The Black Blogosphere has taken issue with Tavis Smiley’s State of the Black Union 2009 symposium blog contest. The issue was brought to our attention by (who else) our fellow Texan Gina McCauley at What About Our Daughters. In her original post titled Black Bloggers Second Class Citizens Gina is...
Tonight at 10 PM Central, join Jazzy and I as we chat with Gabriel Ray-Goodlatte from ColorofChange.org about the election of Barack Obama and the Social Justice movement as well as James “Bird” Guess about how we should handle these “tough economic times.” Here’s the link: Shawn P. Williams Now
DALLAS – State Senator Royce West (D-Dallas) and students from 40 Dallas County schools have renewed their efforts to fight hunger by participating in a food drive benefiting the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB). The drive culminates with a food drop-off scheduled for Friday – November 21, 2008, from 4:30...
Last week the Dallas Morning News printed the story of the fatal shooting of a Dallas woman on her way to work. Wyshina Harris was gunned down in her car while driving through South Dallas. You can read the DMN report of the incident here. Crime Stoppers is offering a...
Eric Holder, former deputy Attorney General in the Clinton Administration, is considered a top candidate to become America’s first African-American Attorney General. According to numberous reports, members of President Barack-Obama’s transition team have spoken with Senate Republicans about their feelings on the matter. Holder, along with Caroline Kennedy, were part...
Here’s the text of an article that I wrote which appears in Monday’s Dallas Morning News. It wasn’t up on the web yet. The 2008 election marked the death of liberalism, or at the very least, hastened its demise. Since the victory of Barack Obama and Democrats nationwide, an abundance...
President Elect Barack Obama delivered his second weekly address online via YouTube this weekend. Not much new by way of information, but this is another way that Obama is getting people involved in the process. Look for the Republicans to get their Republican response online by January. If so, then...
Theo Johnson of TheoTalks.net has posted photos that he took at the Friendship-West/Dallas South Election Watch Party. Theo is quoted in the month’s Jet magazine as he was interviewed at the party. Here’s part of the article (Judy Howard Ellis) that appears on page 33. The excitement was palpable at...
Here’s an excerpt from an interview that Cassandra Butts gave to PBS Frontline: Frontline: When did you first meet Barack Obama? Butts: It was one of the first few days of our law school experience. We met at the financial aid office at Harvard Law...
Mary Madewell and the Paris News report that Toby Shook has been assigned as special prosecutor in the murder cases of Shannon Finley and Ryan Crostley. Finley and Crostley are accused of murdering Brandon McClelland, whose body was presumably run over by a pickup truck. This comes after Lamar County...
