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Recently someone send me a press release regrading Fred Thompson's delay in getting back with Tavis Smiley's crew for the upcoming All-American presidential debates (hosted by Tavis). Today I received a sound clip from Tavis' regular news updates on the Tom Joyner show [link below] where he was both challenging Republican candidates (specifically Giuliani and Romney) for not confirming and Black Republicans for not calling them on it. Good! With the demographics ...More

(latimes.com) Friday was the funeral for Bryan J.D. Hollis, 23, at Bethel Baptist in Watts. Hollis died Aug. 28 after he was shot in the Nickerson Gardens housing project. Babies cried and squirmed as the burgundy-upholstered pews filled for his service. Some of the mourners wore T-shirts with Hollis' picture. [...] Simpson's mortuary staff passed out programs. On an inside page was a tribute from his mother, Eunice Blackwell: "My son, my son," she had ...More

(insidebayarea.com) OAKLAND — Four years ago, Eddie Abrams took an informal survey in Oakland's African-American community and was disturbed to find the majority was unaware of one of California's most important monuments to black history: Allensworth State Historic Park in the Central Valley, the site of a pioneer settlement that was governed, financed and operated by African Americans at the turn of the last century. "Eight out of 10 people had ...More

(lugazette.com) A majority of African American students polled at a Midwestern university say lighter complexions are more attractive than darker ones, according to a study conducted by researchers from two Louisiana schools. The results, taken from a sample of 100 students, indicated that 96 percent of the men preferred a medium to light complexion in women while 70 percent of women found light skin of value in men. This latest analysis of ...More

Did you know that there are more pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt? === (saudiaramcoworld.com) There are probably more pyramids in Sudan than can be found in all of Egypt. Yet the wonders of ancient Egypt are known worldwide, while those of its southern neighbor stand forgotten on the banks of the Nile. The checkered political history of Sudan, combined with the country's rugged terrain and lack of modern conveniences, has kept ...More

(washingtonpost.com) The arrest Saturday of another group of teenagers for painting "KKK" in Charles County appears to further the notion -- at least in recent cases -- that racist graffiti has been the work of teens wanting attention as much as anything else. Three of the four teenagers charged over the weekend were African American, according to the Charles County Sheriff's Office. Their spray-painted markings, in the Wexford Village neighborhood in ...More