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SPOTLIGHTING "ELDER" ED HOWARD This is the advantage I have as an Oakland, California Black Elder who played a major part in Oakland’s Negro to Black origin...al conversion movement back in the 1960s in Oakland. Black Oakland ranked in the top leadership role if not the top leader of influencing the Slave System in Oakland and across this country to open up for us to be gainfully employed in all areas and brought in our own Mayors; Congressmen/women; Judges; etc. I will give you an idea below of what I played a very significant role in creating in Oakland, most of you don’t have a clue about the history or its development. All you know is it happened and I am one of the people who made it happen. 1. Did you know the Black handshake that you see everyone using today, and I mean including all the races in America, did not exist before 1960? Well the group I was in Afro American Association came up with the handshake around 1961/62 and we hit the streets of Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, and San Francisco with it after we developed the words that would go with each grip of the handshake saying (UNITY, SELF-HELP, EDUCATION AND DIGNITY); and after the word DIGNITY we would snap our finger like in snapping your finger to a music beat. 2. Did you know the first Black Studies group was created in Oakland by the Afro-American Association? 3. Did you know that the foundation for Kwanzaa was started in the Afro-American Association (AAA)? Ron Karenga the acknowledged creator of Kwanzaa got his start as a member of the Afro-American Association in Oakland and became the Los Angeles branch of the AAA before he started his group United Slaves (US) in 1967. 4. Did you know that the Afro-American Association put on the first Black conference in Oakland called MIND OF THE GETTTO at McClymonds High school (my high school) about 1961? And much more.: I produced the Original Black TV talk show on KGO-TV San Francisco called Black Dignity - 1967-1970; worked at Oakland Kaiser Engineers as an Electro/Mechanical Designer placed on the Kaiser Industries Advisory Board and I convinced them to provide white color jobs for Blacks; and I also designed and instructed training in Kaiser Engineers Engineering Design Drafting for Black and Hispanic students and placed them in full time jobs at Kaiser Engineers upon completing their training. Spread the word in your life and make positive comments on Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn/ Twitter, LIKE/LOVE/SHARE. Black people need to see your comments so they can believe. No one can stop you from being part of this movement but yourself. https://www.facebook.com/WestOaklandStoriesPFM/?notif_id=1572895519291685¬if_t=page_fan That’s right you have to look at yourself to see if you are just talking, talking, and not showing you are practicing No Negative Speak (NNS) with each other.

IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH: REAL OAKLAND BLACK HISTORY NO NEGATIVE SPEAK with each other. R. I. P. DR. KHALID ABDULLAH TARIQ AL- MONSOUR (ATTORNEY DON W...ARDEN) LEADER OF THE AFRO AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, OAKLAND. The black and white picture below was taken in my apartment in the early 1960’s. These are some of the first men in the Afro American Association (AAA) to work the streets of West Oakland and more, spreading the word of CHANGE from "NEGRO" to "BLACK" back in the early 1960"s. (All of them R.I.P). The other picture is of Khalid in my night club with me, Jesus, and R.I.P. Jay Payton at Ed Howard’s Place Nightclub in Oakland early 1970’s. JUST SOME OF THE THINGS WE DID BACK IN THE DAY. The AAA started the first Black Studies in Oakland at its office on Grove Street (now Martin Luther King, Jr Blvd) in the early 60"s. AAA had a radio program on Oakland KDIA radio station every Sunday; had a Black Talk TV Show named "Black Dignity" on San Francisco KGO-TV Station and I (Ed Howard) was the producer of the TV show. Also, AAA developed businesses - a print shop named "DIGINITY PRESS"; DIGNITY Clothing Factory; DIGNITY Wooden Container and Pallet Design Manufacturing for United Airlines; and DIGNITY Mobil Car Wash. I was a Electro/Mechanical Engineering Designer at Kaiser Engineers (1963 turned in my resignation in 1969) and Convinced Oakland Kaiser Industries to hire Black people for white collar jobs by setting up an Engineering Drafting Training (I was the instructor) program for young Black people, and a summer hiring program for office jobs ( I was the Director). Because Kaiser Industries was the most powerful corporation in Oakland at that time all the other Oakland Corporation fell in line and started hiring Black people in great numbers. All of this happen before Affirmative Action was born. The AAA had a program of Education, Black Cultural Awakening, and Economic Development UNITY SELFHELP EDUCATION AND DIGNITY ITS MOTTO NOTE: BLACK PANTHER PARTY If the AAA did not exist there would be no Black Panther Party. (No disrespect to the BPP) The BPP just took it to the next level from us the same as the AAA took it from the Civil Rights movement to the next level. Black & white photo: Left to right: Knorvell Cherry, Bill Alexander, Don Warden (Khalid Al- Monsour), Tom Burns all deceased. Color photo: Khalid, Ed Howard, Jesus, (RIP) Jay Payton

Ed Howard is owner and inventor of the KAKAKIKI Hair Detangling, Cleansing and Therapy Comb Brush. He has a passion for enriching the lives of those in demand for specifically designed products, services and concepts. Ed’s main purpose for designing the KAKAKIKI Comb Brush was to fill the hair care need for people of African descent throughout the world. Ed saw a need and filled it. AT PRESENT, THERE IS NO SUCH PRODUCT AVAILABLE IN THE WORLD MARKET THAT IS DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DECENT. This certainly is a revolutionary hair care product. www.kakakiki.net

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