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...
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...
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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...
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...
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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.
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...
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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...
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...
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"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...
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"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...
"...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...
"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...
"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...
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...
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