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Announcement at Walmart ask all black customers to leave store

Imagine everyone's surprise both black and white when a PA announcement at Walmart store ask all black customers to leave. Read the entire story by using the link below: http://www.letstalkhonestly

George Cook · Wednesday, March 17th 2010 · 396 views · 1 comments

NAACP Pres. ask for all to participate in 2010 Census

NAACP Pres ask for all to participate in the 2010 Census. Read his email to NAACP members: http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

George Cook · Tuesday, March 16th 2010 · 123 views · 1 comments

Black donors needed for bone marrow list.

More black donors are need for bone marrow list. Many African Americans sre dying from lack of a match. You can help. Read more and register for list: http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsbl

George Cook · Monday, March 15th 2010 · 133 views · 1 comments

Jelesa Reynolds is missing

Jelesa Reynolds of North Carolina was reported missing by her family Feb. 23 after she didn’t return from a trip to the library the previous day. Learn more and see her picture by using the link be

George Cook · Sunday, March 14th 2010 · 152 views · 1 comments

President Obama calls for education overhaul

President Obama calls for education overhaul. The Obama administration on 03/13/10 called for a broad overhaul of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law. Watch the presidents's statements

George Cook · Sunday, March 14th 2010 · 122 views · 1 comments

Support your local school budget

In many communities where the school budget is voted on many districts are in danger of those budgets not being passed. Host George Cook discusses why it’s important that we and especially parents sup

George Cook · Saturday, March 13th 2010 · 150 views · 1 comments

Congressional Black Caucus member discusses meeting with President Obama.

Congressional Black Caucus member discusses meeting with President Obama. At President Obama's invitation the CBC meet with him on March 11. Hear a statement for CBC chair Barbara Lee and from Yvet

George Cook · Saturday, March 13th 2010 · 134 views · 1 comments

Walmart store selling black Barbie Doll for 50% less than the white version

Walmart caught selling black version of doll for 50% less than white version: A Walmart store has been selling a black version of a Barbie Doll for 50% less than the white version of the same exact

George Cook · Thursday, March 11th 2010 · 251 views · 1 comments

Winnie Mandela says Nelson Mandela let blacks down

Nelson Mandela's ex-wife has bitterly criticized the 92-year-old anti-apartheid icon as having "let us down," prompting outrage Wednesday in South Africa. Read more here: http://www.letstalkhonest

George Cook · Wednesday, March 10th 2010 · 304 views · 1 comments

Entire graduating class of all black boys school headed to college

Entire senior class of all black boys high school headed to college! Chicago's only public all male, all African-American high school reached an extraordinary accomplishment-- getting all 107 senio

George Cook · Tuesday, March 9th 2010 · 180 views · 1 comments

I don't speak white.

Hi this is George Cook and I wanted to share with everyone this article I read by Taylor Trammell. She is a senior in High school at Detroits Mumford High School. The article deals with how it feels t

George Cook · Sunday, March 7th 2010 · 162 views · 1 comments

Does President Obama need a black agenda?

Does President Obama need a "Black Agenda" George Cook of www.letstalkhonestly.com discusses whether or not President Obama should have a black agenda and if so who gets to decide what's on it? Li

George Cook · Saturday, March 6th 2010 · 129 views · 1 comments

School district seeks to ban hoodies?

Stylish. Comfortable. Warm. We love the hoodie. But over the last few years, the wardrobe staple has gotten a bad rap. Hooded sweats are now so linked to all things nefarious that last week, retire

George Cook · Saturday, March 6th 2010 · 114 views · 1 comments

3 white teachers make mockery of Black History Month

Three white Los Angeles elementary school teachers portayed O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul as role models and heros during Black History Month. You can't make this stuff up. Watch the vid

George Cook · Thursday, March 4th 2010 · 284 views · 1 comments

Audio: Heated exchange between Smiley & Sharpton

If you haven't heard it here's the revealing & heated exchange between Tavis Smiley & Al Sharpton: http://bit.ly/a8vTO

George Cook · Thursday, March 4th 2010 · 180 views · 1 comments

Tavis Smiley calling meeting to discuss the "black agenda"

Two months after ending his annual State of the Black Union conference, Tavis Smiley is gathering African-American advocates to press the case for a "black agenda." The decision was motivated by wh

George Cook · Wednesday, March 3rd 2010 · 118 views · 1 comments

Video: President Obama's speech on HBCUs

Video: President Obama's speech on HBCUs: Watch President Obama's speech on HBCUs and as he signs an executive order to strengthen the capacity of and increase access to Federal funding for the Nat

George Cook · Tuesday, March 2nd 2010 · 113 views · 1 comments

Michael Jordan facing many challenges as Charlotte Bobcats owner

Michael Jordan's drive and immense physical talent made him an NBA superstar. His stardom and shrewdness helped him make millions in business. His latest venture will test his talents and skills li

George Cook · Sunday, February 28th 2010 · 143 views · 1 comments

Precious wins big at 2010 NAACP Image Awards

Precious, the heart-wrenching tale of an illiterate and abused teen who finds hope in a Harlem classroom was named outstanding motion picture and outstanding independent film at Friday's ceremony. Sta

George Cook · Saturday, February 27th 2010 · 138 views · 1 comments

White House social secretary Desiree Rodgers resigning

White House social secretary Desiree Rogers is stepping down three months after an uninvited couple crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner and she was heavily criticized for her role in

George Cook · Friday, February 26th 2010 · 229 views · 1 comments

Read my new Ebook NAPPY for free

Read my new eBook Nappy for free. Nappy lets black girls know how beautiful they & their hair is. After much thought I decided to make the eBook free in the hopes that it's message would reach more of

George Cook · Wednesday, February 24th 2010 · 304 views · 1 comments

Van Jones to teach at Princeton University

Van Jones, the former White House "green jobs czar" who resigned last year after facing criticism from conservative groups has been appointed a distinguished visiting fellow at Princeton University.

George Cook · Wednesday, February 24th 2010 · 127 views · 1 comments

Missing Black Woman Alert: Merrell Stewart is missing !

Missing Black Woman Alert: Merrell Stewart of Louisiana a 26-year-old woman missing since Thursday night, according to the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office. Read more and see her picture by using th

George Cook · Tuesday, February 23rd 2010 · 209 views · 1 comments

Black women evicted at higher rates

A new study finds African-American women may be especially vulnerable to being evicted from their homes. It shows that women in black neighborhoods are twice as likely as male tenants to be kicked out

George Cook · Monday, February 22nd 2010 · 140 views · 1 comments

Meet the new NAACP chairman, Roslyn M. Brock

Meet the NAACP's new chairman. Roslyn M. Brock. The NAACP elected a health care executive as its youngest board chairman Saturday, continuing a youth movement for the nation's oldest civil rights org

George Cook · Sunday, February 21st 2010 · 126 views · 1 comments