Posts Tagged ‘African American’
Georgia Republicans File Citizenship Lawsuit to Keep President Obama off Ballot
Georgia Republicans File Citizenship Lawsuit to Keep President Obama off Ballot Georgia Republicans and their Birther affiliate have file a lawsuit challenging President Obama, a natural born citizenship. Their goal is to keep the President off that state's ballot. [Read More]
Don Cornelius, Soul Train creator dead, apparent suicide
Don Cornelius, Soul Train creator dead, apparent suicide According to the Los Angeles Times, Donald Cortez "Don" Cornelius, Soul Train creator is dead of an apparent suicide. Cornelius was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1936 and was one of the early employees of [Read More]
Would you See George Lucas’ Movie ‘Red Tails’, Why or Why Not?
If George Lucas' movie, Red Tails, does not do well, there is a very strong possibility that you might never see another all-black movie anytime soon. George Lucas’ movie, Red Tails, which is on the list of 2012’s most anticipated movies is expected to be [Read More]
George Lucas’ “Red Tails”, an all-Black Cast Movie, is 2012 Most Anticipated Film
George Lucas’ “Red Tails”, an all-Black Cast Movies, is 2012 Most Anticipated Film. Speaking recently on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, George Lucas, the executive producer and writer of the all-Black cast $58 million budget movie, Red Tails, jokingly said, [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]
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]
Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church takes time off
Bishop Eddie Long, head of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church said, "I'm going to take a little time off to work with my family." Long said the situation is "not because of allegations" of sexual relationships last year and instead blamed the pressures [Read More]
Vanessa Long, Bishop Eddie Long’s Wife, files for divorce and withdraws petition within hours
Vanessa Long, Bishop Eddie Long’s Wife, files for divorce and withdraws petition within hours. Few hours ago, this site received the news that Vanessa Long, the wife of Bishop Eddie Long, had filed for divorce. While in the process of preparing this post, we received a [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]
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]
Review of the Center for Contemporary African Art & Culture ‘My Identity’ by Liberian Artist Martin Zeinway
By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass, @charlessmombo Article sponsored by: Chicago-based Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Marketing Consulting Firm Each piece of Zeinway’s work eloquently captures his experience during Liberia’s barbaric civil war in [Read More]
Joe Sullivan – Life in Prison for 13-year-old Kinky Hair Colored Boy for allegedly raping a 72-year-old White Woman.
By: Charles S. Mombo Joe Harris Sullivan, now 35-year-old, is still serving a life term for a non-homicide crime committed, since 13-year-old, for raping a 72-year-old elderly white woman. Image Source:Agence France-Presse/Getty Images What happened to a 72-year-old elderly [Read More]
African-American Media Panel Discussion – FREE
WBEZ reporter Natalie Moore and its South Side Bureau Chief will moderate the discussion between journalists and the community. How does the African-American news media cover its community? What more can African-American NGOs, activists and community groups need to get [Read More]
If Obama is Hitler what is Hank Williams’ Racist Slave Owing Lynching Forefathers?
By: Stephanie Moore If Obama is Hitler what is Hank Williams’ Racist Slave Owing Lynching Forefathers? Since this country elected its first Black-African Head of State, it appears that the descendants of the slave-owning 18th century white men in wigs and breeches [Read More]
Herman Cain and Mitt Romney lead Republican Candidates in new CBS News poll
Herman Cain and Mitt Romney lead Republican Candidates in new CBS News poll. Image Credit: CBS In a recent CBS News poll, Herman Cain, the 65-year-old conservative African-American Republican and a Tea Party supporter has moved into a tie with Mitt Romney ahead of the [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]
Rapper T.I. arrested again and imprisoned in Atlanta
Rapper T.I. was released on Wednesday, August 31 from the Forrest City prison in Arkansas but was re-arrested and returned to prison in Atlanta on Thursday, September 1. Rapper T.I. was released on Wednesday, August 31 from the Forrest City prison in Arkansas but was [Read More]
Rapper T.I. released from prison AGAIN – but for how long?
It is our hope that, T.I., the talented Grammy-winning rapper and actor also known as Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. continues to share his gift and talents, uninterrupted, with his fans worldwide. Rapper T.I. was released from prison again on Wednesday. Considering his [Read More]
Patrick Woodtor, the Mastermind Behind Chicago’s African Festival of the Arts
By: Charles S. Mombo @charlessmombo, @burnedbrass Article sponsored by: Chicago-based SEO and Social Media Marketing Consultants Patrick Woodtor, the mastermind behind Chicago’s African Festival of the Arts As the African Festival of the Arts prepares to celebrate [Read More]
African Festival of the Arts adds Chico DeBarge to its already outstanding lineup
Charles S. Mombo @Charlessmombo,@burnedbrass African Festival of the Arts Friday's closing arts include Chico DeBarge In addition to its already extensive lineup of superb performers, The African Festival of the Arts has added Chico DeBarge to its Friday, September 2nd [Read More]
African Festival of the Arts adds Bootsy Collins, Kefee, Al B. Sure, Jon B and Christopher Williams
Charles S. Mombo @Charlessmombo, @burnedbrass Post sponsored by: SEO and Social Media Marketing Consultants India Arie and Mary Mary will be kicking off the African Festival of the Arts (AFA) 22nd anniversary. This world-class destination for family fun event is the [Read More]
Natural hairstyle – better alternative to Lace Frontal
By: Miatta Massaquoi @HairNations Article Source: Hair Nations Natural hairstyles are better alternative to Lace Frontal. Image Source: nu-hairstyles.blogspot.com/ Natural hairstyles such as twists, coils, braids, and free-form fros are starting to command more and more [Read More]
India Arie & Mary Mary to Kick off Chicago’s African Festival of the Arts Weekend
By: Charles S. Mombo India Arie to Kick off Chicago’s African Festival of the Arts Weekend India Arie and Mary Mary will be kicking off the African Festival of the Arts (AFA) 22nd anniversary. This world-class destination for family fun event is the largest neighborhood [Read More]
Doug Lamborn, Colorado’s Congressman calls President Obama a Tar Baby
Doug Lamborn, Colorado’s Congressman calls President Obama a Tar BabyCongressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado’s 5th Congressional District referred to President Barrack Obama as a tar baby while on a radio talk show: “Even if some people say, ‘Well the [Read More]
Michele Bachmann says Black Farmers racism settlement was proof-positive fraud
President Obama kept his words when he said; he would bring "long-ignored claims of African-American farmers to a rightful conclusion." He is seen signing the .25 billion historic settlement in April 2010 . As a potential President of the United States of America, [Read More]
I Dreamt I Was in Heaven – The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang by Leonce Gaiter
Source: Book Review Rufus Buck gang. Rufus Buck was half-black and half Creek Indian. The rest of the gang was composed of one African-American, and three full-blooded Creeks. In the summer of 1895, terror gripped the Indian Territories (today's Oklahoma). The [Read More]
A HARD MAN IS GOOD TO FIND by James Lewis
A HARD MAN IS GOOD TO FIND by James Lewis MICHELLE LARSEN has found a man straight out of a romance novel–handsome, fit, educated, and pulling in a six-figure income. Despite the exceptional qualities and his obvious interest in her, things are moving too slow between [Read More]
Republican candidates Bachmann and Santorum say slavery was good for the black child
What was good about a “child born into slavery in 1860,” when his parents were auction and sold separately? Auctioning of another human was one of the most barbaric practices of the harsh system of slavery. The slave trade within the United States destroyed families and [Read More]
Sweet Liberia, Lessons from the Coal Pot by Susan Peters
By: Charles S. Mombo Sweet Liberia, Lessons from the Coal Pot by Susan Peters In the 1970’s when Black Pride was at its height, many African Americans embraced their roots in Mother Africa by changing their hairstyles, their names, their way of dressing but continued [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]
Lift Every Voice and Sing The Star Spangled Banner
Lift Every Voice and Sing, 1939. Augusta Savage Since that 2008 incident with Jazz singer, Rene Marie, in which she shocked some Denver residents by singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” when she was expected to sing the “Star Spangled [Read More]
Bishop Paul Morton calls on Eddie Long to repent of any sexual coercion sins
Bishop Paul S. Morton, the founder of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship Bishop Paul S. Morton, the founder of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship has openly rebuked Bishop Eddie Lee Long, the prominent and well known African-American pastor of the mega-church, [Read More]
Black thugs running amok in Chicago disguised as flash mob
By: Regina Alexander Three of the 20 arrested in Chicago for their alledge involvement in in flash mob activity in downtown Chicago. From left: Dvonte Sykes, Trovolus Pickett, Derodte Wright. Why are the black churches or the so-called community leaders silent regarding the [Read More]
Don Lemon is TRANSPARENT in announcing that he is gay
CNN Don Lemon will be reading and signing his new memoir, “Transparent”, June 22nd at 7:30 p.m., to be at the Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse located at the corner of Piedmont and Tenth Street in Midtown, Atlanta. If you are in the Atlanta’s area, you might [Read More]
Chicago DuSable Museum to host Meet and Greet for a legend and icon – Pemon Rami
Post Sponsored by Search Engine Optimization Consultants Chicago Pemon Rami - the legendary theatre director, film producer, arts administrator is the new Director of Educational Services at the DuSable Museum. Chicago DuSable Museum to host a “Meet and [Read More]
Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church Must Come Clean
Bishop Lee Eddie Long financially settles sexual coercion lawsuit against four boys. Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church located in Lithonia, Georgia is not guilty nor has he been charged with any wrong doing. However, I am reminder of the idiom – [Read More]
Defying Ft. Defiance: My Mother and I take on the Civil War
By: Yvonne Kendall Yvonne Kendall earned her doctorate at Stanford University. She currently serves time as an associate professor at a state university in Texas. Preface: Ft. Defiance is a historical monument in Clarksville Tennessee, where my parents [Read More]
Bishop Eddie Lee Long financially settles sexual coercion lawsuit against three boys
Bishop Eddie Long and wife Vanessa Long. Bishop Long financially settles sexual coercion lawsuit against three boys. Reports from the DeKalb County Courthouse in DeKalb County, Georgia shows that Bishop Eddie Lee Long, the prominent and well known African-American pastor of [Read More]
Cornel West: Obama is a black mascot and a black puppet
West says, Obama feels most comfortable with upper middle-class white and Jewish men who consider themselves very smart, very savvy and very effective in getting what they want. Some of his critics have charged him with opportunism, crass showmanship, and lack of scholarly [Read More]
Happy Birthday Brother Malcolm X
Malcolm X would have been 86-year-old today. Today marks what would have been Brother Malcolm X’s 86th birthday. Born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Malcolm X was a Muslim minister, public speaker, human rights activist and a champion [Read More]
Patient Reformers Patient Advocates & HealthCare Consultants
Patient Reformers Patient Advocates & Healthcare Consultants is a medical liaison service that provides services at all economic levels. They advocate for patients rights, and also ease the confusion in the contemporary healthcare environment. Patient Reformers Patient [Read More]
A Redbone with Green Eyes
By Charles Mombo I was clearly able to picture this beautiful voluptuous redbone woman based on the description so explicitly described by my fellow Chicago transit passengers. What a difference a bus ride can make. I thought I had heard it all; Black Americans being called [Read More]
Hales Franciscan of Chicago Wins IHSA Class 2A Championship
Hales Franciscan of Chicago Wins IHSA Class 2A Championship - Photo Credit: Lawrence NallsOn Saturday in Peoria, Hales Franciscan High School of Chicago won the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Class 2A Championship by defeating the Red Devils from Murphysboro High [Read More]
Jamie Scott and Gladys Scott too fat for kidney transplant
Jamie Scott must lose more than 100 pounds. Doctors for Jamie Scott and Gladys Scott are saying that the sisters are too fat to undergo kidney transplant; and they must lose their respective weight before they are considered to be tested for compatibility. Jamie Scott must [Read More]
Was Moseley Braun’s loss an embarrassment for black people?
By: Sister Fatima Muhammad Former Senator Carol Moseley Braun was chosen as the “consensus” black candidate by a bunch of old guards who are no longer “in tuned” with reality. In January 2011, Rev. Jesse Jackson and other so-called African-American leaders met [Read More]
Chocolate City Wishes Sidney Poitier a Happy Birthday
Today, February 20, is the 84th birthday of Sidney Poitier.In Stevie Wonder's voice and chorus, The most popular African American and Black website, wishes Sidney Poitier a Happy Birthday: Chorus Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday (Repeat) Today, [Read More]
THEY DID IT FOR FREEDOM a music video featuring Stoneman
By: Glenn Towery, Fairy God Brother Productions & Film Company, LLC This FREE Music Video was done as a tribute to the men, women and children of the Civil Rights movement who sacrificed, sometimes giving up their lives, so that we could be who we are today. We hope you [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]
10 former African-American Presidents and Heads of State
President Barack Obama is not the only African-American to become the president of a country. Below are 10 African-Americans who have presided as head of state of a country. The following presidents of Liberia were all America-Americans: President Joseph Jenkins [Read More]
It’s not worth it, a book by Bottabing
By: Charles S. Mombo @charlessmombo Ms. Bottabing, author of It's Not Worth It.It's not worth it is a “must read” book by a talented and beauty 20 year-old African-American English literature major out of Detroit, Michigan. Her pen name, nom de plume, or [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]
Alan Gribben’s Nigger-less Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnAlan Gribben, a passionate academic on Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens) and his achievements has put together a new edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that replaces the word "nigger" with a supposedly less [Read More]
Cornelius Dupree Jr. exonerated by DNA after 30 years in Texas prison
Cornelius Dupree Jr. spent 30 years in prison for a 1979 rape and robbery. Recent DNA testing proved his innocence. (credit: Texas Department of Criminal Justice) After spending 30 years in prison for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, Cornelius Dupree Jr., 51 [Read More]
Gov. Haley Barbour suspends the sentences of Jamie and Gladys Scott
Our Twitter name: @burnedbrass Our Twitter hashtag: #burnedbrass Join the conversation on FACEBOOK Thanks to Choke Lumumba, the attorney for the Scott sisters; the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People); Michael Baisden of “The Michael [Read More]
Garrett Oliver – The world’s leading Brewmaster
Article Source: ClickEatDrink.com, TouchandEat.Me Twitter @clickeatdrink Garrett Oliver, America's best BrewmasterYou probably know what a brewery is and are capable of naming a few of the local and foreign breweries; but that might be the extent of it. Most of us do not [Read More]
Auburn U doctoral candidate needs African-American males for survey
To possible participant: My name is Jennifer Moore, and I am a doctoral student at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. I am attempting to complete my dissertation, and I need African-American males to answer the surveys provided at the link below. For your participation, [Read More]
Sarah is begging for attention, should Michelle Oblige?
By: Charles S. Mombo Twitter: @charlessmombo The title of my article is so vague and nebulous that I feel the need to explain who Sarah and Michelle are. Michelle Robinson Obama, 46 year-old, is the wife of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, and the [Read More]
Marcus L. Dupree the greatest football player that never was
Dupree was picked up in 1990 by the LA Rams as an un-drafted free agent and he played for them until the pre-season of 1993. As part of their 30 for 30 project, commemorating ESPN's 30th anniversary. They are showing documentaries made by various film producers which [Read More]
Oakland Uh, what’s happening Oaktown?
Oscar Grant and familyAt a recent news conference at the Oakland’s Emergency Operation Center, Police Chief Anthony Batts explained that unruly marchers were "tearing up the city" as they protested a two-year sentence for Johannes Mehserle, a white man and a [Read More]
George Bush: I didn’t appreciate Kanye calling me a racist
I resent Kanye's comments, it's not true, and it was one of the most disgusting moments in my Presidency.Former President George W. Bush who served from from 2001-2009 is expected to release a new book on November 9th. Bush's “Decision Points,” is a [Read More]
T.I., aka Clifford Harris, the rapper heads to jail AGAIN
T.I., aka Clifford Harris, the rapper heads to jail AGAIN on November 1.T.I. also known as Clifford Harris is reportedly preparing mentally to voluntarily surrender to authorities on Monday, November 1, 2010 to start serving his 11 months jail term; he is also reported to [Read More]
Is Juan Williams firing by NPR an assault on free speech?
News Analyst Juan Williams' responded to his dismissal today by National Public Radio (NPR), by calling it "a chilling assault on free speech by self-righteous ideological, left-wing. … They loathe the fact that I appear on Fox News." Williams was fired [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]
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]
Jamal Parris says Eddie Long is a monster not a man
Eddie Long accuser, Parris joined New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in 2001, when he was 14.Atlanta's FOX 5 reporter Dale Russell recently talked with Jamal Parris, 23 year-old, one of the four young men who filed suits against Bishop Eddie Long. During the [Read More]
Pastor Eddie Long accused by fourth male of homosexual acts
Text image of Pastor Long produced by Spencer LeGrande's legal team.Besides, the previous three plaintiffs – Anthony Flagg, 21 year-old; Maurice Robinson, 20 year-old; and Jamal Parris, 23 year-old, a fourth young man, Spencer LeGrande, 22 year-old, file lawsuit on [Read More]
