Here is a statement released by Charles Olgletree who has been retained by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. after he was arrested at his Cambridge Massachusettes home. This information was posted at theroot.com and distributed. Statement on Behalf of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. — by Charles Ogletree This brief statement is...
Hat tip to Baratunde Thurston for the heads up on this story. Baratunde writes as a post alerting of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates being arrested at his home in Cambridge, Massachusettes by police investigating a possible break in. According to Huffington Post, a woman called Cambridge police out to...
Watch the video and read Pam House Blend’s take. I have nothing to say about Pat Buchanan’s take on judge Sotomayor…..O.K. one thing. The reason Pat Buchanan gets paid by MSNBC is because he is a white conservative male. That’s affirmative action by his definition. But by the real definition,...
Let me start by saying this: I like fried chicken, I like Kool Aid, I like Watermelon. Now, when I first heard about Martellus Bennett’s (aka Marty B) Black Olympics video on YouTube, I kind of brushed it aside. As a fellow Texas A&M alum, I have followed Bennett since...
Looks like a Pennsylvania Summer Camp group may have fallen victim to civil rights era discrimination when they wanted to go for a swim recently. According to Philadelphia’s NBC Television affiliate, a group of African-American summer campers were prohibited from going to a private pool they had already paid to use. View...
I met Ryan Grim online back in 2007 when he was with Politico and have kept in touch with him over the years. I was excited to learn about his new book that I’m hoping to get my hands sometime soon. It’s titled This is Your Country on Drugs. I hope...
BY KRISTIN OF BECAUSE I SAID SO The Supreme Court has decided to reverse a decision made by the U.S. Court of Appeals which included Judge Sonia Sotomayor. I have yet to read the entire ruling but I find myself wondering about the ramifications the ruling will have on the...
I wanted to share the contents of an email sent out by Color of Change Director of Grassroots Mobilization, James Rucker, to their massive member list regarding the plea of “No Contest” by the defendants in the “Jena 6” case late last week. Color of Change was at the forefront...
BY EDDIE GRIFFIN of Eddie Griffin BASG Blog Black Bourgeoisie? I found it interesting that Shawn P. Williams writes in “Why” Part Two: Why I celebrate Juneteenth: In my adult years as I began to rub elbows with the black bourgeoisies, many of them scoffed at the June 19th holiday....
The Holocaust Memorial Museum announced that 39 year old Stephen Tyrone Johns died as a result of gunshot wounds suffered at the hands of Neo-Nazi James von Brunn. The Museum released the following statement. There are no words to express our grief and shock over today’s events at the Museum,...
