It did my heart good on yesterday to see so much national discussion around Juneteenth. Check out some of these blogs that decided to share their thoughts. Black Perspective – D.Yobachi Boswell Eddie Griffin’s Blog Electronic Village – Wayne Hicks Fort Wayne African-American Independent Woman The Jose Vilson MartyBlogs Problem...
“I Won’t Complain” was one of my favorite gospel songs (solo) growing up. My mom was the musician/choir director/Minister of Music out our church, so I’ve got a pretty good catalogue. When I came across this video, it made me think about all of the 3 o’clock services I attended...
I’d like to start by thanking the family for keeping me up to speed on what’s going on out there. I received an email today that’s apparently been going around the web regarding Arizona Sweet Tea. Here are some of the contents of the email I received. FW: Arizona Sweet...
I must have missed this story over the weekend, but apparently a vendor at the Texas GOP convention was showing their true colors by reminding Barack Obama of his. The Dallas Morning News who first wrote a story last weekend on the campaign button to the left reports the vendor...
Mike Soraghan from The Hill.com reports that Senator Barack Obama will meet with the Congressional Black Caucus this week in order to shore up support for the upcoming general election. Here are some of the highlights from the report about the presumptive nominees meeting with the CBC. Sen. Barack Obama...
Senator Barack Obama and his family spent Father’s Day at the Apostolic Church of God on Chicago’s South Side. Any fool can have child, that doesn’t make you a father. Senator Barack Obama I heard Kyra Phillips on CNN asking whether or not Obama would take heat for his comments,...
CHICAGO, June 10 /PRNewswire/ — Concern is building among African-American professionals about how the downward shift in the economy will affect them. Statistics prove they have good reason to be scared. Black median income had risen to a historically high ratio of 63.5 percent of white income in 2000, and...
Karen Brooks of the Dallas Morning News writes a follow up article to her story from a few weeks ago regarding black bloggers and the Democratic National Convention. Some of you may recall that African-American bloggers were pretty upset when the DNC announced their state blogging pool, the first pass...
Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act will benefit 3.8 million Americans Washington, D.C. – (June 12, 2008) Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson today joined a bipartisan majority of her colleagues in the House of Representatives to vote for H.R. 5749, the Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act. The legislation will immediately provide...
I have to credit Gordon Keith and Muse in the News for alerting me to an innovative idea proposed by CNN Contributor Roland Martin. Martin suggests that the U.S. Government should consider moving election day from the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, to the first Saturday in...
