Thursday, August 7th thru Saturday, August 9th, the National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) Texas Sections will convene in Dallas, Texas, at the Hilton Garden Duncanville Hotel to conduct the business of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc. founded by Mary McLeod Bethune and chaired by President/Emeritus Dr....
This is an email that I got in the inbox over the weekend. Looks like Black Republicans are going with the MLK stategy. Below are their words, not mine. I left the links active to prove the authenticity of the message, but if you want to donate to the NBRA...
This was a pretty big deal for me. CNN contacting me about running a post about the MLK special and I asked for an email interview with Soledad O’Brien. Simple enough, but then they asked if I’d like to do the interview live. Uh…yeah. Interviewing Ms. O’Brien was one of...
By Wilton Hollins People around the nation and the world are celebrating the accomplishments of Senator Barack Obama. History was made last night when Obama became the first African American to become the presumptive candidate of a major American political party. African Americans were slaves 143 years ago;...
This month Dallas South has again moved up in the black blog rankings, coming in at #79. This months rankings compiled by Electronic Village tracked 1,237 sites. Last month Dallas South ranked #86 of 1,173. June Black Blog Rankings Below are the Top 10 Black Blogs ranked by Villager...
Today a visiting judge was supposed to decide whether or not Jena 6 Judge J.P. Mauffray had been biased in his treatment of the fiver remaining defendants. That judge has postponed the hearing until at least July. Howard Witt of the Chicago Tribune reports: Attorneys for the five remaining defendants...
I ran across a nice article in Tuesday’s New York Times about Barack Obama’s right hand man Reggie Love. Here are some excerpts from Ashley Parker’s front page piece On the Court and On the Trail. In the last year, Barack Obama has learned a thing or two about...
From Color of Change.org – I will be updating you on the developments this Friday. Jena 6 Judge Put on Trial Lawyers Cite Clear Pattern of Bias, Demand Removal of Judge Mauffray Jena, LA–Citing powerful evidence of Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr.’s bias against them, five of the African-American youth known...
For the last week or so, there has been a discussion going on in the Black Blogosphere regarding bloggers who have received credentials for the Democratic National Convention. This far, those who have been granted passes will sit on the convention floor with delegations from each state and U.S. Territory....
Click on the banner below to hear my appearance on NPR’s News and Notes today. Thanks to host Farai Chideya and producers Ernest Campbell and Devin Robbins, as well as the folks at Cakemix Studios for making things run so smoothly. I didn’t really say all that I wanted to...
