Microsoft apologizes for changing race in photo to suit Clients

Barry Artiste Op/Ed and SatireIts nice to see Microsoft designing IT for countries world wide and suiting the tastes of their Clients needs.   One wonders what other photoshop tricks they have designed...

Bud Light, Red Stripe Beer & a Blue Moon Beer for Race Relations

Today, at 6pm EDT, President Obama will welcome Harvard Professor Heny Louis Gates Jr and Sergeant Jame Crowley to the White House.  Sergeant Crowley arrested Gates earlier this month for disorderly conduct...

Obama, Gates and Sgt Crowley To Be New Best Beer Drinkin Buddies?

Barry Artiste Op.EdYou have to hand it to President Obama, if this Pub Crawl and Beer Fest works between Gates, his arresting Officer Sgt Crowley turn out to be a New Best Pal Trio, then what a coup! I suppose it...

Black culture in France influenced by Obama's rise

There's an interesting piece in today's New York Times that highlights a little-discussed feature of French culture--that race is still largely a taboo topic in a country often thought of as the pinnacle of...

Embracing Hope: Why Obama Rocks My World

The world of my youth was a world of separation. The railroad tracks separated our town into black and white. There were two libraries, the Wilson County Public Library and the Wilson County Negro Library. Everyone ate barbecue from Parker's but my mother had to go to the...

The American Idol on Black and White TV.

The American Idol on black and white TV. Barack Obama will have to provide a lot more than empty rhetoric and having all his followers chanting kumbyya if he is ever to succeed to the presidency. A black leader just because he or she is black sitting in the White...

Happy Martin Luther King Day to Americans - Strongest People on the Planet! b...

Here is a video regarding Negro Spirituals and perhaps the most celebrated song ever written by a white songwriter:  http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=DMF_24cQqT0  What an emotional presentation!  I...

Obama, Iowa, and the Audacity of Hope

I am in a really good mood. Last night, Barack Obama won in Iowa. I am shocked but delighted. I am a cynic and I don’t have a lot of faith in humankind. I never thought that people would hear Obama’s message because I figured that they would be too busy focusing on the...

Tales of segregation, nooses and bigotry in Jena are distortions

"To Ben Reid, 61, who set down roots in Jena in 1957 and lived here through the civil rights era, "this whole thing ain't no downright, racial affair."Reid, who is black, presently serves on the LaSalle Parish...

Mainstream media starts to catch up on Jena... why so slow?

"Finally. On Monday, NPR's All Things Considered broadcast a story on the Jena 6. Other than coverage of the first trial of one of the defendants, Mychal Bell, by a print outlet, The Chicago Tribune (whose Jena stories now seem to be unavailable), this is the first...

Jena 6 update: NAACP gets involved, good old boys have some fun...

"...As Alan Bean, former Baptist preacher and activist who's been working in Jena and who attended the trial of Mychal Bell, the first of the Jena 6 defendants tried, reports at the Friends of Jena site, perhaps the perpetrators of the Jena crisis are the white men - the...

The mockingbird's song isn't heard in Jena, LA

"Today is the 46th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee's iconic novel about Southern race relations, To Kill a Mockingbird. This particular anniversary seems a bittersweet one, since the Jena 6 case suggests the central issue that Lee's novel explores - the...

The very long night of Rudy Giuliani

"So let's say you're Rudy Giuliani - darling of the media for turning New York City into Disney World, fawned over as the Saint of 9/11 and a "national security authority" simply for being mayor of a city that was hit by a terrorist attack, and considered...

Musings of a Colored Girl

Editor's Note: I discovered this gem by going back and looking at all of our stories for the last 7 days. Somehow it was missed by everybody. Deservers to be read - especially this, Black History Month.  In 1955, my mother gave birth to a colored girl. Somewhere along...

Home Selling point - No black people Allowed

A suburban development in Utah is in hot water for making the lack of black people a selling point

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