Code,920018
Subject,Abdul Qahar
Date,2008
Interviewer,Angela Robinson
Abstract,"Abdul Qahar, a political activist who has worked with prisoners, urban youth and community development organizations, discusses social and economic issues facing African Americans in Cleveland and in the US broadly.  Qahar discusses his work with the Black Panther Party and describes the history and impact of the Black Nationalist movement.  He relays some of the problems affecting Cleveland's neighborhoods, including drugs, foreclosures, corporate development, and the ongoing power of white supremacism."
Special Notes,
minutes:,
0,"Abdul Qahar born Clearwater Florida, in 1950, attended schools in Tarpon Springs, graduated from job corps school in San MarcusTexas,"
1,works with African-American youth in Cleveland Glenville area
2,"Qahar was active in track in school, was nicknamed ""the Crow"", was fastest runner in school and received awards in track"
3,"work with prison program to develop prisoners skills while in prison, received award from city council for Unity Club work at Glenville library"
4,young man Qahar worked with is now at prominent law firm and appeared on Oprah Winfrey show
5,leadership awards for work with young people in Cleveland
6,community garden work in 1997 on Cedar and 39th
7,"volunteer work at Western Reserve Historical Society,"
8,"move to Cleveland, work with black unity programs, work with Black Panther"
9,"Cleveland State University Black Studies program, East End Neighborhood House"
10,differences between the old and new Black Panther parties
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12,"Qahar's move to Glenville area and initial involvelment in community, gang problems and drug use in 1980's, changes in area between 1980's and current time"
13,"loss of East side market, Glenville residents became powerful in city hall, strength of Glenville High School"
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15,problem of foreclosures and boarded up homes and possible solutions
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17,foreclosures as plot by whites to reclaim black neighborhoods
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19,fear mongering causes people to leave inner city neighborhoods
20,"businesses in Glenville owned by outsiders, lack of support by African-Americans for African-American businesses"
21,Mandingo store
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23,Arab influence on local businesses
24,reasons and effects of loss of African-Amercan businesses
25,self-hatred in the black community
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27,"People's Community Congress plans for people to control their own neighborhoods in education, government,safety"
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29,interviewer questions
30,organizations as strength
31,"black community was ""disorganized"""
32,1960's as heydey of black organization and white backlash
33,description of Free Times article on new Black Panther party
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35,description of police confrontation with Qahar after Panther meeting  in 2002
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37,Qahar's struggle to work as a Panther in local schools and resistance to that work
38,"""new Negroes"" that object to Black power as ""buffer zone"" for white community"
39,"Pararde the Circle involvement, Cleveland Clinic encroachment in neighborhood"
40,Cleveland Clinic will become a separate city
41,Glenville churches and suburban congregations
42,churches lack of support for local economy
43,"unorganized people subject to genicide by ""anti-humanity"" forces"
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45,Qahar's past involvement with law
46,""""""
47,"fight against drug culture, Qahar's name change and becoming a Muslim, on US hit list for terrorism"
48,""""""
49,story about Qahar's mother
50,more about Cleveland Clinic expansion and Arab involvement
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52,"race relations in America getting worse, blacks and whites moving further apart, white supremacy is rampant, CSU fighting to eliminate Black Studies program,"
53,Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic working to disunite black community
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55,"futility of Euclid Corridor project, will not bring University Circle and downtown together"
56,potential young black leadership going to prison
57,"plans for black owned recording studio and tv station, control of media key to control of community"
58,change in black family dynamics due to integration
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60,"105th and Euclid known as the Gold Coast in 1970's, center of black businesses"
61,loss of values
62,"value of black teachers before integration, jobs lost to white teachers, black community needs to ""accept that we lost,"" and work to change things"
63,"prisons as new slavery and eugenics, Obama is just a new face on capitalism."
64,conclusion
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