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A special thanks goes to Cedric Muhammad of BlackElectorate.com for featuring Monday's commentary "The pass of a good “preach”.  Mr. Muhammad has also featured other postings of mine on his site quite a few times in the past. He has a very good site that features opinions from all over the black spectrum. Please visit his site often!! I would also like to extend a special thanks to those of you ...More

"If the large percentages of black children dropping out of high school continues, the number of African-American engineers in the United States -- already small -- could shrink to nothing, a trade group warned yesterday. "We're no different than dinosaurs looking at a meteor heading right toward us -- because we're headed to our own extinction," warned Carl Mack, executive director of the Alexandria, Va.-based National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). More

Submitted by:Laylah Amatullah Barrayn Call for Exhibition Artists: The B-Girl Be gallery exhibition will take place on June 29-August 19, 2006 @ Intermedia Arts main gallery, 2822 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 55408. 2006 B-Girl Be Exhibition Artists Guidelines and Required Application available at www.IntermediaArts.org point to Program/ B-Girl Be or call (612) 871-4444 to have the application sent by mail. Deadline for Work Samples and Application Submissions: Friday, April 14, 2006 More

Atlanta, GA (BlackNews.com) - Ben Jakes, executive director of Project Destiny is known for his innovative approach to reaching at-risk youth. Project Destiny, a DeKalb county school in Metro Atlanta, focuses on students requiring smaller class sizes and more individual attention. Jakes recognized his students could benefit from a world class coach. Jakes called Be Someone founder Orrin Hudson, an African American national chess champion, #1 Best Selling author, motivational speaker ...More

JACKSONVILLE -- The National Urban League has chosen Jacksonville to host one of five national Economic Empowerment Centers. The local center will launch March 14, becoming the fifth of five national locations implemented by the Urban Entrepreneur Partnership. The program seeks to increase minority entrepreneurship, business development and job creation in cities where economic development is lacking, said Charles Reynolds, director of the EEC. The new facility will be operated through ...More

Alright, time to put this out on the table. We all know that that there has been a strong undercurrent of resentment towards Jews in the black community for a very long time. Comments are oftentimes made on the DL that blame Jews for black "oppression" in one form or another. The questions before you today are: "Could you describe a bad encounter you had with someone that was Jewish?" Also ...More

(submitted by reader Stephanie Holbrook Q&A with Gary White, Executive Director and Co-founder of WaterPartners International *Let's start from the beginning.  How did you become interested in and committed to sustainable water projects?  I became interested in this because I saw it as the intersection of one of the world's greatest needs and my greatest passion.  The roots of that lie in my parents, teachers and my faith.  Those influences inspired in me ...More

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