‘Charles Mombo’ Archives
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
