Category: African-American

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson Website totally revamped

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson Website totally revamped

On Friday, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson announced that she has overhauled her website. The new website has the same URL as the old website http://ebjohnson.house.gov/. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson’s updated Congressional Website “Many people use the Internet as the primary source of information about their elected officials and the federal...

CNN to re-air Eyewitness to Murder: The King Assassination & Listen to Dallas South’s Interview of Soledad O’Brien from last year

CNN to re-air Eyewitness to Murder: The King Assassination & Listen to Dallas South’s Interview of Soledad O’Brien from last year

Last year for the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, CNN’s launched their documentary series Black in America as reported by anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien. CNN will re-air on April 4th and 5th at 8:00 pm and 11:00 pm ET and PT. Listen to my...

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc – North Dallas Suburban Alumnae Chapter hosts 8th Annual Golf Tournament

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc – North Dallas Suburban Alumnae Chapter hosts 8th Annual Golf Tournament

Delta Sigma Sorority, Inc. North Dallas Suburban Alumnae Chapter and North Dallas Suburban Foundation present their 8th Annual Charity Golf Tournament Saturday, May 30th, 2009 Riverchase Golf Club, Coppell, Texas Register online at www.miraclegolfconcepts.com For more information, call or email: 214-452-7835 info@dstndsa.org

John Hope Franklin, scholar and historian dies at the age of 94

John Hope Franklin, scholar and historian dies at the age of 94

Historian John Hope Franklin passed away on Wednesday in North Carolina at the age of 94.  Franklin was born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma, in 1915.  He spent his career studying the subject of race and its effect on individuals and society. Franklin earned a bachelor’s degree from Fisk University in 1935,...

AKA Image Award Luncheon, Hill Harper speaks of Law School with Obama and campaign

AKA Image Award Luncheon, Hill Harper speaks of Law School with Obama and campaign

It took me a while to get to it, but you know I can’t forget about my sorors and the 23rd Image Awards Luncheon hosted by the Omicron Mu Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha. At the luncheon held at the Dallas Infomart on February 28th, I was a guest...

STATE REPRESENTATIVE YVONNE DAVIS CALLS FOR A MORE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

STATE REPRESENTATIVE YVONNE DAVIS CALLS FOR A MORE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

(AUSTIN, TX) — Rep. Yvonne Davis, newly appointed chair of the House Committee on Urban Affairs, outlined the framework of the committee’s agenda for the 81st Legislative Session during the committee’s organizational meeting on Thursday, February 26th. “To meet the critical challenges facing our state and municipalities, the House Committee...

Political Cartoons will test the funny bones of African-Americans

Political Cartoons will test the funny bones of African-Americans

Political cartoons are an American staple. From an early age I followed Reagan and Bush 41 cartoons in the Paris News. As I got older I was partial to the cartoons that appeared in Newsweek. Some are subtle in their humor and some hit you right over the head with...

UTA Photoshops their way to diversity

UTA Photoshops their way to diversity

Hat Tip to Trey Garrison and David Hopkins who post a smooth gotcha from the University of Texas at Arlington.  Not sure why UTA felt the need to make it seem like the young lady on the right is hanging with the sorority sisters, but they did.

I see plenty of evil in New York Post cartoon

I see plenty of evil in New York Post cartoon

Hat tip to Wayne of Electronic Village who tipped me off to the above cartoon early this morning. There is no excuse for this image which was printed in the New York Post. You can call it satire or comedy, I call it it ignorant and stupid. To associate gunshots...

Kevin Ross Part 3 – Blame it on the economy

Kevin Ross Part 3 – Blame it on the economy

BLAME IT ON THE ECONOMY By Kevin Ross Per 2008 revenues, terrestrial radio is a $15 billion dollar a year hustle. And yet for many, radio is a bad business to be in right now. The industry has suffered its worst year since 1954, the eighth consecutive “struggling” year. ABC...