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Dallas Black Dance Theater rocks Dallas City Council Inauguration

Dallas Black Dance Theater rocks Dallas City Council Inauguration

On Monday, Gloria Campus hosted the Dallas City Council Inauguration Ceremony at the Meyerson Symphony Center in downtown Dallas. The council and mayor Tom Leppert welcomed two new members and said goodbye to two former colleagues who were leaving due to term limits. It had been a while since I...

2009 Blogging While Brown Recap by Dallas South

2009 Blogging While Brown Recap by Dallas South

Everyone keeps asking me, “How was the Blogging While Brown Conference” and I either answer “great” or “excellent. I then think that this may sound vain in some way because I was responsible for helping to put the program together. In actuality, I didn’t feel much different from last year...

James Guess: The Legal Lowdown on Credit Cards 2009

James Guess: The Legal Lowdown on Credit Cards 2009

BY JAMES “BIRD” GUESS Credit cards do not put people in debt, financial decisions that people make is what put them in debt! On May 22, 2009, President Obama signed The Credit Card Holder’s Bill of Rights Act into law, which could potentially help people become debt free quicker. This...

Blogging While Brown kicks off with Welcome Reception & 1st Session

Blogging While Brown kicks off with Welcome Reception & 1st Session

Once again it’s on! Blogging While Brown got rolling last night with a welcome reception where AT&T gave away a new iPhone. I had the opportunity to welcome our participants this morning and kick off the first session (5 minutes late, my bad) lead by Milt Hayes of Blacks Gone...

REPOST: “Why” Part Two: Why I celebrate Juneteenth

REPOST: “Why” Part Two: Why I celebrate Juneteenth

Bringing back a post from last year discussing Juneteenth.  Don’t forget your red soda water. I remember growing up in good old Paris, Texas and one day realizing that there was an extra holiday on the calendar. I recall having a good understanding of Christmas, Thanksgiving, July 4th and Halloween,...

People I Follow on Twitter

People I Follow on Twitter

Continuing my series about people I follow. This time on Twitter.  I limited my entries to 140 characters, the maximum length of a tweet. waynesutton wayne is a social media guru, mastering every form. 25K followers but he’s following 26. Tweets social media tips and advice thru the day necolebitchie...

Blogging While Brown Conference starts Friday in Chicago, attendees announced

Blogging While Brown Conference starts Friday in Chicago, attendees announced

The 2nd Blogging While Brown Conference gets underway on Friday at Chicago’s University Center with a Beginning Bloggers Boot Camp. Conference organizer Gina McCauley afforded me the opportunity to serve as programming chair for the conference, and I’m excited about the group of panelists and presenters that we were able...

Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Caraway and Martin Luther King III promote non-violence at youth summit

Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Caraway and Martin Luther King III promote non-violence at youth summit

DALLAS – Local leaders will join forces with parents and youth to promote citizenship and non-violence at the fourth annual youth summit on Saturday, June 20, 2009. Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway will headline a panel of local elected officials as part of one local ministry’s commitment to stopping...

People I Follow on the Internet

People I Follow on the Internet

This is the second installment in a series I’m doing titled “People I’m Following.” Tomorrow’s topic is “People I Follow on Twitter.  As for today, it’s People I Follow on the Internet. L.N.Rock African-American Political Pundit I’ve been following Rock for a long time. He holds nothing back and can...

Gemna Holmes: If Tavis Smiley was White, Wells Fargo and “Ghetto Loans” would be Front Page News

Gemna Holmes: If Tavis Smiley was White, Wells Fargo and “Ghetto Loans” would be Front Page News

I thought Gemna Holmes from Gemna Speaks had an interesting take in a recent post regarding Tavis Smiley. I thought I’d repost some of it here: This is the third in a series of posts about Tavis Smiley and Wells Fargo, sponsor of the State of the Black Union (SOTBU)....