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The other day, I gave readers the opportunity to provide some solid and substantiated reasons why they feel Minister Louis Farrakhan has not only earned the title of "Person of the Year" by viewers of BET and beyond, but widely considered a "leader" in the black community. There are quite of few people who visit this site on a daily basis who I thought would have had a lot to ...More

San Francisco’s Hypocritical Multiculturalism  (Randy Shaw) A week in New York City has left me even more convinced of San Francisco’s glaring hypocrisy toward its Latino and African-American residents. Although San Francisco prides itself on being a multicultural city, a place whose busses carry people of diverse nationalities and ethnicities, when it comes to employment in the city’s hip restaurants, blacks or Latinos are either missing or in the kitchen. These ...More

Probably the one of the best sections of USA Today is the little graphic on the front page that illustrates the results of some recent survey or study. Here are a few that caught my attention: Hispanics are most likely to die from work-related accidents. This information was based on findings by the US department of labor. Per 100,000 workers: 3.7 Black workers were more likely... 4.0 White workers 4.9 Hispanic workers Kid's populaton is on ...More

First, the news... Most of $2 billion for evacuees goes unused (nola.com) Bruce Alpert WASHINGTON -- Six months after Congress established a $2 billion pool that states could use to provide cash grants to low-income hurricane evacuees who relocated to their communities, only 11 states have signed up for the program and drawn down only $25 million, or 1.25 percent of available money. The sparse participation has perplexed some members of Congress, and disheartened ...More

As I predicted earlier this year, with the entry of more white candidates in the upcoming mayoral race for New Orleans, the central issue of this whole race will be RACE--not who posseses the ability to turn that city around from the perpetual downward spiral it has been on for years, but race. The following excerpt is from latimes.com "The black community had never widely trusted or welcomed Nagin, who is black. ...More

The homecoming services for Gordon Parks will be held at New York's Riverside church on March 14th, 2006. Here's a little on the life of Mr. Parks: "Don't call Gordon Parks a Renaissance Man to his face. This incredibly talented American icon who's also a composer, poet, novelist, film director, and extraordinary documentary and fashion photographer, laughs at the comparison. "I haven't even learned how to spell Renaissance yet," he modestly ...More