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Mr. President

2012-01-24T18:13:00.001-08:00

Tune in Now. Obama!

Spoody has a licking issue. We are working on it. He is a good boy with a great temperament .Considering his journey and all his life was before he came into our lives I'm really happy with him.

2012-01-23T08:14:00.001-08:00

HOME COMING

2011-05-05T09:35:00.000-07:00

After 25 years I'm back home in Tallahasse Florida. just like riding a bike ,the people the food nothin like it . I will miss new york how could I not, I've spent half my life literally it is my home .my move to Tallahassee has allowed me to be a home owner ,something I could not do a new york city .

The contrast is great green peaceful that's what I'm talking about . Tallahassee has the rich musical history home of the marching 100 and a gateway city to the rest of the state . Education agriculture and industry are alive and well in Tallahassee florida . Just enough city and country to satisfy my needs I think I'll be a okay .

ARIZONA "BOO"

2010-04-26T19:18:00.000-07:00

We Are All From Arizona | Official Michael De La Rocha Blog | Michael De La Rocha News and Celebrity Blogs | Global Grind

Knowing that a million people would be protesting Arizona's SB 1070, a blatantly discriminatory and unconstitutional anti-immigrant bill hauntingly similar to the Jim Crow laws of the past, my family and I buckled up and drove to Phoenix, Arizona to march with our brothers and sisters.

As I struggled to keep my eyes open from an exhausting week of work, I contemplated what the passage of SB 1070 really means for us all.

What does the bill say about the state of America when our President and countless others are diligently working to unite America in spite of the Tea Party and other extremist groups?

What does the bill say about the moral conscious of America when the majority of an elected state legislature would knowingly pass a bill that criminalizes one of the most vulnerable groups in America?

As I traveled late into the night, memories of Jews being forced to wear yellow stars and Japanese Americans being detained in internment camps during World War II flooded my mind.

As I drove to Phoenix, Arizona, I had an eerie feeling that this was 1962 all over again and President Kennedy was sending the National Guard to integrate our school system in the face of hate and bigotry.

As I drove to Phoenix, Arizona, I felt that it was 1964 all over again and President Johnson just passed the Civil Rights Act knowing full well that it would cost him the presidency.

Today, like Kennedy and Johnson, President Obama is standing on the right side of history by calling SB 1070 "irresponsible" and unacceptable.

However, this is 2010 not 1964 and the same racism and hate that's been hidden under the carpet for the last fifty years has emerged again.

While this may not be the 1960's, we still have the same 50% drop out rate in our school system, we're still fighting two unjust wars, and we're still denying people the fundamental right to marry whom they choose.

UNSUNG ON TV ONE - "GREAT"

2010-04-12T14:40:00.000-07:00

Feeling Nina Simone

2010-04-12T14:38:00.001-07:00

She had been the toast of New York City’s pop scene for all of two years, but Nina Simone was already cementing her legend as a no-nonsense diva.

There she was onstage at the Apollo Theater in February 1961, barely two weeks before her 28th birthday. She was a slip of a woman, haughty and remote, her dusky voice commanding and blues-suffused. Halfway through her spoken introduction to Nat Adderley’s “Work Song,” Nina thought she heard giggles and chatter, which wasn’t unusual for the notoriously rowdy crowd at the famed Harlem venue.

But the former Eunice Waymon of Tryon, N.C., was having none of it. She snapped: “For the very first time in your lives, act like ladies and gentlemen at the Apollo.”

The crowd shut up immediately, and Nina turned back to the piano and performed. The artist, whose only smash at the time was a tear-stained rendition of “I Love You, Porgy,” was hard to pin down even then. Nina’s approach was steeped in classical music. In fact, she was trained as a classical pianist and had hopes of breaking into that lily-white field. But her music rippled with the blues, jazz and gospel. European styles and African roots music were also braided into her work.

But her repertoire turned bitingly political, starting with 1963’s self-penned “Mississippi Goddam.” She traded elegant gowns for vibrant Afrocentric garb, and as she spiraled into the depths of mental illness, Nina’s behavior on and off the stage became more erratic. When she wasn’t rambling through her set, she would cuss out ticket holders—or not show up at all. She would pull knives on musicians and shoot at noisy neighbors.

But fans all over the world kept coming back. Although she never matched the commercial success of contemporaries like Ray Charles, Sam Cooke or Aretha Franklin, Nina still became an international icon. Her commitment to using her music as a weapon, as a way to raise consciousness about the sociopolitical storms gathering around us, was unwavering throughout her 40-year career.

So it’s fitting for Women’s History Month that we remember Nina Simone, an oft-misunderstood artist who refused to compromise in an industry and a country that didn’t know (and still don’t know) what to make of self-assured, dark-skinned women with soul, brains and talent to spare. Her artistic triumphs and public struggles helped karate-kick down doors for the likes of Erykah Badu, India.Arie and, of course, Lauryn Hill, who name-checked Nina in the Fugees’ hit “Ready or Not.”

The legend’s strange and sometimes-volatile life is explored in the new book, Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone by Nadine Cohodas, whose last book, Queen, was a biography of another troubled soul sister, Dinah Washington. Like that book, Princess Noire is painstakingly researched. It also clears up factual deficiencies found in Nina’s 1991 autobiography, I Put a Spell On You.

Why Black People Need More Vitamin D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-04-12T14:35:00.001-07:00

Why Black People Need More Vitamin D

Why Black People Need More Vitamin D
Melanin protects us from harmful UV rays. But it also blocks our defenses against diabetes and cancer.

Vitamin D may be the most important supplement you’re not taking—or not taking enough of. Most of us—and even our doctors—have little idea that taking regular amounts of it may help stave off some of the most common life-threatening illnesses.

Best known for building bones and preventing rickets—a bone disease more common in the days of Charles Dickens than today—vitamin D has recently been shown to lower the risk of diabetes, hypertension, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, memory loss and several types of cancer.

Despite this good news, most Americans don’t get near enough vitamin D. And among African Americans, some experts have called vitamin D deficiency a “hidden epidemic” and have speculated that low levels are to blame for higher rates of diseases such as hypertension, heart disease and diabetes. The Chicago Sun-Times went even further, linking African-American death rates from aggressive forms of breast and prostate cancer to low levels of vitamin D.

In the body, vitamin D is produced by sun exposure. But Americans aren’t exposed to as much sunlight as we used to be—either because we’re inside watching TV or hunched over computers or avoiding the sun to prevent skin cancer.

So how much vitamin D do we need? That’s still being debated. In March, researchers at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine found that 3 in 4 Americans had insufficient levels of vitamin D, up from about 1 in 2, when measured 20 years ago.

Last fall, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended infants, children and adolescents double the amount of D they ingest each day. The government recommends a daily intake of 200 international units (IU) from birth to age 50, 400 IU for people between 51 and 70, and 600 IU for those over 70.

Other experts have suggested even bigger boosts. The University of Colorado researchers advised increasing vitamin D intake to 1,000 IU daily. The well-respected Institute of Medicine went even further, recommending 2,000 IU a day. So drinking fortified milk, at 100 IU a glass, is just not enough.

New national guidelines are expected next year, and there’s little doubt that recommended vitamin D intake will be increased.

To help sort through the vitamin D maze, we spoke to Dr. Consuelo Hopkins Wilkins, an assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who has spent nearly a decade studying this overlooked vitamin.

The Root: How does exposure to sunlight produce vitamin D?
Dr. Consuelo Hopkins Wilkins: Everybody has the ability to make vitamin D. In the second layer of the skin, there’s a kind of a pre-vitamin D. When the skin is exposed to ultraviolet light, it activates this pre-vitamin D, which makes its way through the blood stream to the liver and kidney. There, it gets further activated from pre-vitamin D to vitamin D.

TR: What has caused our worsening problem of vitamin D deficiency?
CHW In general, people are exposed to the sun less, partly because of the risk of skin cancer. And we’re wearing more sunscreen, which blocks production of vitamin D. People are also living longer, and as we get older, we’re less likely to be in the sun. Aging also affects the skin’s ability to convert pre-vitamin D into vitamin D, and in older people, the liver and kidney can’t activate it as well.

Another contributing factor is that more and more people are overweight or obese. Research shows that when you expose overweight and normal weight people to the same amount of sun, the heavier group doesn’t produce as much vitamin D. No one is sure why, but it may be that vitamin D is “hiding” in fat cells.

TR: Why are African Americans particularly vulnerable to vitamin D deficiency?
CHW Melanin protects the skin against ultraviolet light. But by blocking the sun’s rays, melanin affects the skin’s ability to activate pre-vitamin D. So the darker the skin, the less vitamin D you produce. In the scientific literature, the difference is striking.

TR: How do you know if you have enough vitamin D in the body?
CHW Your doctor can give you a blood test. You probably have to ask for it, and here in St. Louis it costs about $90. There’s also a home test you can use, which costs about $65 [or] $75. Serum vitamin D is measured in nanograms. Ideally, your level should be over 30 ng/ml but less than 100. Too much vitamin D in the blood, which is rare, can lead to toxicity.

PALIN,PALIN,PALIN.............the idiots lantern.

2010-04-10T07:24:00.001-07:00

Obama Dismisses Palin's: She's 'Not Much Of An Expert' (VIDEO) | News & Politricks News | Global Grind

President Obama isn't taking anymore ish from the right, on Good Morning America the Prez dismissed criticism by Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Thursday over his administration's proposal to limit the use of nuclear weapons.

Pointing to Palin's lack of expertise on the policy surrounding nuclear weapons, Obama brushed off Palin's claims that the move would make the U.S. more vulnerable.

"I really have no response. Because last I checked, Sarah Palin's not much of an expert on nuclear issues," Obama told ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "If the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff are comfortable with it, I'm probably going to take my advice from them and not from Sarah Palin,

If it's not yours........

2010-04-10T07:20:00.001-07:00

Parents Have Their Sixth-Grader Arrested | News & Politricks News | Global Grind

Police arrested a sixth-grade student Monday at the request of the boy’s parents, after he said he stole and then gave away more than $7,000 worth of his mother’s jewelry.

The boy told police he gave a classmate at Everett Middle School a white gold ring and a diamond ring, which he had taken from his mother’s jewelry box the previous week. When he asked the girl to return the jewelry, she gave back the white gold ring but said she “had lost” the diamond ring, according to a Bay County Sheriff’s Office report.

The boy gave a sapphire ring to another friend who, when asked, said he had given it to a female classmate, according to the report. Another boy told his friend that he could have his mother’s emerald and sapphire ring back if he gave him a reward.

The boy’s stepfather was adamant about filing charges, police reported, so the deputy “placed (him) into handcufffs (double locked) and placed him in my patrol vehicle.”

Police booked the student into the Bay County Jail on grand theft charges, and then took him to the Department of Juvenile Justice.

Most Anticipated Summer Hip-Hop Albums

2010-04-09T07:51:00.001-07:00

**EXCLUSIVE** GG's 15 Most Anticipated Summer Hip-Hop Albums | Official Tyrone P. Blog | Tyrone P. News and Celebrity Blogs | Global Grind

Summer is quickly approaching and along with beautiful weather, small clothes and longer days comes some of the best music of the year. Who will have the official “summer jam” of 2010? Who will provide the soundtrack to countless summer parties? Take a look at our 15 most anticipated albums.

15. Big Boi "Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty"

Outkast’s Big Boi has been preparing to release his first solo album for years now. After tons of promising first singles (“Royal Flush” with Andre 3000 and Raekwon is a classic, and “Somethin’s Gotta Give” with Mary J. Blige which should’ve done much better) and false starts, things seem to finally be on the right track for Big. He recently signed a deal with Def Jam and today released his official first single “Shutterbug.” The album is set to feature appearances from Gucci Mane, Too $hort, Jamie Foxx and Andre 3000 among others, and should hold us over until Outkast finally drops that seventh album.

TRACY HAS A HEART.

2010-04-07T18:13:00.000-07:00

A 91-year-old German man has been refused entry to a flight in Liverpool's John Lennon Airport - because he was dead?

2010-04-07T18:11:00.001-07:00

SHAME SHAME SHAME.

A 91-year-old German man has been refused entry to a flight in Liverpool's John Lennon Airport - because he was dead.

The recently departed man was brought to the airport by two relatives on Saturday, sitting in a wheelchair and sporting a pair of sunglasses.

Staff became suspicious when the man did not respond to questions by airport staff. His relatives, two women aged 41 and 66, were arrested.

The couple were believed to be attempting to flout repatriation fees for the dead man. Bodies being repatriated by air are required to be contained inside hermetically-sealed zinc-lined coffins and require paperwork to travel in the hold.

A spokeswoman for Rowland Brothers, a funeral directors which specialize in the field, told The Times of London, "I have not heard of anything like this before. It is most bizarre. I am outraged that they would think they could get away with it."

The couple have been released on bail and the death is not being treated as suspicious.

A spokeswoman for the airport said, "I have never heard of anything like this before. It is a bit of a strange one to be honest."

LOOSE LIPS

2010-04-07T17:48:00.000-07:00

April 07, 2010. MediaTakeOut.com just received some HILARIOUS news. Rapper T-Pain got STOLE ON last night inside the popular Dallas gentleman's club XTC.

Here's what happened. Last night, T-Pain and a few friends stopped by XTC for some drinks and a fun night out. When they first sat down, the group ordered a couple of bottles and were enjoying the night. But at one point, they stopped ordering liquor - and tried to stay in the special VIP area.

Then, according to a MediaTakeOut.com snitch, a member of management approached T-Pain and asked that they buy another bottle - or move to the general area of the club.

That's when things WENT LEFT!!! Our snitch claims that T-Pain started talking REAL RECKLESS towards one of the managers. He even ALLEGEDLY used some derogatory racial terms towards dude, who was Mexican.

Well that was about all he needed to hear. Next thing you know somebody started BEATING on T-Pain. The insider told MediaTakeout.com, "It wasn't really a fight [a Mexican guy] just punched T-Pain in the face a few times, and T-Pain ran out the club.

Ouch . . . can't wait to see if T-Pain is swole up . . .

A DAY WITH THE FAMILY 04-03-10

2010-04-06T17:32:00.000-07:00

Barack Obama Is Photochopped

2010-04-05T17:15:00.001-07:00

Barack Obama Is Photochopped & Screwed (PHOTOS) | Official The Decider Blog | The Decider News and Celebrity Blogs | Global Grind

NIGGAROSIS OF THE MIND

2010-04-01T08:41:00.001-07:00

O . .. M . . . G!!! Man Climbs Through McDonald's DRIVE THROUGH Window . . . And STRANGLES Employee!!! (Pics Of Dude With His HANDS AROUND The Mickey D Employee's THROAT) - MediaTakeOut.com™ 2010

This is the most.............#@#$% I have ever seen.

2010-02-20T07:08:00.001-08:00

a black man been eating by thai people: Thai people eat a black man

Death Threats Against Obama

2009-12-08T09:18:00.001-08:00

Detail s of Death Threats Against Obama | News & Politricks News | Global Grind

Touchy subject of would-rather-not proportions: threats made against the 44th American President. There are fine lines between free-speech and danger. The New York Times reports on the people who draw them seeing an early spike, but still being strong concerns.

Of course, when your job is to protect the President of the United States, and the first black one at that, it goes without saying, but "strong concern" is the default position. Early on, however, it was really, really bad: one such threat resembles most of them, and take a guess what kind it was. Ready? Yeah: White, former Marine, even had a name for it. "Operation: Patriot." Scary, much?

The Marine, Kody Brittingham, a 20-year-old lance corporal, wrote that he had taken an oath to "protect against all enemies, both foreign and domestic." In a signed "letter of intent," tucked away in his barracks at Camp Lejeune, he identified a "domestic enemy" he planned to eliminate last winter: President Obama.

O.J.

2009-12-08T09:14:00.001-08:00

O.J. Simpson Beat Up In Jail, Hospitalized? «

C'MON SON 7 !

2009-12-08T09:10:00.001-08:00

C'MON SON!

2009-12-08T09:06:00.000-08:00

Brax

2009-11-05T18:26:00.001-08:00

South African white supremacist demands Afrikaner state

2009-10-03T16:48:00.001-07:00

South African white supremacist demands Afrikaner state

Eugene Terre'Blanche, who fought against the end of apartheid, revives notorious AWB group in push for separate republic

Eugene Terre'Blanche speaks at an Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) gathering in Pretoria in 1999

Eugene Terre'Blanche speaks at an Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) gathering in Pretoria in 1999. Photograph: STR/Associated Press

A notorious white supremacist from South Africa's apartheid era has revealed plans to rally far right groups and apply to the United Nations for a breakaway Afrikaner republic.

Eugene Terre'Blanche was the voice of hardline opposition to the end of white minority rule in the early 90s, but has been in relative obscurity since his release in 2004 after a prison sentence for beating a black man nearly to death.

He said today that he had revived his Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) after several years of inactivity and it would meet with like-minded groups on 10 October to discuss joining forces and pushing for secession from South Africa.

"The circumstances in the country demanded it," he told South Africa's Mail and Guardian newspaper. "The white man in South Africa is realising that his salvation lies in self-government in territories paid for by his ancestors."

A diplomatic row erupted last month when Brandon Huntley, a white South African, was granted refugee status by Canada after claiming he had been attacked because of his race.

Terre'Blanche said he wanted to organise a referendum for those wanting an independent homeland, where English would be an accepted language along with Afrikaans. "It's now about the right of a nation that wants to separate itself from a unity state filled with crime, death, murder, rape, lies and fraud."

Terre'Blanche said taking up arms was not part of the new far-right plan. "For now there are other options we have to exercise first. We have a strong case to take to the United Nations."

The AWB – whose flag resembles a Nazi swastika – was founded in 1973 with the aim of maintaining white supremacy by any means.

White rightwing activity in South Africa faded after the end of apartheid, helped in part by Terre'Blanche's imprisonment in 2001 for the attempted murder of a security guard and assault on a petrol attendant in 1997.

Political analysts say white extremists have little support, but more than 21 members of the shadowy Boeremag (Boer Force) remain on trial for treason after being arrested in 2001 and accused of a bombing campaign aimed at overthrowing the government.

Before South Africa's first all-race elections in 1994, the AWB deployed thousands of armed white rightists in Bophuthatswana, a puppet black "homeland" under apartheid, in an abortive attempt to prevent the overthrow of its president. The AWB was humiliated and forced to pull out.

In 1998, Terre'Blanche accepted "political and moral responsibility" before South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission for a bombing campaign to disrupt the 1994 elections in which 21 people were killed and hundreds injured.

Jacob Zuma, who took office as president in May, has courted Afrikaners at a series of meetings this year, assuring them they have nothing to fear from his government.

The African National Congress said it was unconcerned by Terre'Blanche's plans. "It's singing an old song that will not work," said Ishmael Mnisi, a spokesman. "There is no way we are going back to the era of apartheid where particular ethnic groups declare their own independence.

"South Africa is a democratic country. People have a right to raise issues as long as they're within the constitution."

Allister Sparks, a journalist and political analyst, said: "Eugene Terre'Blanche is a discredited figure who has spent time in prison. There will probably always be a small number of rightwing sympathisers, but the ANC has taken a benign attitude.

Dental Plaque Buildup May Raise Heart Risk in Black Men

2009-10-03T16:44:00.001-07:00

MediaTakeOut.com 2009

• Dental Plaque Buildup May Raise Heart Risk in Black Men

FRIDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Black males may be at increased risk for heart problems caused by accumulation of dental plaque, a U.S. study finds.

Indiana University School of Dentistry researchers studied 128 black and white women and men and found that a buildup of dental plaque didn't cause a change in total white blood cell count, a known risk factor for heart problems. However, dental plaque accumulation in black males was associated with a significant increase in the activity of white blood cells called neutrophils, an important part of the immune system, the researchers noted.

None of the study participants had periodontal (gum) disease. They were healthy people who were asked to neglect their oral hygiene as part of the study, the study authors explained.

"We are talking about healthy people who simply neglect oral hygiene and if they were male and black, we found a response from their white blood cells, or neutrophils, that might be a cause for concern," study leader Michael Kowolik, a professor of periodontics and associate dean for graduate education at the school of dentistry, said in a university news release.

"If you get a bacterial infection anywhere in the body, billions of neutrophils come flooding out of your bone marrow to defend against the intruder. Our observation that with poor dental hygiene, white blood cell activity increased in black men but not black women or whites of either sex suggests both gender and racial differences in the inflammatory response to dental plaque. This finding could help us identify individuals at greater risk for infections anywhere in the body including those affecting the heart," Kowolik said.

An elevated white blood cell count is one of the major risks for heart attack, previous research has found.

"While we did not observe higher white blood cell counts as the result of dental plaque accumulation, the increased activity of white blood cells, which we did find, may also carry a higher risk for heart disease," Kowolik said.

The study was published in the August issue of the Journal of Dental Research.

More information

The American Academy of Periodontology has more about gum disease and general health.

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Why ?

2009-10-03T16:33:00.001-07:00

Update 10/3/09 11:28am (eastern): Police have arrested Fredrick Richardson as a person of interest and charged him with voluntary manslaughter. Click HERE for the article. Kandi also posted the following on her Twitter page:
I could never in a million years imagine this happening. Please pray for AJ’s children. That’s who I’m the most concerned for. I’m just in one of those moods where I don’t wanna talk, I don’t wanna be held & told it’s gonna be ok. I just wanna cry myself to sleep, alone.

Update 12:03 am (eastern): The AJC is NOW reporting that a brawl did indeed take place but have not released a name.

Update 12:12 am (eastern): WSBTV is NOW confirming the news surrounding AJ’s death. They are saying that he was stabbed.

I just received word that AJ, who was Kandi’s (RHOA) finance, was beat to death in a brawl at Body Tap Exclusive in Atlanta. My sources state that AJ was a promoter partial owner of the strip club and was hit in the head. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he passed away from his injuries. People who are currently inside the club are texting FROM the club but no additional information is available.

R.I.P. and Thank YOU

2009-10-02T14:56:00.001-07:00

Global Grind - RIP Mr. Magic

Just saw Miss Info's post, which has a letter from DJ Premier confirming the death of the legendary Mr. Magic, who died today due to a heart attack. Newer Hip-Hop heads might not be up on Mr. Magic, but he's done a lot for getting Hip-Hop on major radio, from back in the day. He was down with Marley Marl back when BDP went at the Juice Crew, got shouted out by Biggie on "Juicy" (and by Nas on "Halftime") and was featured on Vice City's "Wildstyle" station as host. He was even a producer, crafting joints for acts like the Force MDs. Peep this interview with Magic and Mister Cee if you want to know about Hip-Hop.He was a tastemaker, and legions of artists sent in tracks just to get Mr. Magic's approval on air - before payola, before platinum records, before boutique record labels, that radio respect was key, and Mr. Magic was the one who made or broke artists.Hip-Hop has lost another legend.

Click ORIGINAL STORY for more!

Power of the Collective Mind or a Hoax?

2009-10-01T08:37:00.000-07:00

Smile;)

2009-10-01T08:35:00.000-07:00

LMAO

2009-10-01T08:15:00.001-07:00

C'mon SON !

2009-10-01T08:10:00.000-07:00

50

2009-10-01T08:07:00.000-07:00

Global Grind - Top 50 LATINOS In Hip Hop Levantate!!!

They say less is more. I say, it depends in what context you’re speaking. Sometimes I wonder if there are enough Latinos in the Hip Hop genre. But then again, its not the quantity but the quality. Latinos have contributed so many things to the Hip Hop community.

This blog may be slightly biased being that I was slightly raised by Latinos while I was growing up. I lived on 183rd street in Jamaica Queens. There were Columbians, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans who pretty much owned that section of Jamaica at the time. Everything was in Span-glish catering to all the diverse ethnic groups. We had the deli and the bodega, the church and the Iglesia, the banks and the prestamista (loan shark). All though at times it seemed as Latinos had their own thing going on in the neighborhood, everyone seemed to embrace their lifestyle and culture.

Not only have they taken music to the next level with reggaeton but they've also added flair to fashion, sports, broadcasting (radio and tv), music and video production, film, comedy, poetry, and even graffiti. And lets not forget about the food. Who's not a fan of chicken rice and beans for $5?? They pile on the food like there's no tomorrow. And for you ladies, dont forget about the hair salons that kept your hair straight. I see you creeping on Saturday mornings.

All of these contributions have helped Latinos edge their name in stone in Hip Hop culture. In respect to that, I've decided to make a list of the top 50 Latin people who have influenced me in Hip Hop. Please note, I said Hip Hop culture, not just credited Latinos. I know there are much more Latinos who've done great things, but I'm only talking about those who are synonymous with Hip Hop culture. My list is in no specific order and if i forgot anyone prominent, feel free to add your 2 cents. But again, this is my list. Nobody's list is the same.

Willie Esco, Kurios Jorge, Prince PowerRule, Jennifer Lopez, Fat Joe, Big Pun, Cipha Sounds, Angie Martinez, Kid Capri, Bobbito, The Beatnuts (Juju & Psycho Les), Cuban Linx, N.O.R.E, Alain Ket Mariduena, Tats Cru, Chino XL, Pitbull, Play N Skillz, Cypress Hills (Sen Dog, B-Real, E Bobo), Mellow Man Ace, Kid Frost, Prince Markie Dee, DJ Disco Wiz, Mimi Valdes, Jasmin Franjul, Daddy Yankee, Latin Rascals (Albert Cabrera & Tony Moran), Roxy, Juelz Santana, Hurricane Gloria, Jesse Terrero, John Leguizamo, Lemon (poet), Tru Life, Crazy legs (Rock Steady Crew), Tony Touch, Ken Swift, Domingo, Marc Anthony, Masters At Work (Little Louie Vega & Kenny "Dope" Gonzales), Lisa Lisa, Sal Abbatiello, Mr. Cartoon, Paul Rodriguez

Honorable Mentions: El Malecon, Pio Pio, 1018, Soundfactory, Hearthrobs, L'Amour East, Paleds, Jimmy Cafe, Copa, Floridita, Cafe Con Leche, El Rey de la Caridad, Mamajuana Cafe.

Cojelo suave!

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Rasheed Young

C'mon SON ! lmao again

2009-10-01T08:06:00.000-07:00

Derrion's Family Needs Help With Funeral Expenses

2009-09-30T17:08:00.000-07:00

Global Grind - **UPDATE** Derrion's Family Needs Help With Funeral Expenses

THAT'S WHAT THEY GETTTTTT

2009-09-13T15:45:00.000-07:00

NY mom charged after posing kids with guns «

NY mom charged after posing kids with guns

NEW YORK — A New York couple face criminal charges after they allegedly photographed their 11-month-old and 5-year-old boys posing with guns.

Police say the 24-year-old mother told investigators she thought the photos would be funny.

Authorities found out about the pictures after the woman e-mailed them to friends and relatives, and one of them called the city’s child protection agency.

The woman and her boyfriend face child endangerment, weapons and marijuana charges.

Doctors were shocked when "REALLY"

2009-09-13T15:37:00.000-07:00

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1 Year Old Pregnant With Baby– No Really
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BEIJING – CHINESE doctors were shocked when they discovered a one-year-old girl was carrying a baby in her stomach.

According to media outlets on Wednesday, Kang Mengru, 1, worried her parents and doctors after her belly became grossly enlarged.

After a CT scan was done, the doctors were amazed to discover a fetus inside the little girl’s stomach.

The fetus is believed to be Mengru’s parasitic twin, the result of one twin embryo not fully separating from the other.

Mengru has been hospitalized and is waiting for an operation to have the fetus removed.

It’s a fetus and a tumor. The human body is a mystery for sure. That’s wild.

WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO IS

2009-09-13T15:18:00.000-07:00

GHETTO HEAVEN

2009-09-13T15:15:00.000-07:00

SLOW DOWN Y'ALL

2009-09-13T15:14:00.001-07:00

HEALTH CARE REFORM NOW!

2009-09-13T15:11:00.000-07:00

HEALTH CARE REFORM NOW!

Listen

2009-09-13T15:09:00.000-07:00

Stop what your doing and dance

2009-09-13T15:00:00.000-07:00

Just because :)

2009-09-13T14:58:00.001-07:00

Ellen DeGeneres Replaces Paula On "Idol"

2009-09-13T14:55:00.000-07:00

Caster Semenya has gone into hiding

2009-09-13T14:51:00.000-07:00

By Kashiefa Ajam, Candice Bailey, Sameer Naik and Thabiso Thakali

Caster Semenya has gone into hiding. Scared, sad and devastated at leaked reports that she is a hermaphrodite - with the outward organs of a woman, but undeveloped internal testes instead of ovaries and a womb - there are serious concerns for her mental and emotional state.

Some fear she might take her own life.

On Friday, the chairman of Parliament's portfolio committee on sport and recreation, Butana Komphela, told the Saturday Star that the elite athlete was being closely watched so that no harm came to her.

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"She is like a raped person. She is afraid of herself and does not want anyone near her. She has been placed on an altar for all the world to see. If she commits suicide, it will be on all our heads."

Komphela said the teenager's emotional well-being was their top priority, and everyone around her was there to support her.
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"I spoke to her today. She says she is okay. But I can hear that she is disguising a lot of agony.

"She is traumatised by all of this. The best we can do is protect her and look out for her during this trying time," Komphela said.

An Australian newspaper broke the sensational global story this week of how International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) tests showed that Semenya, who won the 800m gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin last month, is a hermaphrodite, or intersexed.

The journalist who broke the story, Mike Hurst, told the Saturday Star he had made reliable contacts at the IAAF as he had been an athletics coach for 21 years.

"I am well connected and the information was leaked to me. It wasn't easy for me to write the story, but the information fell into my lap and I had to."

Later he said he felt vindicated even though the IAAF had not commented on his article.

"They haven't denied my story, and I think that's crucial," Hurst added.

Athletics SA's former national athletics coach, Wilfred Daniels, who quit amid the gender saga, said he had spoken to Caster two days ago.

"Her mental state at this time cannot be good at all. Media reports on Caster over the past few weeks have been absolutely appalling, and it has really affected her."

But despite the Polokwane teenager's trauma of recent weeks, Athletics SA (ASA) seems determined to make money out of her.

Three weeks ago, ASA boss Leonard Chuene vowed to protect Semenya. On Friday, he defended the association's decision to sell her story exclusively to YOU magazine for an undisclosed sum - subjecting her to more ridicule.

The interview and makeover featured Semenya in dresses, hair extensions, high heels and make-up.

On Friday, Chuene told the Saturday Star that they would soon start accepting bids for a management team for her.

He said the ASA was protecting her as a brand.

BS!

2009-09-13T14:49:00.000-07:00

2009-09-03T07:50:00.001-07:00

Global Grind - DJ AM Is Laid To Rest

People magazine reports that Adam Goldstein, AKA DJ AM, was laid to rest on Wednesday in a small funeral at LA's Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary. Among those in attendance were close friend Travis Barker, girlfriend Hayley Wood, and actor Scott Caan.

Told You

2009-08-27T16:57:00.001-07:00

Global Grind - WOW Smoking Pot May Prevent Cancer

All you weed heads are going to love this … Fox News is reporting … You’ve heard about using marijuana and drugs derived from it to keep some of the side effects of toxic cancer chemotherapy in check. But what if smoking marijuana for 10 to 20 years could actually protect against certain tumors?

In a study, researchers have found that long-term pot smokers were roughly 62 percent less likely to develop head and neck cancers than people who did not smoke pot.The new study featured 434 patients with head and neck cancers, which include tumors in the mouth, tongue, nose, sinuses, throat and lymph nodes in the neck, and 547 individuals without these cancers seen in the Greater Boston area from December 1999 to December 2003.

After factoring out the impact of smoking, drinking, and other factors that might influence the results, smoking marijuana from once every two weeks to three times every two weeks, on average, was associated with about half the risk of head and neck cancer, compared with less frequent use. Those who took up pot smoking at an older age appeared to have less risk of these cancers than those who started it at a younger age.

Compared to people who never smoked pot, those who began smoking marijuana between the ages of 15 and 19 years were 47 percent less likely to develop head and neck cancer, while users who began at age 20 or older had a 61 percent reduced risk, Kelsey and colleagues found. It’s unclear why marijuana would prevent cancer, if in fact the study is borne out by others, but the authors note that chemicals in pot called cannabinoids have been shown to have potential antitumor effects. Other studies have linked marijuana use to a reduced risk of some cancers, such as cancer of the prostate, and now head and neck cancer.

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Rev Run

2009-08-26T09:11:00.000-07:00

Global Grind

- Rev Run's Words Of Wisdom: Shhhhh

Good morning..Wanna be respected? Try to hold your tongue as much as possible.. (Always remember thisssss) The strong stay quiet,, the weak cause riots...

God is Love

Rev Run

Rest

2009-08-26T09:04:00.001-07:00

Lion of the Senate' dead at 77

Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy died late Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a battle with brain cancer. He was 77. "We've lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever," a family statement said. full story
'Lion of the Senate' dead at 77

GARY'S GOT A NEW GIG

2009-08-24T19:08:00.001-07:00

Gary Coleman Is The New Face Of Canada's New York Fries | The Smoking Section

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Looking like a mummified Esther Rolle, everyone’s favorite short person, Mr. Gary Coleman, has conquered his battle with the recession by crossing the Canadian border to become the new face for their New York French Fries.

I couldn’t tell you which is the bigger oxymoron: the Maple Leafs slangin’ NYC spuds or the sight of this creature supposedly triggering your urge to buy them. Still, a paycheck is a paycheck. Even if it is soaked in peanut oil.
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Looking like a mummified Esther Rolle, everyone’s favorite short person, Mr. Gary Coleman, has conquered his battle with the recession by crossing the Canadian border to become the new face for their New York French Fries.

I couldn’t tell you which is the bigger oxymoron: the Maple Leafs slangin’ NYC spuds or the sight of this creature supposedly triggering your urge to buy them. Still, a paycheck is a paycheck. Even if it is soaked in peanut oil.

MJ'S DEATH RULED A HOMICIDE

2009-08-24T19:04:00.001-07:00

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Just hours after court documents were unsealed indicating that Michael Jackson had lethal levels of the drug propofol in his system, an unnamed law-enforcement official reportedly told that Jackson’s death has been ruled a homicide by the Los Angeles County coroner.

The coroner determined a fatal combination of drugs was given to Jackson hours before he died on June 25, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the findings have not been publicly released, the AP reported. Forensic tests indicated that propofol acted with at least two sedatives to cause Jackson’s death, according to the official.

The court documents unsealed on Monday indicated that Jackson’s private physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, informed investigators he administered 25 milligrams of propofol to Jackson at 10:40 a.m. as the singer struggled to fall asleep after previously giving him the sedatives lorazepam and midazolam.

Murphy is currently under a manslaughter investigation by the LAPD, and the AP reported that Monday’s information is likely to increase the chances that criminal charges will be filed against Murray. [source]

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LAST TRAIN TO PARIS MIX TAPE EXCERPT FROM FELIX THA HOUSECAT

2009-08-15T21:29:00.000-07:00

SHE SHOULD HAVE STAYED AT HOME

2009-08-15T01:16:00.000-07:00

WHAAAAAAAAAT'S GOING ON ?

Have Mercy

2009-08-13T11:38:00.000-07:00

Glob al Grind - I Am That I Am, That Killed My Family

I Am Tha t I Am, That Killed My Family
Found on: www.suntimes.com 1 day ago | 140 Views
Source: www.suntimes.com

Bernard Simmons had started “yelling and cursing” at his family for using a childhood nickname just minutes after he was reunited with them after eight years in prison and told his mother he was “God” and stated “death to non-believers” before killing both her and his father over the weekend, Cook County prosecutors said today.

Police discovered the bodies of 70-year-old Bernard Smith and Geraldine Simmons, 63, in the couple’s basement in the 10000 block of South Eberhart on Saturday. Bernard Simmons, 29, was allowed to stay at his parent’s home while he remained on parole.

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SHAME SHAME SHAME !

2009-08-11T18:29:00.000-07:00

NUH UHHHHHHH!!! LOOK AT WHAT THEY'RE SELLING IN COSTCO NOW ... THEY OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES!!!

STRIVERS TV - SEGMENT# 1-GLENN BECK IS GOING TO HELL

2009-08-07T22:06:00.000-07:00

STILL AMAZING

2009-08-07T21:22:00.000-07:00

STILL AMAZING DENIECE

WHY YOU DON'T WEAR $40K AROUND YOUR NECK

2009-08-07T21:20:00.000-07:00

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOSE,

Look at This !!!!!!!!!!!

2009-08-07T20:49:00.001-07:00

This is exactly what I mean.

Elderly woman slammed hard by police at Walmart

WHAT?

2009-08-06T22:14:00.001-07:00

Global Grind - WTF: Whites Only Station In Philly

THIS MAY BE the ultimate indignity.

Lawrence "Lonnie" Powell, 58, a semiskilled laborer at the city's Northwest Transfer Station, in Roxborough, said that since he began working at the trash-handling plant in 2003 he has had to seek the superintendent's permission to go to the bathroom — then descend five flights of stairs to use it.

Powell, who is black, said that white employees have been permitted to use a bathroom just 25 feet from his work station.

"On several occasions I've actually defecated on myself, trying to get down to the bathroom," said Powell, who operates a machine that packs trash into tractor-trailers to be taken to landfills.

Powell is one of five current and former employees, all in their 50s, who allege, in legal documents and interviews with the Daily News, that the station's white superintendent has discriminated against them because they are black.

US Army New Rules: Tweet or Die!

2009-08-06T21:55:00.000-07:00

The U.S . Mari ne Corps has banned Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites from its networks, effective immediately.

“These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries,” reads a Marine Corps order, issued Monday. “The very nature of SNS [social network sites] creates a larger attack and exploitation window, exposes unnecessary information to adversaries and provides an easy conduit for information leakage that puts OPSEC [operational security], COMSEC [communications security], [and] personnel… at an elevated risk of compromise.”

The Marines’ ban will last a year. It was drawn up in response to a late July warning from U.S. Strategic Command, which told the rest of the military it was considering a Defense Department-wide ban on the Web 2.0 sites, due to network security concerns. Scams, worms, and Trojans often spread unchecked throughout social media sites, passed along from one online friend to the next. “The mechanisms for social networking were never designed for security and filtering. They make it way too easy for people with bad intentions to push malicious code to unsuspecting users,” a Stratcom source told Danger Room.

Yet many within the Pentagon’s highest ranks find value in the Web 2.0 tools. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has 4,000 followers on Twitter. The Department of Defense is getting ready to unveil a new home page, packed with social media tools. The Army recently ordered all U.S. bases to provide access to Facebook. Top generals now blog from the battlefield.

VIV

2009-08-06T21:50:00.001-07:00

Global Grind - Vivica Fox’ Calendar Photo

Vivica Fox’ Calendar Photo

Go Sonia it's your Birthday

2009-08-06T21:42:00.001-07:00

Global Grind - And She's In... Sotomayor Gets The #9 Spot

**UPDATE** Sonia Sotomayor has received enough votes to be confirmed as the Supreme Court's first Hispanic justice Thursday, elevating the daughter of Puerto Rican parents after a summer-long debate filled with ethnic politics. She is the first justice nominated by a Democratic president in a decade and a half. The vote was 68 to 31. The Democrats' heavy majority ensured confirmation of President Barack Obama's first nominee, though many Republican senators were voting against her. GOP senators typically praised her personal story but said they were concerned that she would be too liberal and would rely on personal sympathies rather than legal precedents in her votes on the nation's highest court. The Senate's deep divisions over Sotomayor reflected partisan politics but also profound philosophical disagreements that will shape future battles over the court's makeup as Obama looks to another likely vacancy – perhaps more than one_ while he's in the White House. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., 91, the longest-serving senator, who has been in frail health, planned to make just his second return to the Senate since his release from the hospital in June to cast a historic vote for Sotomayor. ____________________________________________________________________________________

Sonia Sotomayor is poised to make history as the Supreme Court's first Hispanic justice despite staunch opposition from Republicans who call her ill-suited for the bench, a pending victory for Democrats who believe her confirmation will pay off politically.

The Senate is ready to vote Thursday to confirm President Barack Obama's high court nominee, a 55-year-old appeals court judge of Puerto Rican descent who was raised in a New York City housing project, educated in the Ivy League and served 17 years on the federal bench.

Sotomayor picked up more GOP support Wednesday even as nearly three-quarters of the Senate's 40 Republicans said they would vote "no" and contended she would bring liberal bias and personal sympathies to her decisions. With all Democrats expected to back her, she has more than enough votes to be confirmed, barring a surprise turn of events, in one of the Senate's last actions before it breaks for the summer.

Democrats, praising her as a well-qualified judge and a mainstream moderate, are warning Republicans that they risk a backlash from Hispanic voters ? a growing part of the electorate ? if they oppose her. But Republicans bristle at the suggestion, noting that Democrats used extraordinary measures several years ago to block the confirmation of GOP-nominated Miguel Estrada, a Honduran-born attorney, to the federal bench.

GOP senators say their opposition to Sotomayor is based on her speeches and record, pointing to a few rulings in which they argue she showed disregard for gun rights, property rights and job discrimination claims by white employees. They also cite comments she's made about the role that a judge's background and perspective can play, especially a 2001 speech in which she said she hoped a "wise Latina" would usually make better decisions than a white man.

Racist Or Just Rush Limbaugh?

2009-08-06T21:40:00.000-07:00

Glo bal Grind - Racist Or Just Rush Limbaugh?

I AM NOT MAD AT HER; NOT ONE BIT.

2009-08-06T17:40:00.000-07:00

HIP HOP RUCKUS - THE S.I.C.K.

2009-08-06T15:45:00.001-07:00

Ok everybody, we're gonna sharpen up the mood right now and take you deep in the abyss of the underground. Check it, I got the crazy video from the nice hip hop duo called S.I.C.K (Supreme Intellect Cultivates Knowledge). It's entitled "Spitt" from their upcoming release "The Price Of Dreaming". The video may be a little blurry but the hooks, sound production, and originality are extremely viable I think for the listeners of progressive Hip Hop. This is just another example that you don't have to go to the mainstream to find a gem. Yo, give some support to these brothers and while your at it read up on these cats (see below for info on the group). Damn, I love it when hip hop is well done.

S.I.C.K. Supreme Intellect Cultivates Knowledge
Over the span of 15 years the S.I.C.K has an underground act preferring to produce for independent acts and perform at small venues and community gatherings. The promise that Hip Hop music held for those Of the inner-city and the cultures ability To transform lives for the better was always first and foremost to us. We come out of a rich musical and cultural heritage that spans time and genres.

Some so called Rappers look at the music as a way to get rich; others see the music as a means to crush opponents. And still others to purely entertain. We like to think that we embody all of those facets in our music at one time or another but our primary objective has always Been to move the listening and viewing audience to do and be more.

In the tradition of BDP, Public Enemy........ and all those people who have used art as a way to further dialog & humanity. We span the gambit of the human experience from the heights to the depth of human being. No, it is not all Good but it is the truth . We view our creations as sonic tapestry ,woven to evoke emotion and to keep the people dancing.

http://hiphopruckus.blogspot.com

TO PROTECT

2009-08-05T22:51:00.001-07:00

MediaTakeOut.com 2009

DECATUR, Ga. -- The DeKalb County police department is investigating two officers who have been accused of running a criminal background check on President Barack Obama.

County public safety director William Miller said in a prepared statement Wednesday that the officers have been put on leave pending the outcome of the investigation. The officers' names were not released.

Miller said the police department was notified by the U.S. Secret Service that DeKalb County computers were used to run a query on Obama. He did not say what investigators believe was the officers' motive.

Miller said the officers' behavior will "not be tolerate

WOW !

2009-08-05T22:45:00.001-07:00

MediaTakeOut.com 2009

President of black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha sued by members over funds, including $900,000 wax statue
Suits says president of Chicago-based, national group also lavished $400,000 on herself
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July 29, 2009
BY CHERYL V. JACKSON Staff Reporter/cjackson@suntimes.com

Members of a prominent Chicago-based sorority are suing to oust their national president -- former Chicago Housing Authority comptroller Barbara McKinzie -- saying she misappropriated funds and commissioned a $900,000 wax figure of herself.

She also is accused of taking nearly $400,000 for personal expenses and arranging for a $4,000 monthly stipend to be paid to herself after she leaves office.
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Members of Chicago-headquartered Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority are suing to oust their president -- former Chicago Housing Authority comptroller Barbara McKinzie, left, who had a wax figure made of herself, shown right.

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Members of Chicago-headquartered Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority are suing to oust their president -- former Chicago Housing Authority comptroller Barbara McKinzie (center).
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McKinzie, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and its current and some former board of directors members are targeted in a lawsuit filed by eight sorority members last month.

Among the allegations:

• • AKA directors violated the group's rules when they approved a four-year "pension stipend" for a total of nearly $192,000. They also purchased a $1 million life insurance policy for McKinzie.

• • McKinzie used the group's American Express card to buy designer clothing, lingerie and jewelry, then redeemed points racked up on the card to get a 46-inch HDTV, gym equipment and other items for personal use.

• • The president started a campaign to raise $100 million for an endowment fund to be run by her management firm -- BMC Associates.

McKinzie denied any wrongdoing Tuesday, saying the lawsuit was backlash to "enforced stringent financial standards as part of a professionalization of our organization."

"Change never comes easy," she said. "The malicious allegations leveled against AKA by former leaders are based on mischaracterizations and fabrications not befitting our ideals of sisterhood, ethics and service."

McKinzie's likeness, along with one of the first national AKA president Nellie Quander, cost a total of $45,000, she said. All other figures are of group founders or first national presidents. The $900,000 "was allocated by the AKA board of directors to help defray overall expenses for our 2010 convention,' McKinzie said.

The wax figure of McKinzie is being prepped at the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, where it will be in a growing exhibit of predominantly black fraternity and sorority representatives.
Parks, King, Keys, Donda West members

Founded at Howard University, AKA is the oldest predominantly black Greek-lettered sorority.

Members have included civil rights icons Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King; former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt; musician Alicia Keys; astronaut Mae Jemison; poet Maya Angelou; actresses Jada Pinkett Smith and Roxie Roker; singer Gladys Knight; TV personality Star Jones; educator Marva Collins, and Kanye West's late mother, Donda West. Michelle Obama accepted honorary membership in 2008 but has yet to be inducted.

Mattel Inc. created the limited-edition AKA Centennial Barbie, the first Barbie based on any sorority.

The suit also alleges that McKinzie persuaded the board in 2008 to approve $250,000 -- later increased to about $375,000 -- in compensation to her for services rendered on behalf of the sorority. McKinzie's pay was based on her securing $1.6 million in cost savings to AKA, but there was no proof that there were any savings, the members said.

The suit contends the expenditures should have been approved by AKA members last year. It seeks to have the board removed and money returned.

Leadership also is accused of overcharging for the group's 2008 conference, one that observed Alpha Kappa Alpha's 100th anniversary.

The registration fee was doubled to about $500 per member for the 2008 meeting, which brought in about $13 million. The complainants say expenses for that gathering were about $9 million, and the surplus was spent at McKinzie's discretion.

The dispute is being played out on open-access Web sites and blogs, a rarity among the black heritage fraternities and sororities that typically value handling internal discord more discreetly.

In another dispute, members of Illinois-incorporated Zeta Phi Beta Sorority are contesting the 2008 election of comedian Sheryl Underwood as national president. A D.C. Superior Court dismissed a lawsuit seeking to unseat Underwood.
The ABCs of AKA

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. has initiated more than 260,000 members since its 1908 founding at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

About 50,000 members are active in the group’s 950 chapters worldwide.

At its 2008 centennial celebration in Washington, D.C., AKA set a Guinness record for the largest sit-down dinner, drawing about 20,000 guests.

Mattel Inc. created the limited-edition Alpha Kappa Alpha Centennial Barbie, the first Barbie based on any sorority.

The group settled a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit after the 2002 deaths of two California college students who drowned in the Pacific Ocean while attempting to pledge the sorority.

The group has offices at 5656 S. Stony Island Ave., and is incorporated in D.C. Its educational foundation, also being sued, is incorporated in Illinois.

Dues from active members range from $70 to $200 per year, and along with meeting registrations are the primary revenue source for the group’s operations.

5 Jamaicans in doping scandal

2009-08-05T22:41:00.001-07:00

MediaTakeOut.com 2009

Hearing set for 5 Jamaicans in doping scandal
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A Jamaican disciplinary committee will hold the first hearing for the five track athletes caught up in doping scandal on Friday or Saturday.

Chairman Kent Gammon said he wants the athletes to explain their side of the story before Monday's deadline to set the team for the upcoming world championships in Berlin.

The nine-member committee, part of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission, can issue bans for the five athletes, who tested positive for a banned substance at June's national championships.

Jamaican officials and track's governing body have not identified the athletes or the drug. However, the manager for Sheri-Ann Brooks has confirmed she is involved in the scandal, as has runner Allodin Fothergill. Lansford Spence is also involved, according to his coach Henry Rolle.

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Report: August Provost Murder Suspect was on "Suicide Watch"

2009-08-05T21:55:00.001-07:00

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Report: August Provost Murder Suspect was on "Suicide Watch"

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Yet another twist in the investigation into the murder of Seaman August Provost. The Navy now admits the petty officer charged with murdering the Camp Pendleton sailor who committed suicide over the weekend ... was on suicide watch, reports the Associated Press.

Jonathan Campos was under video surveillance because he'd made two previous suicide attempts. [He] was on suicide watch when he apparently stuffed toilet paper in his mouth and suffocated Friday.

Pendleton spokeswoman Maj. Kristen Lasica-Khaner said Monday that a guard visually checked Campos every five minutes as Navy regulations require. However, there may have been a 36-minute gap between physical inspections. The base is investigating.

On Sunday, the Navy maintained it will continue investigating the homicide even after the suspect's suicide. Now the reasons become more obvious.

Twenty-nine-year-old Seaman August Provost of Houston, who gay and out to family and some coworkers, was gunned down in a Pendleton guard shack on June 30. The shack also was set on fire. Provost told his family he was harassed and ostracized at Pendleton for at least a year because he was gay and black. The Navy says there is "no evidence" of a hate crime.

Campos was accused of a month-long crime spree that included murder, solicitation off murder, drugs and weapons violations, and breaking and entering.

If the suspect in a drug- and alcohol-fueled crime spree was in on "video surveillance" and "suicide watch", how exactly was he allowed to kill himself? Why were there gaps in the "surveillance"? And how was one man able to allegedly storm a United States military installation? Perhaps Jonathan Campos' suicide was very convenient, because we may never learn what really happened that night at Guard Shack 3.

GOOD JOB

2009-08-05T21:51:00.001-07:00

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‘ROUND THE WAY: KIMORA & DJIMON SHOW OFF THEIR SON, KENZO
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 |

OKmagazine.com has just posted new exclusive baby pics of Kimora Lee Simmons’ and Djimon Hounsou’s new son Kenzo (born in May) from a photo shoot and interview with the couple and their family.

Kimora tells OK!, “I just never thought it could be this good.” Simmons also has two daughters Ming, 9 and Aoki, 7 (with ex-husband Russell Simmons).

Whitney Houston's New Album Gets Pushed Up

2009-08-05T21:42:00.001-07:00

BlackNews.com - Photos: Whitney Houston's New Album Gets Pushed Up

Whitney Houston's New Album Gets Pushed Up
Looks like all the Whitney fans out there couldn’t wait and Clive decided to push the album up to an August release date. Whitney’s new highly anticipated album “I Look to You” will be released on August 31st instead of the original date, Sept. 1st. Whitney also has an ABC Special about her comeback that will be released in August as well. And if that wasn’t enough you can also get the title track for free on her website!
Whitney Houston New Album

Looks like all the Whitney fans out there couldn’t wait and Clive decided to push the album up to an August release date.

Naomi Sims Dies at 61

2009-08-05T21:34:00.001-07:00

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Naomi Sims, Among First Black Models, Dies at 61

Naomi Sims, whose 1968 Ladies' Home Journal cover shot was a breakthrough for black fashion models, has died. She was 61. Sims, said by some to be the first black supermodel, died Saturday of breast cancer in Newark, N.J., said her brother-in-law Alexander Erwiah, the president of Naomi Sims Beauty Products. [Read More]

Naomi Sims, Among First Black Models, Dies at 61

Supermodel Naomi Sims DiesNaomi Sims, whose 1968 Ladies' Home Journal cover shot was a breakthrough for black fashion models, has died. She was 61. Sims, said by some to be the first black supermodel, died Saturday of breast cancer in Newark, N.J., said her brother-in-law Alexander Erwiah, the president of Naomi Sims Beauty Products. [Read More]

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2009-08-05T18:59:00.001-07:00

When rapper Method Man’s Lincoln Navigator was recently repossessed due to his tremendous amount of back taxes most people assumed the rapper wasn’t doing so well financially.
Why did Method Man forget to pay his taxes? Because he was "too high."

But according to The Daily News, Method Man could have easily written a check to clear up his back taxes but was too high to do so.

In an interview with The Daily News Method Man revealed that when the tax department was sending him letters he was on the road and simply forgot to pay them.

“Myself, I’m a pothead. It’s no secret. Everyone knows that,” Method Man told The Daily News. “I go on the road and forget everything else. Sure, [the tax department] sent letters to my house saying, ‘We need this money.’ They started sending them in 2002. Here it is, 2009, and I never paid this s— because I don’t think like that! I could have easily just written them a check for whatever amount, but no — I waited until they knocked on this door and were like, ‘We got your truck and we outta here,’ ”

Method Man owed the Department of Taxation a staggering $52,503 in overdue payments.

And when the Department of Taxation did seize Method Man’s Navigator he was too caught off guard to be bothered by the possession.

“I knew why they were there,” Method Man explained to The Daily News. “It wasn’t like ‘Oh my God! Noo!! Don’t take it!’ like it is on that TV show [“Operation Repo”]. I was half-dressed, and it was so early that I just said, ‘Okay, you’re taking the truck. ... Aight.’”

2009-08-05T18:40:00.001-07:00

Target the Corrupt Republican Campaign: Repu blican Corruption Continues: RNC chief Michael Steele

TRU BLOOD SPOILER

2009-08-05T08:43:00.003-07:00

Episode 208 : True-Blood.net – News, spoilers, photos and more!

TRU BLOOD "MUST WATCH TV"

2009-08-05T08:38:00.001-07:00

A Room Full of Matches: Red Candles, Romance, and Rage on "True Blood"

http://www.televisionaryblog.com/ 2009/ 08/ room-full...

Wow. That was my immediate reaction upon seeing the most recent episode of True Blood ("Release Me"), written by Raelle Tucker and directed by Michael Ruscio, which I was lucky enough to snag an advance screener for about a week ago. (I teased my reaction to this shocking and visceral episode on Twitter here.) This week's episode offered a major turning point in the second season of True Blood, fracturing some alliances (possibly forever), revealing a traitor, and solving one of the season's most enduring mysteries. All while things heat up in a major way in Bon Temps and Tara begins to see things more clearly than she has in a long time.

Black men in raised prostate risk

2009-07-30T16:18:00.001-07:00

BBC NEWS | Health | Black men in raised prostate risk

Black men living in England have a three times higher risk of prostate cancer than white men, figures show.

They also tend to be diagnosed five years younger, a study of all cases in London and Bristol found.

The results cannot be explained by access to diagnostic tests, awareness of the condition or screening, the British Journal of Cancer reported.

Cancer charities said the finding may lead to better care for men at higher risk of the disease.

Researchers at the University of Bristol said the US had already reported a higher rate of prostate cancer in black men.

There's very few known risk factors for prostate cancer but it's starting to look like being of black race is a risk factor
Dr Chris Metcalfe

In the UK study, it was initially unclear whether there was a "genuinely" higher rate of prostate cancer in these groups or whether they were more likely to be diagnosed.

But when they looked in detail at hospital records they found black and white men had similar levels of knowledge about prostate cancer, similar symptoms and similar delays before they went to their GP.

However, there was some evidence that black men were more likely to have had a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test before they had any symptoms.

Susceptibility

On why black men could be being diagnosed earlier, the researchers said prostate cancer at a younger age was more likely to be due to greater biological susceptibility to the disease.

The researchers are now doing further work to see if there are any differences in survival between the two groups.

Studies looking at whether PSA should be used as a routine screening test are also being done and it may be that it is recommended for some high risk groups but not everyone.

Study leader Dr Chris Metcalfe said this was the first evidence from the UK on differences between black and white men in rates of prostate cancer.

"One of the possibilities based on anecdote was that black men may delay presentation - so the cancer gets to a later stage.

"If anything the evidence showed black men were presenting sooner."

He added: "There's very few known risk factors for prostate cancer but it's starting to look like being of black race is a risk factor."

Dr Joanna Peak, science information officer at Cancer Research UK, said prostate cancer was the most common cancer in UK men.

"The study indicates that there is a true biological difference between ethnic groups and this knowledge could potentially lead to improved care for men at higher risk of developing prostate cancer."

Anna Jewell, from The Prostate Cancer Charity, said: "We would encourage all men to visit their GP if they are experiencing any possible symptoms of prostate cancer such as problems when urinating.

"This strongly demonstrates the need for continuing work to raise awareness of the higher risk of prostate cancer in black men.

"We would like to see further research investigating whether there are any differences in access to treatment or care for prostate cancer between black and white men to help us understand how we can meet the needs of those most at risk from the disease."

THE VILLAGE IDIOT

2009-07-30T16:08:00.001-07:00

Rush (the Big, Fat Idiot) Limbaugh

Don't Trust Fox NEWS it's Bias

2009-07-30T16:03:00.001-07:00

FOX News Bias Evidence

Sheena Easton

2009-07-29T21:52:00.002-07:00

I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY SHE HAD SOME HITS.

Nasty Nasty Nasty!

2009-07-29T21:47:00.001-07:00

YUUUUUU-UUUUCK!!! Woman Finds A DEAD MOUSE Inside A Can Of DIET PEPSI (Pics Inside - But Warning They Are EXTREEEEMELY NASTY) - MediaTakeOut.com™ 2009

uly 29, 2009. MediaTakeOut.com learned that a Florida couple made a disturbing discovery in a can of soda – and their discovery has led to an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) into Pepsi. According to the couple, they found what may be a mouse inside a can of Diet Pepsi.

Here’s what went down. Amy Denegri and her husband Fred were having a barbecue at their home when her husband noticed something tasted funny when he took a gulp of his Diet Pepsi. Amy told a local news program, "He made a face. I was sitting there and he said it tasted awful and something wasn't right.”.

When they looked closely, the below pictures show what they found. The FDA is now investigating what could have happened.

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ROCK STEADY "THE WHISPERS"

2009-07-29T21:37:00.000-07:00

THE HONORABLE

2009-07-29T21:28:00.001-07:00

Senate Panel Backs Sotomayor Nomination

by Deborah Tedford

The 13-6 Senate Judiciary Committee vote split almost entirely along party lines. Every panel Democrat backed Sotomayor's nomination, but Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was the only Republican to vote in favor of Sotomayor (above). Charles Dharapak/AP

The Lone Republican

Sen. Lindsey Graham's remarks before the Senate Judiciary Committee vote

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July 28, 2009

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to send Judge Sonya Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate, moving her one step closer to becoming the first Hispanic on the highest court in the land.

The 13-6 vote was mostly along party lines. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was the lone Republican to support Sotomayor, voting with all 12 Democrats to push President Obama's first Supreme Court nominee forward.

The full Senate is expected to vote on Sotomayor's nomination next week, and confirmation is virtually certain.

In comments before the vote, Graham said, "I'm deciding to vote for a woman I would not have chosen." He added that Obama's choice to nominate the first-ever Latina to the highest court is "a big deal," declaring that "America has changed for the better with her selection."

Graham noted that Sotomayor would not change the court's ideological balance. If confirmed, she will replace retiring Justice David Souter, a liberal.

Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Sotomayor's 17 years as a federal district and appellate judge make her well qualified to serve on the court.

"The president nominated a person with more federal judicial experience than anyone nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in nearly a hundred years," Leahy said, adding that Sotomayor would be the only justice with experience as a prosecutor. "It's with enthusiasm and hope that I'm going to vote in favor of this historic nomination."

But most committee Republicans questioned Sotomayor's ability to be unbiased, repeatedly criticizing her "wise Latina" comment during a 2001 speech before a law school audience at the University of California, Berkeley.

"I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life," she said in the speech.

The statement became a major issue in confirmation hearings. Sotomayor testified that it was merely rhetoric that fell flat, but Republicans say her words showed racial and gender bias.

Referring to the oft-quoted comment, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the committee's second-ranking Republican, said he is not convinced that Sotomayor would be able to decide cases impartially.

Grassley said she has repeatedly made such statements. "I had problems harmonizing her answers with the statements that she repeated over and over again throughout the years," he said.

The committee's top Republican, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, said the "wise Latina" comment leads him to believe she will be a judicial activist. He also raised concerns about her stance on gun rights.

As part of an appellate panel, Sotomayor ruled earlier this year that the Second Amendment could not be used to limit state laws restricting weapons possession. The case involved a man named James Maloney of Port Washington, N.Y., who was arrested for possessing a nunchaku martial arts weapon in his home. He contended that the Second Amendment rendered the state law banning nunchakus unconstitutional.

The case, Maloney v. Rice, could come before the Supreme Court.

The National Rifle Association announced last week that it would categorize Sotomayor as "hostile" to the Second Amendment and include lawmakers' votes on her confirmation in its rating of political candidates, which could influence voters in key battleground states.

Throughout the proceedings, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle commended Sotomayor for her accomplishments.

The 55-year-old jurist is the daughter of working-class, Puerto Rican immigrants. She graduated from Yale Law School and went on to have a broad-ranging legal career that included working as an assistant district attorney and in private practice.

Sotomayor is expected to be confirmed by the full Senate next week. Democrats, who hold 60 of the Senate's 100 seats, are solidly behind the president's nominee, and five Republicans — including two of the party's four female senators and Cuban-born Florida Sen. Mel Martinez — have said they'll vote for Sotomayor.

Material from The Associated Press was used in this report.

Glenn Beck is a Racist

2009-07-29T19:35:00.001-07:00

The Handsomely paid bigot pundit Glenn Beck

It's official Glenn Beck is a racist dog that should be put down A.S.A.P.
READ THIS BULL S#@T!

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Crooked Cops Again

2009-07-29T12:52:00.001-07:00

Crooked Cops Caught on Dash Cam Video | NBC Miami

Crooked Cops Caught on Dash Cam Video

Police seen plotting to blame car accident on woman they hit

By TODD WRIGHT

Hollywood Police

A cop's dashboard camera is supposed to catch criminals in the act. For four Hollywood cops, the dash cam may have foiled their plans to frame a motorist.

The four police officers -- three of them longtime veterans of the force -- were caught on one of the cop's dash cameras plotting to place the blame for a February traffic accident on a woman one of them had hit with their patrol car. The disturbing video shows the woman, Alexandra Torrensvilas, handcuffed in the back of the squad car as the officers get their stories straight on what they are going to say happened.

Officer Joel Francisco, 36, an 11-year veteran, crashed into the back of Torrensvilas' vehicle at a light on February 17 at midnight. The cop radioed to other officers who converged on the scene and hatched a way to bail Francisco out.

Officer Dewey Pressley, 42, arrives and questions Torrensvilas, who tells him that she has been drinking. The 21-year veteran officer seizes the opportunity and arrests her for DUI. But the plot thickens from there.

Corrupt Cops on Display

The cops begin to brainstorm believable excuses for the accident.

"As far as I'm concerned. I'm going to put words in his mouth. She went to accelerate and a cat jumped out of the window at which point he thought it could have been a pedestrian, which distracted him," Pressley tells Sgt. Andrew Diaz, another veteran of the force. "I mean what's the chances of hitting a f---in drunk when a cat jumps out of the window?"

Still, the cops run with the half-baked idea and rush to get Torrensvilas to do a Breathalyzer test so they can officially say she was drunk.

"I nailed her on the video. I already hung her on video. She said she has been doing a beer party," Pressley says. "She's gonna blow."

Then, another cop debates with Pressley on who is going to write up the fabricated report to clear their police comrade.

"I know how I'm going to word this with the cat so we can get him off the hook. I'll write the narrative," Pressley says. "We're going to bend this a little bit."

Civilian Community Service Officer Karim Thomas joins the three senior officers and the four cops go so far as to change the angle of pictures of the accident to make it look like Torrensvilas swerved in front of the cop car and caused the accident, not Francisco.

Throughout the tape, the cops acknowledged what they are doing is illegal, but when you are the law, there is nothing wrong with bending it for a fellow cop, one says.

"I don't lie and make things up ever because it's wrong, but if I need to bend it a little bit to protect a cop, I'll do it," Pressley tells Francisco after reassuring him no one will ever find out. "She's freaking hammered anyway."

The cops even do a final rehearsal before Villa is taken to the city lock up.

"We'll take care of it," one officer says. The others reply: "We're good."

The police officers are currently on administrative leave pending a state attorney's office investigation. Torrensvilas, who was charged with four counts of DUI and cited for improper lane change, is still fighting the charges in court.

Strivers TV new Web Site

2009-07-29T10:27:00.001-07:00

Strivers TV - Home

LOUIS FARRAKHAN ON MICHAEL?

2009-07-27T09:02:00.001-07:00

I DON'T FOLLOW LOUIS FARRAKHAN BUT I WANT TO HEAR THIS.

So much has been printed and said surrounding the life and death of Michael Jackson.....

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is scheduled to deliver a major world-wide address at Mosque Maryam, Chicago, IL. on Sunday July 26, 2009 @ 10am Central Time.

The Minister's message is titled, "The Crucifixion of Michael Jackson and All Responsible Black Leadership".

The live FREELY available webcast will be @ http://www.finalcall.com/absolutenl2/t.aspx?n=29&l=60

Global G rind - THE CRUCIFIXION OF MICHAEL JACKSON........WATCH!!

Vernon forrest predicted his death

2009-07-27T08:53:00.000-07:00

Vernon forrest predicted his death

On Sunday 19th July 2009, @vernonforrest said:

Man I had a nightmare last nite I dreamt I come home and found 4 guys were breaking into my house. I pull my heater and it was empty they chased me and was about to shot me then I woke up. The first thing I did was get my heater and made sure it was loaded. That dream will not come true.

ALL AROUND SHAME

2009-07-27T08:35:00.001-07:00

An 8-year-old girl was raped by four boys, ages 9-14. Then, she was placed in foster care because the parents don’t want her anymore. They claim she hasbrought shame to the family by allowing herself to be raped! This happened in Phoenix, AZ, but all parties are from Liberia originally.

Phoenix Girl Raped By Four Boys « Illseed Blog

What the hell is wrong with Stephon Marbury?

2009-07-27T08:30:00.001-07:00

Rumors

CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND THIS?

What the hell is wrong with Stephon Marbury? Dude was doing a live stream over the weekend and just started to cry like...uncontrollably on camera. I know son has been a bit touched, but this time, he seemed more touched than normal. What is going on with him that he would act this way. I have some suspicions but...tell me what you think or know.

SUPER GROUP

2009-07-27T08:13:00.001-07:00

Super Group!!! Jay Z, Kanye West And Rihanna To Form A NEW SUPER GROUP!!! - MediaTakeOut.com™ 2009

On this day in African American History

2009-07-22T08:36:00.000-07:00

January 1 Kwanzaa Ends
Emancipation Proclamation 1863
African Benevolent Society (Education) 1808
Haiti Independence Act 1804
New Year's Day

January 2 William Lloyd Garrison began publishing _The Liberator_,
Abolitionist newspaper, in Boston Mass 1831
John Hope Franklin, historian, born 1915

January 3 William Tucker, first Black child born in America, baptized
in Jamestown 1624

January 4 The first Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball
League, organized 1920

January 5 George Washington Carver, scientist, died (1864 - 1943)

January 6

January 7 W.B. Purvis patented the fountain pen 1890
Marian Anderson, first Black person to appear in
Metropolitan Opera in Verdi's Masked Ball 1955

January 8 Fannie M. Jackson, pioneer and educator, first Black woman
college graduate in US born (1836 - 1913)

January 9

January 10 James Varicick, first A.M.E. Zion Bishop, born 1768
Edward Brooke, Mass. Senator takes office 1967
Lincoln declared Blcks should be educated in D.C.

January 11

January 12 Congressional Black Caucus organized in 1971
Mordecai W Johnson, educator, born (1890 - 1976)

January 13 Convention of the Colored National Labor Union, the first
Black labor convention, 1869

January 14 John Oliver Killens, novelist, born 1916
Ernest Just, a Black biologist, served as V.P. of American
Zoologists, 1930
[My mom, Jacqueline Isbell, born this date]

January 15 Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, born, 1929 -
1968

January 16 Lucius D. Amerson sworn in as first Black sheriff of the
South in the 20th century (Macon County, Ala.)

January 17 Paul Cuffee, merchant, shipbuilder and Black nationalist,
born 1759

January 18 Dr Daniel H. William performed first successful open hear
operation, born 1856
Robert C. Weaver became first Black presidential cabinet
member when sworn in as Secretary of Housing and Urban
Affairs, 1966 (Johnson Administration)

January 19

January 20 W.R. Pettiford, Founder of Alabama Penny Savings Bank, born
1847

January 21 Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
Freedom Journal, first Black paper 1827

January 22 Nat Turner born 1800

January 23 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams founded Provident Hospital in
Chicago, 1889
Paul Robeson, athlete, lawyer, singer, died in Philadelphia
1976

January 24 Martin Delaney, ethnologist, died 1812-1885
Jackie Robinson, first Black elected to the Baseball Hall
of Fame, 1962

January 25 Sojourner Truth addressed the first Black Women's Rights
Convention, Akron Ohio, 1851

January 26 54th Regiment (Black) infantry formed 1863
Executive Order 9981, to end segregation in US Armed Forces
signed by President Harry Truman, 1948

January 27

January 28 John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry,
1858
Philadelphia's Free Africa Society organized, 1787

January 29 Francis L. Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South
Carolina, 1872

January 30 William Wells Brown published first Black drama, "Leap to
Freedom" 1858

January 31

February 1 Black college students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch
counter in Greensboro, N. C., 1960
Langston Hughes, poet and author, born 1902-1967

February 2

February 3 Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture,
1965
15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed 1870

February 4 24th Amendment abolished Poll tax, 1864

February 5

February 6 First organized emigration of U.S. Blacks back to Africa,
from New York to Sierra Leone, 1820
Peabody Fund established to promote Black education in
South, 1867

February 7 President Truman appointed Irwin C. Mollison judge of the
US Customs Court, 1945
Eubie Blake, famed pianist, born in Baltimore 1883-1983
Freedman's Aid Society, founded to promote education among
Blacks

February 8

February 9 Paul Lawrence Dunbar, 1st poet to use Black dialect in his
verse, died 1872-1906
Leroy "Satchel" Paige elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame,
1971

February 10 Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded, 1957
Andrew Brimmer, the first Black person to serve on the
Federal Reserve Board, [born?] 1966
Leontyne Price, world renowned soprano, born 1927

February 11 Nelson Mandela, leader of movement for democracy in South
Africa, released from prison after 27 years, 1990
Clifford Alexander, Jr. first Black Secretary of State,
confirmed 1977

February 12 Lincoln's birthday
NAACP founded after riot in Springfield, Ill., 1909

February 13 First Black pro Basketball team, "The Renaissance,"
organized 1923

February 14 Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist, born 1817 - 1895
Morhouse College, founded in Atlanta, 1867

February 15

February 16

February 17

February 18

February 19 First Pan-African Congress organized in Paris by WEB
DuBois, 1919

February 20

February 21 Malcolm X assassinated, 1925 - 1965

February 22

February 23 WEB DuBois, author and historian, born 1868-1963

February 24 Bishop Daniel A Payne, reformer and educator of AME Church,
born 1811

February 25 Hiram R. Revels, first Black US Senator, took oath of
office 1870

February 26

February 27 Marion Anderson, singer, born in Philadelphia 1897.
Charlotte Ray, first Black woman lawyer, graduated Howard
U, 1872

February 28 Phillis Wheatly, poetess, died 1753-1784

March 1 Howard University, Washington DC, charted, 1867

March 2 Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865

March 3 Richard Allen founded AME Church, 1794
Garrett Morgan, inventor, born 1877 - 1963

March 4 Crispus Attucks died, 1723 - 1770

March 5

March 6 Dred Scott decision (Blacks are not citizens of the U.S.),
1857

March 7

March 8

March 9 Harriet Tubman, "engineer" of the Underground Railroad
died, 1821 - 1913

March 10

March 11 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant began to lay out Washington
in the District of Columbia, 1789

March 12 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable founded settlement now
known as Chicago, Ill, 1773

March 13 Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, based on the ideas and
plans of a slave, 1794
Fanie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, died 1977
Absalom Jones ordained first Black priest in Episcopal
Church

March 14 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded, 1821, New
York

March 15 Freedom's Journal, first Black newspaper, published by John
Russwurm and Samuel Cornish, 1827

March 16 Norbert Rillieux, inventor of sugar refining, born 1806-
1894

March 17 The Phoenix Society founded 1833, New York

March 18

March 19 Jan Matzeliger invented the first machine to manufacture
entire shoe, 1883

March 20 Patience Singleton friend of compiler of most of these
facts born

March 21 Nambia gained its independence, 1990
Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus, 1492
Selma Freedom March, 1965

March 22

March 23

March 24

March 25 Scottsboro Boys arrested, Point Rock, Alabama, 1931

March 26 Thomas J Martin awarded patent for fire extinguisher, 1872
William Hastie, first Black federal judge, appointed 1937
Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, (born? died?) 1760 -
1831

March 27

March 28 New York State abolished slavery, 1799
Ohio passed law restricting the movement of Blacks, 1804

March 29

March 30 15th amendment gave Blacks the right to vote, 1870 [Hah!]

March 31

April 1 Dr Charles Richard Drew, scientist, discovered blood
plasma.
North Caroline Mutual opened doors for business, 1899

April 2

April 3 Dr Matthew Ricketts, first Black man elected to Nebraska
State Legislature (from Omaha), born 1858 [actually,
this may be 1958--anyone have any info?]

April 4 Dr Martin Luther King Jr, civil rights leader, assassinated
1929 - 1968

April 5 Booker T Washington, educator and founder of Tuskegee
Institute, born 1856 - 1915

April 6 Matthew Henson explorer in expedition of six to reach North
Pole, 1909

April 7 Billie Holiday, blues singer, born 1917 in E. Baltimore

April 8

April 9 Paul Robeson, actor, scholar, singer, born 1898 - 1976

April 10

April 11 Spelman College founded 1881
Percy L Julian, chemist whose research helped create drugs
for treatment of arthritis, born 1899

April 12 Civil War began at Fort Sumter, Charleston SC 1861

April 13

April 14

April 15

April 16 Congress passed bill ending slavery in Washington, DC, 1862
soc.culture.african.american on Internet begins, 1990
(Internet can be accessed on Invention Factory BBS in
NYC, NY)

April 17

April 18 Alex Haley, author of _Roots_, awarded Pultizer Prize, 1977

April 19 Cheyney State University founded, 1837

April 20 Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad, 1853

April 21

April 22 First slave revolt occurs in South Carolina, 1526

April 23 National Urban League founded, 1913
Granville T Woods, inventor of automatic air-brake and over
40 other inventions, [born? died?] 1856 - 1910

April 24 United Negro College Fund established, 1944

April 25

April 26

April 27

April 28 George B Vashon, first Black to enter NY State Bar, 1847
Samuel Lee Gravely appointed first Black admiral in US
Naval history, 1971

April 29 Col Frederick Gregory, first Black astronaut, piloted
space shuttle Challenger, 1985 [is this right?]
Macon B. Allen and Robert Morris Jr, first Blacks to
practice law, open practice, 1845
Duke Ellington, musician and jazz composer, born 1899-1975
First day of LA riots, sparked by acquittal of four white
cops in the beating of Rodney King, which would result
in at least 50 deaths, thousands injured and estimates
of up to $1 billion in property damage, 1992

April 30

May 1 Gwendolyn Brooks, first Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize
(poetry), 1950
Howard University chartered, 1867

May 2 First game of National Negro Baseball League played in
Indianapolis, 1920
Elijah McCoy, inventor, held over 50 patents, born 1844-
1929

May 3

May 4 CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, DC to force
desegregation of southern bus terminals, 1961

May 5 Robert S. Abbott published first issue of the newspaper
"Chicago Defender" 1905

May 6 First Black Masonic Lodge founded Prince Hall, Boston, 1787

May 7 William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating
emancipation, 1700
The Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after the
scientist, launched 1943

May 8

May 9 John Brown, abolitionist, born 1800

May 10 Smith v Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting is
illegal), 1944

May 11 Ira Aldridge, Great 19th century Black actor, famous
throughout the world, born 1807-1867

May 12 Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Ky.,
following sit-in staged by a Black teenager, 1871

May 13 Slavery abolished in Brazil, 1888
Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-1949),
born 1914

May 14

May 15

May 16 Sammy Davis, Jr, entertainer, dies (1925-1990)
Denmark abolishes slave trade, 1792

May 17 School desegregation law, Brown v Board of education, 1957

May 18

May 19 Malcolm X, political and religious activist, born 1925-1965

May 20 Elias Neau founded school for slaves in New York, 1704

May 21 Leo Pinckney, the first American draft[ed?] during World
War I, 1917
(Thomas) Fast Waller, Jazz pianist and composer, born 1904-
1943

May 22 Claude McKay, Novelist and Poet, died 1948
Langston Hughes, poet laureate, died 1957

May 23

May 24 Lincoln University, Penn, the first Black college in the US
founded by Prebyts, 1854

May 25 Henry O. Tanner, artist, died 1859-1937
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, dancer and entertainer, born in
Richmond VA, 1878

May 26

May 27 Blind Tom Bethune, pianist and composer, born 1849
Victoria E Matthews, educator, born in New York, 1861 -
1898

May 28 Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor, born 1831

May 29

May 30 Countee Cullen, poet, born in Baltimore, 1903

May 31 National Negro Committee (now NAACP) held first conference,
New York, 1909

June 1 Sojourner Truth begins travel as abolitionist speaker, 1843
Slavery abolished in all US possessions, 1862

June 2 Harriet Tubman led Union Army guerillas into Maryland,
freeing more than 700 slaves, 1863
James Augustine Healey became the first Black Catholic
Bishop in the US, 1875

June 3 Dr Charles Richard Drew, pioneer of blood plasma research,
born, 1904-1950
Poor Peoples March on Washington, 1968

June 4 Mississippi Valley State University founded 1951

June 5

June 6 First annual convention of "people of color" held in
Philadelphia 1831
Stokely Carmichael launched "Black Power" movement, 1966

June 7 Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, born 1917
Mary Church Terrell wins struggle to end segregation in
Washington DC restaurants, 1953

June 8 Homer A Plessy refused to move to segregated railroad coach
in New Orleans, initiating Plessy v Ferguson, 1892
First Civil Rights Act passed, 1886

June 9

June 10 Richard Allen founded the Bethel African Methodist
Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, 1794
Hattie McDaniel, first Black person ever to win an Oscar
(Best Supporting Actress, Gone With The Wind, in 1940),
born 1898-1952

June 11

June 12 Medgar Evers, civil rights activist, assassinated 1926-1963

June 13 Oscar J Dunn elected Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, 1868
Thurgood Marshall appointed to the Supreme Court, 1967

June 14 Harriet Beecher Stowe, White abolitionist and author of
Uncle Tom's Cabin, born 1811-1896
Congress ruled that Black soldiers must receive equal pay,
1864

June 15 Henry O Flippea became the first Black graduate of West
Point, 1877
Congress of racial Equality (CORE), founded 1943
Josiah Henson, abolitionist [born? died?] 1789-1883

June 16 Denamrk Vessy led slave rebellion in South Carolina, 1822

June 17 James Weldon Johnson, writer poet, first Black admitted to
Florida Bar, co-author of "Lift Every Voice And Sing"
(Black National Anthem), born 1871-1938

June 18 Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey and Peter Poyas arrested
in Charleston, SC, 1822
Nannie Burroughs founded national training School for
Women, 1909

June 19 Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A and L State
College, 1912

June 20 Dr Lloyd A Hall, pioneer in food chemistry, born Illinois,
1894

June 21 Henry O Tanner, artist, born 1859-1937

June 22 WEB DuBois becomes first Black member of National Institute
of Letters, 1943

June 23 Wilma Rudolph, former polio victim who became the world
famous track star, winning three gold medals in the
Olympic Games, born 1940.

June 24

June 25 Fair Employment Practices Commission established 1941
Abraham Lincoln signed bill providing schools for Black
children [no date given]

June 26 Blacks and Whites riot over racial segregation in ST
Augustine 1964

June 27 Paul Lawrence Dunbar, poet and novelist, born 1872-1906

June 28 Supreme Court handed down Bakke decision, affecting racial
quotas in education and industry, 1978

June 29 Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for his research of
Black history, 1926

June 30

July 1

July 2 Vermont became the first US territory to abolish slavery,
1777
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, born in Baltimore
1908
Civil Rights Act passed, 1964

July 3

July 4 Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, trumpet king, born 1900
Booker T Washington opened Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
1881

July 5

July 6

July 7 Althea Gibsaon won women's single tennis championship at
Wimbledon, 1957

July 8

July 9 Dr Daniel Hale Williams (1858-1931) performed first
successful open heart surgery at Provident Hospital in
Chicago, 1893

July 10 Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, born 1875-1955

July 11 Niagra Movement founded by WEB DuBois, 1905

July 12 George Washington Carver, noted scientist, born 1864

July 13 Congress outlawed slavery in Northwest Territory, 1787

July 14

July 15 Public schools for Blacks open in Philadelphia, 1822

July 16 V.A. Johnson, first Black female to practice before US
Supreme Court, born 1882

July 17

July 18 Lemuel Haynes, first Black to serve as minister to a White
congregation, born 1753

July 19

July 20

July 21 National Association of Colored Women founded by Mary
Church Terrell in Washington DC, 1896

July 22 President Lincoln read first draft of Emancipation
Proclamation to Cabinet, 1861

July 23 Louis Tompkins Wright, physician, born 1891 - 1952

July 24

July 25 Charles Cordone won Pulitzer Prize for his play "No Place
to Be Somebody" 1970
First warship named for a Black person, the SS Leonard Roy
Harmon, launched in Quincy Mass, 1943

July 26

July 27

July 28 The 14th Amendment, making Blacks American citizens,
adopted 1868

July 29 First National Convention of Black Women held in Boston
Mass, 1895

July 30

July 31 Whitney Young, former Executive Director of the National
Urban League, born 1921
Father Patrick Francis Healy, first Black man to receive a
PhD, named President of Georgetown University, 1874

August 1 Slavery declared unlawful in British Empire, 1834
Benjamin E Mays [highschool of compiler of most of these
facts], educator and former President of Morehouse
college, born 1895

August 2 James Baldwin, writer, born NY 1924
Marcus Garvey presented his "Back To Africa" program in New
York City, 1920

August 3

August 4 Dr Daniel H Williams, pioneer in surgery, died 1931
Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for
Georgia 1897

August 5 James A Healy, first Black bishop in America, born 1830

August 6 Voting Rights Bill signed by President Lyndon Johnsom 1965

August 7 Ralph J Bunche, diplomat and winner of Nobel Peace Prize,
born 1904-1971

August 8

August 9 Mattheco Henson, first Black to reach North Pole, born 1866
Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in Berlin, 1936

August 10 Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor, dies 1867

August 11 J Rosamond Johnson, author, actor and co-composer (with his
James Weldon Johnson) of "Lift Every Voice And Sing",
born in Jacksonville FL, 1873-1954
Watts Riots in Southeast LA, 1965

August 12 Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Washington DC as
national shrine, 1922

August 13 First issue of Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper, 1892

August 14 Ernest E Just, biologist and pioneer of cell division,
born 1883-1941

August 15 Freed American slaves established country of Liberia, on
the West coast of Africa, 1824

August 16 Louis E Lomax, author, born 1922-1970

August 17 WB Purvis patented the electric railway switch, 1897
Marcus Garvey, Black Nationalist, born 1887-1940

August 18

August 19 Benjamin Banneker published his first Almanac, 1791
NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters,
Oklahoma City, 1963

August 20 Wilberforce University established in Ohio, 1856
First Black slaves brought by the Dutch to the colony of
Jamestown, 1619

August 21 William Count Basie, jazz pianist, big band and orchestra
leader, born in Red Bank NJ, 1904
Nat Turner began revolt in Southampton, VA, 1831

August 22 Fisk University established, 1867

August 23 National Negro Business League, founded 1900

August 24 Edith Sampson, first Black delegate to United Nations
appointed by President Harry S. Truman, 1950

August 25 Althea Gibson, tennis champion, born in South Carolina,
1927
National Association of Colored Nurses, founded 1908

August 26

August 27 W. E. B. DuBois, editor author and civil rights leader
dies in Ghana, 1963

August 28 Martin Luther King Jr makes "I Have A Dream" speech at
Lincoln Memorial, 1963
March On Washington, 1963

August 29 Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black
Network, making it the first completely Black owned
radio network in the world, 1979
E. Franklin Frazier, sociologist, born 1894-1962

August 30 Roy Wilkins, 2nd Executive Director of NAACP, born 1901-
1981
Gabriel Prosser's slave revolt is betrayed, Virginia, 1800

August 31

September 1 Robert T Freeman was the first Black to graduate from
Harvard Dental School, 1867

September 2

September 3 Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a
sailor, 1838

September 4 Lewis H Latimer, inventor and engineer, born 1848-1928

September 5 John W Cromwell, Sec. American Negro Academy, born 1846
George Washington Murray elected to Congress from South
Carolina, 1895

September 6

September 7 Integration began in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD
public schools, 1954

September 8 Roy Wilkins, second Executive Director of NAACP, dies
1901-1981

September 9 Richard Wright, noted author of _Native Son_ and _Black
Boy_, born 1908-1960
Association for the study of Negro Life and History
founded by Carter G Woodson, 1915

September 10 Congressman John R Lynch presided over the Republican
National Convention, 1884

September 11 "Duke" Ellington won Springarn Medal for his musical
achievements, 1959

September 12

September 13 Lewis Latimer invented and patented an electric lamp with
a carbon filament, 1881
Alain L Lovke, philosopher, born 1886-1954

September 14 President FD Roosevelt signed Selective Service Act,
allowing Blacks to enter all branches of the US
Military Service, 1940

September 15 The first National Negro Convention began in
Philadelphia, 1830

September 16 Slavery abolished in all French territories, 1848
Claude A Barnett founded Associated Negro Press, born
1889 [very unclear which one of these two events
occurred the way this is worded in my source]

September 17 Hampton Institute founded, 1861

September 18 Congress passed Fugitive Slave Law as part of the
Compromise of 1850

September 19 Atlanta University founded 1865

September 20 First Negro Convention of Free Men agreed to boycott
slave-produced goods, 1830

September 21 Atlanta Life Insurance Co founded, 1905

September 22 Xavier University, first Black Catholic College in US,
opened in New Orleans, LA, 1915

September 23 Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist, born 1863-1954

September 24 Desegregation of Central High School, Little Rock Ark, 1957

September 25 Secretary of Navy authorized enlistment of slaves as Union
sailors, 1861

September 26 Maggie L Walker, business and civic leader, first Black
president in US, born 1867-1934

September 27 WC Handy published "Memphis Blues" the first Blues Song,
1912

September 28

September 29 WGPR-TV Detroit, first Black-owned station in US, began
broadcasting in 1975
President JF Kennedy authorized use of federal troops in
integration of University of Mississippi, 1962

September 30

October 1 James Meredith became first Black student at University
of Mississippi--after 3000 federal troops quelled riots
against his admission, 1962
Morgan State College founded in Maryland, 1872

October 2 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first Black Supreme
Court Justice, 1967
Robert H Lawerence, astronaut, 1935-1967

October 3 Bethune-Cookman College opened in Daytona Beach FL, 1904

October 4

October 5 Autherine Lucy Foster born in 1929.
Yvonne Braithwaite Burk born in 1932.

October 6 Fannie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, born 1917

October 7 William Sill, with The Underground Railroad, born 1821 - 1902

October 8

October 9 Frank Robinson became the first Black major league
baseball manager (Cleveland Indians), 1974

October 10

October 11 A. Miles patented the elevator, 1887
NAACP organized the Legal Defense and Education Fund, 1939

October 12 Lincoln University founded, 1854
Rita Frazier Normandeau of NYC born 1946 Newport News, VA

October 13 Garrett Morgan invented and patented the gas mask, 1914
Edith Sampson, first Black female US delegate to the
United Nations, born 1901
Arna W Bontemps noted poet and librarian of Fisk
University, born 1902 - 1973

October 14 Harry Blair received a patent for his corn planting
machine, 1834

October 14 Martin Luther King Jr. is the youngest man to win the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

October 15

October 16 Harpers Ferry Insurrection, 1859

October 17 First bank for blacks organized: The Capital Savings
of Washington, D.C.

October 18 Paul Robeson won Spingarn Medal for his singing and
acting achievements, 1945

October 19 US Navy opened to Black women, 1944
Henry O Tanner, painter, won Medal of Honor at Paris
Exposition, 1900
Byrd Prillerman, co-founder of West Virginia State College,
born 1859

October 20 NC Mutual Life Insurance Company organized, 1898

October 21

October 22

October 23

October 24

October 25 Benjamin O Davis Dr became the first Black general in US
Army, 1940

October 26 Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer, born 1911 - 1972

October 27 Ruby Dee born in 1927.

October 28

October 29 Supreme Court ordered end to all school desegregation "at
once", 1969

October 30

October 31

November 1 First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H
Johnson, 1945
WEB DuBois began publication of NAACP monthly magazine,
"Crisis", 1910

November 2

November 3 JH Hunter patented the portable weighing scales, 1896

November 4 T. Elkins patented the refrigerating apparatus, 1879

November 5 George Brown became first Black Lt. Governor in US
(Colorado), 1974
Shirley Chisholm became first Black woman elected to
Congress, representing Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn,
NY, 1968
Theo Wright becomes first Black to obtain Theology Degree
in US, 1836
Negro History Week initiated by Carter G Woodson, 1926

November 6

November 7 L Douglas Wilder became first Black Governor in the US
(Virginia), 1989

November 8 Edward W. Brooke elected first Black US Senator in 85
years (R-Mass), 1966

November 9 Benjamin Banneker, inventor, mathematician, astronomer,
and one of the planners of Federal City (now
Washington DC), born 1731-1806
Medical School at Howard University opened with eight (8)
students, 1868

November 10 Granville T Woods patented the electric railway, 1891

November 11 D McCree patented the portable fire escape, 1890
Hanging of Nat Turner, leader of the Southampton VA Slave
Revolt, 1831

November 12

November 13 Janet Collins, ballerina, first Black dancer to appear
with the Metropolitan Opera Co. (in Verdi's Aida),
1951
Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY, 1922 [How the hell
did they figure this out?]

November 14 Booker T. Washington died, 1856 - 1915

November 15 Inventor Granville T Woods patented his Synchronous
Multiplier Railway Telgraph, 1887

November 16

November 17

November 18 Klu Klux Klan member convicted of 1963 church bombing
that killed four young Black girls in Birmingham, Ala

November 19

November 20 Garrett Morgan invented and patented the traffic signal,
1923
Howard University founded in Washington DC, 1865

November 21 Shaw University founded in Raleigh NC, 1865

November 22 Black Muslim movement initiated in Detroit, 1930

November 23 Andrew J Beard invented the "jerry coupler," still used
today to connect railroad cars, 1897

November 24

November 25 Segregation in buses and terminals banned by Interstate
Commerce Commission, 1955

November 26 National Negro Medical Association founded, 1895
Sojourner Truth dies, 1883

November 27

November 28 Richard Wright, novelist and author of Native Son, dies,
1908 - 1960

November 29 Thurgood Marshall, first Black Supreme Court Judge, born
1908

November 30

December 1 Arthur Spingarn, founder of NAACP, born 1878

December 2 Charles Wesley, historian, [born? died?] 1891

December 3

December 4 Alpha Phi Alpha, first Black Greek Letter Fraternity,
founded 1906

December 5 Montgomery Bus Boycott initiated by the actions of Rosa
Parks, 1955
Phillis Wheatley, one of the first Black female poets in
America, dies 1784
National Council of Negro Women founded by Mary McLeod
Bethune, 1935

December 6

December 7

December 8 Sammy Davis, Jr, entertainer, born 1925 - 1990

December 9

December 10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr,
1964

December 11

December 12 National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing,"
composed by James Weldon and James Rosamond Johnson,
1900

December 13

December 14

December 15

December 16 Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN,
1890
Andrew Young named Ambassador and Chief US Delegate to
the United Nations, 1976

December 17

December 18 Congress passed 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, 1865

December 19 Carter G Woodson, historian and father of Black History
Month, born 1875-1950

December 20 Mother Matelda Beasley, nun, born 1834-1903
South Carolina secedes from the union, initiating the
Civil War, 1860

December 21

December 22 Henry Highland Garnet, abolitionist, born 1815-1882

December 23 Alice H. Parker received a patent for the gas heating
furnace, 1919

December 24

December 25 Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) organized
by Rev Jesse Jackson, 1971

December 26 Kwanzaa begins

December 27

December 28

December 29

December 30 Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, published the first Black
medical journal, 1892

December 31

I Can't Make You Love Me- Bonnie & Prince

2009-07-22T08:26:00.000-07:00

It's True

2009-07-22T08:12:00.000-07:00

Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!

A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!

It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!

The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

Most lipstick contains fish scales!

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

Porcupines float in water!

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!

The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!

“WE NEED A NEW MINDSET!”

2009-07-17T20:30:00.000-07:00

OBAMA TELLS! BLACK AMERICANS “WE NEED A NEW MINDSET!”
// July 17th, 2009 // Uncategorized

the truth is much like a tree of knowledge ... only difference ... the truth killed Christ and left many fighters in the civil rights movement hanging from its limbs!
“We went down in some dungeons where captives were held. There was a church above the dungeons, which tells you something about saying one thing and doing another. We went through the door of no return, and I was reminded of all the pain and all the hardships, all the injustices and all the indignities, on the voyage from slavery to freedom“

President Barack Obama walks onto stage to speak at the NAACP annual convention July 16, 2009 in New York City. Obama discussed the civil rights movement and the importance of carrying on civic responsibility at the 100th anniversary of the nation‘s oldest civil rights organization.

HOTT LOOK@POLITICS!

Preach on, Brother! Preach on!

In 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was formed by a group of blacks and whites in response to lynching and the 1908 race riot in Springfield, Ill., the political birthplace of President Abraham Lincoln. After a century spent fighting for racial equality and social justice, a black man is leading the nation. So it was only fitting that at the NAACP’s Centennial Convention in New York City, attended by Black Voices, President OBAMA took the opportunity to thank the civil rights organization for laying the foundation of his success.

“Because ordinary people made the civil rights movement their own, I made a trip to Springfield a couple years ago – where Lincoln once lived and race riots once raged – and began the journey that has led me here tonight as the 44th president of the United States of America,” he told those gathered at the NAACP Spingarn Awards Dinner yesterday at the New York Hilton in Manhattan. “Because of them, I stand here tonight on the shoulders of giants.”

His address, which he clearly enjoyed making, had the air of a homecoming. The preacher-like intensity he reached at its climax brought the crowd of dignitaries and NAACP members to its feet three times, with thunderous applause. Perhaps Obama’s recent trip to Ghana had stoked the fire in his belly. “Michelle and I took Malia and Sasha to Cape Coast Castle, where captives were once imprisoned before being auctioned, where, across an ocean, so much of the African American experience began,” he described. “We went down in some dungeons where captives were held. There was a church above the dungeons, which tells you something about saying one thing and doing another. We went through the door of no return, and I was reminded of all the pain and all the hardships, all the injustices and all the indignities, on the voyage from slavery to freedom.”

Though it was clear Obama’s mission last night was to thank and to inspire, he did cite some of the efforts his administration is making to address the education and achievement gaps between blacks and whites, as well as to protect consumers against predatory lenders and reform health care. He pointed to the creation of the still-embryonic White House Office of Urban Affairs and also mentioned a recent report by New York City controller Bill Thompson that the number of unemployed blacks in the city rose four times as fast as the number of unemployed whites between early 2008 and early 2009. However, those looking for meat on the bones of efforts benefiting African Americans would go away hungry from the Spingarn dinner.

Instead, Obama seized the moment to exhort the group — and all black Americans — to take responsibility for overcoming the economic and social inequalities that still plague our our community, while acknowledging the role of institutional racism. “Government programs alone won’t get our children to the Promised Land,” Obama said. “We need a new mindset, a new set of attitudes – because one of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way that we have internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little of ourselves.” He left the group with this message: “If three civil rights workers in Mississippi…could lay down their lives in freedom’s cause, I know we can come together to face down the challenges of our own time. We can fix our schools, heal our sick, and rescue our youth from violence and despair.”

Though black Americans must continue to hold the president accountable for addressing our needs, it’s clear that as Obama attacks the many-headed hydra of a failing economy, a dysfunctional health care system and two wars, indeed, the task will largely fall on our own shoulders.

Quote of the Day

2009-07-16T18:46:00.000-07:00

By Jerome Curtis Colson

Even when we expect aspersions of the vilest kind, and even when we understand that a snake will always hover there, it

continues to gall me to think that total eradication is not possible. Since time immemorial, a segment of mankind has

operated ad nausea m; why should we dream of the perfect world? Our best bet is to remain vigilant, and keep the putrescent hordes at bay

2009-07-16T18:27:00.000-07:00

This is a part of our legacy and contribution to dance that often go's uncelebrated. I think this footage is amazing and I hope you do to.

Nigga Moment

2009-07-16T18:23:00.000-07:00

NativeBlack people of the Americas

2009-07-16T18:15:00.000-07:00

BLACK COWBOYS-SEMINOLES
by John R. Moore

ancient Negroid basalt mask (1879) California NativeBlack people were in Florida before the Seminole Indians as supported by the discovery of over 200,000 ancient pyramids and huge mounds of Earth fashioned like cones, animals and geometric designs stretching from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mountains. These structures were built by the dark-skinned, woolly-haired Black Native American people otherwise known as the Mound Builders, the indigenous inhabitants of North America, and kin to the Olmecs of South America. On the left is an ancient Negroid basalt mask (1879) depicting what the Ancient American looked like before the arrival of Columbus, and on the right is a Black Californian native.

This movement of Afrikans would have taken place during Pangaea, a period when the Afrikan and American continents were joined together, as indicated by the similarity of tropical plants, animals, geographic traits, and their shapes fitting together like a piece of a puzzle, before the continental drifts separated the landmasses into the 7 major continents, known today as Afrika, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Antarctica.

These Black Mound Builders were the Washitaw-Muurs or Ouachita – Moors, and many were huge as attested by their ancient skeletons, which generally measured between 7 to 8 feet. The only other living people on Earth with such a massive physique were the Massai of Afrika, another group of Blacks.

Darienite of PanamaThe term Mound Builders came about when the origin of these discovered monuments was deemed mysterious by European Americans especially, who assumed that the Native Americans were too uncivilized and barbaric for such fine accomplishments, but in reality this thriving Native American culture was common place in the Midwest and Southeast United States at a time when Europe was plunged into the Dark Ages.

Columbus was therefore not technically incorrect when he called these people "Indians," because the word India comes from Indi which means Black, as in India ink, hindu and Indigo, the darkest colour in the colour spectrum. On the left is a Black Californian native with bow and arrow during the period when California was ruled by a Black Amazon Queen.

Ancient Native Black Nations of America before and after Columbus included:

* The Washitaw of the Louisiana/Midwest
* The Yamasee of the South East
* The Iroquois
* The Cherokee Indians
* The Blackfoot Indians
* The Pequot and Mohegans of Connecticut
* The Black Californians (Calafians) (CAL in California literally means Black, after the name of the Great Mother KALi / Queen KALifa)
* The Olmecs of Mexico
* The Darienite of Panama

Continued at http://jrmoore1958.tripod.com/seminole.html