By The Admin on June 29, 2009
Twenty years later, the trash can is still crashing through America’s window.
At the climax of Spike Lee’s 1989 drama “Do The Right Thing,” the eternal battle between love and hate teeters on a razor’s edge. The young black man Radio Raheem has been choked to death by white police after a fight with a Brooklyn [...]
Posted in Featured, Media, Race
By The Admin on June 28, 2009
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
- The strange story of Michael Jackson is especially strange for his loyal black fans, who watched with pride as he became the biggest entertainer of the last quarter-century.
Yet loving Michael Jackson – his artistic genius and the many trails he blazed – has often meant looking the other way when it [...]
Posted in Media
By The Admin on June 28, 2009
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
- Dr. Conrad Murray can’t win. The Michael Jackson family through their surrogate Reverend Jesse Jackson hints that the doctor may have done something terribly wrong in the death of Jackson. Jackson fans were brutal. On the website vitals.com that rates physicians there were more than 100 comments (as of Saturday). The writers [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
By The Admin on June 27, 2009
On the day City Councilwoman Monica Conyers stepped into a federal courtroom at home in Detroit to plead guilty to bribery, her husband was at home in Washington. Several of Rep. John Conyers’ colleagues in the U.S. House said they weren’t aware his wife could soon wind up spending five years in prison.
Rather than take [...]
Posted in Michigan, State & Local News
By The Admin on June 27, 2009
Mark Schlueb, Orlando Sentinel
- Florida Republican leaders are trying to capture ground they’ve historically ceded to the Democratic Party — the black news media.
Friday, managers of black-owned newspapers and radio outlets told Florida GOP Chairman Jim Greer there’s a simple way to get more attention for conservative issues and candidates: money.
“At the end of the [...]
Posted in Party Politics
