Posts Tagged ‘Black American’
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Scattered Trees a Black History Reflection by Baron and Jason Harper
Scattered Trees a Black History Reflection by Baron and Jason HarperIn commemoration of Black History Month 2011, Jason and his brother Baron Harper shot a short documentary. The documentary is about a conversation they had in Chicago about what it's like being [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]
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]
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]
Jamie and Gladys Scott armed robbery and life sentence revisited
Article Sponsored by SEO and Social Media Marketing Consultants Jamie Scott who is now 38 year-old is reportedly gravely ill with kidney failure. She was a mother at the time of the crime..I first heard about Jamie Scott and her sister Gladys Scott about five years [Read More]
Why did Michael Jackson remains turned paper white?
Michael Jackson CNN is reporting that a source involved with the investigation into the King of Pop’s death said his body was "lily white from head to toe." And another one of their sources revailed that Michael Jackson had "paper-white skin. As white [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]
Mrs. Obama criticized for non-Black Designer
Michelle at a Barbara Walters show in a rosette-trimmed sheath from Jason Wu.Amnau Eele, co-founder of the Black Artists Association (BAA), is taking Mrs. Obama to task because she did not have her inauguration outfits designed by African American designers. Amnau Eele, is [Read More]
