Jamala rogers biography

Newspaper columnist and community organizer, Jamala Rogers was.
Jamala is an unapologetic feminist and is deeply involved in the development of women and increasing their full participation in social movements.
Jamala Rogers' fascination with words began at an early age.

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Jamala Rogers

Jamala Rogers is a leading member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and the Organization for Black Struggle .

She is married to Percy Green ll.

ED of OBS

January 2018, Jamala Rogers was named executive director of the Organization for Black Struggle. She is one of the founders of the organization and served as its long-time chairperson. The OBS Board of Directors accepted the membership’s recommendation after a lengthy search by the group’s transition team, headed by Ashli Bolden.^[1]

Early life

Jamala Rogers was born Terry Massey in 1950 in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from Central High School in 1968^[2].

Early activism

An activist at Tarkio College, Rogers was a leader of the black student organization. She tried to join the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panther Party, during the time that its leader, Pete O'Neal, was leaving the country. After earning her B.S. degree in education in 1972, Rogers taught elementary school in her old Kansas neighborhood.

Rogers married ACTION member Percy Green II and both becam

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Love is Essential to Human Live, Black Love is Required for Survival

Published by African World, Summer Edition, 2023

In 1993, Hollywood adapted a movie from Tina Turner’s autobiography. It was entitled “What’s Love Got to Do with It” based on the 1984 hit song by the same title. While it captured St. Louis’ own Annie Mae Bullock’s metamorphosis to Super Star Tina Turner, most viewers locked into the period of her abusive relationship with Ike Sr. We understood—at least from Tina’s viewpoint—that love had nothing to do with that relationship.

People of African descent in this country don’t have the luxury of practicing Hollywood’s version of love and relationships. It is shallow, self-serving and rooted in patriarchy. Based on the latter, it is often rife with levels of violence that we’ve been taught will give us emotional, financial and sexual control in the relationships. We have this misguided belief that such control will fulfill us and make up happy.

In 2023, ours is a journey to seek deep and meaningful love of self, our family, other people and our community. Our und

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About Us

Our History

The Organization for Black Struggle (OBS) was founded in 1980. A group of veteran activists, students, union organizers and community members in St. Louis were seeking to address the needs and issues of the Black working-class. There was a vacuum of Black radical leadership that could boldly speak and act, unencumbered by government or corporate structures. In retrospect, this was a challenging period.

The FBI’s Counterintelligence Program, known as COINTELPRO, wreaked havoc on the leaders and organizations of the Black Liberation Movement. By 1980 the right was beginning to consolidate its power politically, with a conservative in the White House for the next 12 years. The country was struggling to get out of the economic recession. It was out of this abyss that OBS was born.

OBS studied the organizations of the past to glean from the lessons and best practices on which to build a solid foundation. Local groups like the Congress of Afrikan People (CAP), Action Committee to Improve Opportunities for Negroes (A.C.T.I.O.N.), and Black Nationalist Party (BN