Part One of my interview with Verdie Triplett has been very well received by the Dallas South family. I hope you all did your part and emailed the YouTube link out to your email lists. Here’s a little more homework, read through the Treaty of 1866 between the United States...
> I have to give all the credit to Chris Eubanks for realizing that this was a story that I would be interested in. Chris told me I should speak with Verdie Triplett, founder of the Choctaw Chickasaw Freedman of Oklahoma. I called Verdie the next day, and he’s been...
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...
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...
Friday was a busy day. I started out with a 6 am visit to WVON – The Talk of Chicago. There I sat and watched my Texas A&M Chapter Brother (A-Phi) in a rare studio airing of his show. Fortunately the sun rises at 5 am in Chi-Town so it...
African-American Teen Unemployment at 32.3 Percent Is Six Times the National Average; Teen Summer Job Climate Worst Since World War II WASHINGTON, June 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) drew attention to the teen employment drought with a full-page advertisement in the USA TODAY. The ad raises...
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution among others, the 28-foot statue planned for the Martin Luther King Jr. national memorial won approval on Thursday from the U.S. Commission of Fine Art. You may remember that very commission rejected sculptor Lei Yixin‘s previous submission, comparing to Eastern Bloc statues of the...
