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More info you will not hear Castro sympathizers (especially the Black ones) mention. ===== (miamiherald.com) HAVANA -- Six-foot-two, brown skinned and with semi-curly hair, Denny walked confidently into a government warehouse for a recent job interview. Sitting across from the white manager, he rattled off his qualifications: high school diploma, courses in tourism, hard worker. They weren't good enough: He needed his white brother-in-law to vouch for him, Denny recalled. "Black people tend to ...More

Neil Brown (excerpted) I wonder why people often hold me to a greater level of responsibility in this walk, when we all have to walk? I wonder why people get disappointed in me when I don't live to certain expectations. After all, whose expectations am I supposed to meet— theirs or God's? And when I become disappointed in them, why do they act like they're, “Only human,” and that they're supposed to ...More

From Inc.com: What Is an Inner City Company? The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City defines inner cities as core urban areas with higher unemployment and poverty rates and lower median incomes than surrounding metropolitan statistical areas. Candidates for the 2007 Inner City 100 must: 1. Be independent, for-profit corporations, partnerships, or proprietorships 2. Be headquartered or have more than half of their physical operations in inner cities ...More

For many, these are the people that you see standing in front of the train station or street corner declaring their gospel message. However there is little known about this sect beyond that for most folks as Simona Kogan for israel21c.org reports: (www.israel21c.org) Deep in the heart of Israel's Negev desert, where you would expect to find mostly camels and sand, a community of expatriate black Americans has made a new ...More

(hattiesburgamerican.com) NEW ORLEANS – A former New Orleans school board president who ran as a corruption fighter pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking more than $100,000 in bribes to help an unidentified businessman win school contracts for his employer. Ellenese Brooks-Simms, 67, was charged Wednesday in a federal bill of information with conspiracy to commit bribery. She pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lance Africk. [...] “She fully acknowledges and regrets being involved in ...More

(latimes.com) Eric Mandivelle earned six dollars and eighty cents an hour working part-time at McDonald's in Long Beach. He combined his money with the paychecks his sister Lavonne earned at her job as a nursing assistant. There was just enough for the pair to get by. The siblings had been raised in foster care. They didn't know where their father was, said Lavonne, Eric's elder by five years. Their mother had drug ...More

(ballerstatus.com) Forbes recently revealed their annual Celebrity 100 list, naming the most wealthy celebrities of the year and for the first time, the magazine introduced a new category called Hip-Hop Impresarios. Among the hip-hop alumni who made the list, Jay-Z was the man at the top of the totem pole, ranking in at no. 9 on the Power Rank chart, beating out the likes of Donald Trump, Howard Stern, Kobe Bryant ...More

(mediavillage.com) According to the new Emotional Connections Study conducted among 4,000 adults by Jack Myers Media Business Report, African Americans watch significantly more television on average than other ethnic groups; have more television channels on their primary TV sets; own more television sets in the home; watch more Pay TV; spend more time on the Internet; spend more time listening to radio; and are slightly more likely to own a ...More

So just pay them and get it over with! NEW YORK (AP) -- Poor residents will get cash rewards for good behavior -- like $300 for doing well on school tests, $150 for holding a job and $200 for visiting the doctor -- under an experimental anti-poverty program detailed on Monday by city officials. These healthy lifestyle payments, also known as conditional cash transfers, have been used in other countries including Brazil ...More

(nytimes.com) OAKLAND, Calif., June 12 — The lesson began with the striking of a Tibetan singing bowl to induce mindful awareness. With the sound of their new school bell, the fifth graders at Piedmont Avenue Elementary School here closed their eyes and focused on their breathing, as they tried to imagine “loving kindness” on the playground. “I was losing at baseball and I was about to throw a bat,” Alex Menton, 11, ...More

I know I'm a little late catching on to this article, but I just found out about it this morning. If you have not read Pitt's latest article "Enough With Phony White Victimhood", here is an excerpt below. It always amazes me when white people put on the victim hat. As in victim of racial oppression. By any measure -- health, education, economics, employment -- white Americans enjoy a superior standard ...More

(macon.com) Claude Jr. is the oldest Landry offspring. The others are Corey, 16, Christian, 15, Cemoni, 14, Codrick, 13, Cierra, 12, Cordell, 11, Ceyonna, 10, and Camron, 7. Obviously, Claude Sr., 44, likes the letter C. "I figure it keeps them close," Landry said. It must have worked. Despite the cramped quarters, Landry said his children get along well, and they don't like sleeping apart from one another. "They are real close," he ...More

Yesterday, I read the following article about the negative affects of section 8 housing in one Los Angeles suburb. As always I will be excerpting here, but read the whole thing when you get a chance. I am merely thinking out loud in this post, so there is no real structure. (LATimes.com) On a recent morning, Lee D'Errico, a Los Angeles County Housing Authority investigator, bounded up the stairs of the sprawling ...More