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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Dr. Boyce Watkins Discusses the Heather Ellis Case
Dr Boyce Watkins discusses the Heather Ellis Case, the rally and plans to find justice for Heather and her family.
Dr. Elaina George Discusses Swine Flu on Michael Baisden - 10/20/09
Dr. Elaina and Michael Baisden break down the hype and misinformation about the Swine flu.
The Latest From News One – 10/27/09
NFL Player Larry Johnson Apologizes For Using Anti-Gay Slur
By Associated Press October 27, 2009 5:37 pm
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TAGS: homosexuality, NFL
ENTERTAINMENT
Disney’s First Black Princess Arrives At Theme Park
By News One October 27, 2009 5:07 pm
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TAGS: Disney
NATION
BIZARRE: Col. Sanders Bypasses Security, Enters United Nations
By News One October 27, 2009 4:38 pm
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TAGS: bizarre news, Colonel Sanders, KFC, United Nations
NATION
HBCUs Quietly Wage War Against Gangsta Rap
By News One October 27, 2009 3:40 pm
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TAGS: black students, HBCUs, hip hop, protests
NATION
OPINION: Three Reasons Spike Lee Is Wrong About Tyler Perry
By Dr. Boyce Watkins October 27, 2009 2:54 pm
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TAGS: Movies, Spike Lee, Tyler Perry
NATION
RNC Under Fire For Racist Obama Facebook Picture
By News One October 27, 2009 2:12 pm
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TAGS: Barack Obama, facebook, GOP, racism
NATION
Morehouse President Responds To Dress Code Controversy
By News One October 27, 2009 1:50 pm
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Police: Man Charged With Stabbing Death Of UConn Player
By Associated Press October 27, 2009 1:28 pm
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TAGS: campus violence, Jasper Howard, UConn, youth violence
Tyler Perry vs. Spike Lee
Watch Tyler Perry defend himself against Spike Lee's accusations of buffoonery on 60 minutes
Monday, October 26, 2009
SARAH PALIN ON THE OPRAH SHOW
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Former GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin and talk show host Oprah Winfrey will finally meet face to face on Monday, Nov. 16, when the hockey mom is due to appear on the show to promote her new book.
The appearance comes after months of accusations that Winfrey, a proud supporter of Palin's Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama, was refusing to interview the former Alaska governor.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Walter Currie Lives Near Heather Ellis - Set on Fire by a White Kid
To give you a picture of the location in which Heather Ellis fights for her freedom, meet Walter Currie, a 15-year old in nearby Poplar Bluff, who was set on fire by his classmates with the attacker allegedly yelling the words "Burn nigger burn" while he did it - visit SaveHeatherEllis.com.
Updates on The Heather Ellis Case
Heather Ellis is a college student facing15 years in prison for cutting line at Walmart - visit www.SaveHeatherEllis.com for more details on the national protest to be held in Kennett, MO on November 14.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Dr Boyce Web Chat: Megan Williams is Definitely a Liar
No matter what, Megan Williams is definitely a liar - the question is what did she lie about?
Lil Wayne's Cars: This is What He Had at the Age of 19!
Yes, it appears that Lil Wayne has made some money - we only hope he's been saving it.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Chris Rock Good Hair: Did It Bomb at Theatres?
Chris Rock is very emotional about criticism he has received since releasing good hair, saying that he disrespects black women and said that Oprah Winfrey looks like a slave - is any of this true?
Thursday, October 22, 2009
More Developments in the Heather Ellis Walmart Trial – She Faces 15 Years for Cutting Line
Heather Ellis, arm-in-arm with her mother, Hester Ellis, exits the Stoddard County Justice Center Wednesday afternoon following a pre-trial hearing in a case that has gained national attention.
Staff photos by Corey Noles
Case garners national attention, support from ACLU, NAACP and SCLC
A hearing in Bloomfield Wednesday afternoon brought out protestors including members of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
The case against Heather Renae Ellis of Kennett has garnered national attention from such groups as she tells her side of a story stemming from a Jan. 6, 2007 incident at the Kennett Walmart.
Heather Ellis (second from left with head bowed), gathered with supporters in a circle of prayer following Wednesday's court proceedings. About a dozen people representing family, friends, ACLU members and representatives of the NAACP, were present in the Stoddard County courtroom for Ellis' pre-trial proceeding. Leading the group prayer, at left, is Rev. Dwight Montgomery of Memphis, with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
As soon as court began, Judge Joe Satterfield made it clear that he would not tolerate any bad behavior in his courtroom.
"I know emotions have been high in this case," he said. "However, any outbursts will be dealt with swiftly."
Click to read.Black Health Tip: Avoid the Whites in Your Food
by Dr. Deborah Stroman, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Do you need a simple rule to begin a smart nutrition routine? Try to make a change in your diet by “avoiding the whites” – those additives that supposedly will make your food taste just right or have the right consistency. To live well and be healthy, we need to make changes that may feel uncomfortable at first and possibly illogical to friends and family.
Salt, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, accounts for nearly 150,000 premature deaths every year primarily due to complications from high blood pressure. We do need ~ 6g of salt per day to live. Sadly, the average intake of salt is between 9g and 10g a day! Salt is a commonly occurring mineral, the technical name of which is sodium chloride. It is the sodium part of salt that is important. Sodium helps to maintain the concentration of body fluids at correct levels. It also plays a central role in the transmission of electrical impulses in the nerves, and helps cells process nutrients.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Shocker: Man Arrested for Being Naked In His Own House?
You might want to think twice before getting naked in your house - a man faces a year in jail for being naked in his own house.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Woman Teaches Kids in Jail How to Get It Together with Beats, Rhymes and Poetry
T. Denise Manning is emerging as a leader for at-risk youth and teaching them how to get it together using a microphone, pad and pen as their weapons of choice.
Natural Remedies for the Swine Flu - Dr. Elaina George
Dr. Elaina George shares natural cures for the swine flu.
Your Black News - Racism? Boy Gets Set on Fire by His Classmates
Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 5:23 am
By: Denise Stewart, BlackAmericaWeb.com
A black Missouri teen, who last month was doused with gasoline and set afire by two white schoolmates, now faces charges himself as he recovers from burns over most of his body.
Walter Currie Jr., a 15-year-old in Poplar Bluff, Mo., was burned on June 13 after an exchange with two teens with whom he reportedly had a previous altercation.
The youth who allegedly doused him with the gasoline and lit the fuel has been charged with assault as a juvenile, Currie’s parents said.
On July 6, several weeks after the incident, authorities gave Currie and his parents notice that he is being charged in connection with another incident where a teen related to the youth who set him afire was hit in the face, said Winonia Currie, Walter’s mother.
“All of a sudden, they decided to charge him with something that happened on June 10, but Walter said he didn’t have anything to do with it,” she said.
Because all of the people involved are juveniles, court officials in Butler County, Missouri said they can give only limited details on the incidents and cannot discuss names.
“I can tell you that there are charges against everyone involved,” Lesi Smith, chief juvenile officer for Butler County, told BlackAmericaWeb.com.
Balloon Boy Busts His Parents on National TV
The "Balloon Boy" hoax was revealed on CNN, as the boy blurts out the truth on national TV - his parents appear to be embarrassed.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Woman Threatened by KKK after Leaving Walmart – She Faces 15 Years in Prison for Cutting Line
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, AOL Black Voices, Syracuse University, TheGrio.com
I mentioned the story before about Heather Ellis, the young woman who was threatened by the KKK after protesting about her arrest that took place in a Walmart store. The story was quite interesting in that Ellis now faces 15 years in prison for effectively cutting line at a Walmart. The unfortunate events occurred when Ellis was shopping with a cousin in Kennett, Missouri.
Heather and her cousin went to separate lines and when her cousin found the shorter line, Heather joined him. Ellis was then accused of cutting line by the person checking out customers, which led to an altercation. When Ellis was asked to leave the store, she argued with the managers, which led to the police being called. Ellis was eventually charged with disturbing the peace, resisting arrest and two counts of assaulting a police officer.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Obama Getting Chewed up by Comedians
"That's pretty amazing, winning the Nobel Peace Prize," Jay Leno said Friday night of President Barack Obama's latest accolade. "Ironically, his biggest accomplishment as president so far ... winning the Nobel Peace Prize."
That joke may be indicative of the TV comedy world sharpening its arrows a bit more when the current occupant of the White House is the target, The New York Times reports.
President Barack Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
The Times quotes Bob Lichter, who has tracked themes in late-night humor for 21 years, as saying "it will be telling to see how the comedians treat" the president's winning the peace prize: Is there now a caricature taking hold of a man more celebrated than accomplished?
Lichter, of George Mason University's Center for Media and Public Affairs, said it was too soon to tell whether the Oct. 3 Saturday Night Live skit suggesting that Obama has accomplished nothing is a "harbinger" or not. "The danger is that Mr. Obama is going to be defined by inaction and not living up to expectations," he said.
Click to read.KKK Gets Involved with Black Student's Walmart Case
The Ku Klux Klan threatened the student who rallied in response to facing 15 years in prison for cutting line at Walmart.
Dr Boyce Watkins: 15 Years for Cutting Line at Walmart?
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University, AOL Black Voices
In case you haven’t heard, there is a young woman in Kennett, Missouri who has gone through one of our worst nightmares. Three years ago, Heather Ellis was in a local Walmart shopping with her cousin. The two cousins decided to go in separate directions to find the shortest line. After seeing that her cousin’s line was shorter, Heather went to join him. That’s when things got strange.
Heather was accused of cutting line and the security guard was notified. According to Heather, she and her cousin repeatedly informed the guard that they were together, but that didn’t seem to matter. The police affidavit claims that Ellis was loud, belligerent and cursing when she was told to leave the store.
After police arrived, Ellis was taken to jail in front of her family. Her aunt, Lily Blackmon, arrived on the scene after receiving a call from her son about the incident. According to Blackmon, her niece’s head was being slammed against the police car and the officer only said “she cursed,” when asked why she was being treated so harshly.
Ellis was charged with disturbing the peace, trespassing, resisting arrest and two counts of assaulting a police officer. The young college student was then offered a plea bargain from Dunklin County Prosecutor, Stephen Sokoloff. The felony counts were reduced to one misdemeanor of disturbing the peace. However, Heather’s aunt believes that the offer was made so the family would not sue the police department.
Heather refused to take the plea deal, since she says she’d be lying if she admitted to committing a crime that day. Eleven months after the incident, the misdemeanor was surprisingly dropped. While this might seem to be good news, it wasn’t. The misdemeanors have been replaced by felony assault charges, carrying a maximum sentence of 15-years in prison.
Heather believes that the pending felonies have cost her two jobs and the chance to get into medical school. She still refuses to sign the plea deal. Either way, she has a reason to fight, and I want to fight with her. Heather’s case speaks to all of us: most of us have jumped the line at Walmart to be with a relative, and most of us know what it’s like to experience police abuse of authority. No matter how much cursing Heather might have done that day, she doesn’t deserve to go to prison. Also, if the prosecutor can reduce major felonies to one tiny misdemeanor, he could have dropped all the charges and let this woman go on with her education.
Dr. Boyce Watkins is a Professor at Syracuse University and founder of The Your Black World Coalition. To follow Dr Boyce on Twitter, please click here.
Fenorris Pearson and Steve Harvey Talk about Success
by Fenorris Pearson, CEO Global Consumer Innovation, Inc.
If you measure some of today’s top performers by yesterday’s gold standards, they simply wouldn’t measure up. Industry icons, business mavericks and game changers like Bill Gates, Walt Disney, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Rachel Ray and Michael Dell didn’t finish school or have a great education; and based on those two metrics alone, no one could have measured their full potential. By focusing only on such metrics, you might be missing the most valuable components of a person’s engine of success.
As a guest on Steve Harvey’s show, I was recently talking about success, potential and the wide gap between good grades and pure genius. Steve said something that I’ll never forget. When coming up “the hard way” he would interview for jobs or audition for various roles and, based on purely measurable qualifications – school records, his one-page resume, or whether he has movie star looks – he never quite measured up. “But what they couldn’t measure,” said Steve Harvey, “was how big my dream was…”
What a difference the power of dreams can make. As the star of The Steve Harvey Show, Steve won four NAACP Image Awards as “Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series.” He also won an NAACP Image Award for his performance as host of the variety series It’s Showtime at The Apollo. In March 2001, Harvey received the ultimate honor: NAACP Image Award’s “Entertainer of the Year,” and now has a NY Times best-selling book on the market.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Wilmer Leon Takes on the Healthcare Debate in a Different Way
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Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Howard University, Your Black World
According to 2008 US Census Bureau data, approximately 47 million, or 15.8 percent of the US population, were without health insurance during 2006 - a 4.9 percent increase. In 2005, census figures showed that 44.8 million people, or about 15.3 percent of the population, lacked health insurance coverage. According to a report released by the Institute on Medicine, the average cost of family health care coverage more than doubled from 1999 to 2008, from $1,543 to $3,354.
Based upon these realities, presidential candidate Obama made health care reform a central theme of his campaign. He promised to achieve universal health care in his first term and to cut the average family's health care health care costs by $2,500. In the on-going health care reform debate, it is very important to remember that as a result of this and other campaign promises, President Obama won the 2008 presidential election with 53 percent of the popular vote to Senator McCain's 46 percent and 68 percent of the Electoral College vote to McCain's 36 percent.
According to a New York Times/CBS News poll taken in June, 85 percent of respondents said the health care system needed to be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt. According to a June poll conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 83 percent of respondents favored and only 14 percent opposed "creating a new public health insurance plan that anyone can purchase." These numbers indicate that health care reform is very important to the American people.
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How to Protect Your Children from Abuse
Dr. Towanna Freeman, a leading youth advocate, was asked about the case of the 12-year old pregnant girl who was kidnapped by her father. When asked how people can protect their children, Dr. Freeman had this to say:
Sexual abuse can absolutely devastate a person’s life. No matter how small the act, it can take a lifetime to reverse the damages. Here are five easy steps you can take to protect your family and loved ones from sexual abuse.
1. Have open discussion about what is healthy sexual behavior and what is abusive sexual behavior.
2. Let children know they can come to you if they are not comfortable being around a particular adult or older child.
3. Talk openly and often about inappropriate sexual behavior that you see on television or hear about in the media.
4. Inform other adults or older children who spend time around or supervise the children that if the child does not want a hug or kiss, then a simple handshake is perfectly acceptable.
5. Finally, educate yourself to recognize warning signs that a child may have been sexually abused.
Life Coach, Management Consultant, Inspirational Speaker and Author. Principal consultant of Towanna Freeman & Associates and founder of the Young Women’s Empowerment Network, Towanna Freeman is a proven leader in developing and implementing successful leadership, teambuilding and strategic change initiatives in major corporations. Her particular expertise is in shaping corporate strategy and developing quantitative and qualitative measures of bottom-line benefits. To reach Towanna for speaking or media appearances, please call (901) 413-0203.
Pregnant 12 - Year Old Found with Her Father
A pregnant 12 year old and her sister were allegedly abducted by their adopted white father.
Dr Elaina George: Is the Swine Flu Vaccine Safe?
by Dr. Elaina George, Your Black World
I have had several patients ask me whether or not they should get the swine flu (H1N1) vaccine. My response has been the same. I will not be getting the vaccine because I don’t think it is safe.
I am an MD who was trained to practice medicine the old fashioned way. My education was based on understanding and treating disease. As a surgeon, I was taught that in some cases surgical correction is the most efficient and expedient way to fix a problem or cure a disease. In short, I have a healthy respect for the standard medical care that is practiced in this country.
However, over the past 10 years since I have been in practice, I have seen a disturbing trend that has become increasingly more common. Although we have the most advanced medical system in the world, the best trained physicians, and access to new and ever evolving medications, we as a nation and particularly the minority population are getting sicker at a younger age, and our quality of life is suffering. There are more people suffering from depression, anxiety, and learning disabilities than at any time in our history. Unfortunately, we have learned to manage diseases by taking a pill everyday instead of doing what it takes to prevent the illness in the first place. It is past time to look to good nutrition and prevention as a means of preventing and curing chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity and some cancers which have risen to epidemic levels.
When I made the personal decision to ask questions about the Swine flu vaccine, the answers that I discovered contradicted the mantra that has been championed by the media, government officials, and the vaccine manufacturers. What we are being told simply does not make any sense. The most important question that I have learned to ask (from the politics of healthcare to every other facet of our society that affects us as individuals) is - who stands to gain?
I will not be getting the swine flu vaccine because:
- The vaccine makers have been given immunity from being sued for any bad outcome
After the deaths and injuries associated with the Swine flu vaccination campaign in 1976, the vaccine manufacturers lost billions of dollars in civil suits. That cannot happen this time around. Congress has since passed two bills that shield vaccine makers from civil suits. The first in 1986 protects vaccine makers from civil suits filed by people who have been injured by a vaccine due to ‘unavoidable side effects’. In 2006 another iteration of the shield law (The Epidemic Preparedness Act) was passed as part of the Patriot Act and extends the shield to include protection if the drug maker has ‘no willful knowledge’ that a vaccine may cause injury. In short, a maker of the Swine flu vaccine simply has to say they didn’t know the vaccine was going to cause harm then they cannot be sued. This won’t be hard to do since they have not fully tested the vaccine.
- There are many ingredients in vaccines called adjuvants that are put in to stimulate the immune response
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