Your Black News – 5/19/11

Melissa Harris-Perry Was Sloppy and Deceptive in her Critique of Cornel West

Africa May Miss Out on Latest Developments in HIV/AIDS

Prominent Black Businessman Don Barden Dies

LeBron James and the Heat Take Down the Bulls in Game

Teen Girl Gets in Trouble for Observing Sex with Her Classmates

ayvaunn penn: hometown of blues legend muddy waters could be flooded again

Madam Prezident: WNBA’s Maya Moore Lands Historic Jordan Brand Contract

Racial Tensions Flair in Small Texas Town: Black City Council Members Recalled

A Truck Found Containing 513 Migrant Workers

Ayvaunn Penn: Unbeweavable – A Wave of Weave Thefts Sweeps the Nation

Kevin Gosztola: Melissa Harris-Perry’s Sloppy and Weak Attacks on Dr. Cornel West

This guy takes Melissa Harris-Perry to the ground, saying that she avoids the hard questions in her personal attack on Cornel West.

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Little Girl Speaks 6 Languages, Plays 7 Instruments

 

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Cornel West Speaks for Poor, Black, Brown and Working Class on MSNBC

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Dr. Boyce: Malcolm’s Legacy Still Doesn’t Get the Respect That It Deserves

 

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Two Students Accused of Trying to Noose a Black Student

 

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OJ Gets His Appeal Denied

It looks like OJ is going to be in prison for a while.

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Dr. Boyce Watkins: Rapper’s Death Was “Right on Schedule” According to Hip-Hop

 

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Dr. Boyce: Why I’m Glad the White House Still Invited Common

 

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Actor Clifton Powell Says He would Beat “Spike Lee’s Ass” for Disrespecting Tyler Perry

It appears that the battle has gotten out of hand.

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Republicans

It looks like the Republicans don’t even like the rapper Common.  How much for docile can a rapper get?

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Survey: 3/4 of African Americans have a relative who has served time in Prison

 

Startling statistics as reported by Dr. Boyce Watkins, who is leading an initiative to fight against mass incarceration.

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Hearing it from the Man Who Knew Osama bin Laden

Dr. Wilmer Leon speaks with the journalist who knew Osama bin Laden well.

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Duchess Harris: Why Shirley Sherrod Should Be President

A scholar, Duchess Harris, explains the dynamics of race in America with an exciting new book.

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Predominantly Black Memphis High School Earns a Visit From President Obama

President Obama is rewarding a Memphis high school that has really turned itself around.

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Michelle Obama Dances with Kids on the White House Lawn (Video)

Yes, that’s Michelle getting down with some kids….again – changing what it means to be a first lady.

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A Group Calls for Prosecutor to Drop Charges Against Homeless Mom

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Why Would Osama bin Laden Try to Recruit Black People?

Dr. Wilmer Leon and Dr. Boyce Watkins discuss the allegation that Osama bin Laden once tried to recruit disgruntled blacks to be part of his revolution.

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LeBron James Should Apologize for “Retarded” Comment

LeBron James is in hot water after remarks me made to a reporter.

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Who Do We Blame for the Black Unemployment Crisis: The White House or Congress?

A lot of politicians do a whole lot of talking, but who should be held accountable on the black unemployment crisis?

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Amazing Racism Being Displayed on This Game Show

 

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Pastor Onslow Ross: A Crook or a Victim?

 

Is this pastor a crook or a victim?  Why he got 10 years in prison.

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Is the White House Telling the Truth about bin Laden?

 

Dr. Boyce: Why I Think the Government is Probably Lying to Me.

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Herman Cain Has a Big Announcement To Make

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Huffington Post: Black Unemployment and the Great Black Disconnect for Obama

Dr. Boyce Watkins

Professor, Syracuse University

Posted: 05/ 8/11 03:51 PM ET

 

President Obama has a problem, a very serious one. The president's problem is what I would call "The Great Black Disconnect." This divide is the place where black America's love and appreciation for the Obamas disconnects from the intense economic suffering of the African American community. Like a festering and infected wound that remains untreated, President Obama's support within the black community is threatened by the fact that the people who love him most are suffering unlike anything our nation has seen over the last 50 years.

This week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its unemployment numbers for the month of April. The figures were consistent with the jobless recovery that has taken good care of Wall Street, but created homelessness on Main Street. The national unemployment rate grew from 8.8 percent to 9 percent, which will surely perpetuate President Obama's somber ratings on economic performance.

 

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What Your Probably Don’t Know about bin Laden, Pakistan and US Foreign Policy

With the killing of Osama bin Laden, Americans remain woefully ignorant of what our government does overseas in the name of the United States. 

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Black Unemployment Keeps Going Up…..and Up….and Up

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, YourBlackWorld.com 

President Obama has a problem, a very serious one.  The president’s problem is what I would call “The Great Black Disconnect.”

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Roland Martin Apologizes for Donald Trump’s Behavior

CNN’s Roland Martin had some interesting things to say about "The Donald” – Click to read.

Friday Flash Feature: Denise Bolds Teaches Single Black Moms How to Raise Their Sons

Leslie DeTouche, Your Black World 

Many single black moms are not sure how to raise their boys.  Well, Denise Bolds has some solutions that work.

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Why Won’t Obama Release the bin Laden Death Photos?

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black World 

Here, I speak with Nida Khan, a highly-respected journalist with The Huffington Post, Kiss-FM in New York and the Rev. Al Sharpton National Radio show.

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Rashard Mendenhall Loses Sponsorship Deal Over bin Laden Tweets

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black World – Scholarship in Action 

Rashard Mendenhall from the Pittsburgh Steelers has been dropped by one of his sponsors, Champion over tweets that were controversial in the midst of the Osama bin Ladenkilling this week.

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Group Wants to Take the N-Word off Tombstones

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EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Time has weathered the 36 concrete gravestones in a dusty, half-century-old cemetery tucked away in a corner of California’s former gold fields. Time has not erased, however, the bigotry of a bygone era carved into the markers.

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“Birthers” Replaced by “Deathers”: Don’t Believe Bin Laden is Really Dead

by Brook Griffin, Your Black World 

Last week, when President Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate, he silenced many of the critics, birthers, who didn’t believe that he was born in the United States.  Now, the birth certificate controversy has been replaced by another one:  whether or not Osama Bin Laden is actually dead.

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South Park Makes Fun of Tyler Perry

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black World 

South Park is a show that takes no prisoners.  Sometimes they can be brutal, and when your name is mentioned on the show, you might as well prepare to be embarrassed.  The latest victim of the show is Tyler Perry, who is presented as “Funny Bot,” a woman in a dress who tells silly stereotypical jokes that make you laugh over and over again.  Every time Funny Bot throws out a catch phrase (“Oh lawud, this chicken sho is hot!”), someone hands him a dollar.   He is also, by the way, presented as the greatest threat to all of man-kind by President Barack Obama (you can see a clip by clicking here).

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The White House’s Progress on Civil Rights: Laying Out Some Facts

 

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, YourBlackWorld.com – Scholarship in Action 

Below is a direct cut and paste of the White House’s most recent work on Civil Rights.  I obtained the information from this link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/civil-rights.  I was inspired to visit the page after receiving an email from Michael Blake, Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement (he was on the panel with myself, Al Sharpton and Ben Jealous at the Measuring the Movement forum this year in New York City).  They are working hard to get African Americans enthusiastic about the 2012 elections and Blake is the man on the job.

Actor Jeffrey Wright Says “There is No Black Cinema”

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In this interview, actor Jeffrey Wright talks about the state of black cinema and the fact that African Americans don’t have the power to tell our own stories.  This leads to biased reflections of how we are portrayed in media of all kinds, affecting the way we see ourselves and the way other people see us.

The interview is below, and you can also watch by clicking here.

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Study: Minorities Still Locked Out of Most Institutions

  

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, YourBlackWorld.com, Scholarship in Action 

I took a look at an ABC News picture of President Barack Obama sitting in a Situation Room with lead advisers watching the assassination of Obama bin Laden.  Everyone had a tense look on their face, as 10 years of hard work suddenly came down to the wire.  I couldn’t help but notice, as I scanned all the faces across the room, that there were only two women present (Hillary Clinton and another woman in the back), and one bi-racial black man (President Obama).  Every other person in the room was a white male. 

What startles me the most is that millions of other Americans can look at this picture and see absolutely nothing wrong with it.  The “white guy’s club” has always been the status quo in leadership positions.

The Justice Department May Investigate the NCAA for Anti-Trust Violations

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University – Scholarship in Action 

A letter was sent this week by the United States Department of Justice to the NCAA, stating that it has received several requests for an anti-trust investigation into the league’s current Bowl Championship Series (BCS) structure.  The system is being criticized for making it difficult for teams in some conferences to qualify for the major bowls, costing them millions of dollars in revenue.

"Serious questions continue to arise suggesting that the current BCS system may not be conducted consistent with the competition principles expressed in federal antitrust laws," Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney said to NCAA President Mark Emmert.

Dead NFL Player Dave Duerson would Not Have Qualified for Full Disability Benefits

By ALAN SCHWARZ  Published: May 4, 2011

BOSTON — As the football world absorbs Monday’s news that Dave Duerson had the football-related brain damage he suspected before fatally shooting himself in February, an overlooked detail has emerged: had Duerson reached out for help via the N.F.L.’s disability plan, which he helped administer, his neurological injuries would not have qualified for a high level of benefit, if any at all.

President Obama’s Approval Rating Jumps 11 Percent

 

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black World – Scholarship in Action 

Life is good in the White House this week, as a recent CBS/New York Times poll shows that President Obama’s approval rating jumped a startling 11 points this month. As of this week, 57 percent of Americans say they approve of the way President Obama is handling his job, a stark increase from the 46 percent number just one month ago.

Members of Kappa Alpha Psi Arrested for Hazing

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black World – Scholarship in Action 

The Bakersfield Police Department has confirmed that four men were arrested in a hazing incident involving students at California State University.  As of Saturday, police were investigating an alleged felonious assault involving members of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.

The report was initiated after a 25-year old man was admitted to the hospital as a result of the incident.  The investigation found that between March 28 and April 25, four students were assaulted on multiple occasions.  The assaults included beatings and being shot at close range with a BB gun.

The members of the fraternity involved in the alleged incident are not officially sanctioned by the university.  They do, however, recruit students from the CSUB campus through a club they’ve established.

The White House Can’t Get It’s Story Straight on Bin Laden

 

John Cook — When you're dealing with the assassination of the world's most-wanted criminal, you might want to actually know what you're talking about. In the space of 36 hours, the official story on what happened to Osama bin Laden has gone from "he went down guns blazing and taking hostages" to "basically we shot him."

HOW WOULD YOU HANDLE IT, IF THIS HAPPENED TO YOU?

A black former postal worker from Hingham, Massachusetts thought that this day would  be a routine work day filled with mail drop offs and pick ups. Until he came face to face with a disgruntle and racist white customer. The woman featured in this two part YouTube
video sensation comes face to face with the postal worker. In video one, she is enraged, hangs from the carrier’s postal truck window and demands that he retrieve a piece of certified mail that she has signed for. When the postal worker denies her request for retrieval of her mail, her true colors shine and she begins to racially attack the worker with statements like “You’re a fucking nigger thief.” Clearly this woman is delusional because she follows that statement with “I’m not prejudiced but right now I’m getting real pissed off.” The postal worker remained calm and clear during this racial attack. He explained to her that he could not take back the certified mail and why was she calling him names. Unfortunately his calm demeanor seemed to enrage the women to the point
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NFL PLAYER IN THE RING

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former NFL Pro Bowl running back Herschel Walker has followed up his run on NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" with a new contract to become a Mixed Martial Arts fighter.      

Promoter Strikeforce announced that the one-time Heisman trophy winner – and fifth degree black belt in Taekwondo – has signed a multi-fight contract and will begin a 12-week training camp in California next month.

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