 WATSONAYENUI 402 SPIINGFIELDAYL 242 9214 1H SO. OIIANIII AYI. 211 W. KINNEY STREET '42·'4ff 242-6708 ~ • t 'I APril,- 196& BLACK NEWARK Page 6 American must tur n to armed self defens e as a solut ion. Floyd l\IcKissick, lea,-lc1· of .th e Cong!"ess. o f R'a c1·a1 E q u n I J .t Y. (C.O.R.E.) says th at the ,·1v1l BlackPower rig ht s movement is ovei_· (d ea ~) A monthly analysis of it 's direction a nd t he Black Revol~tw n h ,1s begun . C.0.Il. E. at one tim e was ? BYMAX STAN FORD mul t i-rac ial g rou p made up bas '. Negro is the Asiatic , black , lost a point where ii mw;t· grant the cally of white libera ls. Jr. 1961.' it found nation of Shabazz .Allah (t he Afr ican Ame1:ica n libf'rati on or organ ized the or igina l free dom nd es Messiah, the Chri stians and J ews ex le1rninale him . He favo 1·s a but !"e<.:ently hc1s became a blac k are waiting for) appeare d in Lhe guarant eed wage (par tial repara power ,H·ganizalion. personage of Maste r Fa rd Muhan1- tion~) to th e Afri ca n America n "RAP" marl stating tha t. the blac kman from the fecle1·al gove rnm ent. Th e H. Rap Brown, present chairm11n must return to his t rue 1·eligion - Urban Leag ue has for yea rs fought or S.N.C.C. , says "Yo u'd bettl'J ' get Islam, for the War of Arm aggedon again st jo b discrimin a tion a nd has yourself some gun s." He has ca lled is fast apprm1ching. In this war God att empted to prepa re a numb er of for the ten milil on black un der th e (th e Asiatic Black ma n) whose Afri can Americans [or oppo1-tuni age of nin eteen to frmn an army pr oper name is Allah, will destro y ties in industry . called t he lllack Gmml. SNCC at Brother Max Stanford th e devil (th e caucasian) . Stoke l.v Carm ichael, former one tim e a non-violi>nl <.:omrnitt ee Roy Wilkins, the leader of the cha irman of the Stud ent Non- believing in integra ti on but has BLACK POWER Violent Co-Ordina ting Committe e Part One: Backgrou nd National Association for t he Ad (S.N.C.C.) and prese nt leader of - see BLAC K POWE R , page 7 - For the last ten years the vanc ement of Colored Pe o p I e (he Hlack Power Momevent says, Africa n American has been demon (N.A.A.C.P.), says the maj or prob "America's the Blackman's Batt le strating, going to jail, creating civil lems ar e jobs, hous ing and educa disorder in caucasia n American tional discrim inatio n. Alt hough he ground"; he has called for a Black BROTHERS'LTD. re volution and urban guerilla war society and has formed one of the is in agreement with non-violent 156 JEFFERSONST . most controversial social move demonstrnt ions, he favors reliance fare in Amer ica cities. Stoke ley tr ied t he non-violent .tact ics of ments of the 20th centu ry. in the courts, - having pat ience for the latest in styles In taking a survey of t he and fait h in white libera ls and so Mar ti n Luther King, being in the leaders hip of Black America, we called progress ive forces in t he sit-in movement, t he fr eedom rides visit the bro'thers'' ltd. find !!ight major persona lities all white caucasia n governm ent. Th e of 1961; he helped or gan ize th e striving to be the most influential NAACP for more than 50 yea rs Mississippi F reedom Democratic A COMPLETE LINE OF force among the masses of our has placed fa it h in white caucnsian Party in Mississ ippi in 1964 and CLOTHING FOR MEN people. govern ment and cour ts . A socalled th e Black Pant her P arty in Selma, These eight men, seven of temporar y victory was the U.S. Alabama, in 1965. From these ex ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY 353 9110 whom are "civil rights" leaders , Supr eme Cour ts decision in 1954 per iences and ot hers he ha s re ach are : Reverend Martin Luth er King, outl awing discrimin at ion in publi c ed th e conclu sion t hat Afri ca n Elijah Muhammed , (the only one schools. Despite the U.S. Supre me an' O!l'"' th e group with a complete Court decision, 94% of Afri can cultural , social and economic pro pupils in the sout h are in segrega t gram for his followers) Stoke ley ed schoo ls in t he yea r , 1967. Carmicha el, H. Rap Brown, Floy d With all the lega l suit s and McKissick, Roy Wilkins, Whit ney demonstrations duri ng t he last 50 Young and Robert F. Williams. years the unemployment rat e The Reverend Dr, Martin Lu among Afri can Amer icans is rising ther King, leader of the Sout hern accordi ng to t he Department of Christian Leadership Confere nce Labor of the Unitt!d States Govern (S.C.L.C.) -(these articles were ment . Accord ing to it , th e unem written prior to the assassinatio n ployme nt rate amo ng Afri can Ame of Dr. King)- the most publicized ricans, the summer of 1967 was African American leader; says t hat 9.4% - more than twice the overall thro ugh non-violent civil rights caucasia n American rat e. If "un demonstrations the Afr ican Amer dere mployment " figures ar e includ ican will be integra ted int o the ed, 33.9% of Afr ican Americans in mainstrea m of American life. Dr. the cities either had no jobs , King has tried vainly to prick the worke d pmt time or were so poor ly consciousness of white caucasian paid t hey st ill were poverty cases. Amer ica . Since .1956 he has cons Black unemployment run s to 48% tantl y appealed to white America , in some areas of Chicago, 34 % I ,os COME INTO THE SPIRITHOUSE but white America has responded Ang eles Watt s District (75% of its 33 STIRLING ST.. NEWARK, N. J. by cracking our skulls and bomb population is under 25 years old) ing our children. and 36% in Philad elphia, New BLACKPlc1vs. MOVIES Poet"rY- A/lJSIC Elijah Muhammed PLAYSrt L•LiJones,JimGarrrit,HcrbStokeSBentalclwell O¼he,s Orleans , Washington, D.C., St. PERFORMEDby SPIRIT HOUSE,1/dYE,fJ' ,k.pedory Co.' Elijah Muhammed, spiritual Louis, San Antonio and Phoenix. leader of The Nation of Islam says And there are reports that condi Sat.May 11 - 8:30p.m. we will never be accepted by white tions will get worse. Fri.May 17 - 8:30p.m. caucasian America and that we Whitney Young Sat.May 18 - 8:30p.m. Photo must separate and form a nation Whitn ey Young, the executive Fri.May 24 -8:30 p.a . Exhibit of our own. He advocates the director of the Urban League says SalMay 25 - 8:39p.a. granting of several states of the that Ameri<;a has finally reached United States for this. BLACKMASS & ,..,. •n•-aet play 11 .,, He has taught since 1930 that the caucasian is the devil, grafted NANCY'SSALES CO. HOMEONTHE RANGE LEROI JONES from the blackman, through a six YOUR CREDITDEPARTMENT STORE A_,_inion 11:LOO lor __ ,,_, • .,.- (201) 8:13-30411 hundred year process, by an evil l'umltu,., A!>Plian.. Clolllhw, ~ pla•••· scientist named Yacob. He says that the blackman is Allah (God) IIO SPRltlOPIELOAVJL -AIRK. NEW JERSEY m - and that the so-called American ~rurm~~ Pagel ]LACKYOUTH SPEAK ~L:KNEWARK A Letter BY CHOMA As Black youth we should be concern ed wi'th our own people- From Jail black people; our ow~ culture--bl ack culture . We should not concern BY H. RAP BR OWN oU rselves about learmng a. bout people who never d'd1 a th m' g f or you except pu~ our ancestors m slav~ry and have us in slavery now. Th e d(•aths and ar r ests of Lets ta ke George Was hmgt on. He hated slavery tha t is as l!HiH o,,;jg-nal more tha n ever the re far as his people ~er e conce~ ed. Wh o do you think ;e nt up and soundin g· denial of human rig hts down his tobacco fie lds on his Virgini a estate. It sur e wasn' t any by th is couutry. Murder and hum an white folks. They were black. bondage .madi· just ice the a fter Abraham Linc oln was n' t worr ied abo ut slaver y. All he wante d birth of America's immoral conce1> to do was hold the nor th an d sout h toget her. He ju st used slavery as lio 11. 1'rn t• to the nature of its birt h an excuse. thro ug;h mur der and slavery, Amer Anoth er thing we sh ould concern our selves about as Black Youth ica's only offs pr ing has been ty. is school curr iculum , especi ally languag e. ranny. We are Black, but we only speak a European lan guage when Who rea lly violates t he codes we should also be speakin a black langu ag e such as Ar abic, Swahili , of j ustic e'? .Justice upon wich all Yoruba, etc. We should be taught the se languages , not Spanish, Fren ch , Brother H. Rap Brown ''laws" should be fa bri cated? 'l'hi s Italian and ·Rus sian. countr y has s'hown t hat her "Jaws" History is also an important factor . We should be taught about are not base d on j ustice; th ey are our cultural histor y such as the great black empires, the great black INSTRUCTIONSbased on politi cs. Th ere is no se kings and queens . paration of 'law s' from politic s. Po The white man knows more about these things than we do. He FOR litical perspectiv e and allegianc e knows, but does not want us to know it . determin es hum an right s. The As the adults always tell us - we are the future men and EMERGENCY court s are a tool of th e political women of tomorrow, and to a certain extent they are right. We are All Black famlll es should have eme rgency structure. America 's judiciary sus raid drills. Listed below ar e some of the tem serves the political one. When the future men of tomorrow . We are the fut ure BLACK men who will things you should practice for your families change .this whole society, and if Allah (God) will, this whole world. justice serve s the 'law' th en there sa~The minute you get rumor of a possible is no law, no right s, no redress of AND MOST IMPORTANT, WE WILL BE FREE MEN. J ust imagi ne, outbrea.k gather your childr en off the streets . we will de able to think without burn ing up our brai ns because of t he 2. Prepare a room In your home with few grievance ;only political and judi or no windows for the family to stay in. ciary inte rcou rse. This country has chains hooked up in our, heads from eati ng pig. 3. Keep y,our medical and foad supplies In We will be able to teach our women how to dress proper ly so that room , or near it in a safe plac.e . made a. mockery of its constitution. 4. Prepare a place on the floo r to sleep. that the y will be able to bend dow n witho ut coming to the end' of ( In case of gun fire during the nighh I. Freedom share s my cell on Death their - - - - -. 5. Keep your lighh out at 11lght. Row. 6. Refrain from smoking as much as pos· Just imagine how beautiful t his wor ld will be once we become sible . I Don't risk setting youl}"lf afire or Our only redress of grievanct" causing a light ta give the police an excuse free. to shoot into your home .I is thro ug h Revolution. No govern First, as young Black Men we must become conscious of what 7. Teach your children to hit the floor ment is worth more than humanity. we have to do to become free again. Believe it or not, at one time we whenever they hear anything that sounds like a gun shot. Tyrant 's are to be made accou n were free. There was no such thing as need beca use we ha d every 8. Tead, your children the quickest and ta ble for tyran ny. thing we were supposed to have. safest . way to get out of the house In case of a fire. Wh en the cour ts are no longer But getting back to consc iousness . Th ere are cert ain 'thin gs 9. Keep a first Aid book within easy reach. ( If you have children from nine y~ars and up a n inst rum ent of or for t he people, we must do. One thing we must do is to become Black and stop callin g· teach them first aid . l ourselves Negroes. We must also stop try ing t o be like white people. MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO HAVE ON HAND the peo11le must then become 1. Asplrl~ la wmak ers an d law enfo rcers . In realit y we are Black. Consci~us ly we aren't! I say that we 2. Vaseline aren't consciously black I mean that we are n't aware of what thi s whit e 3 laking soda & corn starch (can be If it pleases the court made Into a paste by adding sterlle Y om· coun try chee rs for the e: man has.done, and is still doing to us as a people. water, used for burns and open sores l As Black youth, it is our responsibility to change this situ at ion. 4. Mineral oil my people are dying 5. Cotton It Gause pads My peo)Jle tears to see; Not only for ourselves, but for our childre n. We, mu st take up wh er e 6. Spirih nitre (for high fevers) our parents left off . We must . Every generat ion it get s worse and 7. Alcohol our peoJJle ar e dy ing 8. Tweezers ( In case you have to remove Your countr y tis of the e; worse. And it will continue to get worse and worse unles s we do some a bullet) thing about it . Our first step is to become a people and stop thinking 9. Epsom salt It table salt no fla g is flying I 0, Large clean rags ( to be used for My people cheers to see; individually. There's no doubt . THE JO B WILL BE DONE! If we sllngsl don't do it our chil dren will, and if they don't their childr en will ! 11. Sanitary Napkins we cau sed your dying 12. Lysol Disinfectant My But the j ob will be done! BLACK PE OPL E WILL RULE. 13. Plenty of Sterlle Water ( stont sep• countr y tis of thee erate wat8f for medical use I swt>et land of liber ty 14. Whiskey & Gin I 5. Scissors Lasima Tu shind e Mbilaska 16. Castor OIi (We Sha ll Conquer With out BLACKPOWER FOOD SUl'PLIES TO HAVE ON HAND (Continued f rom page 8) 1. Canned vegetables , fruit, lulces, soups, A Doubt) mllk and canned fish such as sardines, Youn , in Revolution , since 1966 become the leading force to pro t ect t he Black community 1Glmon, tuna, fish. behind th e Black Power movement against KU Klu x Klan. In 1961 , 2. Dried leans and cereal H. Rap Rrown 3. Honey & Sugar (Honey can also be wavering on the edge of Black Williams fled into exile, after being used for medical purposes l Nationalism . SNCC believes that :1.ccused of kidnapping a wh ite 4. Henh.y bars (chocolate for quick energy) Nobby's Men's Shop America is preparing to extermi couple in Monroe in the midst of a S. Coffee & Tea . nate the African American and has racial war there. He fled to Cub a 6. Nuts tfor protein! . . . H ATTER S DELU XE . . . 7. Sterile Water (enough for three months HI -ROLL SHIRTS AND IT ALIA N KNIT S secret concentration camp!< ah·eady and late r to China. at least) built . At the Nat ional Black Power 8. Vitamin "SOUL OWNERS " 9. lice & l'otatoes Robert F . Williams, the leader ~onference held in Newar k, N.J . I It Is best to have foods on hand which can George Prothro & Ralph Upshaw of The Revolut ionary Action Move one of t he reso luti ons was para be eaten without cooking In case your gas & 166 SPRINGFIELD AVE. MA 2-8719 electricity 11 shut off. I ment (R.A.M. ) says that the torc h milit ary training for the youth. In HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO HAVE ON HAND of retribut ion is soon to hit America th e vast spec trum of leaders ca ll 1. Flash llghts and 'plenty of batteries 2. Candles and plenty of matches and that in order to surviv e th e ing for various acti ons, and with 3, Keroset1e lamps and plenty of kerosene BARGAIN FAIR the appar ent br eakdown in race 4. Can openers lat least four) coming ra ce war the Afric an 5. Soap and toilet paper FURNITURE CO. American must form tight nite relations across the country almost 6. Lye (don't forget the molasses) FURNIT URE . APPLIANCE S - to the point of a race war, the 7, Sterno heat ' armed self defense units. Robert F . I. l'aper plates, cups, aad plastic forks $PECIALIZING IN 3 ROOM OUTFITS African American must ask himself Williams organized armed guards alltl llpCIHS. HORACE BROWN - OWNER as president of the Monroe, N.C. where do we go from here. 9, Dlspasable alu111lau111pats and pans 10. :!:,:::';le diapers (If yoa have •aH 2M SPRINGFIELD AVE . MA 3·8488 chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. in 1957 ~ to be continued - April, 1968 Page 8 BLACK NEWARK CARMICHAEL JihadProduction ha ( C:ontlnutld from page I) Black Mu ic ma~azine been named Prime Minister of (BLACKNEWARKl Som of you people are so the Black Panther Party , he has bu~y with your noses stuck in down 3/., Voice o/ '/1cwark• ..Jlmur c?ily been reluctant to make too many b at and jazz magazines that you public engagements because of the PAGE 8 NEWARK, NEW JERSEY APRIL, 1968 didn't know a new magazine on threats from the white house. Black Music was laying right ,under But in this appearance he Rev. Cleague to return to Newark your f el. If il b en a snake it plans to reveal the real status of Brothe1· 1-!ev. Alb~rl league, el'les~ne~s of lhl' Bia k M1111 in woulda ·bit ya. his efforts to organize Washington, The Cricket is the name of the past - ; · is published. monthly by the Black People of Newark New Jersey. All moteriat oubliahed herein reprNenh the Brothers and Sisters preaently engaged · th Black , People's Mov~ment of North America:" Thi: ~;~:,' , S~~~fra Wh!::~.of: Abu Anaar, Betty