http://www.dogonvillage.com Connecting the Black Diaspora with news, politics, and issues important to African-Americans Fri, 10 May 2013 16:19:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/02/adequate-and-affordable-housing-remains-a-problem-in-new-orleans/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/02/adequate-and-affordable-housing-remains-a-problem-in-new-orleans/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:03:39 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1448 Charles “Chaz” Hobbs – It is hard to believe that it has been almost six years since the uneventful date of August 29, 2005 in which Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the states of Mississippi and Louisiana. In the aftermath of this natural/man-made disaster we all have waited patiently for the past five years for [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/02/adequate-and-affordable-housing-remains-a-problem-in-new-orleans/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/aids-transcending-time/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/aids-transcending-time/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:47:35 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1044 By Charles “Chaz” Hobbs – If one of age can remember back to the 1980’s you will remember the scores of news reports that caught our attention about the new, “Gay Plague,” that hit America’s homosexual community by storm. The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, or commonly known as AIDS, was the penultimate disease that ravages one’s [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/aids-transcending-time/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/how-many-in-black-america-really-are-unemployed/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/how-many-in-black-america-really-are-unemployed/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:35:08 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=915 By Charles “Chaz” Hobbs – While reminiscing about my undergraduate era as an Economics major (We all try to remember, back in the day!), I happened to be perusing the U.S. Department of Labor’s – Bureau of Labor Statistics – Monthly Employment Report in regards to the “Unemployment Rate”. As I conjured up those fond [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/how-many-in-black-america-really-are-unemployed/feed/ 0