Natalie Randolph, first woman named coach of high school football team

Natalie Randolph, first woman named coach of a high school football team.

Natalie Randolph an African American woman has been named head coach of the varsity football team at Calvin Coolidge Senior High School in Washington DC. She is believed to be the first woman to be named a head coach at the High School level.

Read more by using the link below:

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

I don't speak white.

Hi this is George Cook and I wanted to share with everyone this article I read by Taylor Trammell. She is a senior in High school at Detroits Mumford High School. The article deals with how it feels to be told that you "speak white" and what this one remarkable young lady has gone through.

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

Some new black history. First black woman named to lead any states National Gaurd

On Feb. 1, 2010 Brigadier General Mary J. Kight was named as the first female adjutant African-American female National Guard adjutant general in the nation. She will be in charge of the California National Gaurd. Read more here:

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

Missing Black Woman Alert: Porsha Delano is missing

Missing Black Woman Alert. Porsha Delano of Chicago has been missing since 01/16/10 Learn more:

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

25 influential black women in business

The Network Journal, an award-winning business magazine providing news and commentaries on issues that affect the growth of businesses and the advancement of professionals in the workplace for an audience of predominantly African-American professionals, corporate executives and small-business owners, announces its 2010 list of “25 Influential Black Women in Business.”. Read the list by using the link below:

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

Sad news. Missing woman Angela Moore found dead

Sad news. I reported on the dissapearance of Angela Moore last week. Sadly the body of Angela Moore has been found.

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

Timberland recalls children's boots due to lead hazard

Back on Dec 19, 2009 Timberland issued a recall for children's boot due to lead paint hazard. Learn more and get the model numbers by using the link below:

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

Emma & Daunte Culpepper: The Black Blind Side

I'm sure by now must have heard the story of Michael Oher who was adopted by a white family and made it to the NFL beacuse of the blockbuster movie "The Blind Side". But how many know that one time NFL star Daunte Culpepper was also adopted? How many know that his adoptive mother was black? Her name was Emma Culepper. Read an article from 1999 about this amazing woman that passed away in 2007 by using the link below:

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

Black people, let's make 2010 a year of fitness and good health

George Cook of www.letstalkhonestly.com ask African Americans to exercise and to take better care of themselves in 2010. Too many are dying from illnesses that could be avoided altogether if people were in better haelth. He also discusses why the Wi Fit may be the greatest thing ever....lol. Watch the 2 minute video by using the link below:

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

Great story! Mother & daughter graduate college together

University of Louisiana at Monroe. Reva McMillan received her bachelor's degree in sociology and Maria McMillan received the bachelor's degree in health sciences she needed to become a registered nurse. Read more here:

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

Missing Black Woman Alert: Elizabeth Turner is missing

Elizabeth Turner of Omaha Nebraska has been missing since Novemver 11, 2009. To complicate matter she also suffers from schizophrenia. Learn more about her and see her picture here:

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

Ohio Killing Again Black Women Not Worth The Media Coverage

Stacey Lewis, Natasha Johnson and Yolando Brown discuss why more women groups and minority organizations aren't demanding Black women get the same media coverage when they go missing. [url=http://www.everywaywoman.com/]http: //www.everywaywoman.com/[/url]

Missing Black Woman Alert: Jerryell Myesha Foster is missing

Missing Black Woman Alert. Jerryell Myesha Foster of Baltimore is missing. Use the link below to see her picture and to get a description:

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

Houses of Horror by Sikivu Hutchinson

Relatives searching for missing victims

Mother holding flyer of her missing daughter

Houses of Horror
by Sikivu Hutchinson

Sexualized violence permeates the reality and culture of American life. But in poor locales of Black America, those who prey on women are too often allowed to “hide in plain sight” by a police mentality that obscures the lines between victims and predators. Even as the horror of the mass murders in Cleveland began to surface, “some of the Internet stories of the missing evoked the stereotype of drug-addicted black women, alluding to their being prostitutes and transients.”

Houses of Horror
by Sikivu Hutchinson

“Sexualized violence continues to be a national unaddressed epidemic.”

House of horrors. Nightmare on X Street. Shiftless apathetic residents with criminal pasts. Throwaway victims with dead-end lives. Over the past several weeks the news cycle has churned with high profile examples of systematized violence against women and embattled communities of color. The Richmond High gang-rape incident, the Department of Justice’s egregious findings on untested DNA rape kits and the Cleveland serial killer case have all demonstrated that sexualized violence continues to be a national unaddressed epidemic. When news of convicted rapist turned serial killer Anthony Sowell’s Cleveland killing spree broke recently the media dove in feet first with its boilerplate on black urban dysfunction. In incredulous narrative after incredulous narrative, black criminal pathology, neglect, neighborhoods saturated with and inured to violence were all on lurid display.

The Cleveland story received more coverage than is normally devoted to poor black communities. Yet the coverage was noteworthy for its relentless focus on the macabre circumstances of the discoveries in Sowell’s house. Lost in the mainstream outrage over the house of horrors was the specter of decades-long neglect by the local police. Cleveland residents have long complained about the lack of police follow-through on missing person cases in the community. In language that echoed the sentiments expressed by black communities from South L.A. to North Carolina, Cleveland community members weighed in on the lack of coverage, exposure and law enforcement presence around local efforts to track their missing. Some of the Internet stories of the missing evoked the stereotype of drug-addicted black women, alluding to their being prostitutes and transients. With their spotty pasts and run-ins with the law the two Sowell victims who were positively identified were portrayed as textbook examples of black female criminality. And what bigger contrast could there be to nationally mourned white female abduction victims who are invariably depicted as apple-cheeked pictures of unblemished innocence.

This is so true when it comes to serial killings of Black women. It seems like history repeats itself. It happened in the 70s Boston. It happened in S.Central LA in the early eighties. It happened in Charlotte, N.C., with serial killings of 11 Black women by Henry Louis Wallace in the 90s. It happened in Peoria, IL, when a white man killed seven Black women in the early 2000s. It's still going on in Rocky Mount, N.C., and in Los Angeles, CA., with the Grim Sleeper Murders. The mainstream media prefer to concentrate on pretty missing white women such as Natalee Holloway, Laci Peterson, Stacy Peterson. Asian women such as Annie Le. The victims of serial killer Ted Bundy are still remembered. They received far more press than victims of Color. Not one serial murder case involving Black women victims get the People magazine coverage. Not one.

“Lost in the mainstream outrage over the house of horrors was the specter of decades-long neglect by the local police.”

In the mainstream narrative, unruly, criminal, illicit black women, the kind who “invite” rape anyway, are hardly worthy of mention must less sympathy. Thus, Sowell was able to hide in plain sight because of the presumption of guilt that the criminal justice system associates with black communities. As a parolee in a criminalized community it was easy for him to rack up multiple victims. It was easy for him to let these murdered women literally decompose in plain view on his living room floor because of the belief that black communities are cesspits and black lives are not worth protecting.

Exactly!

In a more “rarefied” sector of the East Coast another misogynist house of horrors is being buttressed in the name of “healthcare reform.” Nancy Pelosi and her lawless Blue dog Democrat posse in the House of Representatives have voted to include an amendment to the healthcare bill that would deny women the right to abortion coverage. Under the terms of a private healthcare exchange in the misnamed public option women could not purchase plans from private insurers who provide abortion coverage. This provision would essentially create a two or three tier system in which wealthier women would once again be able to fund abortions and poorer women would be left to back alley quacks and coat hangers. Black and Latino women, who are disproportionately un- and under-insured, and have the most to lose from unwanted pregnancies, would be the most deeply impacted. And with the draconian conservatives in the Senate trotting out their mangled bill in a month, the real white collar state sanctioned violence against women will be on full display.

Sikivu Hutchinson is the editor of blackfemlens.org and a commentator for KPFK 90.7FM Los Angeles.

New guidelines for mammograms could hurt black women.

New recommendations from the government on when women should begin getting mammograms and how often they should done could have a very negative effect on black women as they have a higher rate of death due to late detection. Read more on this and the American Cancer Society's guidelines om mammograms here:

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

Disney has a new black princess, but do little girls care?

Disney now has a new black princess which seems much more important to adults than little girls of all races. They are just happy to have a new princess regardless of color. Maybe this is an instance where adults can learn from our little ones. Read the a great story on this by using the link below:

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

An Open Letter To Black Women: Why You Are Beautiful

Check out this open letter from Leonard Pitts a black man and Miami Herald writer in which he not only states that black women are beautiful but explains why:

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

Posts by Fellow Bloggers November-2-2009

Von from Black Conscious Thought wrote about the infrequency of BF/WM relationships in America:

http://blackconsciousthought.blogspot.com/2009/10/well-i-said-it-way-back-when-black.html

From Stuff White People Do:

Americans' tendency to homogenize 50 African countries into one big country called Africa, ignoring cultures, races, religions, and governments. As if they are all alike without any individuality

http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2009/10/homogenize-people-from-over-fifty.html

From Siditty:

Black face is making a comeback. It's not just from Tyra, though. Magazines and TV shows employ the use of Blackface as well.

http://siditty.blogspot.com/2009/10/blackface-has-made-comeback-thanks-tyra.html

From Brian Beach of Dayton, Ohio:

Infiltrating the Enemy: Hategroups such as Chimpout at:

http://sociallyblogwards.blogspot.com/2009/10/infiltrating-enemy-stupid-white.html

From Dovesblood:

"I Spent Three Hours At Nixzmary's Apartment" at:

http://www.nixzmarybrown.info/2009/10/i-spent-3-hours-in-nixzmarys-apartment.html

Missing Black Woman Alert: Lisa Spence is missing

Lisa Spence of Miramar Florida has been missing since October 7, 2009. Click the link below to see her picture and learn more:

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

Eating Disorders & African Americans

Eating disorders are illnesses most frequently found in young women, although boys and young men are also victims. We often hear of high school and college girls plus fashion models being afflicted with these disorders, but we don't often hear about the problem in women of color. Click the link below to watch the stories of two black women comabting eating disorders:

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