“My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.” FirstsShowsSchoolBlackTeamMembersHigh SchoolFirst TimeProgramTheaterBoxesPerformingDividedTicketsBasementsRecyclingBlack Boxes Author:Joe Mande
“The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.” PeopleWarWholeYoungPoliticalProcessBlackDealsCitiesPovertyIssuesRightsMovementHappeningsProgramPoliceAngryResponseSeparationCivil RightsVietnamPolice BrutalityBrutalityCivil Rights MovementDetroitInsufficientContinuumDemocratizationBlack PowerDisenfranchisement Author:Danny Glover
“The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.” MovingBlackBreakKnowingPiecesProgramTreatsBoxesTricksBlack Boxes Author:Bill Gates
“Having gone through the [Marvel] writer program, I knew Black Panther was in the pipeline and I knew they were big fans of my writing. But I had to compete with the other writers who were put up for it - no one hands out jobs.” WritingHandsBigsJobsBlackGoneFansProgramPipelinePanthersBlack Panther Author:Joe Robert Cole
“What kind of motivated me to join the Black Panther Party was that I, along with some of the comrades that I was working with in New York, had heard about the Black Panther Party, and they were doing things that we wanted to do in New York, and we thought that would be a better vehicle than the vehicle that we had going on in New York. They were better organized, and they already had their Ten-Point Platform and Program, and people already heard about them. So we decided that we would join the party, when given a chance.” PeopleKindWould BeWantedGivenBlackChancePartyHeardNew YorkTenProgramDecidedOrganizedMotivatedVehiclePlatformsComradePanthersGiven A ChanceBlack PantherBlack Panther Party Author:Sekou Odinga
“The biggest influence on my writing, besides snagging some ideas about black humor, was that the paper mill had a program where they paid 75 percent of the tuition and book [costs] for employees who wanted to go to college part-time.” WritingBookIdeasWantedBlackInfluenceCollegeCostPaperPercentProgramPaidEmployeeMillsPart TimeTuitionBlack Humor Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“The president who did the most for black Americans in 20th century history was Lyndon Johnson, and he got his hands dirty by dealing with Southern senators, Southern congressmen, horse trading with them, cajoling them, learning what not to talk about. And he got civil rights passed and Great Society programs. That should be the model. Get over yourself.” ShouldHandsBlackPresidentRightsCenturyModelsProgramHorseCivil RightsDirtyOver YouSouthernSenatorsGet Over20th CenturyTradingJohnsonCongressmanGreat SocietyGet Over Yourself Author:Steve Inskeep
“In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will enable the black people in the black community to see the fruits that they should be receiving from the politicians who are over them and, thereby, they are then able to determine whether or not the politician is really fulfilling his function.” PeopleShouldAbleActionPoliticalBlackCommunityOpinionInformationTypePoliticianProgramFunctionFruitDetermineMatureBlack PeopleReceivingFulfillingBlack CommunityPolitical Action Author:Malcolm X
“The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of political, economic, and social conditions in this country, and our ability in, in a self- improvement program to gain control politically over every community in which we predominate, and also over the economy of that same community as here in Harlem. Instead of all the stores in Harlem being owned by white people, they should be owned and operated by black people.” PeopleShouldLongRealSelfCountryPoliticalSocialBlackCommunityAbilityWhiteViewsStepsEconomyTakenEconomicConditionsSelf ImprovementGainsProgramStoresImprovementRangeBlack PeopleHarlemSocial Conditions Author:Malcolm X
“It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at helping people rise into the middle class and have a good income and be able to save and send their kids to school, and you've got a vigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, then I have confidence in the black community's capabilities to then move forward.” PeopleIfsHelpingKidsAbleSchoolMovingLawBlackCommunityViewsClassMiddleProgramIncomeDiscriminationMoving ForwardRight ThingMiddle ClassCapabilityEnforcementHelping PeopleVigorousDoing The Right ThingHave ConfidenceBlack CommunityAnti Discrimination Author:Barack Obama
“If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.” IfsLooksHas BeensCountryHelpingFormBlackEffortTaxesProgramMajoritySouthSouth AfricaFormalReparations Author:Barack Obama
“Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.” IfsChildrenGovernmentAbleSchoolAmericaBlackWhitePoorQualityImagineChildhoodCollegeHigh SchoolProgramUniversalSticksRateGenuineGraduatesLatinoHigh QualityGood EducationEarly ChildhoodGoing To CollegeGraduating High SchoolEarly Childhood Education Author:Barack Obama
“But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.” TwoSongBlackPartyStudentsMembersDiversityProgramCaliforniaSunshineSouthernChaptersCarterCampusMarvinPanthersUclaSouthern CaliforniaBlack PantherBlack Panther Party Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were murdered on campus by a rival black nationalist group, the United Slaves Organization. This shook up all the students, black and white, and made us all realize that what we were doing wasn't just an academic exercise, but had repercussions in the real world.” WorldMadeRealBlackRealizingWhiteUnitedGroupsStudentsExerciseProgramOrganizationMeetingsSlaveReal WorldAcademicBlack And WhiteRivalsCarterJanuaryCampusRepercussionsUclaAfros Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.” WantGovernmentNationsBlackWhiteProgramColonyDependencyGovernment Programs Author:Richard M. Nixon
“All the black leather she needs is the E-Z boy recliner where her love is parked with one of his hands wrapped around a remote, the other, a bottle of beer. She's right. It's kinky. The way he doesn't look away from the TV, as her head bobs in his lap like a fisherman's float on a nature program, hectic with the pace his breath sets. His crotch swells under her mouth's prowess. He's such a sweetheart he waits until the commercials to come.” WayNeedsLooksHandsWaitingBlackLove IsBoysTvsMouthsProgramBreathsBeerBottlesPaceBobFloatsLapLeatherFishermanSweetheartKinkyHecticProwessRecliners Author:Daphne Gottlieb
“Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.” ThinkingFeelsYearsMindHumansHeartLife IsBlackRealizingWhiteExistenceMorningHorrorOne DayNormalComputerProgramWake UpEightAwfulDataTwelveNegativityHeart And MindWorth LivingHuman ExistenceTerrainProzac Nation Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel
“Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.” ArtStillsStatesBlackTechnologyDevelopmentDisciplineComputerProgramCurrentsProgrammingSoftwareEngineeringConsideringComputer ProgrammingSoftware EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentComputer SoftwareBlack Art Author:William J. Clinton
“In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play” LittlesStatesPlayBlackCommunityStudentsPoetCommunicationInvolvedProgramInvitedSan FranciscoInfluentialCampusSemesterCleaver Author:Danny Glover
“Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them.” ChildrenJoyBlackPolicyRepublicanProgramDemocratNo Love Author:Donna Brazile
“When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church. Join that church. If you see where the NAACP is preaching and practicing that which is designed to make black nationalism materialize, join the NAACP. Join any kind of organization, civic, religious, fraternal, political, or otherwise that's based on lifting the black man up and making him master of his own community.” PeopleIfsMenKindPhilosophyTogetherPastPoliticalBlackCommunityChurchReligiousMastersProgramOrganizationNationalismBlack PeoplePreachingPastorLiftingCivicsFraternalNaacpBlack Nationalism Author:Malcolm X