Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and President Bill ClintonThe Cambridge Police Department has changed its story twice regarding where they got the information that the two people on Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s porch were Blacks. As reported here yesterday, they first said the...
opinion by francislholland | 23 wks ago | updated 23 wks ago 257 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
The Washington Post today is focusing attention on a pool in Pennsylvania that told Black children they couldn't swim there because . . . they're Black. Although lawsuits are certainly an option in this case, I actually think that the protests these children are...
opinion by francislholland | 25 wks ago | updated 25 wks ago 587 views | 3 recommendations | 5 comments
Site Meter Records Simon and Schuster Interestin Truth About Kos (DailyKos) Blog ProjectThis post is an acknowledgement of the interest that one anonymous user at Simon and Schuster has expressed in learning about the "Truth About Kos (DailyKos)" Project, which I...
opinion by francislholland | 27 wks ago | updated 27 wks ago 75 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The Secret History of DailyKos' Founder and the Shadowy History of a Big Box Blog Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and The Truth About Kos (DailyKos).Having written letters to the editor of newspapers, including one published in the Boston Globe, and having...
opinion by francislholland | 28 wks ago | updated 28 wks ago 136 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos), the Francis L. Holland Blog and Pam'sHouseBlend.This post is in response to a post I read over at Jack and Jill Politics, entitled, "Jill [Contee] is Headed to Blogging While Brown on Friday."I'd be really interested to know...
opinion by francislholland | 28 wks ago | updated 28 wks ago 102 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Click here to get the HTML code for the above EasyWidget.Progressive are strongly supporting "wise Latina woman" Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination for the US Supreme Court. For example, African American blogger Atty. Francis L. Holland, whose previous efforts toward...
created by francislholland | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 119 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos) blog. "Overseas Private Investment Council Press Release (Full Text)"Some of us have wondered what Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) learned at the CIA during his two year "training" period there. SourceWatch.Org Covers...
created by francislholland | 31 wks ago | updated 31 wks ago 139 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments
The New York Times and the white supremacist group Storm Front share a belief that there are significant and fundamental "racial" differences between color and linguistic groups based upon and residing in their genetic heritage. Today, for example, Ian...
created by francislholland | 33 wks ago | updated 33 wks ago 310 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
The most disgusting and omnipresent cliché in journalism right now is "harsh" as a word to describe "torture, as in "harsh interrogation" (WaPost)and"harsh methods" (NYT).Look up the phrase"harsh interrogation"and you'll find it 247,000 times at Google. Look up "harsh...
opinion by francislholland | 37 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago 209 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments
The title of my recent article on Obama and the torture memos was an example of hyperbolic sarcasm. The article made it clear that the title "Obama Should Pardon the War Crimes Committed Under Bush" - was not intended as a statement of my opinion, but rather as a...
Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog.Many, many but not all Blacks, including Rep. Barbara Lee, (D-Calif.), are angry that President Barack Obama is boycotting a UN World Conference on Racism. I'm...
created by francislholland | 37 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago 221 views | 28 recommendations | 7 comments
'Let's Forgive and Forget' President Barack Obama has released the "Torture Memos" that make it clear that it was the policy of the Bush Administration, including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumseld, the military and the CIA to torture prisoners, even though...
opinion by francislholland | 37 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago 439 views | 26 recommendations | 9 comments
You can practically hear these MSM guys quaking with fear and anger-- and not just at the prospect of having to deal with 'citizen journalists', but at even having to accept their very existence. But as Faye...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 808 views | 35 recommendations | 7 comments
AfroSpear bloggers are encouraging Blacks to give "the gift of technology" to their children, parents and others, to empower them to communicate in the Internet Age, with recommended gifts of computers, digicams, broadband and open source software.This Christmas, the same...
created by ageorgegal | 2 years ago 356 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
MSNBC, NPR, The New Republic, regional papers and now national papers like the Los Angeles Times are profiling AfroSpear and Afrosphere bloggers.
Take a sneek peak:Attorney Wayne Bennett doesn't make waves...
created by ageorgegal | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 367 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments