By Chuck Hobbs, Esquire – Foot Locker. Tank Black. Pell Grant. Albert Means The Florida State University, University of Florida, University of Miami and the University of Alabama, four schools known for notorious football scandals—despite having 18 National Championships between them. As a native Floridian, childhood Seminole follower and adulthood Gator graduate and fan, I […]
CBC Foundation to Honor Alice Walker and Robert Townsend
The Celebration of Leadership in Fine Arts Hosted by Sheryl Lee Ralph Also Honors Student Scholarship Winners WASHINGTON – The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) and the Congressional Black Caucus Spouses will recognize the contributions of two outstanding individuals in the visual and performing arts, as well as students pursuing careers and opportunities in those […]
Statement Regarding New York Post article about National Action Network’s Finances
The NY Post’s article this morning is a totally bogus report of NAN’s finances and we suspect a response to our standing up to News Corp’s partner Glenn Beck and his distortion of Dr. King’s dream. Firstly, the article is based on a 2008 audit where it was widely covered that National Action Network had […]
Jefferson Thomas of the Little Rock Nine, dies
By Adam Bernstein, Washington Post – Jefferson Thomas, one of the “Little Rock Nine” who provoked a major civil rights battle when they integrated Arkansas’ largest public high school in 1957 over the opposition of Gov. Orval E. Faubus, died Sept. 5 at a care facility in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Thomas, who was 67, had […]
Year of Black Republican? JC Watts Seems Optimistic
By Chuck Hobbs, Esquire – This week I had the pleasure of attending a Leon County GOP luncheon where the keynote speaker was former Oklahoma Congressman JC Watts. The irony was not lost among lunch goers that nearly 30 years after Watts twice quarterbacked the Oklahoma Sooners to victories over the hometown Florida State Seminoles, […]
NMA president to tackle women’s health, environmental illnesses and economic relief
WASHINGTON (NNPA) Leonard Weather Jr., M.D., R.Ph. has been named the 111th president of the D.C.-based National Medical Association, an organization representing more than 30,000 Black physicians around the nation and their patients. …..As a resident of Louisiana, with its many oil refineries, the devastation of hurricane Katrina, and the recent oil spill, environmental issues […]
Glen Beck’s Restoring Honor
by Raynard Jackson – Originally, I wasn’t going to write about radio talk show entertainer Glen Beck’s supposed “March on Washington;” but, because you, my readers, asked me to comment, I will. The event was called, “Restoring Honor.” Its stated purpose was to be a “celebration of America’s heroes and heritage. So, I have a […]
Is America Marching in Two Different Directions?
To Be Equal by Marc Morial – This past Saturday in Washington, DC, two groups of Americans gathered on the National Mall to express their vision of freedom 47 years after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech. Unfortunately, the two groups seemed to be marching in different directions. One rally, co-convened […]