This morning I got a call from BBC’s World Have Your Say asking me to appear on their radio program at 5:00 GMT. Unfortunately as an American I can’t say I knew exactly when 5 GMT was. Turns out it was noon Central time, so I was able to appear...
Does the image and slogan about look a little familiar? Thanks to African-American Political Pundit for hipping me to a Huffington Post article regarding McCain stealing Barack Obama’s steeze. Here’s what Sam Stein had to say: The line donned McCain’s lime-green backdrop as he addressed supporters in Louisiana. During that...
The Allen Group Announces Build-to-Suit Project at the Dallas Logistics Hub ADESA selects site at Dallas Logistics Hub for a 175-Acre Auto Auction Center DALLAS, Texas, (June 5, 2008) – The Allen Group, developers of the Dallas Logistics Hub, a 6,000-acre multimodal logistics park in Southern Dallas County, announced...
Everything changed after this post. Everything changed after the Day of Blogging for Justice. It’s hard to believe, but when we blogged about the Jena Six at the end of August 2007, the national media still had not picked up on the story. On September 4th I wrote: One...
This was a pretty big deal for me. CNN contacting me about running a post about the MLK special and I asked for an email interview with Soledad O’Brien. Simple enough, but then they asked if I’d like to do the interview live. Uh…yeah. Interviewing Ms. O’Brien was one of...
By the time I wrote this post, the Democratic Primary was at its zenith, and there was tons of traffic coming this way. I think this post had the 2nd most comments I’ve ever had. You may want to go back through them for historical context. As painful as it...
I was scrolling across Technorati and saw a sad story regarding my friend Father Michael Pfleger. I’ve been meaning to write a post about the fallout from his You Tube issue, but just haven’t done it. The Chicago Sun-Times reports Father Pfleger is apartment hunting. Here’s what the article had...
I couldn’t help but laugh on Wednesday when I turned to the editorial page of the DMN and read a column written by WBAP’s Mark Davis (Time for Hillary to wait). In his article Davis suggests that there is still time for Democratic superdelegates to somehow come to their senses...
By Wilton Hollins People around the nation and the world are celebrating the accomplishments of Senator Barack Obama. History was made last night when Obama became the first African American to become the presumptive candidate of a major American political party. African Americans were slaves 143 years ago;...
Since throwing my support full throttle behind the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee, I have tried to follow his lead when I can. There hasn’t been a lot of talk here about the historic nature of Barack Obama’s candidacy because in the end, history doesn’t get you many votes. But I...
