‘Organization’ Archives
China, Russia and the Veto Power – A Reminder of Fela’s Song “Beasts of No Nation”
By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass China, Russia and the Veto Power – A Reminder of Fela’s song "Beasts of No Nation" Once again, I am baffle over the absurdity of the United Nations Security Council’s "power to veto", also referred to as the [Read More]
Wisconsin’s recall election shows democracy still exist despite Super PAC
By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass Petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker are delivered to the Government Accountability Board Headquarters in Madison, Wis. Tuesday. (Michael Sears/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MCT) Democracy appears to prevail in Wisconsin despite [Read More]
Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) to Uphold Dr. Martin Luther King’s Jr.’s Legacy through Global Dialogue
By: Charles S. Mombo @CharleSMombo,@FlashMobB2C,@burnedbrass,@wwclick Article Sponsor: Real-Time Crowdsourcing Social Media Marketing and Backchanneling In the spirit of promoting peace, inspiring community service, and upholding Dr. Martin Luther King's Jr.'s legacy, Alpha [Read More]
Patricia Horton Friday Social Media Marketing Campaign Day
By: Charles S. Mombo #wwclick, #FlashMobB2C, @wwclick, @CharlesSMombo Article Source: Social Media Marketing Consultant Re-Elect Patricia Horton for Commissioner of Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on March 20th. In an effort to help increase brand [Read More]
Newt Gingrich: African-Americans should demand paychecks not food stamps
Newt Gingrich says African-American should demand paychecks not food stamps. From every indication, it appears that the white Republican presidential candidates have issued an all-out "racist rant" attack against the 37 million African-Americans in this country. [Read More]
Does Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Newsletters prove that he is a Racist?
Does Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Newsletters prove that he is a Racist? Republican presidential candidate and Congressman Ron Paul is trying to become the next president of the United States of America which includes 37 million African-Americans or Blacks. Despite [Read More]
Payroll Tax Cut Extension – The Final Straw to Voting those Bozos out of Congress
By Charles S. Mombo #SeeMombo, #WWCLICK, #FlashmobB2C Today, while appearing as a “Good Cop,” House Speaker John Boehner suddenly gives a press conference in which he demanded the Senate to get rid of the two-month extension in favor of an immediate one-year [Read More]
Citizen for Tax Justice Reports that top 280 most profitable U.S. Companies are Tax Dodgers
By: Charles S. Mombo #SeeMombo, #FlashmobB2C, @Burnedbrass Protestors against "Tax Dodging" demonstrate at Bank of America. In a recent report by Citizen for Tax Justice (CTJ), the 280 most profitable corporations in the U.S. hide half their profits from taxes. [Read More]
National Defense Authorization Act – Unconstitutional and un-American
By Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass The National Defense Authorization Act was recently passed by the Senate and places domestic terror investigations and interrogations into the hands of the military. Have you heard the news? Your freedom is being threatened by Congress! As a [Read More]
NAACP challenges the Republican Party efforts to disenfranchise Black Voters
By: Charles S. Mombo Article Sponsored by Flash Mob Business to Consumer NAACP challenges the Republican Party efforts to disenfranchise Black Voters In an effort to win the 2012 presidential election by “any means necessary,” the Republican Party is overly [Read More]
Axelrod on Gingrich: The higher a monkey climbs…the more you can see his butt.
Axelrod on Gingrich: The higher a monkey climbs...the more you can see his butt. While referring to Newt Gingrich, David Axelrod who is President Obama’s chief strategist said: "The higher a monkey climbs up a pole the more you see of his butt." [Read More]
Rick Perry’s Multiple Brain Freezes – Time to Retire to Niggerhead?
By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry eats corn dog. It’s your choice to use whatever euphemism you want to describe Rick Perry’s knowledge, or lack of, of basic United States civics. The media embellishing, sugarcoating or [Read More]
Rep. Keith Ellison Introduces Constitutional Amendment ‘Get Corporate Money Out of Politics
By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass Rep. Keith Ellison introduces Constitutional Amendment - Get Corporate Money Out of Politics. Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations (The ruling, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission), [Read More]
Rick Santorum attacked Gay Marriage and Obama over going public about Bin Laden’s death
Rick Santorum attacked Gay Marriage and Obama over going public about Bin Laden’s death. While speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition on Wednesday, Republican presidential want-to-be candidate, Rick Santorum attacked President Obama again, this time; he is attacking [Read More]
Presidential Pardon – Appears to be reserved for Whites with friends in high places.
Presidential Pardon appears to be reserve for Whites with friends in high placess.Presidential Pardon – Appears to be reserved for Whites with friends in high places. A recent investigation by ProPublica, Presidential Pardons Heavily Favor Whites, found that white [Read More]
Could Customize and Branded ZIP+4 Code Reduce USPS Financial Shortfall?
By: Charles S. Mombo Could Customize Branded ZIP+4 Code Reduce USPS Financial Shortfall? It is no secret that the United States Postal Service (USPS) is ineffective, broke and “on the brink of defaulting.” The USPS has been facing financial shortfall for [Read More]
African Political Action Committee (APAC) to host Millennium Installation Ceremony and Inaugural Reception
On November 19th, the African Political Action Committee (APAC) will host its Millennium Installation Ceremony and Inaugural Reception. This event will be held at the Akainyah Gallery, 357 W. Erie Street, Chicago, Illinois from 6pm until 12:00am.On November 19th, the [Read More]
Pizzas with tomato paste topping is now vegetable – GOP rollback Obama’s healthy school lunch program
Last night while 14 million unemployed Americans, who are facing undue hardship and financial stress, were hoping the Republicans would pass President Obama’s $447-billion jobs package, the “good-for-nothing 112th Republican Congress" was again pussyfooting [Read More]
The Colours of Sickle Cell fashion show – combining fashion and raising awareness
By: Charles S. Mombo The Colours of Sickle Cell fashion show will raise awareness and funds on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 in Washington D.C. Hosting the event are designers Korto Momolu, Guy Lambert, Renee Nash, April Watts, and Anji Corley. When we at ChocolateCity.cc heard [Read More]
President Obama addresses the African American Policy in Action Leadership Conference
President Obama addresses the African American Policy in Action Leadership Conference President Obama made an unscheduled visit to the African American Policy in Action Leadership Conference, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White [Read More]
Herman Cain and Sharon Bialek alleged sexual harassment and the politicization of Google Keywords
By: Charles S. Mombo Not too long ago, I wrote an article about search engine optimization (SEO) – Is Search Engine Optimization the most effective advertising media for small businesses? In that article, I talked about how advertisers are effectively working with SEO [Read More]
Herman Cain – The Koch Brothers’ Brother from another Mother
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks at the Defending the American Dream Summit in Washington. (Haraz N. Ghanbari / Associated Press / November 4, 2011) On Friday the African-American/Black Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain addressed a gathering [Read More]
Republicans Blocked Jobs Creation AGAIN Should Blacks Considered “Occupy Congress”?
By: Charles S. Mombo @CharlesSMombo, @burnedbrass Once again those "do-nothing, good-for-nothing Republicans" have done it again! What the Senate Republicans have done is shameful, disgraceful and a major blow to the economic health of this nation and most [Read More]
In God We Trust with the “Good for Nothing” Republican Congress
By: Charles S. Mombo @charlessmombo, @burnedbrass Article Sponsored by: Chicago-based Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Marketing Consulting Firm Without jobs, more Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to make it and are probably rationing their last [Read More]
An interview with Patricia Horton – a commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
By: Charles S. Mombo @charlessmombo, @burnedbrass Article Sponsored by: Chicago-based Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Marketing Consulting Firm Patricia Horton, a commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) [Read More]
The U.S. House Republican Misogynistic Protect Life Act Bill
By: Charles S. Mombo If Pennsylvania Republican Joe Pitts bill becomes a success, you will see frequent scenes such as this will black and minority women lying face down on thr floor in emergency wards around the nation. On Thursday, the U.S. House passed a bill that would [Read More]
LCAI Congratulates 2011 Nobel Laureates Johnson-Sirleaf, Gbowee and Karman
Article Source: Liberian Community Association of Illinois Liberian Community Association of Illinois Congratulates 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman. The Liberian Community Association of Illinois (LCAI) congratulates [Read More]
Pat Buchanan and Herman Cain: Blacks are Brainwashed due to Liberal Plantation
Pat Buchanan and Herman Cain: Blacks are Brainwashed due to Liberal Plantation Pat Buchanan, the Conservative political commentator who is no stranger to controversy added benzene to the Herman Cain fire by supporting Herman Cain's statement that African-Americans have [Read More]
Lil Wayne sets Guinness Book of World Record for the second time
Lil Wayne sets Guinness World Record with Tha Carter IV Lil Wayne, 29-year-old, whose real-name is Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. has done it again! This time, he entered the Guinness World Records for the most rap singles to appear on the Hot 100 charts in the United [Read More]
Kweku M. Adoboli a UBS trader accused of embezzling $2.3 billion
Kweku Adoboli, the Ghanaian born and accused embezzler leaves City of London Magistrates Court Kweku M. Adoboli, a 31-year-old, Ghanaian born trader in UBS’s Global Synthetic Equity business in London is accused of being a rogue trader for embezzling $2.3 [Read More]
U.S. Census’ 2011 Poverty Report Indicates Black Americans are Catching Hell
U.S. Census' 2011 Poverty Report Indicates Black Americans are Catching Hell Some depressing statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau on last Tuesday show that the number of poor children younger than 18 reached its highest level since 1962. In their grim portrait of a [Read More]
FAA Impasse happens when two elephants fight?
By: Charles S. Mombo FAA employees to unionize During the earlier half of my life; while growing up in Liberia, the parable "When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers,” was often heard. What that means as it relates to the temporary resuming of [Read More]
Liberian Community Association of Illinois prepares to celebrate country’s 164th Anniversary
By: Charles S. Mombo LCAI's website: Liberian Community Association of Illinois (LCAI) LCAI's Twitter Name: LIBinILL LCAI's Twitter Hashtag: #LIBinILL Liberia's president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a Harvard graduate and the only Black female president. As the [Read More]
There’s nothing SMART about kicking a breastfeeding Detroit mother off the bus?
By Charles S. Mombo Ernst Neuschul, Black Mother - circa 1931 Afrykayn Moon, a 32-year-old mother, was kicked off a Detroit’s SMART bus on Friday for breastfeeding her 3-week-old son while on the bus, reports Detroit Free Press. Moon said she was told to cover [Read More]
Ruling by the Dysfunctional Five Supreme Court Justices affects the poor
By Charles S. Mombo From every indication, it appears that the United States Supreme Court decisions are more and more in favor of partisan politics and big money donor corporations. Image Source: danvolper.com/ EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW — These words, written above the [Read More]
Gary Foster, former Citigroup Accountant accused of embezzling $19.2 Million
Gary Foster, former Citigroup Accountant accused of embezzling .2 Million Photo: Reuters Gary Foster, a former Citigroup Accountant is accused of embezzling $19.2 Million. on Sunday, immediately after his plane from Bangkok at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in [Read More]
U.S Immigration seizes piracy domain names, asked Mozilla to remove MafiaaFire – Is this censorship?
By Charles S. Mombo #burnedbrass, #charlessmombo @burnedbrass, @charlessmombo Article Sponsored by SEO and Social Media Marketing Consultants In what appears to a situation of aiding and abetting on the part of Mozilla, ICE has asked Mozilla to remove the add-ons [Read More]
Liberian Citizenship–Blacks Only Need Apply
By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass, @charlessmombo #burnedbrass, #Liberia Liberia’s Motto states, "The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here". Having a land of their own was a dream come through for the ex-slaves coming from America. A country of their own was a [Read More]
Hazing charges dropped against U-Md. Zeta Phi Beta soror Tymesha Pendleton
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was founded on January 16, 1920. Zeta began as an idea conceived by five coeds at Howard University in Washington D.C.: Arizona Cleaver, Myrtle Tyler, Viola Tyler, Fannie Pettie and Pearl Neal. Hazing charges against 26-year-old, University Of [Read More]
Congressman Anthony Weiner lied about inappropriate photo on Twitter
Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-NY, wipes his eye during a news conference in New York, Monday, June 6, 2011. After days of denials, a choked-up Weiner confessed that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman and admitted to "inappropriate" [Read More]
Why is the U.S. Boycotting the U.N. World Conference Against Racism?
Why is the U.S. Boycotting the U.N. World Conference Against Racism? The State Department has announced that, "with regret," it will be boycotting the 10-year commemoration of the UN World Conference Against Racism because past meetings have included “ugly [Read More]
Kathy Hochul victory was a Referendum on Medicare, Stupid!
By: Charles S. Mombo Congratulations to Democratic Congresswoman-elect Kathy Hochul on her outstanding victory for winning New York’s 26th Congressional District (NY-26) over businessman and Tea Party candidate Jack Davis and Republican candidate Assemblywoman Jane [Read More]
Is Fox’s Ailes himself an Idiot for just realizing that Palin is an Idiot?
Roger Ailes, Fox News Chairman thinks that Sarah Palin is an idiot and stupid. - Photo-illustration by Darrow In Gabriel Sherman's New York magazine cover story The Elephant in the Green Room that hits newsstands today. Roger Ailes, Fox News Chairman thinks that [Read More]
Alpha Kappa Alpha, AKA, Commits $.5M to Soror, Liberia’s Prez Johnson-Sirleaf
Chicago-based Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., AKA, commits 500,000 to fellow Soror and Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for the construction of a modern market complex to replace the one currently located at the Red Light. AKA has already made available 0,000 [Read More]
Is Sally Kern, Oklahoma Republican state Representative, a racist and a homophobic?
Oklahoma state Republican Representative Sally Kern According to Oklahoma state Republican Representative Sally Kern: blacks are in prison because color didn’t study hard. Sally, 65-year-old, is no stranger to making racist and homophobic remarks; but her latest [Read More]
President Obama releases Long-form birth certificate what’s next
President Obama's long-form birth certificate states Barack H.Obama II was born at 7:24 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1961, at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital, within the city limits of Honolulu. The form mentioned Obama’s father as Barack Hussein Obama, age 25, an [Read More]
Obama’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, tells birthers to get over it!
Obama's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, tells birthers to get over it!Even Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng has had enough of those birthers’ dumb claims that President Barack Obama is not a United States citizen. Named after one of American's famous poets, Maya Angelou, [Read More]
Couture Dolls Blow Whistle for Women of Haiti
Couture Dolls of Star Studded Entertainment Couture Blow Whistle for Women of Haiti Good deeds should never go unnoticed; nor should we not support one when the opportunity arises. The Couture Dolls of Star Studded Entertainment are doing it again! This time, they [Read More]
African Political Action Committee Endorses 4 Chicago Aldermen
By Charles Mombo APAC members pictured with endorsed Aldermen. African Political Action Committee (APAC) endorses 4 highly qualified candidates for Chicago's Aldermanic run-off elections scheduled for April 5. The four candidates – Freddrenna Lyle, Toni Foulkes, [Read More]
The Politics of Fear: How Republicans Use Money, Race, and the Media to Win
Article Sponsored by Chicago-based SEO and Social Media Network Consultants The Politics of Fear: How Republicans Use Money, Race, and the Media to Win written by Manuel G. Gonzales and Richard Delgado I recently received an email from one of Chocolate City's readers by [Read More]
Couture Dolls of Star Studded Entertainment Presents Kiss of Couture
Couture Dolls of Star Studded Entertainment presents their Kiss of Couture Anniversary Party. Couture Dolls of Star Studded Entertainment Presents Kiss of CoutureFounded only a year ago, Couture Dolls of Star Studded Entertainment is made up of an ensemble of beauty, [Read More]
The Burke Family – a slave trail from Arlington to Liberia
image: Henry Y. Bonds and family, ca. 1912 Photomural from silver-gelatin print American Colonization Society Papers By: Charles S. Mombo @charlessmombo The Burke Family – a slave trail from Arlington to Liberia In 1802, the first slaves to inhabit Arlington plantation [Read More]
Chocolate City congratulates AKA on its Founders Day
ChocolateCity.cc wishes the women of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated (AKA) a Happy Founders Day as they celebrate their 104rd anniversary. AKA, the oldest Greek-Chocolate City congratulates Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, AKA on its 103rd Founders Day letter [Read More]
Maine Republican governor LePage says NAACP can kiss his butt
Maine Governor Paul LePage tells NAACP to kiss his butt!!!!During a recent live TV program, Maine's Republican Governor Paul LePage said that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) can “kiss my butt.” LePage's ignorant, [Read More]
Phi Beta Sigma approaches 100 years of service, brotherhood and humanity
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity emblem /logo Chocolate City congratulates the members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity as they countdown to their 100th year anniversary. We are proud and grateful for their outstanding works toward culture for service and service for humanity. In [Read More]
The Real Killers of the Dream Act are not the Republicans
(MPR Photo/Tom Weber) By: Charles Mombo Twitter @charlessmombo On Saturday, the Dream Act's 55-41 vote did not pass the bill due to 5 votes short of the 60 votes needed to break through the largely GOP opposition. Had the Dream Act passed, it would have given legal [Read More]
FDA warns against buying selling breast milk online
Source: FDA.gov The benefits of breastfeeding are unquestionable and well established. Breastfeeding is strongly recommended by healthcare professionals and by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is noting that in some [Read More]
Auburn’s quarterback Cam Newton wins Heisman Trophy hands down
ChocolateCity.cc congratulates Auburn University football quarterback Cam Newton on winning the Davey O’Brien Award as the nation’s best quarterback and for his selection as the possible Heisman Trophy winner.ChocolateCity.cc congratulates Auburn University football [Read More]
Supreme Court dismissed Kerchner case against Obama’s Citizenship
The Supreme Court again dismissed another dumb challenge, Kerchner v. Obama (10-446), against President Barack Obama's U.S. Citizenship status. Without comment, the Supreme Court justices on Monday rejected challenge from Charles Kerchner Jr. of Pennsylvania who sought [Read More]
CCA releases report on the use of criminal records in college admissions
The Center for Community Alternatives Releases New Report About Trends in Use of Criminal Background Checks by College Admissions Offices; Says It’s a Civil Rights Issue. The Center for Community Alternatives (CCA) today released a report about the results of its [Read More]
TSA Feel me up or scan my parts
This image at SEA-TAC was taken from the government's TSA websiteFive days after a Christmas day bomb scare on a Delta Air Lines A330 as it neared landing in Detroit, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued a $165 million contract to L-3 Communications [Read More]
Republicans hypocrisy and selective indictments of President Obama
Obama 2010 We are grateful to ChocolateCity.cc readers such as Chloe who wrote and said, “Please consider posting the following articles. More of us need to be aware of the opposition President Obama is up against as well as his achievements which are underreported in [Read More]
Tommie Smith Olympic Games Fists of Freedom gold medal for sale
Tommie Smith is aucting his Olympic Games Fists of Freedom gold medalTommie Smith, 66 year-old, remembered as the Black or African American gold medalist that raised his fist as the Star Spangled Banner echoed in the wind, at the Mexico City Summer Olympic Games in the [Read More]
Malcolm X College Presents Karnak Wellness Institute lecture series
Malcolm X College located at 1900 W. Van Buren Street/ 1900 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois 60612.Chicago's Malcolm X College/ Karnak Wellness Institutes announces its Free Fall 2010 lecture series . All lectures will be held at the Malcolm X College located at 1900 [Read More]
OSHA says Brazilian Blowout contains high Formaldehyde content
By: Charles Mombo Source: Hair Nations Brazilian Blowout has been tested and it does work on every hair types including fine, course, frizzy, and curly. Since the early 20th century when Annie Turnbo Malone, an African-American woman, developed a chemical Poro line of hair [Read More]
September 30th is National Law Of Reciprocity Day
On this 30th day of September 2010, let's make it a National Law Of Reciprocity Day by helping feed a homeless person, helping someone find a job, helping that classmate that is struggling or paying the toll for the person behind us. Make it a pledge today to help at least [Read More]
