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Read the 800 page report for yourself
short version executive summary It only states what African-American wanted to tell Sarah Palin since she became Governor. We (Contractors and business owners) have not be able to meet with her about anything. She is busy looking for another job!!
Read the 800 page report for yourself
short version executive summary It only... more
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An Oakland barber shop shows us the hottest cuts, fades, and styles for fellas.
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The US Congress has recommended that a presidential pardon should be granted to the first black world heavyweight boxing champion.
Jack Johnson won the title in 1908 but was later convicted of transporting white women across US state lines for immoral purposes. The US Congress has recommended that a presidential pardon should be granted to the... more
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On September 11th, 2008, the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks, Wofford College, a small liberal arts college in South Carolina that had been segregated up until 1963, paid honor to Vernon Baker. Baker is the only living African-American to have been awarded the World War II Medal of Honor.
For his acts of valor during WWII, Baker had earned the Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, The Distinguished Service Cross and The Medal of Honor. However, it took 52 years before those heroics were recognized. Baker, because he was an African-American, was not honored for his bravery until 1997, when he and six of his comrades were finally awarded the Medal of Honor from then-President Bill Clinton at a White House ceremony. Baker was the only member of the group of honorees who was still alive.
Wofford College President Bernie Dunlap presented Vernon Baker with the college's third annual Sandor Teszler Award for Moral Courage and Service to Humankind to a thunderous standing ovation during Wofford's 2008 Opening Convocation Ceremony. Dunlap and Wofford College Dean David Wood also presented Baker, who is now 89-years-old, with an Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree and Spartanburg's Mayor William Barnet followed by giving Baker a key to the city.
This detailed article includes a number of photographs, three videos and a documentary about Vernon Baker's acts of valor during WWII.On September 11th, 2008, the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks,... more
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New Spike Lee film has just come out, presented at Deauville film festival (France), yesterday. The title is “Miracle at St.Anna”, and it’s the story of “Buffalo soldiers”, Us army division formed by all afroamericans, trying to set Italy free, during the second world war. Definitely, Spike Lee aims to put afroamerican contribution in that war into evidence, differently from Clint Eastwood, whose film “Ietters from Iwo Jima” didn’t include any black soldier.
The film, produced by Spike Lee and Rai cinema ( Italian State Tv), is an opportunity to underline the important role of afroamerican soldiers in the second world war, although Hollywood has considered only one: Jim Brown ( former football champion) in “The dirty dozen”.
New Spike Lee film has just come out, presented at Deauville film festival (France),... more
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“American Stories of Hope” is a remarkable and touching new series of short films by Qasim Basir. Qasim is a young filmmaker living in New York City who has been inspired by Barack Obama. He wanted to produce a series of short films to capture the quality that he most admired about Obama.
It was by no means easy for Qasim to achieve his vision. It took everything that he had to pull together enough resources to be able to finish the series of films. Along the way, he received free assistance from a number of usually highly paid professionals and raised most of the financial support for the film series through friends' donations.
Entitled The Inspiration of Barack: "Yes We Can" Film Series, Qasim refers to them as "Seven American Stories of Hope." Each of the short films is about different people who, in the face of hardships in their lives, have become inspired by Obama to confront their hardships and take an essential step forward. The first public screening of "The Inspiration of Barack: 'Yes We Can' Film Series” takes place on Friday evening, September 12th at The Tribeca Cinemas in New York City.
This article includes a number of wonderful photographs, as well as one of the very touching and inspiring short-films from Qasim's “Seven American Faces of Hope” film series.
Please have a look at this short film. No matter what your own particular political stance might be, I think that you'll find it to be inspiring.“American Stories of Hope” is a remarkable and touching new series of... more
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The GOP is working to keep eligible African-Americans from voting in several states.
It was a mainstay of Jim Crow segregation: for 100 years after the Civil War, Southern white Democrats kept eligible blacks from voting with poll taxes, literacy tests and property requirements. Starting in the 1960s, the U.S. Supreme Court declared these assaults on the heart of American democracy unconstitutional.
Now, with the help of a 2008 Supreme Court decision, Crawford vs. Marion County (Indiana) Election Board, white Republicans in some areas will keep eligible blacks from voting by requiring driver's licenses. Not only is this new-fangled discrimination constitutional, it's spreading.The GOP is working to keep eligible African-Americans from voting in several states.... more
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Endorsed by such hip-hop mainstays as Masta Ace and Camp Lo, Kidz in the Hall stop by their alma mater, UPenn while on tour with Gym Class Heroes to guide us through making it through all four years.Endorsed by such hip-hop mainstays as Masta Ace and Camp Lo, Kidz in the Hall stop by... more
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Armstrong Williams is an African-American conservative commentator who is thinking about making a decision that he says is so agonizing, it gives him heartburn.
This fall, he may vote for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee.
The nationally known radio talk show host is a proud third-generation Republican who chuckles when African-American friends tell him it's time to "return home" to the Democratic Party.
Though he still hasn't decided for whom he'll cast his ballot, there's something about Obama's presidential candidacy that excites him.
"History, brother," Williams said. "It cannot be anything else.
"There's very little that I agree with Obama on. Since the founding of our country, there have only been white men who have occupied the White House. ... To have someone break through that barrier and say to some kids, you can be president. Whether you like it or not, symbolism is important."
Obama's presidential candidacy is causing a political identity crisis among some black conservatives. Torn between ideology and the chance to make history, some don't know what they're going to do when they enter the voting booth in November.
Story continued at link ...Armstrong Williams is an African-American conservative commentator who is thinking... more
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As the country rapidly diversifies, Republicans are presenting a convention that is almost entirely white.
Only 36 of the 2,380 delegates seated on the convention floor are black, the lowest number since the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies began tracking diversity at political conventions 40 years ago. Each night, the overwhelmingly white audience watches a series of white politicians step to the lectern -- a visual reminder that no black Republican has served as a governor, U.S. senator or U.S. House member in the past six years.
-----It's like where's Waldo the African American GOP version. I've found 3 black people in the picture above, how many can you find?-----GK
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Wofford College, a small classical private (and once highly segregated) Southern college, will confer upon Vernon Baker an honorary doctorate degree in September. Baker and six of his soldier comrades waited 52 years to receive their Medals of Honor that they deserved, but which had been denied after World II because they were African-Americans. By the time they were finally awarded, Mr. Baker was the only one who was still living to accept the Medal of Honor in person.
This very detailed, complex article includes photographs and two gripping videos (with a documentary about Vernon Baker).
I honestly am not concerned about "blogdom popularity" with regard to this piece. But I hope that some of you will care about reading it. On the one hand it's a very complicated article, but at the same time it's also just so deeply touching and heart-wrenching. The multi-faceted thoughts that are evoked by this narrative pierces ever so many of the issues that are tearing many of us apart today: racism, the escalating ravages of wars, the indifference of morally corrupt governmental bureaucracies and more.Wofford College, a small classical private (and once highly segregated) Southern... more
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Olusegun Goyea is a graduate student at City College in the City University of New York (CUNY). He is originally from Nigeria. His research deals with engineering within the aerospace industry. This video portrait is is one of a series for the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) at CUNY, a program to help underrepresented minorities acheive a grad school degree in the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). Funded by the National Science Foundation, it's part of a national initiative to increase diversity in Academia and Industry.Olusegun Goyea is a graduate student at City College in the City University of New... more
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Barack Obama's success reflects the rise of 'post-racial' black politicians who distance themselves from Jesse Jackson's politics and Al Sharpton's press for civil rights. But some are concerned this new generation is turning its back on the concerns of many black Americans, and failing to understand their interests. Barack Obama's success reflects the rise of 'post-racial' black... more
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The resistance of the civil rights generation to Barack Obama's candidacy reveals a generational divide in African-American politics.
"...This time, however, a lot of the old activists stood in the path of an African-American's advancement rather than blazing it. While Democratic black voters embraced Obama by ratios of 8 or 9 to 1 in a lot of districts, the 42 House members in the Congressional Black Caucus, for a time, split more or less down the middle between Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the country's leading black ministers and mayors trended toward the Clinton camp. Clyburn himself declined until the very end to endorse a candidate in this year';s primaries, saying that his leadership role required him to remain neutral, but he made no effort to disguise his relief at having been able to invoke that excuse. 'Being African-American, sure, my heart was with him,' Clyburn told me. 'But I've got a head too. And in the beginning my head was with Clinton. The conventional wisdom was that this thing was going to be over in February.'..."The resistance of the civil rights generation to Barack Obama's candidacy reveals... more
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The House of Representatives was poised Tuesday to pass a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for slavery and the era of Jim Crow.
The nonbinding resolution, which is expected to pass, was introduced by Rep. Steve Cohen, a white lawmaker who represents a majority black district in Memphis, Tennessee.
While many states have apologized for slavery, it will be first time a branch of the federal government will apologize for slavery if the resolution passes, an aide to Cohen said.
By passing the resolution, the House would also acknowledge the "injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow."
"Jim Crow," or Jim Crow laws, were state and local laws enacted mostly in the Southern and border states of the United States between the 1870s and 1965, when African-Americans were denied the right to vote and other civil liberties and were legally segregated from whites.
The name "Jim Crow" came from a character played by T.D. "Daddy" Rice who portrayed a slave while in blackface during the mid-1800s.
The resolution states that "the vestiges of Jim Crow continue to this day."
"African-Americans continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and Jim Crow -- long after both systems were formally abolished -- through enormous damage and loss, both tangible and intangible, including the loss of human dignity and liberty, the frustration of careers and professional lives, and the long-term loss of income and opportunity," the resolution states.
The House would also commit itself to stopping "the occurrence of human rights violations in the future," if it passes the resolution.
The resolution does not address the controversial issue of reparations. Some members of the African-American community have called on lawmakers to give cash payments or other financial benefits to descendents of slaves as compensation for the suffering caused by slavery.
The resolution will not be the first time lawmakers have apologized to an ethnic group for past injustices.
In April, the Senate passed a resolution sponsored by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, that apologized to Native Americans for "the many instances of violence, maltreatment and neglect."
In 1993, the Senate also passed a resolution apologizing for the "illegal overthrow" of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893.
In 1988, Congress passed and President Reagan signed a law apologizing to the 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were held in detention camps during World War II. The 60,000 detainees who were alive at the time each received $20,000 from the government.The House of Representatives was poised Tuesday to pass a resolution apologizing to... more
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As everyone talks about race in 2008, you know this conversation will happen sooner or later. So you need to have a proper strategy in place.As everyone talks about race in 2008, you know this conversation will happen sooner or... more
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Memin Pinguin, a comic book character created by Yolanda Vargas Dulche, has been a favorite cultural icon in Mexico and South America since the 1940s. The comic book made recent uproar after complaints from African Americans who discovered the comic book at a local Wal Mart in Houston, Texas, resulting in the removal of the comic from Wal Mart shelves and protests from minority activists and people alike. Memin Pinguin, a comic book character created by Yolanda Vargas Dulche, has been a... more
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After conducting a series of experiments designed to discover what, if any, prejudice doctors hold towards their African-American patients, researchers have concluded that racism may not be the worst consequence blacks face in the emergency room.
Blacks are far less likely to have primary care physicians, leading to more visits to the emergency room, rushed medical care, and longer times spent sick, between symptoms and diagnoses.
"A 2000 study demonstrated that doctors rated black patients as less intelligent, less educated, more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol, more likely to fail to comply with medical advice, more likely to lack social support, and less likely to participate in cardiac rehabilitation than whites, even after income, education and personality characteristics were taken into account."
Worse still, studies suggest that while doctors may not overtly discriminate between black and white patients, more subtle forms of racism still exist which may very well threaten the lives of African-American patients:
"It turns out the doctors didn't harbor any overt bias or prejudice. But the results of the IAT and the outcome of the heart attack scenario told us something quite different: More doctors subconsciously attributed negative traits to blacks (thinking them "uncooperative" or "bad") than whites. Worse was the way these biases translated into clinical decisions. While doctors diagnosed more blacks with a heart attack, they ended up prescribing treatment for blacks and whites in essentially equal numbers, meaning that black patients having heart attacks were going untreated. Further, as the degree of bias toward blacks increased, so did their likelihood of not getting treated."
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Over the course of the past several months and since Barack Obama and his pastor have hit the mainstream media, race has been at the forefront of hot topics within the American political arena.
Following are various clips from conservative media outlets commenting on race, Barack and Michelle Obama, and offering often times skewed and ill perceived commentary on issues both within and outside of the black community.
Patriotism is not a characteristic of convenience, it must be present at greatest moments of triumph for a nation but must also be the root for unarmed critique and analysis of the actions of one's own country. America is a great nation but we have committed acts that are notable alongside some of the greatest atrocities in world history.
Truth cannnot be serial, constantly waiting for another perceived truth to come along and take its place. Truth can exist in multiple instances. The greatness of this nation along with the moral abomination of its acts in regard to human life.Over the course of the past several months and since Barack Obama and his pastor have... more
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