X1 has been a pioneer in the Bay Area rap scene. Besides doing his thing on the wheels of steel, he is a radio producer/ personality on the San Francisco-based radio station 89.5 FM KPOO, as well as a TV producer and host on The Bay Vibe, a television show that comes on daily in Oakland on Channel 78, VJTV.
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Congressman John Conyers is now the chair of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. On behalf of The Jericho Movement, Herman Ferguson has written to him requesting hearings on “Cointelpro: Its Legacy and Continuing Impact.” It is our hope that these hearings, if held, will not only further expose the crimes of the FBI and local law enforcement against the Black Liberation Movement and many of those involved it, but also result in legislation addressing some of these injustices.

Of particular concern to the Jericho Movement is the release and treatment of our political prisoners. Though the United States steadfastly denies it, presently there are many political prisoners in the United States, the majority of them Black/New Africans who were targets of the Cointelpro “Black Nationalist Hate Groups” program. Many of these brothers and sisters have been incarcerated for decades.

“We called our demonstration a campaign for jobs and income because we felt that the economic question was the most crucial that black people, and poor people generally, were confronting.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Look Magazine, 1968

Boston – A new report finds that while people of color support Democrats in the voting booth, they are still waiting for policies and programs that close the economic gap between them and whites.

The report by United for a Fair Economy studied the economic proposals in the U.S. House Democrats’ first 100-hours agenda, which are designed to help those on the lower rungs of America’s economic ladder. The report found that, in general, the 100-hour agenda does not address the race gap. It says that to do so would require adding affirmative action elements and other more targeted methods of reaching Blacks and Latinos to the proposed legislation.

The acclaim and moral authority that made Martin Luther King’s influence more powerful than any president’s so threatened white supremacy that he was frequently locked behind enemy lines. The photo on the right shows President Lyndon Johnson – with Dr. King behind him – signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act that had been passed only after eight years of near-revolutionary upheaval. The photo on the left is probably his first mug shot, taken by Alabama cops when Dr. King, then 27, was arrested in February 1956 near the beginning of the year-long Montgomery bus boycott. Discovered in July 2004 by a deputy cleaning out a Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department storage room, the photo had been “decorated” with the notations “DEAD” and “4-4-68.” Had Dr. King lived, his top priority in 1968 was to fight economic racism that, since his death, has caused the incarceration of millions of Black people. Even in his most famous speech, known as “I Have a Dream,” in 1963, that priority was evident when Dr. King declared that the Black person “lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity … an exile in his own land.”

I was talking with a friend of mine the other night and it just so happens that we both were watching TV. The news came on and the first story was about the latest killings that had took place in the Hunters Point area.

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