Political Radar: Author Toni Morrison Endorses Obama: "ABC News' Rick Klein and Sunlen Miller Report: Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison -- who famously declared Bill Clinton to be the nation's 'first black president' in a 1998 essay -- today endorsed Barack Obama for president, via letter from Morrison to the Illinois senator.
In it she writes, 'this opportunity for a national evolution (even revolution) will not come again soon, and I am convinced you are the person to capture it.'
Morrison writes of her admiration for Hillary Clinton but says she 'cared little for her gender as a source of my admiration'.
'Nor do I care very much for your race[s],' Morrison continues to Obama, 'I would not support you if that was all you had to offer or because it might make me 'proud.' '"
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Missing Black Women Online Ad
Online ad for Missing Black Women
You can sign the petition here http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/
Please check out this new short 1 minute video asking for more attention for missing black women. Feel free to use the link provided here to get the code for the video and post it in your blog or web site. You can watch the video below:
Click here for youtube code
Ophelia Devore 1922-
Ophelia DeVore is considered by many to have been the first woman of color to become a fashion model in the United States. She was born in Edgefield, South Carolina in 1922, the daughter of parents who were of European, African-American and Native-American heritage.
As a teenager, Ophelia was sent to New York to live with relatives. While there she developed an interest in modeling. She attended the Vogue School of Modeling, an institution which excluded woman of color. The school assumed she was a white girl with a suntan. In a 2002 interivew with Kerry Burke of the Columbia News Service, she talked about how naive she had been, thinking she'd been accepted for who she was. "I didn't know they didn't know...I never pretended to be anything I wasn't. I just sold talent," she said.
After modeling for two years she no longer felt the work was challenging. Like other people of color in early 20th Century America, Ophelia DeVore had grown up watching the media's negative protrayal of them, and she wanted to do something to help change it. She and a few friends started the Grace Del Marco Modeling Agency to sell the idea of black modeling to the advertising industry. Shortly after that she began the Ophelia DeVore School of Self Development and Modeling. Thousands of upon thousands of people have benefited from these two organizations, including such big names as Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson, Richard Roundtree, and Camille Cosby. Many success stories, indeed, but two of the earliest occurred in 1959 and 1960, when two of Ms DeVore's models were crowned Queen of The Cannes Film Festival.
Ms. DeVore attended New York's prestigious Hunter College High School and majored in mathematics at New York University. In addition to her modeling businesses, she was a fashion columnist for the Pittsburgh Courier. In 1970 she became the publisher of the Columbus Times, after its previous publisher, her husband, had passed away. She has served as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, has received appointments to Presidential committees and has been the recipient of hundreds of awards
More on Ophelia Devore at:
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/2484/Ophelia_DeVore_holds_a_savvy_attractiveness
Chris Matthews: Condi Rice Could Counter Obama’s “Ethnic Excitement”
Crooks and Liars » Chris Matthews: Condi Rice Could Counter Obama’s “Ethnic Excitement”: "Chris Matthews as been sticking his foot in his mouth (more so than usual) a lot this primary season and during MSNBC’s coverage of the State of the Union address tonight, he stepped in it again. Tweety made the suggestion that because Barack Obama has created an ethnic excitement in America, if he doesn’t get the nomination Condi Rice would make a great VP choice for a GOP candidate because black people might still be hopeful of putting an African American in higher government:
Matthews:”…And I have to think given the ethnic, you know, excitement - let’s call it American excitement about Barack Obama. If he doesn’t make it to the nomination a lot of people on the Republican side might say, well why don’t we try do something to offset that and take advantage of the hope of having an African American at a high level of government.”
This is wrong on so many levels, and certainly does nothing to end the media meme that race and gender are driving this primary season. Somehow, I don’t think Condi would motivate a lot of Democrats to vote for a Republican this year. He’s also echoing Robert Novak on this one too."
Matthews:”…And I have to think given the ethnic, you know, excitement - let’s call it American excitement about Barack Obama. If he doesn’t make it to the nomination a lot of people on the Republican side might say, well why don’t we try do something to offset that and take advantage of the hope of having an African American at a high level of government.”
This is wrong on so many levels, and certainly does nothing to end the media meme that race and gender are driving this primary season. Somehow, I don’t think Condi would motivate a lot of Democrats to vote for a Republican this year. He’s also echoing Robert Novak on this one too."
Monday, January 28, 2008
The Hovey Street Murders- Indianapolis, Indiana
Thank you Ann for this article. This should be a reminder that violence against women and children are at an all-time high in America. Most men have lost the meaning of chivalry when it comes to the most vulnerable people in society.
Also:
Arrests in Hovey Street Murders
Probable Cause in Hovey Street Murders
"I Ain't Kill Them Kids"- Indy Star Article
Also:
Arrests in Hovey Street Murders
Probable Cause in Hovey Street Murders
"I Ain't Kill Them Kids"- Indy Star Article
Friday, January 25, 2008
Hundreds turn out for ‘Free John White’ rally
Hundreds turn out for ‘Free John White’ rally RIVERHEAD, Long Island, N.Y. (FinalCall.com) - Chanting “Free John White!” “Free John White!” hundreds of demonstrators, Black, White and Latino, answered a call from the Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network to show up in front of the Suffolk County courthouse to protest the guilty verdict against John White, 54, of Miller Place, Long Island.
Mr. White faces a maximum of 15 years in jail after being convicted of manslaughter in the second-degree. His sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 21. The father and husband was convicted on Dec. 22 in the “accidental” shooting death of Daniel Cicciaro. He remains free on $100,000 bail; and his defense team is preparing an appeal.
“We come today as one community, because if they are allowed to invade and violate the property of one of us, then they will be allowed to invade and trespass on the property belonging to any of us,” Rev. Sharpton told the Jan. 5 gathering.
Mr. White, a construction foreman, has maintained that the shooting was unintentional, saying the 17-year-old lunged for the handgun, and it went off.
During the three-week trial, Mr. White’s lawyers maintained he felt threatened by five White teens who invaded his property after 11 p.m. on a week night, threatening to harm his son, Aaron, and rape his wife, Sonia. The lawyers told the jury that the drunken youths were reminiscent of southern lynch mobs.
Rev. Sharpton noted that police only focused on the shooting, ignoring the culpability of the “drunken White teens,” who according to testimony used racial epithets. “What amazes me,” said the longtime activist, “is how you start an investigation halfway after the events of the evening was over.” Suffolk County law enforcement officials did not start their investigation at the moment the teens “decided to trespass and menace the White family,” he said.
Mr. White faces a maximum of 15 years in jail after being convicted of manslaughter in the second-degree. His sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 21. The father and husband was convicted on Dec. 22 in the “accidental” shooting death of Daniel Cicciaro. He remains free on $100,000 bail; and his defense team is preparing an appeal.
“We come today as one community, because if they are allowed to invade and violate the property of one of us, then they will be allowed to invade and trespass on the property belonging to any of us,” Rev. Sharpton told the Jan. 5 gathering.
Mr. White, a construction foreman, has maintained that the shooting was unintentional, saying the 17-year-old lunged for the handgun, and it went off.
During the three-week trial, Mr. White’s lawyers maintained he felt threatened by five White teens who invaded his property after 11 p.m. on a week night, threatening to harm his son, Aaron, and rape his wife, Sonia. The lawyers told the jury that the drunken youths were reminiscent of southern lynch mobs.
Rev. Sharpton noted that police only focused on the shooting, ignoring the culpability of the “drunken White teens,” who according to testimony used racial epithets. “What amazes me,” said the longtime activist, “is how you start an investigation halfway after the events of the evening was over.” Suffolk County law enforcement officials did not start their investigation at the moment the teens “decided to trespass and menace the White family,” he said.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Lawyer, Jeffrey Schwartz vs Nixzmary Brown 7 year old Killed
A scum of the Earth lawyer in New York City att... (more)
Added: January 17, 2008
A scum of the Earth lawyer in New York City attacks and blames 7 year-old Nixzmary Brown for her own murder.
Iraqi Soldier Screams "White Power!"
YouTube - Iraqi Soldier Screams "White Power!": "A short break for soldiers in Iraq turns tense as an Iraqi-coalition soldier screams 'White Power,' gives the sieg heil salute, and calls an African-American serviceman 'Knee-gar'."
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Black Women and the Movie/Music Industrial Complex
Hat tip to Ann.
Hollywood tells us Black women: No need to apply unless you're applying for a two-bit maid/sapphire/prostitute role. This is how Hollywood and the larger society in general sees Black women today.
Ain't nothing changed.
Hollywood tells us Black women: No need to apply unless you're applying for a two-bit maid/sapphire/prostitute role. This is how Hollywood and the larger society in general sees Black women today.
Ain't nothing changed.
Please sign to help missing black women
Please sign my petition to get black women more coverage on cable news channels. You can sign here
http://www.petitiononline.com/mbw/petition.html
To: CNN, Fox News, MSNBC
While this started as a drive to get cases of missing African American Women and other women of color more air time on cable and news it is now a mission to get missing women of every ethnic group, race, or religion more air time by asking Cable Stations to devote just 30 seconds of air time per hour to the story of a missing woman. That would be 168 woman a week and 8736 women a year that would get at least some coverage on a national level. Please help me do this by signing my petion which wil be sent to CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. The may ignore 1 or 100 but they can't ignore thousands.
http://www.petitiononline.com/mbw/petition.html
To: CNN, Fox News, MSNBC
While this started as a drive to get cases of missing African American Women and other women of color more air time on cable and news it is now a mission to get missing women of every ethnic group, race, or religion more air time by asking Cable Stations to devote just 30 seconds of air time per hour to the story of a missing woman. That would be 168 woman a week and 8736 women a year that would get at least some coverage on a national level. Please help me do this by signing my petion which wil be sent to CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. The may ignore 1 or 100 but they can't ignore thousands.
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