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This Week In Blackness: Ever Wanted To Dropkick Someone Who Tells You To “Get Over” Racism And Racists?

2 September, 2010 | Derrick Mathis | No Comment

We present good brotha Elon James White BREAKING IT DOWN: Racism is over. Just in case you weren’t aware of it, host Elon James White in the 9th installment of This Week in Blackness’s season 3 breaks it down. Hopefully after this Blacks will finally get over it.
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Tags: African American community, racism, This Week In Blackness
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Black Church Minister Behind Effort To Force State Defense Of Prop 8

1 September, 2010 | Derrick Mathis | 9 Comments

Pastor Joshua Beckley of San Bernardino's Ecclesia Christian Fellowship (he's not hard on the eyes, if we say so ourselves)

We noticed that all of the numerous LGBT news related outlets and blogs who’ve covered the petitioning by the Pacific Justice Institute on behalf of Pastor Joshua Beckley of San Bernardino’s Ecclesia Christian Fellowship—-to force the state’s Governor and the AG to defend Prop 8— none of them mention the ethnicity of Pastor Joshua Beckley. How odd…

NO PROB.’ WE’LL DO IT.
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Tags: African American community, Christian Right, homophobia, Prop 8, prop 8 defense, Prop 8 trial, State Politics
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NYT Book Review: The Lives Gained by Fleeing Jim Crow

30 August, 2010 | Derrick Mathis | No Comment

The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

By Isabel Wilkerson

622 pages. Random House. $30.

In a book that, quite amazingly, is her first, Ms. Wilkerson (a Pulitzer Prize-winning former Chicago bureau chief for The New York Times who is now professor of journalism and director of narrative nonfiction at Boston University) has pulled off an all but impossible feat. She has documented the sweeping 55-year-long migration of black Americans across their own country. She has challenged the dismissive assumptions that are sometimes made about that migration, treating it as a briefer and more easily explained event.
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MLK’s Niece Alveda King Speaks At Glenn Beck Rally

29 August, 2010 | Derrick Mathis | No Comment

On the 47th anniversary of her uncle’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Alveda King joined Glenn Beck at the same spot to bring people together in paying tribute to America’s soldiers and “restoring honor” to America. This is what black America has come to. Anyway up above is her full speech. Enjoy.

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Black Congress Member Busted, Gives Four Scholarships To Family; This Investigation Racist Too?

29 August, 2010 | Derrick Mathis | 1 Comment

Eddie Bernice Johnson

According to the Dallas Morning News congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson is in trouble for awarding thousands of dollars in college scholarships to four relatives and a top aide’s two children since 2005, using foundation funds set aside for black lawmakers’ causes.

The recipients were ineligible under anti-nepotism rules of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which provided the money. And all of the awards violated a foundation requirement that scholarship winners live or study in a caucus member’s district.
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Black Radio Getting The Snub From Meg Whitman And Jerry Brown?

29 August, 2010 | Derrick Mathis | No Comment

Exactly Jer. What up? Where's the love, dude?

Back in July News One Website posted a piece about Meg Whitman snubbing black radio.

Apparently she’s not alone. So is Jerry Brown according to LA’s KJLH Front Page Host Dominique DiPrima. The popular radio show host says she has repeatedly reached out to both Whitman and Brown and neither have returned her calls. This is despite their appearances on both Latino and mainstream radio talk shows this year.
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Tags: African American community, State Politics
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