Thanks to Dallas Progress and What About Our Daughters for updating me on an arrest that was made in the Nailah Franklin murder case. Ms. Franklin was a pharmaceutical sales representative in the Chicago area whose disappearance garnered virtually zero attention in the national media. Her body was eventually found...
A few weeks ago, Henry Louis Gates authored a column that ran on Opinion Pages -including the New York Times and Dallas Morning News- and websites across the country. In the column Gates responds to recent survey published by the Pew Research Center. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a professor...
The Field Negro has an interesting breakdown of the transcript of Houston vigilante Joe Horn's 911 call. As many of you know, Horn shot (in the back) and killed two young men who were robbing his neighbor. Horn's actions have been hailed by some Houstonians as heroic. CALLER: He's going...
On Monday the U.S. Supreme court extended the ability of federal district judges to set discretionary sentences in criminal cases. The court upheld a light sentence handed out to a crack distributor by a district judge in Virginia. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion of the 7-2 majority decision. ...
There seems to be a lot of hateration in the universe towards black bloggers these days. First it was Michael Biasden, then Stephen A. Smith. Now locally James Ragland has taken on Mike Davis at Dallas Progress. I thought I'd combine my thoughts on two events in one post. ...
Pikahsso of PPT fame is everywhere. Earlier this week I posted his latest video "Faleyah." Now our man on the street is making waves as a militant movie critic. Pik has entered a movie review segment called the "Militant Movie Moment" into VH1's eCritic contest. He is one of 3...
More news on tasers, this time out of Wichita, Kansas. Kevin Myles, President of the Wichita Branch NAACP, reports the following from the Wichita NAACP Blog. On November 20th, a man by the name of Donnell Williams, 39, was at home alone . Mr. Williams is hearing impaired, has a...
December 5, 2007 (Dallas, Texas) – The Underground Hip Hop Academy, a 501(c) nonprofit organization based in Dallas, is hosting a youth outreach event called Break Out 2007. Created by Founder & Director Shanna Poteet, this charity event takes place Saturday December 15th, 2007 from 12pm to 5pm CST at...
The following is a press release from the AfroSpear. The AfroSpear community now includes over 90 blogs, each demonstrably furthering the goals and objectives of the AfroSpear in ways both common and unique. The AfroSpear has developed into a think tank with Diaspora-wide influence. It focuses on the discussing...
I'm going to post this Howard Witt story from the Chicago Tribune in its entirety. It was posted to the Tribune's website minutes ago. By Howard Witt Tribune Senior Correspondent Chicago Tribune The district attorney in the racially-charged Jena 6 case in Louisiana agreed to a plea bargain Monday...
