villagechief, Author at Dogon Village

Commentary

Trump’s disrespect for President Obama

May 6, 2011 villagechief 0

By Etan Thomas, Special to CNN – (CNN) — Donald Trump’s most recent challenge to President Barack Obama took me back to my collegiate years at Syracuse University. I had studied for two weeks straight for a calculus class, harder than I had ever studied in my life. After I completed my exam, I was […]

Commentary

SEAL of Approval

May 5, 2011 villagechief 0

By Raynard Jackson – Of course all the talk this week has been of the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by the elite Navy SEAL Team 6. I was hoping, at least in the U.S., that this event would allow America to come together, if only for a moment, and reflect on what […]

Carl DeWayne West

Is Revenge the Answer?

May 4, 2011 villagechief 0

By Carl DeWayne West (TBT News Service) – First, let me be one of the millions of well wishers thanking President Barack Obama for putting an end to a horrible chapter in America during my lifetime. I salute him and his decorated team of advisors. I’d like to especially thank our military that executed a […]

Commentary

Housing Counseling Budget Cut – An Assault on the Middle Class

May 3, 2011 villagechief 0

Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal#18) – If there was any doubt that middle and working class Americans are paying more than their fair share in the deficit reduction battles, the budget cuts recently enacted to prevent a government shutdown make it absolutely clear. Everything from Pell grants for college tuition to heating assistance for […]

Commentary

Is U.S. Ready to Have Billionaire CEO as President?

May 3, 2011 villagechief 0

Ted Santos (TBT News Service) – In 1992, Ross Perot ran for President of the US, earning 19% of the votes before dropping out and coming back. If he had won, would we have experienced this economic crisis? Or would he have used his business savvy to avert some of the financial challenges? Many people […]

Headlines

Chuck D Challenges Rappers To Diss The Donald

May 3, 2011 villagechief 0

Vibe.com – Chuck D, who has had his own criticism of President Obama, believes that when it comes to the blatant racism of demanding birth certificates and college transcripts from the first black President (Trump has said on several occasions that Obama was not qualified to attend Ivy League institution Harvard), rappers need to stand […]

News

Building Green to Build Futures

May 3, 2011 villagechief 0

A Fundraiser for Disadvantaged Youth hosted by OUR HOUSE Friday, May 20, 2011 (7:00 PM to 10:30 PM) at The Mansion At Strathmore 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD. Our House is a non-profit organization that since 1993 has served abused, abandoned, homeless, and orphaned male youth from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC, providing them […]

Chuck Hobbs

Hobbs’ Monday Musings: Osama Bin Laden is Killed/Royal Wedding and a Funeral/Obama tours Alabama

May 3, 2011 villagechief 0

OSAMA BIN LADEN IS KILLED “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven…a time to kill—a time to heal” Ecclesiastes 3:1-3 At long last, American forces cornered—and killed—Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the rise of Al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. The politics of Bin Laden’s death […]

Commentary

The Misconception of Justice: Osama Bin Laden’s Death

May 3, 2011 villagechief 0

What was known to me as the world’s most elusive game of “Hide and Seek” has now come to an end. On Sunday May 1st, President Barack Obama declared “Osama Bin Laden a murderer of thousands is dead” as people here and abroad began to celebrate the death of the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist […]