According to CNN.com, Barack Obama has decided to accept the Democratic Nomination for President at Denver’s Invesco Field at Mile High. Invesco Field is the 75,000-seat stadium that is home to the Denver Broncos. The rest of the convention will be held at the 20,000-seat Pepsi Center which houses the...
Go back with me to the beginning of the baseball season. Now what would you have guessed the Rangers record to be after 90 games with these names on the roster: Catching – Max Ramierez (Started season at Frisco) and Jarrod Saltalamacchia (OK City) Third Base – German Duran(OK City)...
I liked the concept of Hancock from the moment I saw the first teaser. The concept of deadbeat superhero had not been truly treated on screen since Superman 3. And I don’t remember Superman drinking his liquor straight out of the bottle. The older I get, the less I expect...
Many of you may remember Dallas South and a few other Spear members were featured in a Philadelphia Tribune article titled Blogger Nation. With that in mind, it give me great pleasure to announce that the Tribune has been recognized for their fine work. Congrats to Heather Faison who wrote...
Thanks -as always- to Farai Chideya, Devin Robins, and all the folks at NPR’s News and Notes for allowing me to participate on today’s bloggers roundtable. I was on with Shay Riley of Booker Rising, and Arlene Fenton of Black Women Vote. We discussed the “fairness doctrine”, Ralph Nader, and...
Dallas South has again moved up in the black blog rankings, coming in at #66. This months rankings compiled by Electronic Village tracked 1,274 sites. Last month Dallas South ranked #66 of 1,237. Congrats to Pam Spaulding, fellow DNC credentialed blogger who moved into the top spot this month....
Folks are often trying to tell me how the court system usually gets it right and how there is really much racial disparity there these days. Well if justice were blind, wouldn’t Dallas County be freeing more white folks by way of DNA evidence? You know that chick (Justice) is...
WHEN: Thursday July 3, 2008, 10:00 a.m. WHERE: Cornerstone Baptist Church; 5415 Matlock Road Arlington, TX (817) 468-0083 WHO: Michael Williams, Chairman, Texas Railroad Commission WHAT: “Williams Innovators” Summer Camp Graduation WHY: “William Innovators” is a summer camp that promotes young people’s interest in math and science through the teaching...
The fam and I were headed down to Garrett’s Popcorn on Michigan Avenue to end our trip on Friday. When we got there we found out that particular location had closed. Around the same time the call came in from Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters that we would be able to...
By Friday Afternoon, I had resigned myself to the fact that my two week attempt to secure a visit to the Barack Obama campaign headquarters would not happen. I would take my family down to Michgan Avenue for some Garrett’s popcorn and call it a vacation; The trip had been...
