Archive for April 20th, 2008
Furious 50 Cent has slammed singer Alicia Keys's music as 's***' after she claimed gangsta rap was 'a ploy to convince black people to kill each ...
Arizona Daily Star: My opinion Leonard J. Pitts Jr. : BET boss should know success isn’t linked to race
I bet Hillary Clinton wishes Bob Johnson would stop trying to help her. Johnson is the billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television and ...
Channel 8 Dallas (WFAA): Black Clinton supporters cite peer pressure to back Obama
Lloyd Elam says he supports Hillary Rodham Clinton at his own risk.. At least that's what the African-American accountant felt when he entered his ...
Miami Herald: Obama: Being black confers no advantage
I bet Hillary Clinton wishes Bob Johnson would stop trying to help her.. . Johnson is the billionaire BET founder and Clinton supporter who ...
HeraldNet: Loyalty is a virtue — up to a point
The trial of Barack Obama's wheeler-dealer friend, Antoin "Tony" Rezko, was back in the news last week because of a disagreement over whether Obama ...
Hollywood Reporter: Eyewitness to Murder — The King Assassination
6 and 9 p.m. Thursday, April 3 CNN In America, for every great historical tragedy, there is at least one conspiracy theory. I'm not sure when this ...
Baltimore Sun: Their love of country was a one-way street
I never saw my father wear a flag pin, but he was a patriot. He was more faithful to the United States of America than I would have been if my life ...
Oakland Tribune: Search engine connects African-Americans to online services
Search engines remain a bigger mystery to me than why men have nipples.. How can a blog written by a 12-year-old sitting in her bedroom get the ...
San Francisco Chronicle: Muslim leader urges shift from black theology
Bay Area residents had a rare opportunity Sunday to hear a man who may be the single most influential Muslim in America. But the limits of his ...
Yahoo! News: School nutrition policy can prevent obesity
Philadelphia schools that cut out soda, revamped snack selections and took other measures to prevent childhood obesity were able to halve the odds ...
Akron Beacon Journal: YEPAW program runs all year
In 1990, Leslie Parker Barnes started the Youth Excellence Performing Arts Workshop (YEPAW) with a small group of African-American students in the ...
Washington Times: FORUM: A window into left-liberalism
Senator Barack Obama's recent barb about "bitter" small-town Americans has rekindled the furor over his pastor's infamous comments about America ...
Akron Beacon Journal: More than just talk
Monday nights on Akron's east side, leaders are being molded at YEPAW 365. . . The gatherings have nothing to do with Parliamentary Procedure or ...
The Daily Iberian: Suspect alleges brutality by deputy, wants charges dropped
A New Iberia man wants drug charges against him dropped and the deputy who arrested him out of black residents' neighborhoods, a New Orleans ...
Virginian-Pilot: Beach activists' wishes a far cry from what city can deliver
The long-promised recreation center for Lake Edward isn't for Lake Edward at all, some community leaders say.. . "Don't sell this to me as the ...
