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I just came across this blog last night and thought it would be worth mentioning here. I will also add it to my blogroll under "Beyond the Mountaintop - Our Progress". [link] More

"Green for All, a skills training program that intends to bring 250,000 “green collar jobs” to urban communities such as Baltimore, Detroit, and New Orleans, launched earlier today at the 3rd Annual Clinton Global Initiative. Van Jones, co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland who spearheaded the idea, believes that African Americans need a seat at the table when it comes to the discussion about the “green ...More

Any of my Philly folk remember this store? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu56WdkNNF0] This was one of those men's clothing stores back in the day where you could buy a suit, overcoat with shirt for about $150 (yeah, I was really that bad when it came to clothes). On Easter you could not tell me nuttin. By next Easter I was back in the store for another suit because the pant material got those lil' beebees around the ...More

(philly.com) A stabbing and a shooting yesterday in West Philadelphia brought the year's homicide total to 305. Shortly before 2 p.m., authorities were called to 59th and Race Streets, where they found Dashon Black, 19, of West Philadelphia, shot in the head and chest inside a residence. Black was rushed to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was pronounced dead at 2:02 p.m., police said. No arrest had been made ...More

(newhavenindependent.org) Nearly 100 African-American, Latino, and Orthodox Jewish men followed Bishop T.L. Brooks through four violence-plagued blocks in Newhallville, and called on the community to put their heads together to find a way to stop the gunfire throughout the city. "I am charging all you men here with the responsibility of reaching out to these young men -- to teach them, to nurture them, and to show you love them," Brooks ...More

I think I already mentioned this on this site before. Anyway, here is the link to the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. Check it out! More

(Reuters Life!) - Forget the handsome face, broad shoulders or flirty grin, a deep voice is what attracts women and makes men likely to have more children, researchers said on Tuesday. "We think it's sort of like a peacock's tail," said David Feinberg, an assistant professor at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. "A peacock's tail doesn't help a peacock survive in the world at all. All it really does is it's there ...More

Nationalplatforms.com is one of the latest in political websites that functions as a centralized location to get the platform positions of all the current presidential candidates. While it is still a work in process, you may want to keep this in your bookmarks as we get closer to the election season. More

NEW YORK (AP) -- The ball Barry Bonds hit for his record-breaking 756th home run will be branded with an asterisk and sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Fashion designer Marc Ecko, who bought the ball in an online auction, set up a Web site for fans to vote on the ball's fate, and Wednesday announced the decision to brand it won out over the other options -- sending it ...More

(ballerstatus.com) The wrongful death suit of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G. just got a little more complicated recently, when a prison inmate who had implicated a former Los Angeles Police Department officer in the shooting of the rapper renounced his story, making the unsolved case even that more of a mystery. According to the Los Angeles Times, Waymond Anderson, who is serving a life term for murder, said in a recent deposition ...More

(AllAfrica.com/ipsnews.net) Every night besides the town hall of Athens, next to Omonia square, where the narrow streets of the popular entertainment hub district Psirris begin, black girls from Nigeria gather to work. Dressed provocatively, they approach people who pass by and offer their services. "Come on baby I know you want me", you hear one say playfully with a big smile on her face. Or is it a mask she wears? The ...More

(SI.com) Most recently, of course, Donovan McNabb, quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles, declared that African-American quarterbacks suffer much more scrutiny than their white brethren. It was a particularly interesting observation coming from McNabb, because, if you recall, Rush Limbaugh resigned from ESPN four years ago for saying that the very same McNabb was overrated, inasmuch as the oh-so-sweet white media desperately wanted a black quarterback to succeed. All this, though, comes ...More

Todd Lewan of the Associated Press the other day did a story on the Jena situation that clarified some of the misinformation surrounding the case. I first heard about some of this information by way of a fellow blogger pointing me to a piece written by Jason Whitlock who mentioned some of these findings in his latest piece. I had no way of confirming it, so I thought best to ...More