Archive for April, 2009
Former Bulls Randy Brown Ordered to Auction NBA Ring
Bulls Championship Ring Source: www.westauction.comFormer Bulls guard Randy Brown was ordered by a judge to auction his three championship rings. Also as part of the bankruptcy filing, Brown is surrendering the million-dollar home he owns in Naperville, Illinois and a pair [Read More]
Mama
by Keli Stewart Source: South Loop Review Keli StewartPeople keep trying to get me to come to her, as if I could heal all of our wounds. For a long time I felt that God was punishing me by giving her to me, this wild woman commonly known as "the bitch" in and out [Read More]
Wake Up, Detroit You have a Special Election!
Photo Credit: RASHAUN RUCKER/Detroit Free Press Detroit Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr., left, and mayoral candidate Dave BingOur team arrived in Detroit today to cover the upcoming special election. We drove around the good, the bad and the ugly parts of the city trying to engage [Read More]
Archbishop Hughes, do you think Donna Brazile Cares?
Donna BrazileAccording to the Xavier University of Louisiana website, Donna Brazile, a Democratic political strategist, will be the keynote speaker during the university’s 82nd. annual commencement scheduled to be held on Saturday, May 9, at 10:00 a.m. in the [Read More]
Sen. Ensign a hypocrite, calls President Obama Irresponsible
The Republican Senator of Nevada, John Ensign, criticized President Barack Obama by saying it was "irresponsible" for President Obama to have been seen "laughing and joking" with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas on Friday. [Read More]
Care to Share A Good Book You Read Lately?
JPGLately, I have found some good book at either a thrift store, second-hand store, rummage sale or yard sale that I will like to share with Chocolate City blog community. These books were purchased for as little as $.20 (twenty cents) and as hight as $1.00 (one dollar). My [Read More]
Are Church Foreclosures Caused by Fiscally Irresponsible Pastors
A church with for sale signIn Matthew 16:18 of the Good Book, Christ said “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” I’m tempted to paraphrase [Read More]
Jolie, The Most Beautiful Woman In Whose World?
By Charles Mombo An African beautyIn a recent Vanity Fair’s website poll, Angelina Jolie was selected as the most beautiful woman in the world. According to Vanity Fair website, a whopping 58 percent of their readers picked the mother-of-six as the "Most [Read More]
Bo, the First Dog, a Portuguese water dog
Sen. Kennedy with his Portuguese water dogIt is no longer a “Top Secret”, a new occupant of the White House have been revealed. Bo, a six-month-old black and white Portuguese water dog is the Obama’s pick for the honorary position of first dog. It is [Read More]
Obama Can Do Without ASU Worthless Honorary Degree
President Barack Obama, America’s first African-American president, is scheduled to deliver the commencement address at Arizona State University (ASU) on May 13. It is customary that an honorary degree be awarded to the commencement speaker as Arizona State University [Read More]
Republicans Criticize Black Caucus over Cuba Visit
Teodoro Obiang, the ruler of Equatorial Guinea and Africa's worst dictator was invited to Washington and met Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who called him a "good friend." Reps. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, and Frank Wolf, R-Virginia, two White Republican [Read More]
Office of Congressional Ethics investigates Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Illinois Democrat Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. When the Federal grand jury investigated the alleged corruption in the Blagojevich administration, they did not report any wrong doing on the part of Illinois Democrat Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. Despite the fact that [Read More]
Quorum of the Twelve Apostates
Was the Brigham Young University’s student newspaper, The Daily Universe, trying to tell us something when the a front-page photo caption of their newspaper identified leaders of the Mormon church as apostates instead of apostles. An apostate is a person who has [Read More]
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment
Regional and state unemployment rates were nearly all higher in February. Forty-nine states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, while all 50 states and the District of Columbia had higher rates than a year earlier, the Bureau of [Read More]
Resolution to undo U.S. racist crime against boxer John Johnson
John Arthur “Jack” Johnson, the first African American World Heavyweight Boxing ChampionOn April 1, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Representative Peter King (R-NY) introduced a resolution to pardon John Arthur “Jack” Johnson, the first African [Read More]
Unemployment or Jobless Rates of the U.S. Population by Race
Blacks or African American 16.4 Hispanic or Latino Ethnicity 12.2 [Read More]
Who Loses if President Barack Obama Fails?
“I wish President Barack Obama would fail,” is one of the dumbest, most unpatriotic, un-American, hateful, undermining, and a perceived selfish white male sense of entitlement statement that I have ever heard against a president of the United States of America. [Read More]
