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Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 1:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Sorry, I had to make it so small its almost unreadable but if you want to read the whole article I can email it to you.

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Twinkie
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Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 1:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
It took them 2 years to finally put up a headstone but its here in Buffalo where he was from and his family still lives.

Mocha
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Oh good, wonder why it took so long. Thx Twinks.

Mocha
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Judge blocks Omaha school race-division law
Measure would have divide city into racially identifiable school districts

Updated: 11:29 p.m. ET Sept 18, 2006
OMAHA, Neb. - A judge on Monday blocked the implementation of a law that would divide the Omaha school district into three racially identifiable districts.

The law, passed in April and set to take effect in 2008, would have split the Omaha Public Schools into one mostly black district, one largely Hispanic and one predominantly white. It also would have forced 11 school districts in two counties to share resources, including state funding, as part of a “learning community.”

Douglas County District Judge Michael Coffey ordered a temporary injunction blocking implementation of the law, which was aimed at solving a dispute over school boundaries after the district tried to take over some suburban schools. The injunction will remain in effect while the lawsuit is decided unless the court decides to lift it sooner.

Coffey criticized the district breakup because no other districts in the state would have been subject to such a plan.

“The court can find no reasonable basis for creating a classification of one in this instance,” Coffey said.

Coffey also said the learning community board’s voting structure would violate the Nebraska Constitution because a large district’s vote would count the same as a small district. The board was set to hold its first meeting Tuesday.

The injunction was in response to a lawsuit by the Chicano Awareness Center, a Latino outreach group, and five parents of children in Omaha public schools. The NAACP has also sued over the law, saying it violates the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling outlawing school segregation.

The 45,000-student Omaha school system is 46 percent white, 31 percent black, 20 percent Hispanic, and 3 percent Asian or American Indian.

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Retired
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Good for Judge Coffey.

Ladytex
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Nigeria's teenage girl to be first African off to space
www.chinaview.cn 2006-09-19 03:46:05

ABUJA, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- A 17-year-old Nigerian girl will be the first African to participate in the world weightlessness flight scheduled for Sept. 23, the official News Agency of Nigeria reported on Monday.

Robert Boroffice, director general of the National Space Research and Development Agency, was quoted as saying that the flight, which would take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the United States, "is an initiative of the non-government Spaceweek International Association (SIA)."

He added that the Nigerian girl called Stella Felix from Nigeria's southern state of Ebonyi, is an SS3 student of the Moremi High School, Ile-Ife. She was selected for the trip out of 400 students from 101 schools in Nigeria's south-west geo-political zone.

"Felix was picked based on the criteria sent in by the SIA requesting that the nominee be a female student aged between 15 and 18 from a poor family with a compelling story," he said.

"She will be the first international student to fly on a zero-Gplane from the Kennedy Space Center," he added.

Speaking on the planned trip, Boroffice said the flight would be a two-hour mission on board G-Force One. He added that the zero-G parabolic flight would be manned by trained pilots maneuvering the aircraft between 24,000 feet (7,200 meters) and 32,000 feet (9,600 meters) altitude.

"The goal of the program is to use space to inspire education on a global basis while promoting international understanding among the youth," he said.

According to Nigerian Federal Minister of Science and Technology Turner Isoun, the planned trip would be a good opportunity to showcase space education to Nigerian school children.

He said "the trip will further strengthen Nigeria's determination to deploy space science to every facet of the economy."

He said a Nigerian teenage astronaut would definitely boost the recently launched 25-year road map for the acquisition of the know-how in space science and technology.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-09/19/content_5107160.htm

Mocha
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Good luck and journey to her.

Retired
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What Mocha said.

Twinkie
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 4:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Mocha, I've been going to the cemetary where he's buried asking about a headstone for 2 years now and nobody knew anything. Couldn't even tell me where he was buried. So I finally, last year, asked about it on his website and I hope I shamed them into getting the ball rolling. Next time I'm over that way with my camera I'll take a better pic.

Ladytex
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Racial discrimination can affect adolescents' development - lead to depression and behavior problems
Child Health News
Published: Thursday, 14-Sep-2006


Racial discrimination in the lives of African-American children can lead to depression and behavior problems in adolescence, but teens who have had close relationships with their parents, friendships focused on positive pursuits and good schooling experiences are less likely to experience these negative effects.
That finding comes from a study published in the September/October issue of the journal Child Development.

Researchers from the University of Georgia in Athens, the University of California-Davis and Iowa State University in Ames set out to evaluate the psychological adjustment of 714 African-American children. The children and their primary caregivers, usually the mothers, were personally interviewed in the home three times over a five-year period, beginning when the children were 10 to 12 years old. The study is part of a larger, ongoing joint project, the Family and Community Health Study, conducted with support from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

The children were interviewed about any racial discrimination they saw directed towards themselves and those close to them, feelings of depression, engagement in antisocial behavior and extent to which their friends expected and encouraged positive behavior. The children and their mothers were also interviewed about the mothers' parenting practices and the children's school experiences.

The researchers found that children whose experience with racially based insults, name calling and distrust increased as they moved into adolescence were more likely to report symptoms of depression, such as feeling irritable, having difficulty sleeping and having trouble concentrating in school. Boys were also more likely to become involved in antisocial behavior such as fighting and shoplifting.

"The outlook was brighter, though, for children whose homes, friends, and schools protected them from discrimination's negative influences," said lead researcher Gene H. Brody, PhD, Regents' Professor and Director of the Center for Family Research at the University of Georgia. "Children whose parents stayed involved in their lives, kept track of their whereabouts, treated them with warm affection and communicated clearly with them were less likely to develop problems due to their experiences with discrimination."

He and his colleagues found similar outcomes for children whose friends encouraged them to take part in positive pursuits, such as helping out at home and becoming involved with community activities, and for those who performed well at school and had good relationships with their teachers.


http://www.news-medical.net/?id=20156

Native_texan
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Ladytex, that's a very interesting article and I have found that this does not just pertain to African-American students. My son attends a school that is over 80% African-American and 12% Hispanic, so the white student population is very much the minority. Travis fits that article to a T as he experiences prejudice on a daily basis and gets very upset because he doesn't understand why he is treated that way since, as he put it, "I didn't have anything to do with what happened way back then." What's ironic is that Travis loves hip-hop, loves to wear his dewrag (sp?), his best friends are African-American and while he can tell you all about Martin Luther King, he can't tell you anything about John F. Kennedy.

Mocha
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Race an issue in film about Jesus' death
September 22, 2006


Through the ages, people have speculated in pen, paint and plaster about what Jesus looked like.

Now, film producer Jean Claude LaMarre joins them. But in his rendition, Jesus is black and was crucified in part because of his skin color.

That's the premise behind LaMarre's new movie, "Color of the Cross," which will be shown in two advance screenings this weekend at Fellowship Chapel in Detroit. The film is to be released Oct 27 in theaters in Detroit and 19 other markets nationally.

And when it is, LaMarre expects the film's casting and message to spark lively conversations about the role of race in religion -- within predominantly black churches as well as predominantly white ones.

"For years I've been thinking about how we as a community look at religion and Jesus," LaMarre, 38, said Thursday, referring to African Americans. "And there is a small section of the black community that really covets that white image. To challenge that would challenge the very foundation of their faith."

Jesus has long been portrayed with flowing hair and alabaster skin, despite a reference in the Book of Revelation that Jesus had hair the texture of lamb's wool and bronze-colored feet. In recent decades, some black churches have embraced a more Afro-centric vision of Jesus, showing him with an Afro hairstyle and beard.

LaMarre said the depiction of a soul-saving Jesus as white damages the African-American psyche.

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Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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very interesting ... should cause some talk ...

Mocha
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Farrakhan tells followers he’s seriously ill
Nation of Islam leader asks others to carry on the work of the movement

Updated: 5:28 p.m. ET Sept 22, 2006
CHICAGO - Minister Louis Farrakhan said in a letter to followers this month that he is seriously ill, and he asked the Nation of Islam's leaders to carry on in his absence to make sure the movement "will live long after I and we have gone."

Farrakhan, 73, said he began suffering pain earlier this year similar to 1998, when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent surgery. He said doctors discovered an ulcer in his anal area during a visit to Cuba in March.

Since then, he has lost 35 pounds while battling "serious infection and inflammation," Farrakhan said in a letter dated Sept. 11 and published in the Nation of Islam's The Final Call newspaper.

Farrakhan said he will work hard to recover "because I do not believe my earthly work is done." He said he asked his executive board to solve problems during his recovery.

Farrakhan likened his situation to that of Fidel Castro, who temporarily relinquished power because of illness.

"While many rejoiced — believing and thinking that if Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution expired they could move Cuba and the Revolution in a new direction — his absence from the helm only proved that Cuba will not fall apart over the absence or passing of their illustrious leader," Farrakhan wrote in the letter.

He also warned followers to be "ever watchful for any smart, crooked deceiver and hypocrite who would create confusion over my present condition."

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Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Saturday, September 23, 2006 - 5:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
I wonder what this will do to his movement. He's been such strong leader since he took the helm. Like him or not, believe or not, he's been a very strong influence on many.

Mocha
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Saturday, September 23, 2006 - 5:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Yeah I was wondering the same thing.

Ladytex
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How much do you know about notable African Americans? Take this quiz and find out ...

Mocha
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I bombed on that one.

Mocha
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African American History IS American History
By Stasia Demarco
Philadelphia
28 September 2006

African American history taught and understood as part of American history, not a separate subject, is the focus of an in-depth exhibit at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia.

People come from all over the world to this rare book museum and library to see the original manuscript of James Joyces' Ulysses, the
extensive collection of books and drawings by children's author Maurice Sendak and the preserved living room of famous American poet Marianne Moore.

On a warm September evening, Rosenbach museum members gathered to see an unusually diverse collection of rare books, letters, posters and artifacts, all from the Rosenbach's private collection and all dealing with the experience of blacks in America. The Look Again exhibit's message is laid out in its subtitle: 'African American History IS American History,' meaning there really is no way to learn or discuss American history without recognizing that African American history is involved at each step of the nation's development.

According to Diane Turner, the exhibit's guest curator, "In American history you have things which are very complex. And I think it does the American public a disservice when we only get one perspective of what the American experience is all about." The African American history professor says when these two histories are viewed as inseparable, a deeper understanding of the complex issues surrounding race in America is possible.

As an example, she points to the nation's Founding Fathers -- people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. "When you look at [them] and their signing of these various documents that begin the nation, [you see] the contradiction between talking about liberty and freedom and many of these Founding Fathers being slave holders. So how do you come to a contradiction like that, slavery and freedom?" She answers her own question: "You look at what early America means on the one hand from the perspective of the slave holder. They might be attempting to justify the enslavement of Africans and refer to them as 'the slave,' which you know is property and chattel. But on the other side, if you look at it from the perspective of the Africans themselves who were enslaved, you begin to see one of the richest stories in the themes about freedom. Because slavery is not about good or evil. It's about people of African Education. Director and curator Bill Adair says African American history must be seen as an integral part of American history. "The history of race, the history of racism, the connection between whites and blacks and their relationship is central to the story of American history," he says. "So whenever you bring out a document related to American history, in some way you can tell the story of African Americans as well."

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Ladytex
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Elusive, Iconic "Cleopatra Jones" Star Dies
http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/eo/20061005/116011068000.html

Thu Oct 05, 9:58 PM ET

On screen, Tamara Dobson stood 6-foot-2 and sported an afro that seemed almost as tall--she was impossible to miss. Off screen, she was virtually impossible to find.

Dobson, the actress who cut an imposing figure as high-fashion super-agent Cleopatra Jones, only to later become the most elusive star of the blaxploitation era, died Monday at a Baltimore care facility of complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis, her family said. She was 59.

A former model, Dobson's Hollywood career was brief, but iconic.

Blaxploitation film expert David Walker remembered Dobson Thursday as being, with Pam Grier, one of the most influential black actresses of the 1970s, and beyond.

"These two women alone were more responsible for changing how black women were portrayed on the screen than any other two women," Walker said.

Grier kicked butt and other body parts in the revenge flicks Foxy Brown, Coffy and others. Dobson took a cooler, but no less lethal approach to injustice in 1973's Cleopatra Jones and its 1975 sequel, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold.

"The difference between Tamara Dobson and Pam Grier," Walker said, "is that everybody knows Pam Grier, and everybody knows Cleopatra Jones."

But nobody, at least not the public, knew Tamara Dobson.

True, the usual biographical data is present and accounted for: Born in Baltimore on May 14, 1947; modeled in Vogue, Mademoiselle and other fashion magazines; scored her first notable movie role as Yul Brynner's girlfriend in 1972's Fuzz; made her final appearance in the 1984 TV movie Amazons; once recognized, the legend goes, as film's tallest leading lady.

And, true, Dobson wasn't the only blaxploitation star to step back from the spotlight after the groundbreaking, but controversial film cycle abruptly ended in the late 1970s. But she was about the only one who never came back. Pam Grier had her Jackie Brown; Tamara Dobson had more than 20 years of private life to herself.

Walker, who made the blaxploitation documentary Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted, said he tried to contact Dobson a handful of times for interviews, but had no luck. She was unreachable, unlocatable. And not just to him, but to others, including the fellow stars of her era.

"She really did 100 percent disappear off the face of the earth," Walker said. "I've heard rumors about everybody, but there's no story about her."

Well, maybe there were a few stories, a few theories about her post-Hollywood life. One, according to Walker, had her marrying a diamond broker.

"Maybe she just fell in love with something other than acting," Walker said. "And that's a nice way to remember her--in a fairytale context."

Dobson's family described the former actress as a "devoted aunt" who "lived most of her adult life in New York." She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis six years ago, they said.

"It was a fast degeneration in her case, and it was very disheartening to me," her brother, Peter Dobson, said Thursday. "I could not stay and watch her suffer, especially knowing the type of athletic person she was."

According to Peter Dobson, the mystery of whatever happened to Tamara Dobson wasn't all that mysterious: She had a crushing experience on one of her final films and essentially decided enough was enough.

"She was always headstrong about her decisions," Peter Dobson said.

After Hollywood, Tamara Dobson bought and managed property in New York, her brother said. Ideas for new show-biz ventures--such as a pro-wrestling announcing gig suggested by her brother--were dismissed.

"She got there [to Hollywood]. She was very stubborn to put her feet to the path to get there, and if she said she was done, she was done," Peter Dobson said.

"She's one of the toughest people I know."

When illness struck, Peter Dobson said, his sister became a recluse, intent on fighting her health battle.

Did she know how iconic a film figure she was?

"In a way she did," Peter Dobson said, "in a way, she didn't."

Mocha
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Such a shame.

Juju2bigdog
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59 is seeming pretty doggoned young these days.

Mocha
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Democrat apologizes for 'slavish' remark
POSTED: 9:52 p.m. EDT, October 17, 2006

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A ranking Democrat in the House of Representative is apologizing for saying an African-American Senate candidate "slavishly" supported the Republican Party.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, said he meant no offense when he made the remark about Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, the GOP nominee for the seat being vacated by longtime Democratic Sen. Paul Sarbanes.

In a statement issued Tuesday, Hoyer said, "I should not have used those words."

Hoyer was speaking to a largely black audience at a campaign event for Steele's Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Ben Cardin, when he made the comment.

Steele's spokesman, Doug Heye, called Hoyer's comments "insensitive and pretty stupid."

While Hoyer apologized for the comments, he continued to criticize Steele's support of the GOP.

"If Mr. Steele did in fact take offense, let me assure him that none was intended," Hoyer said. "But Mr. Steele continuously tries to divert attention from the fact that he is an unwavering supporter of the Republican agenda and of President Bush and Vice President Cheney."

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Ladytex
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NAACP Matriarch Enolia McMillan Dies
Baltimore Teacher Was Organization's First Woman President

BALTIMORE (AP) - Services are scheduled for Monday in Baltimore for Enolia McMillan, the first female president of the NAACP.

She died of natural causes Tuesday, four days after her 102nd birthday.

Mrs. McMillan was born in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, and moved to Baltimore when she was about eight. As an adult, she became a teacher and later helped reactivate the city's NAACP chapter in the 1930s - becoming its president in 1969.

She became president of the national organization in 1984. Former president Kweisi Mfume says McMillan helped arrange the national organization's move in 1986 from New York to Baltimore. Mfume describes her as a "pillar of the civil rights movement."

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Ladytex
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now see this just pisses me off:

Hopkins Fraternity Reacts By Expelling Member
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(CBS) BALTIMORE A fraternity at John's Hopkins University has been suspended by the school and its national governing body for throwing a weekend Halloween party that some are calling racist.

WJZ in Baltimore reports a member of the fraternity who hosted the party has been expelled from the fraternity. "The person responsible for posting this advertisement, which in no way represents the tone of the party held, has been expelled from the chapter." said Joseph Chung.

After an afternoon of meetings among members inside the fraternity house, the chapters founder released this statement. "We regret that we misplaced our faith in this individual and the fraternity would like to express our disgust and distaste for his insensitivity."

Before the party, the chapter of Sigma Chi put out e-mails urging students to attend what it called "Halloween In The Hood," and reminding them to wear the most "despicable" costumes.

Some partygoers said they saw a costume that resembled a slave and others that were stereotypical, depicting African Americans wearing a lot of jewelry and sagging their pants low.

What may have been the most controversial prop at the party was a dark-haired stuffed skeleton hanging from a noose outside the frat house.

"If you know your black history, black folk were hung, so you can't tell us that that's not meaningful to us," said Black Student Union Advisor Deborah Savage.

School president Bill Brody called the fraternity's party "inexcusable."

School spokesman Dennis O'Shea said, "We're just appalled. This is not the type of thing which should be going on in a University community."

School officials also say a University advisor talked to frat members before the party and told them not to go through with it.

On Sunday, three members of the frat went to a Black Student Union meeting, where Union members say they tried to defend the party.

"They claimed they didn't understand why we were upset, why it was offensive," said Black Student Union member Chrisina Chapman.

As student and faculty protesters lined the streets of the Hopkins campus Monday, University officials called an emergency school-wide meeting to address the issue.

Sigma Chi's regional supervisor, John Miller, said he fully supports an investigation into the party.

"I support and I know the general fraternity supports getting to the bottom of this," said Miller. "I believe there is a larger issue at this University."

African American freshman Justin Jones said, "There is this current of, not necessarily that we're not welcome, but that we're here on false pretenses."

In addition to the meeting, Hopkins officials sent out a letter about the incident to the school community.

The frat was not only suspended by Hopkins but also by its governing body in Illinois. Officials are also considering whether to disband the Hopkins chapter of the frat altogether.

As University officials continue their questioning they say they have not yet set a timetable for their investigations