The America Jouralism Review recently published an article by Raquel Christie that takes an extensive look at how the mainstream media covered the Jena 6 story. Raquel spent a lot of time pulling this story together and examines it from a number of different angles. There are a few AfroSpear...
Chicago Tribune senior correspondent Howard Witt has returned to Linden and Paris, Texas, as well as Jena, Louisiana to discover whether the fundamental racial dynamics of the towns were alterned in any meaningful way after the TV cameras departed and the headlines faded away. Click here for Witt's extensive...
There's more news out of Jena, Louisiana as a white separatist group has sued the city over a rally they plan to stage next month. According to the Associated Press, The Nationalist Movement which is planning a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Jena, is suing the town claiming...
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. ...
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...
See News media win suit to open Jena 6 case, an article that appeared in Thursday's Chicago Tribune. Some of the highlights from the Howard Witt article: A judge ruled Wednesday that the public and the news media should have full access to all legal proceedings involving Mychal Bell…whose prosecution...
George Cook of the website Let's Talk Honestly did a special report in which he interviewed myself and other bloggers. The interviews revolved around Black Bloggers' reaction towards Michael Baisden and comments he made by towards the organization Color of Change . Click here to listen to the interviews. Other...
Obsolescence – the state of being which occurs when a person, object, or service is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order. I was president of the Texas A&M Chapter of the NAACP from 1994-1996 and I count Dallas President Casey Thomas as...
Somebody else from the Chicago Tribune is picking up on the web movement. This time it's columnist Clarence Page. Page focuses on a Chicago resident who staged a counter protest to Friday's hate crime rally. See Focus on hate crime is far too narrow . Some of the highlights from...
