Missing woman Mia Lynn Nichols found dead.

The body of a missing woman Mia Lynn Nichols of Baltimore has been found almost a year after she dissapeared.

I would like to give my condolences to Mia's family whom I had the chance to meet last year at Mia's vigil and to all of her family and friends. This one hurts a little more than the rest. If her family and friends were any indication Mia was a great person.

Read more on this story and here:http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/missingblackwomen.html

Why Michelle Obama's Hair Matters

Check out this great article by Time Magazine writer, Jenee Desmond Harris. The article is titled "Why Michelle Obama's Hair Matters"It discusses the debate going on in the African American Community between "natural" styles and processed or relaxed styles and which is more "black"

Read the article here:http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

Missing Black Woman Alert: Hattie Gertrude Brown is missing

Hattie Gertrude Brown of Halifax Virginia is missing. Learn more details and see her picture by using the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/missingblackwomen.html

My interview with local reporter covering possible serial killings of black women in Rocky Mount NC.

George Cook of Let's Talk Honestly Interviews reporter Mike Hixenbaugh of the Rocky Mount Telegram, the reporter covering the case of missing and murdered black women in Rocky Mount for the local paper. They discuss:

*How the police are handling the case. Is race a factor?
*How the locals in Rocky Mount feel.
*The overall lack of news coverage.
*The current status of the case.
*How Nancy Grace and Fox News both bumped stories about the murders, and more.

Use link below to listen to the interview: http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/LTHSpecialReport.html

The 9 Lives of Marion Barry. Monday Night on HBO

On August 10, 2009 on HBO at 9PM Eastern Time. The documentary follows the life of Marion Barry from militant, to civil rights leader, to mayor, to prisoner, to mayor of Washington DC again. Check out the trailer below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

Jossette Beeks is missing

Jossette Beeks of Kansas City is missing. It is important that she be found quickly because she may be in a dazed and confused state due to several strokes she has had.
Learn more and see her picture here:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/missingblackwomen.html

Don't forget Prom Night in Mississipi on HBO 07/20

Don't forget. Prom night in Mississippi adocumentary about segregated proms in Morgan Freeman's home town airs on HBO 07/20 at 9PM Eastern Time. Learn more and see some clips by using the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

Malcolm X: Afro-American History (January 1964)

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Malcolm X: Afro-American History (January 1964)

Another thing that you will find is that those who go to other places usually think of themselves as a minority. If you’ll notice, in all of their struggling, programming or even crying or demanding, they even refer to themselves as a minority, and they use a minority approach. By a minority they mean that they are lesser than something else, or they are outnumbered, or the odds are against them – and this is the approach that they use in their argument, in their demand, in their negotiation. But when you find those of us who have been following the nationalistic thinking that prevails in Harlem, we don’t think of ourselves as a minority, because we don’t think of ourselves just within the context of the American stage or the American scene, in which we would be a minority. We think of things worldly, or as the world is; we think of our part in the world, and we look upon ourselves not as a dark minority on the white American stage, but rather we look upon ourselves as a part of the dark majority who now prevail on the world stage. And when you think like this automatically, when you realize you are part of the majority, you approach your problem as if odds are on your side rather than odds are against you. You approach demanding rather than using the begging approach. And this is one of the things that is frightening the white man. As long as the black man in America thinks of himself as a minority, as an underdog, he can’t shout but so loud; or if he does shout, he shouts loudly only to the degree that the power structure encourages him to. He never gets irresponsible. He never goes beyond what the power structure thinks is the right voice to shout in. But when you begin to connect yourself on the world stage with the whole of dark mankind, and you see that you’re the majority and this majority is waking up and rising up and becoming strong, then when you deal with this man, you don’t deal with him like he’s your boss or he’s better than you or stronger than you. You put him right where he belongs. When you realize that he’s a minority, that his time is running out, you approach him like that, you approach him like one who used to be strong but is now getting weak, who used to be in a position to retaliate against you but now is not in that position anymore.

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Black on Black Crime

Black on Black CrimeJune 28, 2009
I wrote this poem after seeing another story about a black man being shot by police. While the outrage was justified I wondered why we don’t see the same level of outrage when one young black man kills another.

While police shootings and brutality are not the isolated incidents many try to make them out to be there is no comparison when it comes to the fact that black on black crime takes far more young black lives.

Until we ourselves show that we care about this issue there will be no way to stop it.

BLACK ON BLACK

We march when the cops beat us
We cry when our young men are attacked
But where is the outrage
When the attacker is black

Where are the “Civil Rights Leaders”
Where is the black press
When we are the causeo
f a sad and tragic death

Where are the bloggers
When it is us that sow the pain
Where are they at
When some us don’t act sane

Maybe the truth is
We just don’t care
Maybe it’s okay for us to kill each other
But a white cop better not dare

George Cook 2009
From the eBook Let’s Talk Honestly: One Black Man’s Thoughtswww.letstalkhonestly.com

Sad news. Nikki McPhatter found dead

In some very sad news missing woman Nikki McPhatter nhas been found dead in her car. If there is any solace to be taken it is in the fact police believe they have caught her killer. Read more by using the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/missingblackwomen.html

Domestic Violence in the Black Community, real talk

I am sure by now that many if not of you have heard of the Chris Brown Rihhana incident by now. Chris Brown was dead wrong and as bad as this whole thing was it has opened up the door for us to talk about the 500 pound goriilaa in the African American Community, Domestic violence. On this weeks show host George Cook discusses:

* The lack of male role models contributing to this problem.

*Black men have to step up and start protecting our women.

*The conflicting messgaes some boys get from some black women about hitting girls.

* Yes, girls hit too and do start fights with men.

*From a male perspective he wonders like many men do why more women don't just leave the situation and pleads for women to do so.

Listen to the show here: http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/LTHWEEKLY.html

Pamela Butler is missing

Pamela Butler of washington DC is missing. It is believed that she went missing on 02/12/09. Learn more about Pamela by using the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/missingblackwomen.html

Why are so many black men in prison?

Why are so many of our black men in prison. Reasons range from lack of education to lack of fathers involved in a child's life. Over 70% of men who don't get a high school diploma wind up in prison. Learn more by clicking the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/LTHWEEKLY.html

Black women struggle in the criminal justice system

..."Black women are caught in the net," Taifa said. "Black women disproportionately are caught up in the criminal justice system because of these bad crack cocaine laws. They are caught up with what I call the 'girlfriend problem'." Many of these women date or have relationships with these men and they get charged along with them to harsh sentences. Basically, they are the wrong person at the wrong time."


Read the entire article by clicking the link below:
http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

Black women struggle in the criminal justice system

..."Black women are caught in the net," Taifa said. "Black women disproportionately are caught up in the criminal justice system because of these bad crack cocaine laws. They are caught up with what I call the 'girlfriend problem'." Many of these women date or have relationships with these men and they get charged along with them to harsh sentences. Basically, they are the wrong person at the wrong time."

Read the entire article by clicking the link below:
http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

Take AIDS fight into black communities

Believe it or not It's been 17 years since Magic Johnson was diagnosed with HIV. He has been fighting for more awareness of thw AIDS?HIV Epidemic in black communities. With World AIDS Day coming up Magic Johnson has written a plea for African American Communities to step up and do more in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Read his plea by clicking the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

Jesse Jackson causing more trouble for Obama

It's obvious that Jesse Jackson didn't get the one sentence memo that Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, and Louis Farrakhan got. You know the one that read, "Shut the !@#$ up until November 5th!"

Jesse Jackson has made what can be considered anti-semitic remarks in a print interview and then said that while he is not part of the Obama campaign that Obama is "part of the family" Read the entire article and interview by clicking the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

Black women face higher rates of domestic violence

Here is a very a sad stat that should shock and upset good black men as well as black women. African-American women experience intimate partner violence at rates 35-percent higher than white women and about 22 times the rate of women of other races.That is sickening and has to stop. Beating women does not make you a man, not even close... Watch Yvette Cade, herself a survivor of a horrific domestic violence attack discuss this by clicking the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

African women risking health by bleaching skin

In a sad story that shows that black women all over the world are dealing with self esteem and beauty issues women in Uganda are putting their health at risk by bleaching their skin in an attempt to be more "beautiful". This has become such a problem that the government has now banned some bleaching creams and lotions. This story features a very sad a telling quote.

Consumers of bleaching cosmetics claim that they want to enhance their beauty. One woman who declined to be named, explains, “One has to look good, by having fair, lighter skin.” Read the entire story by clicking the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

My

Hi this is George Cook the owner of www.letstalkhonestly.com . I would like to invite you to listen to my interview with Tony Brown the host of the radio "Eyes Open with Tony Brown" which broadcast from KTTP 1110 AM in Louisiana. We talk about the Baron Pikes murder in Winnfield La. Mr. Brown broke the story about the murder of Baron Pikes on his daily morning show in La.

We discuss:

What took so long for the story of Baron Pikes January death to break.

What the US Justice Dept. is doing.

The Winnfield Police department violating it's own procedures when it comes to taser use.
Winnfield police chief Johnny Ray Carpenter.

The history of the officer that allegedly killed Baron Pikes.

The fact that Baron Pikes had no drugs in his system.

And much more about this disturbing case. You can listen to my interview by using the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/LTHSpecialReport.html