Tuesday night, President Barack Obama held his 2nd prime time press conference. The President started the press conference with a 7 minute statement where he spoke directly to the American people, seeking to assure them with regards to the economy and his budget plan. Then he took questions. The reporters...
BY JASON JOHNSON This $10 piece of exercise equipment will give you a better workout than a $2000 treadmill and won’t take up any space. A jump rope! Jumping rope or skipping rope, as it’s sometimes referred to, is an excellent form of total body conditioning. I’m always a fan...
The Poynter Institute has assembled an amazing group of new media mindsfor their “Sense Making” seminar that’s designed to help identify the new course of media and journalism. Some of those include Drew Curtis of Fark.com, Latoya Peterson of Racialicious.com, Chris Rabb from Afro-Netizen, Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of reddit.com, and...
BY JAMES “BIRD” GUESS Wall Street investor conman, Bernie Madoff, made off with billions of investor’s money and on December 10, 2008, he confessed to orchestrating an estimated $65 billion “ponzi scheme,” that is considered the largest act of investor fraud ever by a single person. On March 12, 2009,...
I have maintained for quite some time now that I feel the South Oak Cliff Boys Basketball Team has been unfairly and excessively disciplined for grade changing accusations made by former employees to WFAA 8. My support for Coach James Mays has not been altered by the two championships that...
On Sunday I’ll be traveling to St. Petersburg, Florida to participate in a media conference at the invitation of the Poynter Institute and the Ford Foundation. The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalism. The conference is bringing together a relatively small group of...
Join Kristin and I tonight on The Shawn P. Williams Show as we talk about solutions as it relates to “Black Males in America.” We will also discuss AIG and the fallout surrounding their executives receiving millions of dollars in bonuses. Last weeks show was one of our best yet,...
I 100% understand why there is so much outrage towards AIG. If “earmarks” -which are a minuscule part of the overall budget- get people riled up ,then why not the AIG bonuses which make up a small portion of the bailout. On Wednesday, reports surfaced that Democrats in the house...
Rawlins Gilliland -who took me on an excellent tour of Southeast Dallas on Wednesday- wrote a nice article last weekend about Dallas Police Department Southeast Division Chief Patricia Paulhill. It’s easy to tell how much respect he has for the African-American female who is making things happen in Southeast Dallas....
I listen to the Glenn Beck program on the radio from time to time and I have to say, the dude is so all over the place I’ve never understood why he matters. I see now (thanks to a TIP from a fellow Ticket P1) that he’s taken his 3...
