American’s Employees Build on Graves’ Legacy Of Diversity and Inclusion as a Business Imperative FORT WORTH, Texas – American Airlines employees Gary Kennedy, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, and Frank Stanton, Tower Manager–Chicago, were awarded the first Earl G. Graves Award for Leadership to recognize their work in advancing...
As Michael Jackson news subsides (maybe) I expect the promotion of CNN’s Black in America 2 to kick up a notch. The surprise ratings winner from 2008 is back for a different view in a nation that has now elected a Black man President. In commercials featuring Soledad O’Brien, she...
Tuesday is trash collection day in our neighborhood, and for once I had mine out on time. But driving through my neighborhood after dinner around 9 PM on Tuesday night I noticed that everyone’s garbage was still out. My first thought was that they were running behind because of the...
K-CI & JOJO – All My Life by Momo59-93 This one was easy. Here’s the song that Martin Hodges played as Ms. Tamela Fields walked down the aisle of the Unity Center almost 11 years ago and became my wife. Even at the age of 24, I had prayed for...
Genma Holmes of GenmaSpeaks has agreed to become a regular contributor here, but there will be more on that later. As for today, I’m posting her thoughts on Steve McNair. As a native of Mississippi and resident of Nashville (like McNair), I think her perspective is important. Life in Tennessee...
Here’s a cool video which was recently posted on the Blogging While Brown website that recaps some of the presentations and panels that took place. I’m not just promoting it because I have a cameo at the beginning, there’s some good info here. Hopefully this will inspire some folks to...
Houston, TX: The University of Houston Cougars Athletic Alliance (UHCAA) is hosting a Dallas/Ft. Worth UH Alumni Reception on Thursday, July 16, 6 p.m.- 9 p.m. at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, Inc. (TBAAL Room T203) to honor the UHCAA 3rd Annual Golf Challenge Co-Chairs: Ten-time Olympian, Carl...
Looks like a Pennsylvania Summer Camp group may have fallen victim to civil rights era discrimination when they wanted to go for a swim recently. According to Philadelphia’s NBC Television affiliate, a group of African-American summer campers were prohibited from going to a private pool they had already paid to use. View...
During the BET Awards Sunday before last, there was an unexpected social networking trend that developed. On Twitter, the BET Awards began to move up the list of trending topics. This traffic was driven by African-Americans, which were moved by the passing of the King of Pop. Some Twitter...
Eric Johnson may be new to politics, but he seems to already have one of the key elements down: fundraising. Johnson reports that his campaign raised over $60,000 in monetary contributions between June 5 and and June 30, 2009. Eric Johnson is the guy on the right “I am humbled...
