Katrina’s Back of the Bus Recovery Approach for Blacks
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:11:03 -0700
*Here we go again. The Hurricane Katrina nightmare continues. A story at the Washington Post tells the tale of how New Orleans’ recovery diverges for affluent whites and low-income blacks. “For people who were well-off before the storm, they are more likely to be back in their homes, back in their jobs and to have [...]
Nielsen: Blacks Text/Talk More than Any Other Race
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:41:04 -0700
*New data from Nielsen shows that African Americans average more than 1,300 minutes a month texting and talking, followed by Hispanics at 826 minutes, Asian/Pacific Islanders at 692 minutes, and whites at 647 minutes each month. African Americans, Women, and Southerners were found to talk and text the most in the United States across the [...]
Sharpton Wants Feds Involved in Mitrice Richardson Case
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:56:28 -0700
*Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton vowed this week to file a federal inquiry into the death of Mitrice Richardson, a missing 25-year-old woman thought to be mentally ill whose remains were found last week. She had been allowed to leave a sheriff’s station nearly a year ago against the wishes of her parents.“The [...]
New Orleans Becoming Less ‘Chocolate’ and More Latino
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:26:28 -0700
*The trend is irrefutable. The racial makeup of New Orleans is changing, as more Latinos move into the city due to the city’s post-Katrina rebuilding efforts. New Orleans is a traditionally insular town, with 75 percent of city dwellers having been born in Louisiana, a high percentage in an era when people are increasingly mobile. [...]
Guess Which nitwit’s Advising Dr. Laura to ‘Reload?’
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:41:44 -0700
*Why are we absolutely totally not surprised. In a classic case of the blind leading the blind, the Daily Beast is reporting that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin sent Dr. Laura Schlessinger words of encouragement Wednesday, telling the embattled talk-show host via Twitter, “don’t retreat… reload.” Dr. Laura has announced that she will retire from [...]
Video: FEARLESS magazine Launches and Responds to Vanity Fair Hollywood Cover Controversy
Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:28:35 -0700
*Los Angeles – FEARLESS Magazine from Arian Simone Enterprises has launched. Not only is it new, but it’s unique because it is a digital magazine accessible on your iPhone or iPad. To start enjoying FEARLESS-ness of this new publication, all you have to do is download the FEARLESS Magazine app from the Apple iTunes store [...]
Gang-Intervention Worker Tommie ‘T-Top’ Rivers Turned Grief into Motivation
Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:12:43 -0700
*The old friends were in their best suits, Ronald “Looney” Barron’s the color of caramel and Tommie “T-Top” Rivers’ ribbed with pinstripes, a paisley pocket square peeking out just so.It was uncanny how their lives had mirrored each other’s. They were born months apart, raised in the West Adams area. Both were good athletes, charismatic [...]
Mikael Moore’s Got Connections on Capitol Hill: His Grandmother, Maxine Waters
Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:57:43 -0700
*(Via LA Times.com) Many people who encounter Mikael Moore, the chief of staff for Rep. Maxine Waters, see a typical Capitol Hill aide: a young, serious, BlackBerry-toting workaholic in a business suit with an intense belief in the importance of his work.If they know he is also Waters’ grandson, making him a rarity in Congress, [...]
Banker in Waters Ethics Case Responds to Critics
Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:57:43 -0700
*Kevin L. Cohee, the banker at the center of the Rep. Maxine Waters ethics controversy is firing back at his critics, saying sex and drug cases against him were “unequivocally dropped” and that the decision by his institution not to make home loans in some low-income neighborhoods was financially prudent, reports the LA Times.Cohee, OneUnited [...]
The Hutchinson Report: The Terrible Case of Mitrice Richardson
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:12:51 -0700
*For the past year, I have lived with the terrible case of Mitrice Richardson. The surface circumstances about the case are now well known. Mitrice, the 24 year old African-American woman, with emotional challenges, was held and then released alone by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s from their Malibu substation in the early morning hours of [...]
Daniel Cowart to be Sentenced for Plot to Kill Obama
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:57:44 -0700
*A man accused of planning a “killing spree” against African-Americans in a 2008 plot that also targeted then-presidential candidate Barack Obama will be sentenced Friday in a federal courtroom in Tennessee.Daniel Cowart, of Bells, Tennessee, admitted to conspiring with Paul Schlesselman of West Helena, Arkansas, in planning to kill more than 100 African-Americans, according to [...]
CEO in Waters Ethics Case Has Been A Bad Boy
Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:12:46 -0700
*It seems that the chairman and CEO of OneUnited, the bank at the center of the ethics investigation against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), has a troubled past himself, reports the Washington Post. Not only has Kevin L. Cohee reportedly been arrested twice on sexual-assault and drug charges-although he has denied the arrests-the federal government also [...]
A Builder, An Iraq Vet & A Multi-Million Dollar 2nd Chance!
Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:43:19 -0700
*When 28 year old Marine Richard Bennett returned to the states he was severely injured yet eager to return to the battlefield. Unfortunately due to his injuries he would not return to Iraq instead he would hold down an hourly wage security job at Penn State. There within the unfettered and ambitious veteran was a [...]
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Joyner Venture Helps Black Colleges with Online Programs
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:05:56 -0700
*Tom Joyner, one of the country’s most-visible philanthropic supporters of historically black colleges and universities, has founded a company to help those institutions develop distance-education programs-with a particular focus on allowing them to compete against for-profit colleges in enrolling minority students.Mr. Joyner regularly highlights black colleges on his nationally syndicated radio ...
Coast Guard Retracts Mile-Long Oil Sheen Claim After Platform Explosion
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:05:00 -0700
*The Coast Guard is backing off its earlier report that an oil sheen about a mile long was spreading following a platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.Coast Guard Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesau said Thursday afternoon that crews were unable to confirm the oil sheen. The Coast Guard says platform owner Mariner Energy reported a sheen [...]
Platform Explosion Creates Mile Long Oil Sheen in Gulf*We wouldn’t want to be the judge who overturned the White House ...
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:50:02 -0700
*We wouldn’t want to be the judge who overturned the White House’s moratorium on drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico ’cause today it came back to bite him in the butt. Bigtime.By now you’ve heard that a mile-long oil sheen is spreading from the oil platform that exploded off the Louisiana coast earlier [...]
Might Bloomberg Join Obama’s Economic Team?
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:04:49 -0700
*After a four-hour long golf session with President Obama at Martha’s Vinyard, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters that the two talked mostly about the economy and golf, of course. But there have been a few whispers suggesting that Obama may be considering replacing his current economic treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner. Insiders say multibillionaire [...]
Chicago Police Chief Criticized for Gang Pow-Wow
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:34:51 -0700
*Chicago police Superintendent Jody Weis is facing mounting criticism for holding a so-called “gang summit” last month, even though several police departments across the country have used this method for decades in an attempt to curb crime. The three biggest complaints are that Weis himself was at the meeting, the department should instead be [...]
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