#ras baraka

[phantomridefilmvideo]

“…mass trauma […] exists in cities, perpetuated by the media whenever something deadly happens. It trains people to feel that things are falling apart. When they see someone sleeping on the street or using illegal drugs, they remember the violent crime they just saw on the local news and think it will happen to them tomorrow. In this way, people are taught to believe that violence is happening on a regular basis everywhere around them - even in weathly communities where it is exceedingly rare.”

- Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark, Harper’s Magazine, April 2024

[reportwire]

State Tests Show 4th Straight Year of Improvement for Newark's Citywide Public Education System

State Tests Show 4th Straight Year of Improvement for Newark’s Citywide Public Education System

Press Release – updated: Dec 4, 2019 NEWARK, N.J., December 4, 2019 (Newswire.com) – ​​According to a local foundation’s analysis, Newark public school students posted a fourth consecutive year of improved results on New Jersey state tests–with the city’s charter school sector continuing to stand out. “This data is proof positive that Newark is on the right path: a citywide school system of…

[sivavakkiyar]

Sun Ra & Amiri Baraka

[jacobwren]

“She's not trying to be a martyr to unreasonable levels of decency in the face of adversaries, nor is she aimlessly skipping into combativeness for attention. You can feel her deliberating, even about how to follow the advice of Sun Ra — to make a mistake and do something right. On the third track, "Balloons," there's some consensus that she does exactly this by collaborating with controversial rapper Jay Electronica. The song holds the album's swingingest hook and mourns the risk in advance. "Why everybody love a good sad song?" It's a ballad against ballads, and it makes sense that she hosts a tragic hero. "She's just another artist selling trauma to her fanbase." The offended might miss how meta this is, how invested in the impossible wish of rehabilitation. Electronica enters as Lazarus, a risen corpse, as self-aware as he is full of hubris and attack. Neither rapper comes to redeem the other but the foiling that ensues makes for one of the most gorgeous duets in recent memory. It's OK to be unapologetic, I want to say, and to refuse to negotiate trauma through hate, for the span of the song. This is a performance. It's Revolutionary Theater, in the sense Amiri Baraka, also a fount of controversy at times, declares in his poem "Black Art": "Put it on him, poem. Strip him naked to the world! ... Clean out the world for virtue and love, Let there be no love poems written until love can exist freely and cleanly." We can't expect a universe that comes into being through the black mirror to be coded for the sensibilities of white liberals and conformists. This is the prevailing controversy within our expectations of Black music, and especially hip-hop in this middle age: It's not considered offensive when it's denigrating Black life, but any other offenses are egregious.” - Harmony Holiday, Noname's 'Sundial' pursues a hip-hop revolution

[uma1ra]

SUBHAN'ALLAH, THIS TEXT CONTAINS VERY INFORMATIVE KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL!! READ & SPREAD IT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, IT WILL BE SADQA-E-JARIAH FOR YOU AND ME.

1-Akhi - Brother

2-Ukhti - Sister

3-JazakAllah khair - May Allah give you Ajar/Sawab for your deed.

4-Ma'Shaa'Allah - As God has willed.

5-HayakAllah - May Allah give you life.

6-BarakAllahu Feek - May Allah put baraka in what you are doing.

7-Wa feeka barakallahu - and May Allah bless you. (in response to Barakallahu Feek)

8-Wa iyyakum - And to you

9-Alhamdulillah - Praise be to Allah

10-Allah - God

11-Allahu Akbar - Allah is Most Great

12-Amanah - Trust

13-Assalamu Alaikum - Peace be upon you--the "official" Islamic greeting.

14-Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh - "Peace and the Mercy and Blessings of God be upon you" Extended form of the above.

16-Astaghfir Allah - I seek forgiveness from Allah (used when mentioning something that goes against the standards of Islam)

17-Ayah/Ayat - Qur'anic verse

18-Bid`ah - Innovation, addition to the religion's essentials

19-Bukhari - One of the most noted compilers of hadith. His collection is 20-known as Sahih Bukhari

21-Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim - In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, Most Merciful

23-Da'wa - Invitation (for humankind to Islam)

24-Du`aa - Supplication

25-Eid - Islamic holiday

26-Fatwa - Islamic legal ruling

27-Fiqh - Islamic law as interpreted by scholars

28-Fitnah - Corruption and disorder, also temptation

29-Hadith - A report of a saying or deed of the Prophet

30-Haj - Pilgrimage

31-Halal - Allowed (per Islamic law)

32-Haram - Forbidden (per Islamic law)

33-Hazrat/Hadrat - Honorable

34-Hijab - Modest way of behavior and dress (including head scarf for women)

35-Imam - Leader

36-Iman - Faith

37-In Shaa Allah - If God wills. (Used when talking about a future event)

38-Injeel - The scripture sent down to Prophet Issa (Jesus)

39-Isnad - Chain of transmitters, the list of people who successively narrated a given hadith

40-Jannah - Paradise

41-JazakAllah Khair - May God grant you what is good. (Often used instead of "Thank you")

42-Jihad - Striving for Islam, whether by peaceful or violent means

43-Jinn - Unseen beings, who, like humans, are given the power to choose between right and wrong

44-Kafir - One who denies the truth. Literally, one who "covers" the truth (sometimes applied to non-Muslims).

45-Khalifah - Caliph: Leader of Muslim nation

46-Khilafah - Caliphate

47-Khutba - Sermon

48-Kufr - Denial of the Truth, rebellion against God

49-La Ilaha Illa Allah - There is no deity but God

50-Ma Shaa Allah - What God has willed! (Usually used to express wonder at Allah's creation)

51-Madhhab - School of jurisprudential thought

52-Makruh - Detested, but not forbidden (per Islamic law)

53-Mandoub - Recommended, but not required (per Islamic law)

54-Mubah - Neither forbidden nor commended. Neutral (per Islamic law)

55-Mushrik - One who commits Shirk

56-Muslim - One who submits to Allah and is a follower of Islam; also, name of one of the most notable hadith scholars. His collection is known as Sahih Muslim

57-Nabi - Prophet

58-Qur'an - The Words of Allah conveyed to us by the Prophet

PBUH - Peace Be Upon Him. Same as SAW

59-RAA - (Radia Allahu Anhu/Anha.) May Allah be please with him/her

60-Ra-sool - Messenger (Prophet to whom a scripture is revealed)

61-Rasool Allah - Messenger of God (used to refer to Prophet Muhammad)

62-Sahaba - Companions of Prophet. Singular is "Sahabi"

63-Sahih - "Sound in isnad." A technical attribute applied to the "isnad" of a hadith

64-Salaam - Peace. An abbreviated version of the Islamic greeting

65-Salaat - Prayer

66-SAW - (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam.) Peace Be Upon Him

67-Sawm/Siyam - Fasting

68-Seerah/Sirah - History of the Prophet's life

69-Shahadah - Bearing witness that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is His Messenger.

70-Shari'ah - Divine Law

71-Sheikh - Scholar (or any elder and/or respected man)

72-Shirk - Associating partners (e.g. helpers, other gods) with Allah

73-Shura - Consultation among Muslims

74-Subhan Allah - "Glory be to God"

75-Sunna/Sunnah - Tradition of the Prophet

76-Surah/Sura - A Chapter in the Qur'an

78-Tafsir - Interpretation

79-Tawraat - The scripture sent down to Prophet Musa (Moses).

80-Ulama - Religious scholars

81-Umma - Nation, community.

82-Ustadh - Teacher

83-Wassalaam - And peace. It means "goodbye"

84-Zakat - Required charity

[lboogie1906]

Sergeant Amiri Baraka (Everett LeRoi Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014) known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was a writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. His plays, poetry, and essays have been described by scholars as constituting defining texts for African American culture.

He was born in Newark, where he attended Barringer High School. His father Coyt Leroy Jones worked as a postal supervisor and lift operator. His mother Anna Lois was a social worker. Jazz was something he became interested in as a kid. The influence of jazz can be seen throughout his work.

He won a scholarship to Rutgers University but transferred to Howard University. His classes in philosophy and religious studies helped lay a foundation for his later writings. He studied at Columbia University and The New School without taking a degree.

He joined the Air Force as a gunner, reaching the rank of sergeant.

His career spanned nearly 52 years, and his themes range from Black liberation to white racism. Poems that are associated with him are “The Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues”, “The Book of Monk”, and “New Music, New Poetry”, works that draw on topics from the worlds of society, music, and literature. His poetry and writing have attracted both high praise and condemnation. In the African-American community, some compare him to James Baldwin and recognize him as one of the most respected and most published African American writers. His plays, poetry, and essays have been described by scholars as constituting defining texts for African American culture.

His brief tenure as Poet Laureate of New Jersey involved a controversy over a public reading of his poem “Somebody Blew Up America?”.

He married Hettie Cohen (1958-64)​ and Sylvia Robinson (1966⁠–⁠14)​. He is the father of Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka. He has eight other children #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[boricuacherry-blog]

John's death was a theme, but so was a desire to surrender her ego, and to offer herself to something greater. In the sleeve notes for "A Monastic Trio" (1968), Alice's first album as a bandleader, the poet and critic Amiri Baraka called her "one earth bound projection of John's spirit."

She had no problem with being defined in terms of her husband's legacy, for some of the most radical music he made was an attempt to translate their private world for the masses. It was the "earth bound" part that she resisted.

On Alice's album covers, she often wore a look of dreamy preoccupation, and their titles - "World Galaxy," "Universal Consciousness" - easily aligned her with many of her outer-space-obsessed peers such as Sun Ra or Herbie Hancock.

[razorsadness]

99. Do you think Frank O'Hara was somewhere reading from Lunch Poems when some Black students were attacked for sitting at a Woolworth's lunch counter?

100. How about two actors play LeRoi Jones and Amiri Baraka discussing anti-Semitism in an episode of a less comedic season of poetic history set in the 1960s?

101. Is it possible to think of anything in the 1950s without thinking of the murder of Emmett Till in 1955?

102. Does Emmett Till or Rosa Parks trigger the Civil Rights Movement?

103. Did you know President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in the same year James Baldwin published The Fire Next Time?

104. What would constitute a perfect poem for you?

105. Who kept loving Sylvia Plath and Jimi Hendrix after high school, college, and middle age?

106. Who, in general, lives longer, painters or poets?

107. What is Time?

108. What are (your) ecopoetics?

109. Did you know Lucille Clifton went to Howard University with Amiri Baraka when he was known as LeRoi Jones?

110. If the poet representative of the last American century is, like the century, a mess of experiments, contradictions, and conviction, isn't Baraka a pretty good representative poet?

111. How about a vision of the American poet starring a mother (Lucille Clifton) who writes poems while raising her six children in Maryland in the 1970s?

112. Can you believe that Baraka's 1968 anthology of Afro-American writing, Black Fire, featured essays by John Henrik Clarke and Harold Cruse and poems by Sun Ra, David Henderson, A.B. Spellman, Sonia Sanchez, Henry Dumas, Jay Wright, Stanley Crouch, Lorenzo Thomas, and Victor Hernández Cruz, but did not include poems by Lucille Clifton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Bob Kaufman, Etheridge Knight, or Audre Lorde?

113. What do you think of Audre Lorde's "Power"?

114. Have you ever read "Those Winter Sundays" and wondered what happened to the mother in the poem?

115. Have you ever met anyone familiar with the poems of Allen Ginsberg's father, Louis Ginsberg?

116. If you write a poem like "Howl," do you really need to write anything else?

117. Is "Howl" an example of a poem that actually changed things?

118. When you write a poem, what does it teach you about the past?

119. Did you know Ginsberg reads the entirety of his poem "When the Light Appears" in the song "When the Light Appears Boy" on the album When I Was Born for the 7th Time, released by Cornershop in 1997, the year of Ginsberg's death?

120. Did you know that was his voice on "Ghetto Defendant" by The Clash ("Starved in metropolis / Hooked on necropolis / Addict of metropolis / Do the worm on acropolis / Slamdance the cosmopolis / Enlighten the populace...") ?

121. Do you sort of think of the Beat poets in the same way you think of the Grateful Dead, with members wandering around like several hairy, high Walt Whitmans?

122. Couldn't we debate whether Robert Lowell or Ginsberg is more confessional?

123. Is it true Bob Kaufman took a vow of silence to protest the Vietnam War?

124. Who brings more intimacy and toughness to poetry than Lucille Clifton?

125. What if every day you ask poetry of yourself?

—Terrance Hayes, from "Twentieth Century Examination Part V" (Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry, Penguin Books, 2023)

[omegaremix]

Spring 2005 Mixtape:

Aphex Twin Analord 1-5

Hanin Elias “Apparente Mas” (live)

Roxy Music “Avalon”

Boyd Rice “Black Light District”

Unsane Blood Run

Cure, The “Boys Don’t Cry”

Techno Animal The Brotherhood Of The Bomb

Willie Hutch “Brother’s Gonna Work It Out”

Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions “Choice Of Colors”

J.J. Paradise Players Club “Cotton Balls”

Vast Aire f. El-P “Dr. Hell No & The Praying Mantus”

J.J. Paradise Players Club “Drag”

Rolling Stones “Emotional Rescue”

Sway & King Tech “Enough Beef”

Common “The Food”

Slick Idiot “Forgive Me”

Sequence, The “Funk You”

Michael Gira “Game”

Tom Tom Club “Genius Of Love”

Pig Destroyer “Gravedancer”

Renix Crew f. Oxygen “Iron Shield”

Steely Dan “Josie”

Einsturzende Neubauten Kalte Sterne

Pigface “King Of Negativity”

Alec Empire “Kiss Of Death”

Sun Ra “Lanquidity”

Los Nosequien Y Los Nosequantos “Las Torres”

Usher & Ludacris & L’il Jon “Lovers & Friends”

Lo-Down Clique “Mad Fright Night”

J.J. Paradise Players Club “Magic Skin”

Coti “Nada Fue En Error”

Alec Empire “Night Of Violence”

Lee Ranaldo “Notebook”

Canned Heat “On The Road Again”

Imamu Amiri Baraka “Our Nation Is Like Ourselves”

Fonda Rae “Over Like A Fat Rat”

Ministry “Primental” (live)

They Might Be Giants “Put Your Hands On The Puppet Head”

Yak Ballz “Queens Life”

Merzbow Rainbow Electronics

Deep Throat  OST “Run Linda Run”

Cop Shoot Cop “She’s Like A Shot”

Dire Straits “So Far Away”

Echoing Green “Story Of Our Lives”

Kool Keith “Takin’ It Back”

Talib Kweli “Talk To You”

Everly Brothers, The “Talking To The Flowers”

Pig Destroyer “Towering Flesh”

Gil-Scott Heron “A Very Precious Time”

Juanes “Volverte A Ver"

Jesu “We All Faulter”

Little Brother “Whatever You Say”

Nine Inch Nails With Teeth

Phil Western World’s End

Sun Ra “Yucatan” (Saturn VER)

Nas “2nd Childhood” (9th Wonder RMX)

[tearsinthemist]

a house made from a shipping container This city is attempting to end homelessness with houses made out of shipping containers

[slickbackdani]

I'm perusing TV Tropes for great ideas for future DEATH BATTLE installments, and here are the ideas I like most:

Agent 47 (Hitman) vs The Spy (TF2)

Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars) vs Gamora (Marvel)

Aku (Samurai Jack) vs Hades (Hercules)

Ares (DC) vs Hela (Marvel)

Asgore Dreemur (Undertale) vs Andrias Leviathan (Amphibia)

Atrocitus (DC) vs Jiren (Dragon Ball)

Azula (Avatar) vs Esidisi (JJBA)

Baraka (Mortal Kombat) vs Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

Beast Boy (DC) vs Nimona

Belos (The Owl House) vs Vecna (Stranger Things)

Black Manta (DC) vs Killmonger (Marvel)

Cheetah (DC) vs Catra (SPOP)

Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece) vs Jolyne Kujoh (JJBA)

Freddy Fazbear (FNAF) vs Monokuma (Danganronpa)

Gengar (Pokemon) vs King Boo (Luigi's Mansion)

Indiana Jones vs Rick O'Connell (The Mummy)

John Constantine (DC) vs Hellboy

Johnny Gat (Saints Row) vs Trevor Phillips (GTA 5)

Joseph Joestar (JJBA) vs Star-Lord (Marvel)

Junko Enoshima (Danganronpa) vs Chris McLean (Total Drama)

Kars (JJBA) vs Albert Wesker (Resident Evil)

Katsuki Bakugo (MHA) vs Sasha Waybright (Amphibia)

Lizard (Marvel) vs either Killer Croc or Man-Bat (DC)

Loki (Marvel) vs Shinnok (Mortal Kombat)

Lord Raptor (Darkstalkers) vs Brook (One Piece)

Maui (Moana) vs King Shark (DC)

Moon Knight (Marvel) vs Azrael (DC)

Mysterio (Marvel) vs Scarecrow (DC)

Okuyasu Nijimura (JJBA) vs Amethyst (Steven Universe)

Overhaul (MHA) vs Diavolo (JJBA)

Peacemaker (DC) vs The Soldier (TF2)

Pennywise (It) vs either Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) or Sinestro (DC)

The Pyro (TF2) vs either Firefly (DC) or Roadhog (Overwatch)

Ra's al Ghul (DC) vs Will Zeppeli (JJBA)

Reaper (Overwatch) vs Noob Saibot (Mortal Kombat)

Risotto Nero (JJBA) vs Skarlet (Mortal Kombat)

Robin Hood vs Zorro

Rorschach (Watchmen) vs V (V for Vendetta)

Sandman Marvel) vs either Clayface (DC) or Crocodile (One Piece)

Saxton Hale (TF2) vs Kano (Mortal Kombat)

Senator Armstrong (Metal Gear) vs President Valentine (JJBA)

The Sniper (TF2) vs Captain Boomerang (DC)

Tomura Shigaraki (MHA) vs Yoshikage Kira (JJBA)

Trixie Lulamoon (MLP: FIM) vs Peridot (Steven Universe)

Two-Face (DC) vs Mal (Total Drama)

Vilgax (Ben 10) vs General Zod (DC)

Walter White (Breaking Bad) vs John Kramer (Saw)

Xenomorph (Alien) vs Demogorgon (Stranger Things)

Zim (Invader Zim) vs Moxxie (Helluva Boss)

[sivavakkiyar]

Amiri Baraka, "Charles Olson and Sun Ra." Fourth Annual Charles Olson Memorial Lecture. Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA. 19 October 2013.

[philophi9999]

Def Poetry American Poem Ras Baraka

JAI HO RENUKASWAMII😆😆😆😆

[lboogie1906]

Mayor Ras Jua Baraka (born April 9, 1970) is an educator, author, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Baraka is the 40th and current mayor of Newark, New Jersey. First elected in the 2014 election, he was sworn into office on May 13, 2014, and was reelected in 2018 and 2022.

Before he was elected mayor, he served on the Municipal Council of Newark and as principal of the city’s Central High School. He is a candidate for Governor of New Jersey in the 2025 election.

A Newark native, he is the son of poet and activist Amiri Baraka and his wife Amina. He was educated in the Newark Public Schools and earned a BA in Political Science from Howard University and an MA in Education Supervision from St. Peter’s University.

He was the principal of Central High School (2007-13).

He edited In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers (1992). He was featured on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, as the narrator of several interludes on the album. He recorded the intro to The Score, The Fugees’ second album. He and Hill recorded an unreleased single together entitled “Hot Beverage in the Winter”, which featured on his spoken-word album Shorty for Mayor.

He dedicated his collection of poems Black Girls Learn Love Hard to the life of his late sister, Shani Baraka. He had read as part of the city’s Dodge Poetry Festival. He has participated in the National Political Hip-Hop Convention. In 2019, he released the spoken word video What We Want.

He is the father of three daughters. He married political consultant Linda Jumah (2019). And they have a son. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha