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I visited a blog earlier this evening called Stereohyped that had a cartoon posted, which I’m going to post at the end of this topic. It seems there were a bunch of cartoons that were basically banned because of the perception that they were racist, based on stereotypes, from the 30’s through the 50’s. [...]

Man, I’m starting to feel so old. I was reading this blog called Stereohyped, where the reader was commenting on a story that came out this week stating that the percentage of black baseball players is tied for its all time low. He asked in his post who cares. I was going [...]

Last week I wrote about the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King. I just came upon this story concerning my favorite baseball player in history, Roberto Clemente, and his relationship with Dr. King, as well as his taking a major stance after his assassination that, unfortunately, not a single American born ballplayer took [...]

First, the previous two newsletters for your perusal are thus:
Moving Forward
Dr. King - The Final Speech
The most recent newsletter I just sent out about five minutes ago, and it touches upon the topic of this post in more of a diagnostic breakdown of his final speech. This post isn’t that, though; it’s more of [...]

The February issue of Black Enterprise magazine had an interesting report on black board members of major corporations. I have to admit that I’ve never thought about how many black people might be on major corporate boards before, only looking at the sparsity of black CEOs, or minority CEOs for that matter, in the [...]

I thought about staying away from this one, but I just couldn’t. Good ol’ Pat Buchanan, who my dad used to enjoy hating on Crossfire so many years ago, decided he had to take his shot and weigh in on this controversy surrounding both Barack Obama’s speech and some of the bad things that [...]

The playing field really isn’t equal when it comes to employment and finance. Minorities still make around 70% of whites in America, and it gets worse for females. Minorities are under represented drastically in industry across the country in positions of leadership; look at housekeeping and taxis, though, and you’ll know where most [...]

Yes, you read that headline correctly. In a MSNBC news story yesterday titled “Black Pups Face Doggie Discrimination”, statistics seem to indicate that it’s hard to move black dogs out of shelters, no matter the age. One worker was quoted as saying “They’re the hardest to adopt out, they’re in the shelters the [...]

Sometimes my wife’s cousin comes up with some of the best stuff. I think this is a great thing to close this year’s Black History Month out with, especially with the extra day. The site is called Martin Luther King Soundboard and it’s basically access to sound clips and speeches of Dr. King’s [...]

On the next to the last day of Black History Month for this year, there’s an email going around that I’ve received in previous years entitled “Life Without Black People”. Basically, it’s a “what-if” black people had never been in America and what would have been lost because of their contributions in making this [...]