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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Your Black News: Chris Matthews Says He Forgot Obama was Black
From the Huffington Post:
Chris Matthews is definitely going to take some heat for exclaiming that he “forgot [Obama] was black tonight for an hour… I said wait a minute, he’s an African American guy in front of a bunch of other white people.” Matthews was analyzing President Obama’s first State of the Union speech when he made the remark.
Monday, January 25, 2010
African American News: Teen Violinist Beaten By Cops
PITTSBURGH – The photos taken by Jordan Miles’ mother show his face covered with raw, red bruises, his cheek and lip swollen, his right eye swollen shut. A bald spot mars the long black dreadlocks where the 18-year-old violist says police tore them from his head.
Now, 10 days after plainclothes officers stopped him on a street and arrested him after a struggle that they say revealed a soda bottle under his coat, not the gun they suspected, his right eye is still slightly swollen and bloodshot. His head is shaved. The three white officers who arrested him have been reassigned. And his mother says she is considering a lawsuit.
“I feel that my son was racially profiled,” Terez Miles said. “It’s a rough neighborhood; it was after dark. … They assumed he was up to no good because he’s black. My son, he knows nothing about the streets at all. He’s had a very sheltered life, he’s very quiet, he doesn’t know police officers sit in cars and stalk people like that.”
A judge continued the case until Feb. 18 after the officers failed to appear at a hearing Thursday, Miles’ attorney, Kerrington Lewis, said. The police department is saying little as it investigates, and isn’t releasing the officers’ names.
Your Black News from TheGrio – 1/25/10
Mo'Nique wins Screen Actors Guild Award for role in 'Precious'
By theGrio
11:40 AM on 01/24/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mo'Nique's trophy came for her searing portrayal of an abusive mother in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire."
Reporter's notebook: Witnessing a miracle in Haiti
10:05 AM on 01/24/2010
DISPATCH - Seventy-two hours. That is the window of time most experts give for finding survivors of a disaster. Yesterday a 24-year old Haitian man was pulled alive from a pile of rubble...
Teen violist alleges Pittsburgh police brutality
By theGrio
11:18 PM on 01/23/2010
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The photos taken by Jordan Miles' mother show his face covered with raw, red bruises, his cheek and lip swollen, his right eye swollen shut...
theGrio's Todd Johnson talks to MSNBC about being on the ground in Haiti
By theGrio
9:05 PM on 01/23/2010
VIDEO - MSNBC's Monica Novotny talks with theGrio.com's digital journalist Todd Johnson about his coverage in Haiti. Johnson spent a week in Haiti and covered...
Vick shows rebuilt life on BET docu-series
By theGrio
5:51 PM on 01/22/2010
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Michael Vick returned to the site of his gruesome dogfighting crimes, looked at an empty dog bowl left behind in a dingy cage...
After 'mistakes,' Yele Haiti gets new accountants
By theGrio
5:01 PM on 01/22/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The announcement came hours before Jean was to headline a globally broadcast concert called "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief"...
Jackson estate administrators want cut of profits
By theGrio
4:59 PM on 01/22/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two men administering Michael Jackson's estate are seeking 10 percent of profits they're able to generate from the late pop superstars work...
Mistress buys billboards to expose relationship with Obama adviser
By theGrio
4:55 PM on 01/22/2010
VIDEO - The billboards, reportedly placed in New York, Atlanta, and San Francisco, point people to a website that catalogs in meticulous photographic detail a long romance...
Prince pens tune about Minnesota Vikings
By theGrio
4:10 PM on 01/22/2010
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The "Purple Rain" songsmith penned "Purple and Gold" after he saw the Vikings beat Dallas at the Metrodome last weekend...
Defiant Obama urges Congress to pass jobs bill
By theGrio
3:18 PM on 01/22/2010
ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) - Obama weaved angry us-against-them rhetoric throughout the day, telling a town hall audience that he "will never stop fighting" for an economy that works for the hard-working...
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Beyonce and Jay-Z Dominate Other Celeb Couples
What makes more than an uber-celebrity who earns millions per movie, album, or TV season? Two uber-celebrities who just happen to be married. Forbes is always giving us a behind-the-scenes peek at famous finances—don't tell us you weren't surprised by the top-earning dead celebrities—and their latest list shows the famous couples who made the most from June 2008 to June 2009. Topping the list—actually, clobbering the list (they made almost twice what the #2 couple grossed)—are Jay-Z andBeyonce. Together, they banked $122 million smackeroos. Interestingly, Beyonce is the one who brought home the most bacon—she earned $87 million to his $35 million. Also notable: While this is a massive amount of money, it's actually much less than these two made last year, when they pulled in $162 million cumulatively.
Clark Atlanta University Draws the Ire of Investigators
The firing of nearly one-quarter of the full-time faculty members at Clark Atlanta University a year go led to an investigation by the American Association of University Professors.
The investigatory committee has just released its report about the sudden termination of 55 faculty member, concluding that the college’s actions were egregious.
Among the findings:
The administration selected the particular faculty members for dismissal without any discernible prior consultation with appropriate faculty bodies. The administration in its selections also paid no heed to the rights of tenured over nontenured faculty with respect to retention.
- By not affording the dismissed faculty members opportunity for a hearing before a body of faculty peers, the Clark Atlanta University administration denied them academic due process to which they were entitled under stated university regulations as well as Association-supported standards.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Black News: Cynthia McKinney Speaks on Haiti
President Obama's response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first responders and their specialized equipment; doctors and medical facilities and equipment; and engineers, heavy equipment, and heavy movers. Sadly, President Obama is dispatching Presidents Bush and Clinton, and thousands of Marines and U.S. soldiers. By contrast, Cuba has over 400 doctors on the ground and is sending in more; Cubans, Argentinians, Icelanders, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and many others are already on the ground working--saving lives and treating the injured. Senegal has offered land to Haitians willing to relocate to Africa.
The United States, on the day after the tragedy struck, confirmed that an entire Marine Expeditionary Force was being considered "to help restore order," when the "disorder" had been caused by an earthquake striking Haiti; not since 1751, 1770, 1842, 1860, and 1887 had Haiti experienced an earthquake. But, I remember the bogus reports of chaos and violence the led to the deployment of military assets, including Blackwater, in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. One Katrina survivor noted that the people needed food and shelter and the U.S. government sent men with guns. Much to my disquiet, it seems, here we go again. From the very beginning, U.S. assistance to Haiti has looked to me more like an invasion than a humanitarian relief operation.
Would Dr. Martin Luther King Support Obama
Dr. Boyce Watkins on MSNBC Live discussing if Dr. King would support President Obama's policies
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Haiti earthquake: People questioning Wyclef
Haiti's musician Wyclef Jean, left, arrives at the airport in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, the day after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit his country. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
(AP)
Groups that vet charities are raising doubts about the organization backed by Haitian-born rapper Wyclef Jean, questioning its accounting practices and ability to function in earthquake-hit Haiti.
Even as more than $2 million poured into The Wyclef Jean Foundation Inc. via text message after just two days, experts questioned how much of the money would help those in need.
"It's questionable. There's no way to get around that," said Art Taylor, president and chief executive of the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance, based in Arlington, Va.
Taylor reviewed Internal Revenue Service tax returns for the organization also known as Yele Haiti Foundation from 2005 through 2007. He said the first red flag of poor accounting practices was that three years of returns were filed on the same day — Aug. 10 of last year.
In 2007, the foundation's spending exceeded its revenues by $411,000. It brought in just $79,000 that year.
click to read.Thursday, January 14, 2010
Black News: Pat Robertson’s Racist Comments About Haiti
Pat Robertson, the evangelical Christian who once suggested God was punishing Americans with Hurricane Katrina, says a "pact to the devil" brought on the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
Officials fear more than 100,000 people have died as a result of Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti.
Robertson, the host of the "700 Club," blamed the tragedy on something that "happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it."
The Haitians "were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever," Robertson said on his broadcast Wednesday. "And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, 'We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.' True story. And so, the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal.' "
Native Haitians defeated French colonists in 1804 and declared independence.
"You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other." Robertson has previously linked natural disasters and terrorist attacks to legalized abortion in the United States. Soon after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,800 and wreaking unprecedented devastation on New Orleans, Louisiana, Robertson weighed in with his own theory.
Click to readWednesday, January 13, 2010
Dr. Boyce Watkins Talks With MSNBC Live
Dr. Boyce Watkins Talks With MSNBC Live about the need for a national conversation on race.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The People's Scholar Talks About Race Conversations on CNN American Morning
Dr. Boyce Watkins Talks With CNN American Morning about the need for a national conversation on race.
Monday, January 11, 2010
News: Did Bill Clinton Attack Obama’s Race?
From The New York Daily News
Bill Clinton helped sink his wife’s chances for an endorsement from Ted Kennedy by belittling Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate.
“A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee,” the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts, according to the gossipy new campaign book, “Game Change.”
The book says Kennedy was deeply offended and recounted the conversation to friends with fury.
After Kennedy sided with Obama, Clinton reportedly griped, “the only reason you are endorsing him is because he’s black. Let’s just be clear.”
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Senator Harry Reid - Racism or Poor Choice of Words
Dr. Boyce Watkins on CNN discussing Senator Harry Reid's "Light Skinned and Negro Dialect" comment
Friday, January 8, 2010
Black News: The Latest on Newsone.com– 1/8/10
NATION
Officer Charged With Oscar Grant’s Murder Appears In Court
By News One January 8, 2010 6:05 pm
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TAGS: BART, Bay Area, Oscar Grant, Police brutality
NATION
Joe Biden’s Mother Dies At 92
By Associated Press January 8, 2010 5:22 pm
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TAGS: Joe Biden
NATION
Census Estimate: D.C. Black Population Is Shrinking
By News One January 8, 2010 5:05 pm
Read more about Census Estimate: D.C. Black Population Is Shrinking
TAGS: census, Washington D.C.
NATION
Gingrich Says Republicans Are Nervous Around Michael Steele Because He’s Black
By Associated Press January 8, 2010 4:10 pm
Read more about Gingrich Says Republicans Are Nervous Around Michael Steele Because He’s Black
TAGS: GOP, Michael Steele
NATION
L.A. To Train Anti-Gang Workers In New Academy
By Associated Press January 8, 2010 3:30 pm
Read more about L.A. To Train Anti-Gang Workers In New Academy
TAGS: California, crime, Gang Violence, Los Angeles
SPORTS
Andre Dawson Elected To Baseball Hall Of Fame
By Associated Press January 8, 2010 2:52 pm
Read more about Andre Dawson Elected To Baseball Hall Of Fame
TAGS: Andre Dawson, Baseball, black achievement, black athletes, MLB
ENTERTAINMENT
Source: DA To Seek Indictment Of Jackson Doctor
By Associated Press January 8, 2010 1:58 pm
Read more about Source: DA To Seek Indictment Of Jackson Doctor
TAGS: black celebrities, celebrity deaths, Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson
NATION
Fewer Black Students Being Admitted To Law Schools
By News One January 8, 2010 1:38 pm
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TAGS: black lawyers, black students, education, law school
Black News Headlines – 1/8/10
Man Allegedly Locks 7-Year old Daughter in Dryer, Turns it On
- Steve McClairin was arraigned Wednesday morning on several charges, including two counts of ... Read More
- By Boyce Watkins, PhD on Jan 8th 2010 8:46AM | Comments (0)
Audra McDonald: Already Off to a Great Start for 2010
- 2010 is off to a great start for acclaimed actress Audra McDonald. On Jan.7, the 'Private ... Read More
- By Bridget Bland on Jan 8th 2010 8:08AM | Comments (0)
Creating The Good Life--Day 2
- Your Daily Inspiration for Friday January 08, 2010: I have a divine purpose to my life, that is ... Read More
- By Barry Johnson on Jan 8th 2010 5:05AM | Comments (0)
Around the Web: Keyshia Cole Engaged or Married, Beyonce and Gaga Reunite Again, Gary Coleman Hospitalized & More
- Married With Children? Someone isn't singing 'I Just Want it to Be Over' anymore. Cleveland ... Read More
- By Bridget Bland on Jan 7th 2010 11:11PM | Comments (0)
Luv Coach Q&A: Polygamy
- I am a 47 year old divorcee that got involved with a married man. He is 55 and explained in ... Read More
- By Rebecca Brody on Jan 7th 2010 8:26PM | Comments (0)
Kanye West Compares Himself to Maya Angelou
- Kanye West is at it again. The man with the brilliance that makes for good legend also seems to ... Read More
- By Boyce Watkins, PhD on Jan 7th 2010 8:11PM | Comments (4)
J-Boog from B2K Speaks Up on His Domestic Violence Allegations
- Jarell Damonte Houston (also known as "J-Boog") has finally broken his silence about the nasty ... Read More
- By Boyce Watkins, PhD on Jan 7th 2010 8:08PM | Comments (0)
Notable/Quotable: Damon Dash on Jay-Z Going Corporate
- "I'm indie, and Jay went corporate. I wanted to do something [with Rocawear] more tailored, more ... Read More
- By Brennan Williams on Jan 7th 2010 5:52PM | Comments (0)
Lee Daniels Edges Clint Eastwood for DGA Nomination and History
- The Directors Guild of America just announced its nominees for its 2010 award, and among the chosen ... Read More
- By Wilson Morales on Jan 7th 2010 5:30PM | Comments (1)
Gilbert Arenas Gun Incident: How Serious is the Gun Charge Anyway?
- Most of us wonder just how much trouble Gilbert Arenas might be in for his recent gun situation. ... Read More
- By Dr. Boyce Watkins, PhD on Jan 7th 2010 5:00PM | Comments (2)
Black Journalists Fight for Census Bureau Funds: Black People Must Be Counted
- The National Newspapers Association (NNPA), an association for black journalists, has asked the ... Read More
- By Boyce Watkins, PhD on Jan 7th 2010 4:25PM | Comments (3)
The G-Spot: Rumor or Real?
- The G-spot isn't exactly the GPS-spot; navigation for it doesn't exist and directions to its ... Read More
- By Mason Jamal on Jan 7th 2010 4:01PM | Comments (4)
Ex-NBA Star Jayson Williams in Trouble Again
- It looks like more hard times for disgraced and troubled NBA star Jayson Williams. After his ... Read More
- By Paul Shepard on Jan 7th 2010 3:14PM | Comments (0)
Two Girls, 12 and 14, Rob a Bank and Are on the Run
- Police are still searching for two Ohio teens that robbed a bank Tuesday afternoon. The young ... Read More
- By Boyce Watkins, PhD on Jan 7th 2010 3:11PM | Comments (6)
Viola Davis: Academy Award Nominee to Join Denzel Washington in 'Fences' on Broadway
- As of late, Viola Davis has been a fixture on the big screen -- earning an Academy-Award nomination ... Read More
- By Bridget Bland on Jan 7th 2010 2:22PM | Comments (1)
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Political News: Legal Analyst Comments on Gilbert Arenas Gun Charges
Elliot Millner, Legal Advisor for the YBW Coalition, had this to say about the gun charges for NBA Star, Gilbert Arenas:
“It is still very early in the criminal investigation of Gilbert Arenas, and many facts are still unclear, however Arenas could be in some trouble. First, Arenas has prior gun-related charges, having plead no contest to a misdemeanor charge of illegally possessing a concealed weapon while in California in 2003. Also, Arenas not only has D.C. authorities to answer to, but possibly Virginia police as well, given that he transported his guns from Virginia into D.C. It has been mentioned that Arenas may not have had proper registration for the guns in question, and also may have lacked a concealed weapons permit. Virginia accepts concealed weapons permits from certain other states, so that could work in Arenas favor if he had a concealed license permit from another state. In addition, even in regards to registered guns, D.C. prohibits guns deemed to be particularly "unsafe", so if any of Arenas' guns fall in that category, it could lead to other charges. It has been reported that all of Arenas' handguns were unloaded, however we do not know if Arenas stored any bullets in his locker also, which could lead to more charges. Some commentators have discussed the idea of Arenas being charged with assault with a deadly weapon, however given the statements made by most who observed the incidents in question, I see that as highly unlikely. The act of Arenas removing the guns from the locker and placing them out in the open (even if unloaded) could be problematic for him as well.
Ultimately, we will know more about what charges Arenas may face in the next few weeks. It is a sad and ridiculous situation, that was completely avoidable with even a little bit of forethought."
Your Black News: 12 and 14 Year Old girls Rob a Bank
Police in Ohio are searching for two brazen girls, believed to be as young as 12 and 14, who robbed a bank in a Cincinnati suburb and escaped a police dragnet that included a helicopter and dogs.
Ohio police are looking for two girls suspected of robbing a bank.
The baby faced bank robbers, one believed to be 12 years old and the other 14 or 15, entered the 1st National Bank in Symmes Township, "walked up to the bank teller, and gave the teller a note demanding money," Steve Barnett, spokesman for the Hamilton County Sherriff's Office, said in a statement.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Nelly Gettin Cocky?!
Nelly was really feeling himself on NYE in Las Vegas, so much that he decided to jump on a bar and perform a mini concert. Then, after feeling himself even more, he stopped the music and began to brag about how he is the biggest selling rapper of the decade… Wait, we thought that went to Eminem with 32 million sold???
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