On Sunday, September 7th, the New York Region of the New Black Panther Party will observe the 10th anniversary of the epic Million Youth March.

It will take place at 12 noon-2pm at the historic National Black Theatre in Harlem, located at 5th Avenue and 125th Street in Harlem. For more information on the event, call 201 602 0780 in New Jersey or 917 420 8662.

On September 5, 1998, tens of thousands of proud, conscious Black youth answered the drum of the immortal Khallid Abdul Muhammad on Harlem’s Malcolm X Boulevard for the Million Youth March. Going beyond the contained , limited spiritual and social agendas of the Million Man March and the Million Woman March, the Million Youth March dared to reassert the need to put Black Power back in the forefront of our struggle.

“We damn near did the impossible. We faced more opposition inside and outside of our community than both the Million Man March and the Million Woman March combined. We faced America’s most fascist mayor since the notorious upsouth Frank Rizzo of Philadelphia, in Rudolph Giuliani, and his police force. We had to fight them in court and literally for our lives in the streets. And I am proud to say that we whipped their behinds, all praise is due to the God of our ancestors, on both fronts,” exclaimed Bro. Zayid Muhammad, the Party’s national minister of culture.

Muhammad, who led dozens of Newark area participants to the March in the boldly proclaimed Assata Shakur Freedom Fighters Caravan, will be on hand with Divine Allah, the Party’s National Youth Minister to share their recollections and appreciation. Both ultimately came into the New Black Panther Party on the heels of the Million Youth March efforts. Allah came in right away and put the New Black Panther Party on the map in New Jersey with JahJah Shakur and Jameel Shakur. Muhammad came in later to assist Khallid’s political training efforts of the Party’s young troops…

September also marks the Party’s epic Operation Rescue into New Orleans. On August 29, 2005, New Orleans, America’s oldest ‘chocolate city,’ was pulverized by Hurricane Katrina. The devastation produced tens of thousands of casualties, but more important than that, the U.S. Government under George Bush genocidally withheld proper relief efforts, which multiplied the devastation. The devastation was made even worse by the American national media order criminalizing and trivializing the plight of Black New Orleans. The New Black Panther Party, under the leadership of Malik Zulu Shabazz, Khallid Abdul Muhammad’s chosen successor, boldly took some its crack troops into New Orleans and were able to rescue some 200 residents of the city’s embattled Black 9th ward. Ironically there are now plans in place to further level the 9th ward and convert much of that area into a new airport.

On Tuesday, September 16th, the Battle of the Soul of Newark’s South Ward continues…In the ongoing struggle to prevent an unwanted liquor establishment from coming into this historic Black neighborhood, there will be a ‘Quality of Life Unity Rally,’ at the corner of Bergen Street and Custer Avenue at 12 noon.

This event is being organized by a powerful united front of community elements, led principally by elder Carolyn Kelly-Shabazz of First Class Championship Center, and including Imam Aqeel Mateen of United Muslim Inc., Church leaders Evangelist Dorothy Statham and her husband Rev. Ronald Statham of Gethsemane Church of God in Christ, Rev. Pauline Ballard of thePentecostal Prayer Center, Zayid Muhammad of the New Black Panther Party, author Sandra West, editor of the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, and most recently Sha Reagins, principal of the TEAM Academy, an incredible charter school just two blocks from the contested site of the liquor establishment, among many more.

Unlike the protest focus of the previous gatherings, this gathering will also showcase some of the enormously positive things happening in the neighborhood. This will include a spotlight of the TEAM Academy’s students.

“This new administration is supposed to be ‘Quality of Life’ administration. Yet they continue to drag their feet on our right to be heard. All we are saying is be consistent with your policy, not hypocritical. What about the ‘quality’ of our children’s lives,” said Muhammad.

For more information, please call 973 318 7013…

On Sunday, September 21st, the anniversary of the birth of PanAfrikan pioneer Kwame Nkrumah, the Harlem chapter of the New Black Panther Party will host a Black Power /Black Freedom Fighters contingent for Harlem’s annual African American Heritage Parade.

The Party’s contingent will spotlight Harlem’s Black nationalist champions, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and their late leader, Khallid Abdul Muhammad. It will also spotlight Nkrumah and dozens of Black political prisoners, many of whom are incarcerated in New York, with a particular spotlight on the late Basheer Hameed, an enormously brave freedom fighter in the Panther/BLA tradition who passed away in prison from pancreatic cancer on August 30th. Known as the Queens Two, along with his comrade Abdul Majid, Hameed had been wrongly incarcerated for over 20 years.

“Enough of our freedom fighters dying and rotting in these pigfilthy prisons. Enough of buckdancing around their plight to accommodate some buckdancing Black elected officials. Either we are going to raise the hell necessary to secure their freedom and hold true to our people’s Black Power tradition or we’re not. And if we’re not we need be prepared for the consequences of that lame posture,” exclaimed an angry Zayid Muhammad, who grew up with Hameed’s nephews in New Jersey and who has advocated for justice for Black political prisoners for over 20 years now.

For more information, please call 917 420 8662…

On Monday, September 22nd, the New Black Panther Party’s Newark chapter will host “A Nite For Our Freedom Fighters,” a tribute to Black political prisoners. This will include a memorial tribute to Basheer Hameed and a spotlight on the little known case of the Cuban Five.

The event will highlight the upcoming anniversary of the Jericho Movement for Political Prisoners in the United States.

The event will take place at Waset Kommuniversity, 271 So. 9th Street, Newark. Doors will open a6:30p.m. Sharp.

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