Do police departments view the fractured and internal hatred of ourselves as license to do anything; to just assault, shoot and kill our young men? I knew Oscar Grant's killing would be important and so are so many others that I wrote about in the b ...
Posted Friday, July 9th 2010 at 1:12PM
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For many blacks, Fathers Day comes and goes with mixed feelings; there are ingredients of love, hatred, resentment, abandonment and disdain, all shaken together. But at the base of all of these emotions is pain and then, fear.
Hats off to the goo ...
Posted Wednesday, June 16th 2010 at 4:40PM
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Where is the man? Where is he? More than 40 years ago, a man stood up against the forces of an entire nation; led a whole country against the evil that kept black citizens from participating in basic, simple citizenship. Dr. Martin Luther King ...
Posted Monday, January 18th 2010 at 10:54AM
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Here we go with a national discussion about superficial nonsense!
Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid described Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign as having a real chance at winning the first black President of the U. S, because he was ...
Posted Monday, January 11th 2010 at 9:07PM
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BET'S Celebration of Gospel was another success. Taped at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles, it's 10th anniversary show was hosted once again by Steve Harvey. There were uplifting performances, powerful duets and soulful choirs , featured per ...
Posted Monday, January 11th 2010 at 12:44AM
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VOICES
During holidays things went on as usual on the streets of big cities and small towns all over this America. And we think, if it's not on OUR local news, or does not make the CNN Headline News, like the Derrion Albert killing, we're OK; we're ...
Posted Friday, January 1st 2010 at 2:31PM
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Homicide detectives have been assigned to the auto accident death of Cincinnati Bengals Wide Receiver, Chris Henry. The 26 died this morning. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Henry was wounded after he jumped into the bed of a moving pickup truck dri ...
Posted Thursday, December 17th 2009 at 11:06PM
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I know what it is like to bear shame because of a parent's mistake. When I was in elementary school, my father served about a year in Huntsville Prison in Texas for writing a hot check. Even at that young age, I was embarrassed and ashamed. Our visit ...
Posted Sunday, December 13th 2009 at 1:46PM
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We have got to be able to trust each other, because we can not always trust the outside!!
In Hartford, Connecticut, In a peaceful call for justice, family members of two men shot by a city police detective in May of 2005 assembled in front of city h ...
Posted Saturday, December 12th 2009 at 3:44PM
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The video is an in-dept look at the reasons black heterosexual women have become the face of HIV Aids in America!!
Keys will be featured in "Alicia Keys Live! One Night...One Voice... One Life at a Time..." an 8 p.m. ET performance Tuesday at the ...
Posted Monday, November 30th 2009 at 8:38PM
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BLACK FATHERS DOCUMENTARY
by XUNE23
XUNE23 is doing a BLACK FATHERS DOCU. It's good it features some good everyday daddies. We need their example, with 6-7 out of 10 daddies not in the daily lives of children in our culture. No doubt there are ...
Posted Saturday, November 28th 2009 at 4:14PM
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In bookstores soon!!!This book addresses the problems that our culture has control over in our communities. If white men were doing to blacks what black men are doing to blacks today, there would be mayhem, destruction, civil unrest, and marches on ...
Posted Friday, November 27th 2009 at 9:29PM
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Watch this interview with Hip Hop Icon, Run DMC, on The Today Show, on family and his new book. The star of MTV's Emmy-winning, top-rated 'Run's House'-dubbed the new Cosby family-offers a vital rescue manual for parenting.
This is ...
Posted Thursday, August 7th 2008 at 1:32PM
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"Newsweek conducted a poll to measure a “Racial Resentment Index”. The poll was conducted to measure whether or not white Democratic voters would consider voting for the first serious Democratic black candidate for President of the United States, Bar ...
Posted Tuesday, August 5th 2008 at 3:38PM
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Watch the videos below. This is an example of a movement going on, just under the radar, on blogs, websites and in emails across the country. CNN is reporting that Dr. James Dobson is calling on his followers to pray that there be torrential rains ...
Posted Tuesday, August 5th 2008 at 12:23PM
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I just completed a big project. It was to conduct an online Presidential Mock Election for the youth that I volunteer with. (I'm in the black jacket. A much more recent photo than the one posted on my profile) These are highschoolers through coll ...
Posted Tuesday, August 5th 2008 at 12:15AM
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Just a reminder, no matter your leaning, register, then, get dressed, stand in that line and make your point!! ...
Posted Monday, August 4th 2008 at 11:50PM
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This is my 20 year old son. He's approaching his 4th year at Morehouse College. He helps pay for the tuition, using a graphic design business he created and runs www.opmdesignlab.com I just think he is so cute! ...
Posted Monday, August 4th 2008 at 11:38PM
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This is a photo taken during an on-line mock election for the youth group that I volunteer for. More than 800 youth voted on-line, Obama won. 91%. It gave us an opportunity to register unregistered voters, and introduce those, not quite of age yet, ...
Posted Monday, August 4th 2008 at 11:34PM
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This is a photo taken during an on-line mock election for the youth group that I volunteer for. More than 800 youth voted on-line, Obama won. 91%. It gave us an opportunity to register unregistered voters, and introduce those, not quite of age yet, ...
Posted Monday, August 4th 2008 at 11:32PM
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Watch this video:
Originally recorded by Jordin Sparks and R&B singer Chris Brown, This is Country's Hottest Song right now. Will you buy Rissi Palmer's stuff? ...
Posted Monday, August 4th 2008 at 5:43PM
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Oscar winning actor, Morgan Freeman, was hospitalized in serious condition this morning, after the car he was driving careened off a rural highway in MIssissippi (his home state) and rolled over several times. He was airlifted to Memphis. He's 71 ...
Posted Monday, August 4th 2008 at 4:37PM
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