“LET FREEDOM SING: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement” to Premiere on TV One on Feb. 15 during Black History Month 2009 LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ — Brainstorm Media, Time Life, TV One and MarVista Entertainment announced today the production of LET FREEDOM SING: How Music Inspired the...
In Friday’s Dallas Morning News, Sports Columnist Jean-Jacques Taylor suggests that Class of 2009 football recruits boycott Auburn University for their decision to hire Gene Chizik over Buffalo Head Coach Turner Gill. I agree with Taylor, and I believe that his suggestion is doable. Read the write up on Turner...
Here’s the text of a column that I wrote which appeared in the Paris News on Wednesday. This is more follow up to the meeting with the Department of Justice held their last Thursday. “Wow…we didn’t even speak.” That was one of the first things I heard in response to...
As, I mentioned a few posts ago, the Diversity Task Force and Paris NAACP hosted a City-Wide Dialogue on race last Thursday night. The meeting was lead by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Community Relations Service Office. Carmelita Pope Freeman, Southwest Regional Director, brought her 43 years of government service...
On Thursday night, I traveled to Paris to attend a racial dialogue session hosted by the Diversity Task Force and the Paris Branch NAACP. I thought it was productive and will share my feelings and more pictures next week. I’d at least like to let everyone know what went on...
Ty Willingham deserved to be let go by Washington, in contrast to his unceremonious demise at Notre Dame. If Sylvester Croom hadn’t resigned at Mississippi State, he would have rightly been fired. And Ron Prince, well he just didn’t get it done at Kansas State. But everybody gets fired in...
Howard Witt of the Chicago Tribune reporst on a rise in hate incidents across the U.S. since the election of Barack Obama. To read Witt’s entire story click here. Below are some of the highlights. Barely three weeks after Americans elected their first black president amid a wave of interracial...
From Paris Texas NAACP President Dr. Joann Ondrovik NAACP Paris, Texas – Unit 6213 October 28th, 2008 Brandon McClelland Position Statement On October 28th, 2008, members of the Paris, Texas NAACP – Unit 6213 met to discuss the murder of Brandon McClelland and our zero tolerance response to any hate...
In Monday morning’s Dallas Morning News, Richard Abshire follows up on the death of Brandon McClelland in Paris, Texas. Two suspects are in custody for running over Brandon and dragging him after a night of drinking. Richard worked on this story for weeks, and though there’s not a lot of...
All day Thursday, conservative talk was going around saying that a McCain campaign worker was assaulted by a 6’4″ black man who was a Barack Obama supporter. Supposedly the black man robbed her, pinned her against the ground and told her that she will be an Obama supporter from then...
