‘Articles’ Archives
A Project on Shared Histories of Asians and Blacks in America
By: Kevin Simmonds A Project on Shared Histories of Asians and Blacks in America Instead of reporting the unintended death of Tian Sheng Yu by two young Black men in Oakland this April as an isolated crime, the media suggested it might have been part of trend of [Read More]
Human Capital and Cultural Freedom
By Frank T. Scruggs Human capital is the development one’s self to sell one’s labor, skills and or talent in the marketplace. Labor is more than manual labor or factory work but should also be considered things such as academic skills, athletic prowess, business [Read More]
Illinois Democrat Lieutenant Governor Whites Only Need Apply
By Charles S. Mombo Illinois State Representative Arthur L. Turner The slot for Lieutenant Governor of the State of Illinois became available after Pat Quinn, the former lieutenant governor succeeded Governor Rod Blagojevich who was impeachment and removal from office. It [Read More]
Marion Jones Goes to the Court After Track and Field
The talented Marion Jones gets a second change at another professional sportI am not sure who recorded it, but there is a song out there that says, “No you can't keep a good man down, no.” Some thought that after losing five Olympic medals for using [Read More]
Vote to Discontinue Black History
By Eryn-Ashlei Bailey Dr. Carter Woodson, Founder of Black History MonthI think Black History Month should be discontinued. What's all the fuss about anyway? Schools have been de-segregated, interracial marriages and children are on the rise. Heck, we even have a black [Read More]
South Africa Zuma is a Busy Man Knocking Boots
By Charles S. Mombo Image: South African's President Jacob Zuma with his three first ladies. South African's President Jacob Zuma with his three first ladiesI am going to say this as I see it. The 66 year-old South African President, Jacob Zuma, has been a very busy man [Read More]
An Interview with Chicago’s Chef Yowceph Ben Israel
By Charles S. Mombo Chef Yowceph Ben Israel, owner of Chicago based Stir Fried Soul, LLC.Whenever I am in the City of Big Shoulders for some work Bookmark ChocolateCity.cc Hide Sites $$('div.d1836').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) }); [Read More]
An Interview With Illinois U.S. Senatorial Candidate Cheryle Jackson
By Charles S. Mombo Cheryle Robinson Jackson, Illinois Democratic Senatorial candidateSince 1870, the United States Senate have had ONLY 6 African-American Senators. Two out of the six were Republicans elected during the Reconstruction era and four out of the six were [Read More]
Sen. Graham Sees Blacks Among South Carolina Problems
By Tolbert Yarkpawolo When Lindsey Graham replaced retired Senator Strom Thurmond as Senator of South Carolina in 2002, it appears that Graham inherited more than Thurmond's political slot. Senator Thurmond was considered by some as a racist bigot and one of the most [Read More]
9.5 Steps to Improving Your Website or Blog Pagerank
Pagerank, also known as PR, is the term created by Google in determining a site placement with regards to their algorithm which ranks web pages. It said that Larry Page, Google’s cofounder along with Sergey Brin developed the Google ranking algorithm process. Google [Read More]
Do You Care if Mrs. Obama Doesn’t Support Black Designers?
By Charles S. MomboMrs. Obama looking beautiful as usual in an outfit designed by Isabel Toledo, a Cuban-born American fashion designer For millions of American women, Jacqueline Kennedy was the fashion standard by which every woman including African Americans on the public [Read More]
Heather Ellis and the Bizarre Walmart Incident
By Charles S. Mombo Heather Ellis and Family Photos Credit: Corey NolesCNN News reported last night that Heather Ellis, a 24 year-old African American Xavier University graduate could face fifteen years behind bars for assaulting police officers and resisting arrest after [Read More]
An Interview with RENT’s Actress, N.K Gutierrez
By: Charles Mombo Beautiful actress N.K Gutierrez plays the role of Joanne Jefferson in RENT Despite her busy schedule between practices and managing her Bridal Stylist business, N.K Gutierrez found the time to meet and have a cup of coffee with me at Caribou Coffee shop in [Read More]
Chi-Town – America’s Third Most Miserable City
By: Charles Mombo Chicago theaterCall it whatever nickname you want: My Kind of Town, Beirut by the Lake, Second City, Chicagoland, The Big Onion, The City That Works, The Chill or Chi Ill (Chill as in Chicago Illinois), Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, Stacker of [Read More]
Flirting and human sexuality
By Frank T. Scruggs, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate Flirting and human sexualityI’m just taking a few moments here to discuss a little bit about what I know as a social scientist about flirting and how to recognize the steps. Feel free to conduct your own research and test out [Read More]
The God of Bishop Gene Robinson
Bishop Gene RobinsonBishop Gene Robinson is the openly gay Episcopal bishop who helped advise President-elect Barack Obama on gay rights issues during his campaign. Robinson was recently asked by the Obama’s team to deliver the invocation at a kickoff inaugural event [Read More]
The 1st African American as President Means to Me…
by Antoinette Brooks Antoinette Brooks - Grand Prize winner of several major writing contests.The 1st African American as President means to me the nation has had a rude awakening by finding out the African American determination can no longer be underestimated or [Read More]
Son of Former Liberian Prez Taylor sentenced
By: Tolbert Yarkpawolo A sketch of Charles Chuckie Taylor in courtCharles "Chuckie" Taylor, 31-year-old, U.S.-born citizen and the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor Sr. was sentenced Friday to 97 years in prison for charges including torture and [Read More]
Jim Crow, Roland Burris and the 111th Congress
By Charles Mombo Illinois Senate appointee Roland Burris With an uncomfortable resemblance of scenes from the Jim Crow era, the Illinois Senate appointee Roland Burris, who is an African American was escorted out of the Capitol in the rain after being turned away when he [Read More]
Why is Harry Reid all up in Illinois’ Kool-Aid?
By: Charles Mombo Harry Mason Reid, Senate Majority Leader I have always wonder why Harry Mason Reid, the Senate Majority Leader and Senator from Nevada is all in Illinois’ Kool-Aid and don’t even know the flavor? Senator Reid has not hid his [Read More]
Jim Roy, 1926 U.S. First African American President
By Charles Mombo José Bento Monteiro Lobato During a recent visit to Brazil, my ignorance was exposed when I commented to a tour guard that the people gathered at Chicago’s Grant Park had nothing on the people of São Paulo, Brazil. I had wrongly assumed [Read More]
Stevie Wonder: Gershwin prize second recipient
Steven WonderStevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris) will be awarded the Gershwin prize on February 23, 2009. Steven will be only the second recipient to receive the Gershwin prize. The Gershwin Prize, [Read More]
Roland Burris a proven and honorable public servant
By: Frank Scruggs Roland W. Burris, the former attorney general of IllinoisRoland Burris has proven himself to be an honest and honorable public servant. He meets the Constitutional Requirements for the Senate and to deprive him the opportunity to serve is to deny the [Read More]
Running Amok – Black Youths Murder Rate
By Charles Mombo A scene from a music video with an African American male pointing a gun Both James Alan Fox, Ph.D., the Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice and Professor of Law, Policy and Society and Marc L. Swatt, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice. of [Read More]
Gaza – Neutrality with children under blazing missiles
A dead Gaza childA very brilliant Jewish man once, wrote “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, [Read More]
Israeli massacre by raining in 100 tons of bombs on Gaza
by: Tolbert Yarkpawolo The father of Dena Balosha, 4, one of five members of a Palestinian family killed in an Israeli missile strike, carries the girl's body during a funeral in the Jebaliya refugee camp in Gaza Strip. The fourth day into its genocide, Israeli jets [Read More]
An out-of-touch RNC to elect a Chairman
by: Tolbert Yarkpawolo The Republican National Committee (RNC) is expected to hold its election for chairman in January. The 168 RNC committee members will decide the next chairman at their winter meeting in January. The meeting on January 28, is expected to showcase [Read More]
FBI Arrest Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford
-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> by: Tolbert Yarkpawolo Mayor Larry LangfordBIRMINGHAM, Alabama – FBI spokesman Paul Daymond, announced today that Mayor Larry Langford, 60-year-old, was arrested and taken into custody [Read More]
Did LBJ, King opened door for Obama’s election?
by: Tolbert Yarkpawolo Lyndon B. Johnson & Martin L. KingI recently read an interesting article by Luci Baines Johnson on CNN.com. In her article Ms. Johnson is basically crediting LBJ and King for opening the door for Obama’s election. Luci Baines Johnson [Read More]
Who cares if the Vatican forgives John Lennon
by: Tolbert Yarkpawolo John LennonIn 1966 John Lennon told a British newspaper that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ. Although it was an apparent youthful joke, the Vatican did not take it lightly. Lennon also noted at the time that he did not know which [Read More]
Miriam Makeba, Mama Africa – Africa’s Music Legend has died
by: Tolbert Yarkpawolo Miriam Makeba, "Mama Africa" African musical legend Miriam Makeba, 76-year-old, has died after being ill in Italy. The Pineta Grande clinic in Castel Volturno, near the southern city of Naples, said Makeba died early Monday of a heart [Read More]
The meanest, the dirtiest, the sleaziest and “that one”
by: Tolbert Yarkpawolo for: http://www.ThatOneMcCain.com From a McCain/Palin Campaign RallyWhether election 2008 is the meanest, sleaziest, lowest-down, and dirtiest campaign ever, I will leave that to the political analyst to determine. When Arne H. (Helge) [Read More]
Was McCain involved in secret arm sales to Iran?
By: Tolbert Yarkpawolo For: http://www.ChocolateCity.cc/blog Reagan and McCainIt is a popular and well known idiom that “people who live in glass houses should not throw stones!,” or should I paraphrase the idiom by saying “people who live in 7 glass [Read More]
Open Letter to Americans: Declaration of Economic Emergency
Declaration of Economic Emergency to Prevent the Economic Implosion of the United States of America. By P. Nathaniel Boe, Esq. Mr. P. Natheniel Boe, Esq.Today, September 29, 2008, the Great United States of America is near a point of unprecedented Economic Implosion or [Read More]
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Guilty of the freedom to choose
By: Tolbert Yarkpawolo Ayaan Hirsi AliAyaan Hirsi Ali, 38-year-old, was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. She was raised a Muslim and spent her childhood and young adulthood in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya. In 1992, Hirsi Ali moved to the Netherlands as a refugee escaping a [Read More]
The Importance and Strength of the African Family in North America
The Importance and Strength of the African Family in North America By Frank T. Scruggs What is important to us as African people of the world? First of all I think the most important thing for us as a people is to avoid falling into the trap of selfism which Dr. John [Read More]
