Sharon Grigsby and the Editorial Staff at the Dallas Morning News are keeping their word of helping to bridge the gap between North Dallas and Southern Dallas. This morning the entire left page of the editorials is devoted to 10 suggestions to improve Southern Dallas neighborhoods. See "10 Drops in...
FYI from Mike Davis On Monday, there will be a press conference with Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, District 4 City Plan Commissioner Michael Davis, the owners of Big T, and other high-ranking city officials. As you know, inside the Bazaar there was a violent shooting last month which...
For months, actually years now, I've listened to Black folks call in to talk radio shows to assert that the media's treatment of Barry Bonds has been excessive and over the top. Whenever this assertion is made, media types bristle at the...
Thanks to Dallas Progress and What About Our Daughters for updating me on an arrest that was made in the Nailah Franklin murder case. Ms. Franklin was a pharmaceutical sales representative in the Chicago area whose disappearance garnered virtually zero attention in the national media. Her body was eventually found...
ESPN is reporting that the George Mitchell investigation into drug use in baseball will name Roger Clemens among players who have received steroids. The station has been reporting this morning that a former New York Yankee strength trainer supplied information to Mitchell about supplying Roger Clemens with steroids. Mitchell's...
A few weeks ago, Henry Louis Gates authored a column that ran on Opinion Pages -including the New York Times and Dallas Morning News- and websites across the country. In the column Gates responds to recent survey published by the Pew Research Center. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a professor...
The Field Negro has an interesting breakdown of the transcript of Houston vigilante Joe Horn's 911 call. As many of you know, Horn shot (in the back) and killed two young men who were robbing his neighbor. Horn's actions have been hailed by some Houstonians as heroic. CALLER: He's going...
On Monday the U.S. Supreme court extended the ability of federal district judges to set discretionary sentences in criminal cases. The court upheld a light sentence handed out to a crack distributor by a district judge in Virginia. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion of the 7-2 majority decision. ...
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. ...
Pikahsso of PPT fame is everywhere. Earlier this week I posted his latest video "Faleyah." Now our man on the street is making waves as a militant movie critic. Pik has entered a movie review segment called the "Militant Movie Moment" into VH1's eCritic contest. He is one of 3...
