By The Admin on April 26, 2010
Michael Jackson’s fedora, Ella Fitzgerald’s yellow dress and Louis Armstrong’s trumpet are together in a Smithsonian exhibit celebrating the famed Apollo Theater that helped these stars to shine.
The not-yet-built National Museum of African American History and Culture is bringing New York’s Harlem to the nation’s capital with the first-ever exhibit focused on the Apollo, where [...]
Posted in Outside of the Political Realm
By The Admin on April 24, 2010
A former Detroit city councilwoman who pleaded guilty to accepting bribes says she’s re-enrolled in divinity school since resigning from the council.
“I like it,” Monica Conyers, wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, said. “It gives me peace. With all this craziness, I should have fallen down, plopped over and killed myself. But I don’t [...]
Posted in Michigan, State & Local News
By The Admin on April 24, 2010
The National Association of Black Journalists named CNN’s Soledad O’Brien Journalist of the Year at its spring Board of Directors meeting.
O’Brien will join other top honorees at the association’s Salute to Excellence Gala, on July 31 in San Diego, during NABJ’s 35th Annual Convention and Career Fair, the largest gathering of minority journalists in the [...]
Posted in Media
By The Admin on April 24, 2010
The recent deaths of Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks, two icons of the civil rights era, nudge those who have come behind them closer to the control for which they have clamored.
It is a prospect that is at once enticing and intimidating for the movement’s heirs, who have waited years for their turn and a [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on April 24, 2010
JOE SWICKARD and JIM SCHAEFER, Detroit Free Press
- Kwame Kilpatrick has earned time in the county jail, but not a stretch in prison, a state corrections official said Friday.
“I think we are going to recommend incarcerated in jail, as opposed to prison,” said Russ Marlan, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections.
However, the ex-Detroit mayor’s [...]
Posted in Michigan, State & Local News
