Culture, Race & Economy

Interesting to see a rap video glorifying white self-hatred. Maybe now Black folks will see how dumb we look doing it. All this video needs are the obligatory rump shakin' hoochie mamas to objectify women.

Recently I've been highlighting married couple who have written books and maintained successful marriages. Doing one is difficult. Doing both is rare and I think really noteworthy. Apparently that idea puts me in the minority. With the exception of the Obama's, so much time an energy is spent focusing on the negative aspects of marriage: The astonishingly high divorce rates, the out of wed lock babies the disintegration of the Black family, the Will and Jada Smiths of the world, etc I figured I'd invest a little energy to buck the trend and highlight the positive. I've used Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter to highlight couple ranging from Mr. & Mrs. Jaquavis and…

raised an issue about the reduction in participation on the AALBC.com discussion boards in recent years, suggesting that Facebook and social media was the cause. I have not taken the time to quantify the reduction, but anyone who has been observing our boards in recent years knows participation is lower. The life of a discussion board is a direct function of the level and quality of the conversation so this is an issue that I care about and since AALBC.com is a one man operation I typically have not had enough time to really delve in the causes and take more aggressive action reverse the trend. Over the last 15 years I've collected data on how the site is used as well…

DREW PETERSON FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING HIS 3RD WIFE...HE DID NOT ADMIT KILLING HIS WIFE, LIKE THE NY GESTAPO DID WHEN THEY KILLED AN INNOCENT UN ARMED BLACK MAN SHOOTING AT HIM 41 TIMES, FOUND NOT GUILTY....NO WITNESSES.. NO VIDEO TAPE OF DREW PETERSON KILLING HIS WIFE...LIKE A VIDEO TAPE OF THE CALIFORNIA GESTAPO BEATING UP RODNEY KING FOUND NOT GUILTY..IT DEPENDS WHO WHITE POLICE KILL....../

From Magazine Fuera de Serie The relevant quote from the article show below; translates as follows (using Google translate). "Never said it ensures that well-known that behind every great man there is a great woman was so successful in describing the Obama marriage. In the shadow of the U.S. President is a person whose popularity ratings exceed those of Barack own. This person is none other than his wife Michelle, who stars in the cover of the magazine this week. Political communication experts are no strangers to the overwhelming charm of the first lady and, knowing this, she even point will be key to the reelection of Democrat in the next preside…

BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE MURDERS UP IN CHICAGO.DOES ANYBODY CARE THAT WE ARE IN A SELF GENOCIDE/NAACP ARE THEY PLANNING THEIR NEXT AWARD SHOW/ BLACK POLITICIANS BLACK CHURCH WHY BLACK PEOPLE SUPPORT THEM BEYOND ME, .....BLACK OVER SEERER'S ON PLANTATIONS GIVING AWARDS TO THE RICH BLACK HOUSE NEGROES TIME FOR A PROTEST MARCH GATHER UP THE FIELD NEGROES...../

TRAYVON MARTIN KILLED BY A LUNATIC MURDERER WHO IS HISPANIC HELPED BY GESTAPO POLICE..CHAVIS CARTER HANDCUFFED IN ARKANSAS KILLED BY GESTAPO POLICE..ROBERT CHAMPION BEATING TO DEATH ON A BLACK COLLEGE BAND BUS.,WHERE WAS THE PROTESTING FOR HIM./////PROTESTING FOR THE JENA 6 IN LOUISIANA... THOSE BLACK BOYS ,IF SHOULD HAVE BEEN//WHERE WAS THE CONCERN FOR THE BLACK BOYS BISHOP EDDIE LONG WAS SEXUALLY ROMANCING///WHY IS HE STILL ON THE CHURCH PULPIT../////WHY IS SOME BLACK LIFE VALUED OTHERS OR NOT.///

Human Beings First: A Historical Examination of the Non-Bizarre Delusion of Biological Race takes an in-depth look at the "cultural artifact" of race. Although human beings, regardless of phenotype, are members of the same species, there has been a concerted effort by many to separate people into groups based on physical appearance. This book will discuss the fallacy of such efforts and how they have often led to tragic consequences. Available for Nook at http://www.bn.com at http://www.kobobooks.com at http://www.diesel-ebooks.com at http://ebookstore.sony.com https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/152608

IN COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, GABRILLE SWAINSON IS MISSING..WAS TAKEN FROM HER BEDROOM WHILE MOTHER WAS WORKING ...SUSPECT ANOTHER BLAC MAN WITH A CRIMINAL RECORD INCLUDING KIDNAPPING AND VIOLENCE TOWARD WOMEN..THEY FOUND BLOOD ON DUCT TAPE IN HIS HOUSE ,HERS..HER CELL PHONE RECORDS SHOW SHE WAS IN HIS HOUSE...WHEN BLACK CHILDREN ARE MISSING,DOES THE NAACP, BLACK CHURCH AND POLITICIANS GO OUT AND LOOK/NO.......WHY WAS NEWT GINGRICH ON TAVIS SMILEY SHOW, I DID NOT WATCH ..DID NEO KKKK NEWT GINGRICH WEAR A KLAN OUTFIT, DID HE CALLED THE PRESIDENT A TRIBE LEADER OR KENYAN , OR SAY HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE WAS FORGED,THAT IS WHAT THEY T…

C-SPAN RE SHOWED RODNEY KING INTERVIEW TODAY... AS HE TALKED ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK RIOT WITHIN-FROM REBELLION TO REDEMPTION, THE INTERVIEWER TALKED ABOUT RACIST WHITE POLICE..THERE WAS A WEST INDIES CELEBRATION IN NEW YORK LAST YEAR.WHITE POLICE WERE HEARD SAYING THERE SHOULD BE A BOMB DROPPED ON THOSE PEOPLE, BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE..THIS CONFIRMS WHAT BLACK PEOPLE THIK WHITE POLICE ARE MEMBERS OF THE ARYAN NATION AND ARE JUST AS VILE AS HITLER AND HIS TROOPS.. COWARD VILE HUMAN TRASH..///

I love the idea of space exploration and would like to go into outer-space myself. When the US landed a SUV sized vehicle on Mars I could not help but be impressed by the ingenuity, creativity, concerted effort, time and money that went into the project. Like landing on he moon it was yet more evidence that given the resources and the commitment there is very little man can accomplish. So then, why are some many problems, which are much easier to solve, than placing a mobile laboratory on the Red Planet allowed to fester while people die, stuffer and loose their minds as a result? Of course given on the crop down here on planet Earth I could not help but be remi…

18 YEAR OLD BASKETBALL PLAYER TONY FARMER IN OHIO GOES TO JAIL FOR KIDNAPPING AND ASSAULT ON HIS EX GIRL FRIEND..JUDGE SAYS 3 YEARS THIS IDIOT FALLS TO FLOOR IN COURT ROOM..WONDERING IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN HIS HOME..BLACK MEN AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NOT DISCUSSED BY BLACK CHURCH,NAACP OR POLITICIANS,WHY/GABRIELLE SANSON MISSING, ANOTHER YOUNG BLACK GIRL,WILL NAACP, CHURCH AND POLITICIANS GO SEARCH,PROBALY NOT./////EBOLA VIRUS KILLS 10 IN AFRICA REPUBLIC OF CONGO..EBOLA VIRUS CAUSES HEMORRHAGIC FEVER.ORIGIN UNKNOWN.IS EBOLA KILLING IN WHITE SOUTH AFRICA..ORIGIN PROBALY WHITE MEN LIKE AIDS AND AIDS VIRUS CREATED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS..DEVIL EX…

WHAT SHOULD PRESIDENT OBAMA DO IF ISRAEL ATTACKS IRAN//IF ISRAEL ATTACKS IRAN THE U.S. TROOPS WILL BE SENT TO PROTECT PRECIOUS ISRAEL//ISRAEL IS ALMOST AS BAD AS ADOLF HITLER, ISRAEL WANTS TO GENOCIDE THE PALESTINE PEOPLE./I AM SICK ISRAEL,PRESIDENT SEEMS TO FEAR ISRAEL,WHY,, BECAUSE HE NEEDS VOTES FROM THE U.S. CHRISTIANS/WHEN IT COMES TO FAKE CHRISTIANS NERO HAD THE RIGHT IDEA, CHRISTIANS THROWN TO THE LIONS.WHITE AND BLACK FAKE CHRISTIANS////

I'm not making anymore contributions. The $3 amount make me think of the panhandler you asks you for a penny saying, "anything will help". It is amazing what political campaigns, in this country, have become -- contests to see who can raise the most money and is best spearing at the opponent. $750MM to become Mayor of NY, $1B+ to become president. I seem to remember the Democrats, and Obama, campaigning on campaign finance reform. Both parties are up for sale.. For anyone so inclined... Troy -- We've run a lot of contests on this campaign, but you should pay special attention to this one. Here are three reasons why: The winner gets to go to the Democra…

WHITNEY HOUSTON LAST MOVIE SPARKLE OPENED..NY DAILY NEWS SAYS GHOST OF WHITNEY WAS PRESENCE AT RD CARPET..CRITICS SAY OPENED DID NOT GROSS AS EXPECTED..BUT COULD DO WELL LIKE HER MOVIE THE PREACHER'S WIVE....SAW THE ORIGINAL MOVIE SPARKLE THE OTHER DAY,DID NOT LIKE IT MUCH... WHEN ,PRODUCTION FOR THE MOVIE WAS OVER WHITNEY, DIED , LAST FEBRUARY OF COCAINE INCIDENT..SOME WONDER WHERE WHITNET GOT COCAINE.THEY SHOULD HER EX BOBBY BROWN..WHO GAVE HE AND WHITNEY COCAINE WHEN THEY MARRIED...NEO REPUBLICANS HAVE GOT A CAMPAIGN COMMERCIAL TO GET A PETITION TO GET NAMES,TO GIVE TO DEMOCRATS,TO GET A NOTHER DEMOCRATIC FOR THE ELECTION.PRESIDE…

An ALTERNET article that gets specific about what we already know. "York City, the pot-bust capital of the Western world, is notorious for the racial skewing of its marijuana arrests. Over the last 15 years, more than 85 percent of the half-million-plus people charged with misdemeanor possession there have been black or Latino. But the racial ratios of reefer roundups are equally extreme—if not worse—in scores of other U.S. cities. In Atlanta, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, more than 80 percent of the people popped for pot possession are black. In Minneapolis and its Hennepin County suburbs, black people are 11 percent of the population and more tha…

Have a wonderful birthday!!! I'd sing ya a song, but trust me, typing is safer on the senses~

A long but Interesting article that poses an interesting question. (Click on to the "view as a single page" option at bottom of the opening page.) http://www.alternet....n-age-never-was

IN ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, BLACK WOMAN KILLS HER SOON TO BE GROOM...THEY WERE ARGUING SHE GETS A KNIFE AND STABS HIM TO DEATH... THEIR CHILDREN WERE THERE AND FAMILY....SHE IS BEHIND BARS DENIED BAIL, SHE DOES NOT BELIEVE HE IS DEAD,SAID SHE DID NOT MEAN TO DO IT...WHITE POLICE THAT KILLED CHAVIS CARTER,THEN SAID HANDCUFFED HE KILLED HIMSELF..ONE OF THOSE WHITE POLICE, IN 2008 HAD BLACK PEOPLE ARRESTED FOR CELEBRATING THE PRESIDENTIAL ELETION OF BARACK OBAMA, SO HE LIKE ALL WHITE POLICE ARE NEO NAZI ,FOLLOWERS OF HUMAN TRASH ADOLF HITLER..JUST AS VILE AND MURDEROUS....../.

The 911 call that lead to the arrest of former Miami Dolphin’s wide receiver Chad Johnson on charges of possible domestic violence against his Basketball Wives wife Evelyn Lozada has been released. The argument started over a condom receipt found in Johnson’s Smart car. http://youtu.be/3l26mXOGHzk

LAST NIGHT I SAW A DOCUMENTARY ON BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS FROM THE 1960'S..SOUNDTRACK OF THE REVOLUTION....CLARENCE THOMAS IS NOT THURGOOD MARSHALL ON THE SUPREME COURT...BLACK PREACHERS ARE NOT DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING OR THE OTHER PREACHERS THAT WERE INVOLVED...BLACK PREACHERS ARE JUST AS BAD AND JUDAS CLARENCE THOMAS...IF THE RICH AND FAMOUS BLACK CAN SLINK AND SLITHER ON STAGE FOR BLACK AWARDS ,THEY CAN MARCH AND PROTEST ,THAT HELPED THEM GET WHERE THEY ARE.......BLACK ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS,NAACP,ESSENCE AND TRUMPET AWARDS SHOULD GO TO BLACK REPUBLICANS ,IT IS STUPID...GIVE ONE TO HERMAN CAIN....

Being a police officer, especially, in New York City is a difficult job. The work is stressful, your see the worst humanity has to offer on a regular basis. The job can be thankless. A role that is needed, desperately in some locations, but if a mistake is make the general public is all over you. That said I can not fathom a single justification for the senseless murder of a 51 years old Black man in broad daylight on a crowded NY City street. 12 shots fired by 2 officers, hitting the Brother 7 times (or so I've heard). I don't get it. They decided to execute kill this man. The police commissioner said the actions of the officers were justified. I don't see it.

Sad commentary on how far America has fallen when the main thing it is providing its citizens with nowadays is material for ridicule... ...as MItt Romney announces his cookie cutter conservative choice for a running mate, and Barack Obama snubs the traditional 75 year old back-to-school parade politicians all over Chicago and Cook county participate in to placate black voters, - and makes plans to attend a private fund raiser bash to be hosted by NBA stars, including Michael Jordan. Meanwhile, much to the disgust of his constituents, Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. is lolling away at the Mayo Clinic supposedly recovering from the depression b…

CNN NEWS LAST NIGHT, CHAVIS CARTER WAS ARRESTED BY WHITE POLICE..HE WAS WITH 2 WHITE MEN..THE WHITE POLICE LET THE WHITE MEN GO.PUT CHAVIS CARTER IN POLICE CAR HANDCUFFED..POLICE SEARCHED CHAVIS CARTER FOUND NO GUN..CHAVIS CARTER HANDCUFFED IN POLICE CAR,.CHAVIS CARTER FOUND DEAD IN POLICE CAR..ARKANSAS WHITE POLICE SAY CHAVIS CARTER COMMITTED SUICIDE.HOW//HE WAS HANDCUFFED,HE HAD NO GUN, HE WAS IN POLICE CAR HANDCUFFED HOW CAN HE SHOOT HIMSELF HANDCUFFED WITH NO GUN//WHITE POLICE KILLED CHAVIS CARTER NOW LYING ABOUT IT...LAST MONTH IN ARKANSAS..WHERE IS THE BLACK CHURCH,NAACP,AND BLACK POLITICIANS....WHITE POLICE KILLING BLACK MEN HAS INCREASED WITH TH…

A counselor who understands proverbs soon sets difficult matters aright. Anyone love proverbs? Please feel free to share some. :-) "Wretched is he who injures a poor man." "Baseness may obtain riches, yet crime never lands it wares on the shore. In the end only Maat lasts." "Do not be proud and arrogant with your knowledge. Consult and converse with the ignorant and the wise, for the limits of art are not reached. No artist ever possesses that perfection to which he should aspire. Good speech is more hidden than greenstone (emeralds), yet it is may be found among maids at the grindstones.." "It is better to pay for medicine than to pay for a funer…

"My God, the process of aging brings senility. My mind decays and forgetfulness of the things of yesterday has already begun. Feebleness has come and weakness grows. Childlike one sleeps all day. The eyes are dim and the ears are becoming deaf. The strength is being sapped. The mouth has grown silent and does not speak. The bones ache through and through. Good things now seem evil. The taste is gone. What old age does to people in evil is every thing. Thhe nose is clogged and does not breathe. It is painful even to stand or to sit. May your servant be authorized to use the status that old age affords to teach the hearers so as to tell them the words of those who have…

In Louisiana (Delhi Charter School), any young woman who is a student in the school suspected to be pregnant must take a pregnancy test and if the test is positive, she is kicked out of the school, unable to return. Young women are being forced to take back-to-school pregnancy tests and the same "two lines = three strikes" law applies. What do you think about this? ------------------------------------ Delhi Charter School In Louisiana Forces Girls To Take Pregnancy Tests, Kicks Out Students Who Test Positive Or Refuse One Louisiana public school's no-nonsense approach to preventing teen pregnancy is "in blatant violation of federal law and the U.S. …

6 KILLED AT RELIGIOUS TEMPLE..NOT SURPRISED.. NEO NAZI TRASH RESPONSIBLE...A FEW YEARS AGO WHITE PREACHERS ON THE NEWS, ONE BURNING THE KORAN, ANOTHER ONE SAYING GOD WANTS OBAMA DEAD...TEA PARTY HOLDING UP SIGNS SAYING OBAMA THE N----- PRESIDENT, REPUBLICANS SAYING OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGED....THIS WAS DOMESTIC TERROR ,HAT ELSE IS PLANNED.///.THIS COUNTRY SHOULD A STATUE OF VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS WHEN THEY STOP PLAYING TENNIS.THEY WON THEIR 3RD WOMENS DOUBLES GOLD MEDAL.SERENA WON GOLD AS THE WOMEN CHAMPION...VENUS WON WOMEN CHAMPION IN AUSTRALIA OLYMPICS...THEY HAVE CARRIED U.S. TENNIS FOR YEARS.......GIFTED HANDS MOVIE AGAIN, REA…

It was very difficult to watch NBC's coverage of the Olympics. If I had to look at Michael Phelps mother's mug for another second I probably would have lost it. So much time was spent on human interest instead of actual competition it was nerve racking. The were so fixated on trying to catch Orsoco in tears they did not even cover other athletes competing. Scores were unannounced -- few routines shown. Why so much coverage of beach volleyball? There is an twitter hashtag #nbcfail where people are venting over NBC's coverage. I have not read many of the tweets, they are not very interesting to me. What is interesting is that athletes are getting booted ou…

I find this info to be an interesting tid-bit because I am always fascinated with the idea of looking at things in a different way! Thrilled with Gabby's "flying squirrel" nickname? Not so much. The media always finds a way to compare black athletes to animals. Nuts to them!

Africa Must Produce or Perish Philip Emeagwali Imagine that it is May 25, 2063, the 100th anniversary of Africa Day, a day for reflecting on Africa's successes and failures. The newspaper headline announces, “Last Remaining Oilfield in West Africa's American Territory Dries Up.” The article continues: “The last patch of rainforest will soon be empty land scarred by oil pipelines, pumping stations, and natural gas refineries. Wholesale pollution will be the environmental legacy for future generations. “Africa's offshore oil reserves will ebb away. Abandoned oil wells could well become tourist attractions, and oil-boom settlements will be transformed int…

I'm familiar with some of Anyike's work. He has published some interesting information. -------------------- According to Rev. James C. Anyike, “One of the main reasons many of our churches and businesses are dying is because they have no relationship with younger people, and they don’t have any plans to.” Anyike is the Senior Pastor of Scott UMC and The Way, and a nationally known author of three books. “Our success as families, churches, businesses, and other institutions will be best realized when the generations can understand each other and work with each other,” said Anyike. ------- Do any of you agree with this?

Has anyone seen this move? It sure helped to inspire our brother Michael Baisden.

Did you guys catch this story a few months back? (By the way, this incident did not take place in the South. ) Jessica reading the essay that she wrote: Jada Williams, 13 years old, Connects Frederick Douglass Narrative to Today's Education System Article about the events surrounding her essay (Disclaimer: I do not at all agree with the use of the terminology "throwaway students" to describe the students. ) Source: The Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York In Case You Missed It 13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass. On Saturday, February 18, 201…

Many in Anguilla seem to think so...

Don't know if you are familiar with the books of Max Brooks, but I like how he used "zombie" . Some readers consider it humor and perhaps even more consider it sci-fi. lol I don't know which planet the people from either aforementioned group are living on. The end was near. Zombies were taking over. They were infiltrating every corner the world. No neutral ground existed, no nation was secure, and we were in serious danger of becoming extinct - overrun by hordes of the living dead. . Brooks at Rutgers: The movie for World War Z was supposed to come out this year, but I think that it is now scheduled to come out in 2013.

BIBLE MENTIONS ETHIOPIANS..IN GENESIS,ACTS,DANIEL,ISAIAH,JEREMIAH AND 2 CHRONICLES..DO BLACK PREACHERS PREACH THIS /NO/ BECAUSE IT IS PROFITABLE SAYING TO THE SHEEP GOD AND CHRIST IS WHITE FOR WHITE POLITICIANS MONEY.../ BLACK CHURCHES ARE PLANTATIONS,PREACHERS ARE OVERSEER'S AND SLAVE HOLDERS AND OWNERS....SLAVERY TIME FREED SLAVES BUILT CHURCHES...TODAY BLACK CHURCHES HAVE UNFREED ,CONFINED AND SPIRITUALLY CHAINED BLACK SOULS..I READ ABOUT CHURCHES BUILT BY FREED SLAVES IN BALTIMORE, SOUTH CAROLINA, SLAVES COULD NOT HAVE CHURCH WITHOUT WHITE SUPERVISION,, THAT GOES ON TO THIS DAY.....MALCOLM X SPOKE, DIVIDED WE ARE CONQUERED. .WILLIE LYNCH LE…

ON THE NEWS,BLACK CHURCH NOT SUPPORTING THE PRSIDENT,WHATEVER./BLACK CHURCH,PREACHERS SUPPORT PREACHERS WHO CHEAT ON THEIR WIVES,BEAT THEIR WIVES,AND KILL THEIR WIVES.MORE PIMPS IN CHURCH THAN ON THE STREET....PREACHERS ARE CROOKS AND PROFITEERS...WHY HAS BISHOP EDDIE LONG NOT BEEN CONFRONTED FOR SEXUALLY ROMANCING YOUNG BLACK BOYS.////// BLACK CHURCH FLOCK WILL JUMP IN VOLCANOES IF TOLD TO DO IT BY PREACHERS...BLACK PREACHERS WILL BURN CROSSES AT KLAN RALLIES FOR MONEY....BLACK PREACHERS ARE OVERSEER'S WITH BLACK PLANTATION SLAVES.....PROFITABLE....

Resolution for additional sanctions against Iran. Is this the road to greater security or is this the road to more war(s)? --------------------------------------- Congress approves new Iran sanctions on oil, shipping sectors Aug. 1, 2012 (Reuters) - The Congress overwhelmingly passed a new package of sanctions against Iran on Wednesday that aims to punish banks, insurance companies and shippers that help Tehran sell its oil. The legislation, agreed to by senior lawmakers of both parties, "seeks to tighten the chokehold on the regime beyond anything that has been done before," said Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chair of the House Fore…

I can't believe these big city mayors currently making news! Not just content to limit how large a soft drink fast food customers can order in public places, NY mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is advocating that hospitals charge new mothers for the infant formula required should they choose not to breast feed. Puleeze. All of these LaLeche busybodies can't protest enough about bans placed on mothers nursing in public, claiming these mama cats have a right to do so. If this makes onlookers uncomfortable then, tut-tut - or tit-tit in this case. But if a woman decides she doesn't want to fulfill the second step of the ritual/fad that follows showing off her baby bump fo…

Landmark documentary about residents' reaction to first black middle class family in (all white middle class area) Levittown (PA)

"Truth does not change, only our awareness of it." -Attallah Shabazz

There's a rumor that in Asian and Jewish homes, any grade less than an A means that changes will have to be made. In White homes, anything less than a B means that changes will be made. Unfortunately, in Black homes, as long as you pass, everything is okay. The future of te Black race lies in the hands of White female teachers and single-parent mothers. Why does parent involvement in school decline as the child grows older? Every boy needs a male role model. You can't be what you have not seen. Boys will be what they see. The teacher has your son for 180 days. You have your son for a minimum of 18 years. Many fatherless boys are aggressive and possess a derogatory at…

PBS Special Forum "The Issue is Race" Panelists include: Alan Keyes (then black republican candidate for Senate), Richard Nathan (then director of Rockefeller Institute/researcher), Sister Souljah (then raptivist/PoliSci major), Jonathan Kozol (educator and author) Anna Deavere Smith (playwright), Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly (then mayor of Washington) , Dhoruba bin Wasad (former political prisoner/wrongly imprisoned Black Panther, activist) Tony Brown (then journalist/author), Cornel West (then director of African American Studies at Princeton), and Sylvester Monroe (then of Time Magazine). This was in 1992. One of the main questions then was "What have we …

Well, looks like Obama is one of us, after all. Just in time for the election we learn he's a slave descendant. I knew that pimp walk was authentic. President Obama Related to First Documented Slave in America Research Connects First African-American President to First African Slave in the American Colonies PROVO, UTAH – July 30, 2012 – A research team from Ancestry.com (NASDAQ:ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, has concluded that President Barack Obama is the 11 th great-grandson of John Punch, the first documented African enslaved for life in American history. Remarkably, the connection was made through President Obama’s Caucas…

Fists of Freedom: An Olympic Story Not Taught in School Dave Zirin on July 25, 2012 - 11:16 AM ET Nation readers —Over the next several weeks, I’ll be writing about the 2012 London Olympics. I’m going to try to write about the stories not just on the field but off: the Counter Olympics demonstrators, the workers behind the scenes, the athletes with personal stories that speak less to their desire for athletic success than a desire for human rights. It seemed fitting to start by looking back at perhaps the most political, controversial, inspiring moment in Olympics, if not sports, history: the medal stand black gloved salute of 200 meter runners Tommie Smith and …

BLACK OLYMPIANS TO WATCH,SWIMMING I THINK HIS NAME IS CULLEN JONES.. WOMEN GYMNASTICS,GABBY DOUGLAS,MEN GYMNASTICS JOHN OROZCO.WOMEN VOLLEYBALL DESTINY HOOKER.BLACK MAN WAS ON THE FENCING TEAM,HE LOST..NAME IS DARRYL HOMER.......ATHLETES TO WATCH BESIDES THE BASKETBALL TEAM EGOES.///

I just can't get enough of this silly song. Why, I don't know. My grandson even threatened to shoot a video of me singing it so he could add it to YouTube's collection of diffent covers of it. This link provides one of the more interesting versions for those of you who are tired of serious subjects. http://youtu.be/lEsPhTbJhuo

HAVANA, July 26 (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro accused the United States on Thursday of seeking an overthrow of the Cuban government similar to Arab Spring countries, while reiterating his government's willingness to negotiate with its decades old foe. "“The day they want (to talk) the table is served," Castro said in a nationally televised address on one of the biggest days in Cuba's political calendar. “"I have already informed them through diplomatic channels. If they want to talk, we will talk ... but as equals ... We are going to talk about the same themes (democracy and human rights) in the United States," he said. The communist-ruled island …