Anyone who reads enough books will come across a few that will profoundly affect your life. Miseducation of the Negro, Wake of the Wind, and Seven Habits of Highly Effective People have moved me in that way. Cooked:From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine to Foie Gras is now...
Here's my look back at last week and some of the stories the I wasn't able to bring to Dallas South. 1. The Chicago Tribune's Howard Witt continued his excellent Jena coverage with a story on the release of Mychal Bell . 2. The demolition of the American Inn in...
Today opponents of the Bush Library and Institute vowed to continue their fight within the 11 million member United Methodist Church to deny approval to Southern Methodist University (SMU) to host the Bush complex. The South Central Jurisdictional Conference of the United Methodist Church will meet in Dallas from July...
Less than 30 minutes ago,Mychal Bell was set free at the LaSalle Parish Courthouse. Bell was flanked by his family, Martin Luther King III, and Rev. Al Sharpton. (see CNN report here). Earlier, La Salle Parish D.A. Reed Walters made some very odd comments. Hearing the words come out of...
In a story that hits very close to home, the body of missing sales representative Nailah Franklin has been found in suburban Chicago. The news was confirmed by the uncle of Nailah (pronounced nah-EE'-lah) Franklin. CNN reports that Franklin was found dead Thursday near a forest preserve, not far from...
I've been a little out of touch for the last few days, but I've turned on CNN 3 times and 3 times the stories have dealt with African-Americans. One story was about a father's anger at the police's response to a fatal car crash involving his son. CNN quotes the...
Tuesday's Chicago Tribune will have a front page article that details the stiffer punishments levied on African-American students in schools across the country. Here are some stats from the Howard Witt article: * In the average New Jersey public school, African-American students are almost 60 times as likely as white...
Howard Witt now reports on white supremacist and neo-nazi groups who are forming a response to last Thursday's rally in Jena. Click here to see Mr. Witt's entire story. A few excerpts from Tuesday's Tribune: * No sooner did tens of thousands of African-American demonstrators depart the racially tense town...
Today I participated in an extensive discussion on NPR's Talk of the Nation regarding why the national media "missed" the Jena 6 story. Also on the program was Steven Holmes, national editor for The Washington Post and Keith Woods, dean of faculty at the Poytner Institute Click here to listen...
I have had a chance to collect my thoughts since last Thursday's historic rally in Jena, Louisiana, and I wanted to share with you some of my thoughts about the events of the day. 1. Black is Beautiful The suggestions that everyone wear black made the visual impact of last...
