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...
As soon as I grabbed my copy of the Dallas Morning News today, I turned straight to the Points opinion section to see who the paper would endorse for the Democratic and Republican nominations. To my surprise, The News recommended Barack Obama on the Democratic side, and Mike Huckabee for...
Renee Hartley has thrown her hat in the ring to become Vice-President of the Dallas County Young Democrats (DCYD). This is great news, as I have admired Renee's work with the party for the last year and a half. Visit Renee's campaign website by clicking here. I first became...
Jill Scott is nominated for 3 Grammy Awards . Her latest album The Real Thing has been a hit with fans as well as critics. The openness and vulnerability displayed in song by J. Scott answers the question posed by...
Jon Nielsen of the Dallas Morning News tells the story of a Waxahachie man who was shocked twice by a stun gun after police responded to a diabetic seizure call. This event occurred last April, as more and more stun gun abuses are coming to light. According to...
A couple of days ago, I wrote a post about an Omnibus Appropriations bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. As I was reading through some of the projects that the bill will fund, one that stuck out was Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) which was allocated $25,043,000. I remember...
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...
Here's an Op/Ed piece that I wrote which ran in the Dallas Morning News on Monday. Since then I have heard from a number of people, mostly telling me why they feel the hotel hasn't been built. Momentum seems to be building from all sorts of places, but there also...
I wanted to share with all of you an essay that I found at Electronic Village by way of Phillip Jackson that has made its way around the AfroSpear. There are some very interesting observations along with a few suggestions as it relates to our boys. "There is no longer...
Washington, DC – (Monday, December 17, 2007) – Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson tonight announced that the House of Representatives passed the fiscal year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill which included federal funds for programs and projects that will benefit the 30th Congressional District of Texas. The Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations bill includes eleven appropriations bills for fiscal...
