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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 7:06 pm
aww, I wish I could have been there, too.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 8:18 am
Cast of Roots today:

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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 10:42 am
Is that Todd Bridges? I didnt realize he was in Roots. I also forgot 'Boom Boom" from Kotter was in Roots. I met him years ago and my mind is blank right now and I cant think of his real name.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 10:51 am
Okay am I losing it? WHERE is James Earl Jones in that pic? If he's there he's invisible. He will always be the heart of ROOTS to me.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 11:35 am
The heart of Roots to me will always be Levar Burton as Kunta Kinte.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:18 pm
To me Burton and Jones were one and the same... two halves of the same whole.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 10:17 pm
Yep. Levar Burton for me, too.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 5:42 pm
Civil Rights Activist June Johnson dies at 59 Her beating in 1963 led to federal charges against Mississippi lawmen
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, April 20, 2007 - 12:06 pm
Yayyyy ... my favorite Dream Girl, Anika Noni Rose is going to be the voice of Disney's Frog Princess!!!

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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 7:25 pm
Navy's first African-American captain dies 08:47 PM EDT on Friday, April 20, 2007 By 13News The Navy’s first African-American promoted to the rank of Captain died this week. Chaplain Thomas David Parham, Jr. died Tuesday, April 16th at the age of 87. Parham was ordained May 17, 1944 by the United Presbyterian Church. His active duty service began in December 1944 and went until 1946, and again in 1951 through April 1982. A memorial service will be held at the Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek Chapel on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. Uniform for the event is service dress blues with ribbons.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 3:04 pm
NAACP launches STOP Campaign
quote:April 23, 2007 Overview The NAACP recognizes that when it comes to forming ideas and establishing norms, nothing is more influential than the images and concepts delivered into our lives on a daily basis by radio, television, film and the Internet. Those that are given access to the public through mainstream media must be put on notice that they have everything to lose by spewing racist ideas and rants. In addition, we equally recognize the need for balance within the African American community in regards to what music, film, and media we deem acceptable in our community. The STOP Campaign is an initiative of the NAACP Youth & College Division that seeks to “STOP” the demeaning images of African Americans in the media, particularly with respect to the portrayal of African American women. Images reflected in songs like “I Was Getting Some…” and music videos that show half-dressed women being objectified by men. In addition, due to the overwhelming number of racially disrespectful incidents that have occurred recently, the STOP Campaign is urgently necessary. Some of these recent incidents include: * Don Imus, radio talk show host, referring to the Rutgers University’s Women’s Basketball Team as “nappy headed hoes”. * Television actor Michael Richards goes on a tirade using the n-word at a comedy club in Los Angeles. Racial incidents on college campuses such as Clemson University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Connecticut, University of Texas-Austin and Texas A&M University where white students dressed in stereotypical African American images and wore black face makeup. There is no better time than today for us to call for a STOP in our community: * STOP Defaming Our Women… by respecting all African American Women and not describing them in profane and derogatory terms * STOP Degrading Our Community… by not supporting hurtful images that portray negative images of the African American community * STOP Denigrating Our History… by not supporting words and media that diminishes our proud history and insults our ancestors * STOP Accepting Disrespect… by not patronizing companies and artists that put forth demeaning and disrespectful images in our community * START Standing Up… by standing up against anyone who diminishes the capacity of young people * START the Diversity… by supporting balance and diversity of content in the entertainment industry to create positive role models for young people and by demanding more African Americans and other people of color in decision making positions in the entertainment industry
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 3:15 pm
Al Sharpton Plans Next Move Against Rap
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 10:55 am
Saul William's Open Letter To Oprah Winfrey Poet Saul Williams just emailed around a long think-piece/open letter to Oprah Winfrey, where he discusses the expression in rap, the difference between hip-hop artists/poets and rapper, and why censorship is not he answer. <snip> It is a long letter, but it does give food for thought ...
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 11:14 am
quote:You see, Ms. Winfrey, at it's worse; hip-hop is simply a reflection of the society that birthed it. Our love affair with gangsterism and the denigration of women is not rooted in hip-hop; rather it is rooted in the very core of our personal faith and religions. The gangsters that rule hip-hop are the same gangsters that rule our nation. 50 Cent and George Bush have the same birthday (July 6th). For a hip-hop artist to say "I do what I wanna do / Don't care if I get caught / The DA could play this motherf---in' tape in court / I'll kill you / I ain't playin'" epitomizes the confidence and braggadocio we expect an admire from a rapper who claims to represent the lowest denominator. When a world leader with the spirit of a cowboy (the true original gangster of the West: raping, stealing land, and pillaging, as we clapped and cheered.) takes the position of doing what he wants to do, regardless of whether the UN or American public would take him to court, then we have witnessed true gangsterism and violent negligence. Yet, there is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch by censoring the leaves.
Very profound.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 11:19 am
That was an interesting letter.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 2:27 pm
Our local Sudbury paper just had an article on the following today - it seems that Britain is going to publish online a free database featuring the names of millions of slaves from the massive british empire in the 1800's ( ie most of the islands etc)in order to assist the descendants trying to research their roots - - It will start with the Barbados registry now and add more islands and territories throughout the year. I couldn't find my paper's article online but I did find this CNN article:
UK slave register published online A genealogy Web site has taken a bold step in exposing the details of the British slave trade by publishing a list of Barbados slaves <SNIP> This is the first in a series of additions to the site's database that will fill in some missing facts about the lives of British owned slaves. Over the course of the next 12 months Ancestry.co.uk will publish records from a total of 23 of the UK's dependencies and colonies, which will give details of approximately 3 million slaves from across the British Empire. CNN Anyone with ancestors from the islands can check here: Ancestry.co.uk
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Jhonise
Member
07-10-2003
| Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 12:10 pm
African American corporate pioneer dies Edward Boyd helped integrate sales force of Pepsi-Cola, changed blacks' image in advertisements. May 2 2007: 3:42 PM EDT NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Edward F. Boyd, a seminal figure in African-American business history, died Monday at the age of 92, Pepsi announced Wednesday. In 1947 Pepsi-Cola hired Boyd to lead an all-black sales force to sell the soft drink in the African-American market, seeking to gain a foothold against well-entrenched Coca-Cola (Charts, Fortune 500). The sales team endured Jim Crow-era segregation as it traveled the country doing work that led to double-digit percentage sales increases, according to a release from Pepsi. <snip>
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, May 07, 2007 - 1:54 pm
75-year-old cancer survivor skis to North Pole
Barbara Hillary
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, May 07, 2007 - 1:59 pm
Spelman student starts letter writing campaign to BET and TVOne Good for her!!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, May 07, 2007 - 2:52 pm
I agree and bout time.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, May 07, 2007 - 4:33 pm
I agree. Did they air the Oprah town hall yet?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 6:41 am
Wasn't ignoring you Pamy, just don't know what you're talkin bout lol. Town hall for what?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 6:44 am
Auto loan rates higher for blacks Recent legal settlements could narrow the gap, however The Associated Press Updated: 3:06 p.m. ET May 7, 2007 WASHINGTON - Blacks have been charged higher auto loan rates than other auto buyers, federal research says. But the gap in loan rates could narrow, and possibly disappear, as the result of recently concluded lawsuits. Blacks paid a typical auto loan rate of 7 percent for new cars, compared with a rate of 5 percent for whites in 2004, according to a consumer organization’s analysis of the Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances. That was the most recent survey available. And blacks were more likely than auto buyers in general to have auto loan rates higher than 15 percent. For used car loans, 27 percent of blacks who buy cars were charged interest rates of 15 percent or more. Blacks were three times as likely as whites — 27 percent to 9 percent — to have auto loan rates at least that high. Hispanics were paying a typical rate of 5.5 percent for new car loans, while 19 percent of Hispanics had loans for used cars over 15 percent, the analysis found. story -------------------------------- Oh but we're supposed to just keep it moving, gtfoh.
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 9:01 am
That's just wrong on so many levels. 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 5:54 pm
MOjo, in the article they mentioned they had a town hall with Oprah about that letter writing campaign....I just wondered if it was on a show that aired
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