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Welcome
to the
NAT TURNER TRAIL
The next tour of the trail will be during
The 177th Anniversary of The Nat Turner Tour
The Staging of the tour begins
at 10:00 AM
at
THE KHALIFAH HEALTH RANCH RETREAT
26070 Barhams Hills Road - Drewryville, Va 23844
(704) 277-1462 to reserve a seat or make a
date
RETURN
TO THE NAT
TURNER TRAIL:
August 3, 2008
SCHEDULE OF
EVENTS AT KHRR
June 28, 2008
First Fruit at The Farm Project
June 28, 2008 -
Building/Teaching the Building of Organic Gardens
August 14-21, 2008
Anniversary Celebration of
The Nat Turner Revolt *Vendors, *Guest Speakers *
An Afrikan Feast *Tour of the Nat Turner Trail
October 1, 2008
Commemorative Remembrance
and Tour of the Nat Turner Trail
*It is recommended that
anyone who
desires to take the tour read the book:
"NAT TURNER AND THE
CAMPAIGN OF THE BLACK
$12 + $4 postage
LIBERATION ARMY OF 1831"
by Khalifah, Joyner & Magee
100 pages,
illustrated>>>>>>>
$12.00 + $4.00 shipping>>>>>>>
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The following is a special article for the National
Newport Newsservice
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OCTOBER 17, 2007
by H. Khalif Khalifah, Senior Tour Guide and Founder
of "The Nat Turner Trail"
The date on
which General Nat Turner was captured in Southampton
County, Virginia was October 31, 1831. He was
executed on November 11, 1831 after a sham trial. He lost the battle, but the struggle continues. The
Tour is part of the work to share the information
about Black history, by Black people.
The story
about the rebellion that Nat Turner led is very well
known: so we will not recount the details of his
work in this release. That is, except to state that
the rebellion was an attempt to free every Black
man, woman and child from captivity in the United
States of America.
Though Nat
Turner and the Black Liberation Army that he
organized did not achieve their overall objective,
few who study history will say the Revolt was not
successful. Not any more than you can say that the
efforts of Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, WEB
Dubois or Malcolm X was. The Liberation Struggle of
Black People is a long, protracted struggle.
Next November
3, 2007, we will commemorate the rebellion with a
“Return to the Nat Turner Trail.” The Tour is a
lecture and visit to the route that Nat Turner led
as the BLA did “The work of death” starting on
August 21, 1831. The “work of death” is the words of
Nat Turner, as he described the work the army was
commanded to do at the slave holding plantations.
The men were
ordered to kill every white man, woman and child on
the plantations. The Nat Turner Trail Tour is to
share the story behind the rebellion, information
about Nat Turner and his family, and the plans to
carry out their over all Mission. Nat Turner didn’t
kill any non-slave holding white people. But the
overt enemies of Black people, chattel slaves
(property owned by white people) that he could get
his hands on paid the penalty, which included the
expropriation of money and other valuables.
Today when
white people refuse to pay Black people our due
Reparations, they are setting themselves up, and
DARING Black people to defeat and force them to pay.
This is the only way that real reparations
have ever been paid. When the enemy is defeated, the
things he stole are expropriated, rather than
continuing the prosecution and application of
international law to the case. When Nat Turner and
the BLA acted, the time for the oppressors to settle
the case legally, under the law had run out.
Anyone who
cares to take this “Living History Tour” should call
(704) 509-6773 or (704) 277-1462. Ask for H. Khalif
Khalifah. Khalifah is a Senior Tour Guide and the
author of a book on the Revolt called: “Nat
Turner and the Revolt of the Black Liberation Army
in
Southampton County in 1831.
inquiry by e-mail at buy@khabooks.com. For more
information, go to
www.khabooks.com
THE SAGA OF THE JUST
IN TIME PEOPLE
Black Literary Weekend
Getting An Influx
By The Newport Newservice
May 16, 2007
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA
-That black people have not completely detached from
our roots can be proved in many varying ways. The
least of the ways is not our concept of time:
“Zamani” and “Sasa” is alive and well in North
America.
According to
Dr. Mbiti, the author of “African Religions and
Philosophy” when Africans on the continent make an
appointment for a specific time, they do not mean,
i.e. 8 A.M. perse. It is more like about 8 am. Dr.
Mbiti goes on to give a great, general consensus of
how continental Africans live. Every word verifies
that The Honorable Elijah Muhammud was right to
teach that time is the master illusion.
The above was
written in order to make a point regarding the 2007
Black Literary Weekend, June 1, 2 & 3 in Southampton
County, Virginia. A part of North America that Nat
Turner and the Black Liberation Army of 1831
liberated. Liberating the land also meant the
Captive Africans at the time was also liberated. A
Revisit to the route they marched to achieve such a
stupendous feat, is retraced on the third day of the
gathering of Independent Black Writers.
Brother Keidi
Awardi,
Sister Dr
. A.
Kambon, Dr. Laila O. Afrika, Sister Shahrazad Ali,
Dr. Henry N. Anderson, Dr. Kamau Kambon, Sister
Amuntyt Khalifah (Judy Carter), Dr. Frederick
Newsome, Allah Jihad, Larry Thomas and many, many
others will gather at the Khalifah Holistic Retreat
to celebrate the most important black writers in the
World: Independent Black Writers.
BLACK BOOK LOVERS COMING
TO VIRGINIA
Confirmed
attendees have swelled over the last three weeks
leading to the BLW. And as per Afrikan concept of
“just in time.” And we know that the last two weeks
will bring an abundance of confirmations. At the
least, “we are planning, food and other wise, for a
last minute influx of 25% in attendance.” So stated
Emanuel L. Knight, the overall coordinator of the
event. The Holist Health Retreat is on pristine land
that Nat Turner actually was born on, slaved on, and
planned the revolt on.
It is not too
late for writers, families, friends of Black books
and vendors to come to the only gathering of its
kind South of Washington, D.C. to Atlanta, Ga. Writers will speak about, sign and sell their books. There will be a
Holistic Health Workshop; a Workshop on Using
Technology to Promote Our Business, including the
business of Liberating Black people.
And the person
largely credited with the success of independently
(from mainstream publishers) published books, Sister
Shahrazad Ali, whose “Blackman’s Guide to
Undrstanding the Black Woman”, created a ground
swell of dialogue about Black Male Black Female
relationships; and earned millions dollars for many
small black business.
For the 16th
year, UBUS Communications Systems & Your Black Books
Guide will present Black Book Awards to Black
Writers, Black Booksellers at an awards Banquet,
June 2, 2007 at 7 P. m.
Hopefully, all
intending to be there will be there long before this
years winner of the Carter G. Woodson Awards is
called to received the 2007 Black Book Award for the
person who impacted the most on the Re-education of
the Negro.
Go to
www.khabooks.com, call (434)
658-4934, (704) 509-2226 or (704) 277-1462, or
writer
blackwriters@khabooks.com for more
information.
An added benefit
for guest is a the annual Inventory Reduction Sale
by UBUS Communications Systems, 25% (retail) to 55%
(wholesale) will be disconted from the retail
prices.
The Annual
Black Writers & Booksellers
Conference and Retreat
June 1, 2 & 3, 2007
KHALIFAH'S HOLISTIC HEALTH RETREAT
The Nat Turner Trail Tour
will be conducted during the weekend.
Schedule of events, registration fees will be posted.
*For immediate information call (704) 277-1462 of e-mail
khalifah@khabooks.com
*Featuring
a tour of THE
NAT TURNER TRAIL
*Presentation of 2007 Black Book Achievement
Awards
*Presentations by Black Writers & Booksellers
*Family and Audience Participation
*Wholesome Foods, including Seasonal Fruits,
Vegetables
*Special activities for Children and other VIP's
*Bicycling, Basketball, Volley Ball, Nature Trails
& etc.
$12.00 buy@khabooks.com
(cut
and paste e-mail if you don't have "outlook
express.")
WHAT IS THE NAT TURNER TRAIL?
WHAT
IS THE NAT TURNER TRAIL?
The Nat Turner Trail was named
and established by H. Khalif Khalifah and his
late wife Sister Reda Faard Khalifah. It was
a regular feature of UBUS/BLACK BOOK GUIDE writers
conferences, and other events during the Black
Books Movement in the 1990's. Of course it was
founded by one of Black America's all time great
heroes, General Nat Turner who led the Black
Liberation Army of 1831 in a revolt that was
designed to free every black man, woman and
child in the United States of America.
Presently, more than 1000 persons have
taken the tour. This does not include tours
that are sponsored by the "victims"
of Nat Turner. They tell the story of Nat Turner
from the stand point as the ones Whom Nat Turner
revolted against. To them Nat Turner was villain.
To Us he is a hero and his story is vital for
a complete understanding Of Black history.
The "Return to the Nat
Turner Trail is a bus tour that caps off a Memorable
weekend for writers, families and friends who
participate In the annual Black Book Awards.
The tour is a visit to the "battle site"
where Nat Turner and his army defeated the enemy
in seventeen Skirmishes as he led his army to
Jerusalem. Jerusalem was the name for what was
changed to Courtland, Virginia. As it was then,
it is still the county seat of Southampton County.
It is at the county seat where the armory was.
Nat Turners plan was to confiscate the weapons
to arm his army.
LIVING
HISTORY
This is a living history tour that is similar
to the spiritual experience one feels on visiting
sacred places on the West Coast of Africa. It
is a two hour tour that ends, as it began, at
the Khalifah Health Ranch Retreat.
The Khalifah Health
Ranch Retreat is a 123 acre track of land
that Nat Turner slaved on (some say he was actually
born on the particular plot where the main house
is located). Besides the Khalifah Home, there
is an evolving Black Publishing Museum where
books and souvenirs can be purchased. And documentation
recorded to commemorate your visitation.
The Health Ranch serves dinner
(a part of the tour package); and feast on seasonal
fruits and vegetables (the land is a setting
with an actual, working farm with crops in the
ground). There is bicycle riding, volley ball,
basketball and nature trails. and beautiful
green grass suitable for family outings the
stay at the Ranch is usually 2 to 3 hours.
The Tours are given to groups
year round. Register for notification when it
can be fit into your schedule. The next scheduled
one is during Black Literary Weekend, Sunday,
June 5, 2005.
The Tour Guides are: Master
James Magee, Senior Guide Professor Professor
Alexis Joyner and H. Khalif Khalifah.
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The
next schedule tour of The Nat Turner Trail will
be June 5, 2005. For more information Call 1-877-509-2226.
Or e-mail khalifah@khabooks.com
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THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO
AND THE WILLIE LYNCH LETTER ARE
BEST SELLING BOOKS IN BLACK
AMERICA
WHY?
A Timely Book Review by…… Emanuel L.
Knight
- Special to The
Newport
Newservice
SOUTHAMPTON
COUNTY,
VIRGINIA
DECEMBER, 2007
As 2007 draws to a close – by the Western calendar – there is a curiosity
prevailing in book buying in Black America. The Willie Lynch Letters and
The Making of a Slave, which has been number one or two on
all major best seller list for the last three years, is being rivaled for the
top spot by one of the perennials for Black Booksellers, The MisEducation
of the Negro, a 240 trade paperback that was first written and published
by the legendary, Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1937.
Of course we are only writing about “Best Sellers” lists that are maintained by
Independent Black Publishers. The “Willie Lynch Letters” whose main text
was exposed to perhaps billions of people worldwide, when Minister Louis
Farrakhan read it at the Million Man March in 1995, became a phenomenon when
Lushena Books added more researched documentation about the slave making process
of white
America. He then produced it into a
32 page booklet.
LUTHER WARNER:
BOOKSELLER EXTRAORDINARIE
Mr. Luther Warner, the owner
and founder of Lushena Books, discounted and sold the booklet to national Black
Bookstores for $2.37. The Black Book Sellers, which includes Street Vendors in
many major
U. S. cities, marked it up and
retails it for $3.95. We dare say that
Chicago based Luther Warner have been the most
gifted Black bookseller in the history of Blacks in the
United States of America.
“Luther is the best, man.
Nobody comes close to Luther in selling Black books.” Said a younger
entrepreneur who modeled his own multi-million operation on the success of
Luther Warner’s Lushena Books.
LUTHER WARNER is to independent Black
bookselling, what Sister Shahrazad Ali is to Independent Black writing
Black America has never had the
benefit of a bookseller on the level that Luther Warner reached in the 1990’s.
He is to independent Black bookselling, what Sister Shahrazad Ali is to
Independent Black writing. Though many try to duplicate, none can replicate what
Lushena has meant to the Black book Industry over the past twenty years.
Essence Magazine, began tracking the book buying volume of Black people in
the 1990’s. They have documented the popularity of the Willie Lynch book.
Because of its affordability, it may already exceeds The Blackman’s Guide to
Understanding the Blackman, By Sister Shahrazad Ali in Black readers over
the past quarter century.
THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE
NEGRO
INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED BY
DR. CARTER G. WOODSON
Black America owes an eternal debt to “Independent Black Booksellers”
(independent Black booksellers is loosely, any one involved in marketing Black
literature, to Black people, without the approval of white people).
Sister Shahrazad Ali, Luther
Warner and others took the necessary methodology of giants in Black Literature,
like Carter G. Woodson and J. A. Rogers (if they wanted to publish in racist
America) to new heights. This review
could easily be about their importance in causing a “sea change” in Black
Literature. Primarily, they market Black literature to Black people, who in turn
sell the literature to Black readers. But this story is about how two of the
most read, and important, books of our generation are contending with each other
to be number one seller in Black America.
CARTER G. WOODSON: ICON
Dr. Carter G. Woodson is an
icon. He is best known as the author of The Mis-Education of the Negro.
But he is also the founder of what was first called “Black History Week.” It is
now called Black History Month. In the early 1030’s he wrote and published a
book that was/is called “The Education of the Negro.” In it he specifies how
Black people were educated to be characterized by traits of PTSD (more later
about this). No doubt, the specificity didn’t get the desired result. So it was
not long before he wrote and published one of the most important books in
history: “The Mis-Education of the Negro.”
Whereas “The Education of the
Negro” specifies what was done to “educate” Black people. “The Mis-Education of
the Negro” documents the fact that it was a deliberate misinformation education
to reinforce the self hatred of a people who had all but lost “true knowledge of
self, God and the devil.”
Though he probably never heard
of Willie Lynch, the 1712 Caucasian teacher of other slave owners, about “how to
make a slave,” Carter G. Woodson could well have called his classic, ‘How the
Students of Willie Lynch Used His Doctrine to Mis-Educate Black People.’
WHO IS READING SERIOUS BLACK
BOOKS
WHEN THE TREND IS TO READ
URBAN ROMANCE FICTION?
The wholly armed Research arm
of Black media conglomerate, United Brothers Communications Systems, The
Newport Newservice, researched to determine the reason for the resurgence of
the 70 years old “polemic” by Dr. Woodson. As it is, when one looks seriously at
anything Black in
America, why it is the second most
purchased book in Black America 70 years after he first published it, is a
complex situation.
“There are many reasons for the dramatic increase in the readership of the
Mis-Education of the Negro.” Said Director Founder and Owner of UBUS
Communications Systems, H. Khalif Khalifah.
“The popularity of the Willie Lynch Letter, which is thought to be a text to
educate white slave owners to train and maintain chattel slaves, maybe the
catalysts.
“But the demographics of the readership maybe the most important consideration.
If you go back 12 years to the Million Man March and add to the school ages of
the ones who may have had the greatest presence at the march, you get into the
ages of twenties for school aged young Black men; and the mid-thirties for
college aged young Black men at the time.” Continued Khalifah.
“After trying to live as a normal adult in a White Supremacist System, Black
people, especially the Black youth, are keen to learn all they can about Black
people. That is, ones who realize that a Black person who tries to fit into “the
system” as a natural black adult. The slavery experience haunts Black people,
even in this day and age.” Added Khalifah.
WHY, HOW CAME
US TO THIS CHARACTERIZATION?
It is far from documented fact, but indications are as young, anyone,
comes to the age of reason, the ‘why’ question about who they are and how they
became such, conjures up a strong desire for answers. Many young Blacks find
some vital parts of the answers when they read “Willie Lynch Letters and the
Making of a Slave.” Unfortunately, some do not read it until they are
captured, one way or another, and put in jail. Because of the power and price of
the book, a significant number are mailed to inmates behind prison walls.
Fortunately, the mass majority
of readers of Willie Lynch read the book before the application of the
teachings land them in the Criminal Justice in the
United States of America. And more
fortunate than anything else about the book, when young people read, or
experience anything they like, they indulge, some over indulge themselves in it.
If they reach a certain level of UNDERSTANDING about Willie Lynch doctrine, they
receive the WISDOM to seek more knowledge about self and kind.
The knowledge they find was in
books written by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Na’im Akbar, Francis Cress
Welsing, Amos N. Wilson, Mr. Carol Barnes, Sister Shahrazad Ali, H. Khalif
Khalifah, and dozens of others, many invariably referenced “Mis-Education of the
Negro, and/or Willie Lynch Letters. The rest is history in the making.
The referenced generation of readers
are young fathers and mothers who were educated in mis-educational systems
devised by the ‘children’ of the students (white chattel slave owners) of Willie
Lynch. According to Black Icon, Carter G. Woodson, “when you control a man’s
mind, you don’t have to build a back door. If he doesn’t find one, he will bill
it himself.” Other Black readers who made the Willie Lynch Letters and The
Mis-Education of the Negro “best sellers” are college professors who read,
and UNDERSTAND their significance; from the understanding they got the WISDOM to
require and recommend books that must be read by their students. The book orders
at the beginning of college semesters confirm there is a groundswell to include
the Mis-Education of the Negro as the first requirement.
TREATMENT FOR
POST TRAUMATIC SLAVERY DISORDER
Both books gives explicit
information about the reasons for the self hatred and disunity of Black people -
and other negative character traits, that is clear evidence that the Black Race
in the recovery stage of “PTSD (Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder.” The Authors of
a book with that title: Dr. Reid, Mim, and Sekou use the texts heavily to make
their case for PTSD as a treatable disease.
“The Mis-Education of the
Negro” was first reprinted by United Brothers Communications Systems in 1992. It
is presently the ONLY version that is still in print. UBUS recently printed a
new edition of the standard bearing “Willie Lynch Letters and the Making of a
Slave.” Their edition features a new Preface by Khalifah, a laminated cover and
perfect binding. A gorgeous wrapping for a poison message to is still used to
subjugate Black people.
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DECEMBER FAST DECLARED BY
THE HONORABLE
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD
by H. Khalif Khalifah
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12/1/07
This is to say to all within my reach that I still observe the fast that was
declared by The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I have observed the month of December
to varying degrees of success for 33 years. I always attempt to participate in
it 100% through my every word, act and deed. And though this is an
impossibility, the striving have help keep me as close to the straight and
narrow path that I am. I have been abundantly blessed by Allah when I forget, go
into error or make a mistake. And I have concluded that the grea-test blessing
of all is that I turn to The Creator, Sustainer and Cherisher of all persons,
places and things for help. So after 33 years of striv-ing, I believe I am in
the position in life that I have the best chance of being 100% dutiful dur-ing
this month I pray for success for everyone who is participating, ob-serving or
sensitive to Black Muslims during this time. Ultimately, I fast for the
power to be a better servant to African people, as we continue to struggle for
“Freedom, Justice and Equality”………..Peace, Khalifah, December 1, 2007
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