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Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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THIS WEEK IN MICHIGAN HISTORY: Editor starts a black fighting force

August 12, 2007

Henry Barnes was thought to be just a simple newspaper editor when, on Aug. 12, 1863, he was put in charge of creating a regiment of African-American soldiers in Detroit.

The Civil War was under way, and the North needed more force to combat the South.

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Barnes, editor of the Detroit Tribune, raised the 1st Michigan Colored Infantry, later known as the 102nd Regiment U.S. Colored Troops.

The group started with about 800 volunteers, and soon grew to more than 1,400. Some were escaped slaves, others were ordinary people fighting for their country and their families.

The regiment served in many states, fought battles and is credited with helping the North win the Civil War.

By Mercedes Matthews

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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Pioneering black women to honor Gibson

NEW YORK - Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Aretha Franklin, Carol Moseley Braun and other pioneering black women will come together on the U.S. Open’s opening night to celebrate the legacy of late tennis star Althea Gibson.

The USTA is commemorating the 50th anniversary of Gibson’s historic title at the U.S. National Championships. In 1957, she became the first black tennis player, male or female, to win the tournament, which became the Open.

“Tennis has its own Jackie Robinson, and we want to tell the world the story,” said Arlen Kantarian, the USTA’s chief executive of pro tennis.

Gibson will also be inducted into the U.S. Open Court of Champions, based on the result of an international media vote, during the Aug. 27 ceremony.

Titled “Breaking Barriers,” the tribute to Gibson will feature trailblazers in the worlds of sports, entertainment, politics and the arts. Franklin, the first black woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, will perform.

Among the other women scheduled to participate are Joyner-Kersee, the Olympic track and field champion; Braun, the former U.S. Senator; Phylicia Rashad, the “Cosby Show” actress; former WNBA star Cynthia Cooper; Winter Olympians Vonetta Flowers and Debi Thomas; tennis player Zina Garrison; astronaut Mae Jemison; and BET co-founder Sheila Johnson.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Billie Jean King and Rachel Robinson, Jackie Robinson’s widow, are also expected to attend.

The tribute has been more than six months in the making, Kantarian said, and its scope grew as other trailblazing women responded with great enthusiasm to the idea.

“Once we reached out and began to let people know what we were thinking of doing, we were overwhelmed with all those who wanted to be a part of this ceremony,” he said.

Gibson broke the color barrier in tennis in 1950 and went on to win 11 Grand Slam titles. She died in 2003 at the age of 76.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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This should be excellent.

Denecee
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09-05-2002

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Irene Morgan Kirkaldy died on Aug.10, 2007 at the age of 90. She was a civil rights icon. Bless her heart and may she rest in peace.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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Mounting Racial Tensions 'Resegregating' America, Activists Say
by Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Editor-in-Chief

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – More than 100 years since W.E.B. DuBois declared that the “color line” would be the key problem of the 20th Century, civil rights activists and race experts now say the problem of racial tensions are still so pervasive in the 21st Century that some have labeled it as a resegregation.

“It’s undeniable that we are resegregating education in a dramatic way and we are also resegregating or becoming more segregated residentially than we were. And so those things are clearly going backward,” says Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project of the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors racial hate activities across the nation. “I don’t think race-relations are doing terrifically well.”

Potok says what appears to be a rise in racially charged incidents publicized this year alone coincides with the rise in race hate groups nationwide.

• In January, the story was still blaring about comedian Michael Richard’s calling a Black man the N-Word from the stage in a crowded Los Angeles comedy club in November.

• Within a few months, now former talk show host Don Imus’ on-air “nappy-headed hos” insult to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team dominated the airwaves and the streets.

• Meanwhile, a list of racially charged criminal justice cases began heavily circulating. They include:

• The Nov. 25 wedding day killing of unarmed Black man Sean Bell by New York police officers, which sparked protests into the new year;

• The case of Genarlow Wilson, 21, who is serving 10 years in a Georgia prison as he awaits the state Supreme Court’s decision on his conviction of consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old White girl that happened when he was 17;

• The U. S. Supreme Court’s ruling against race-conscious public school assignments in Louisville, Ken. and Seattle, Wash. that sent a chilling affect over other such plans across the nation;

• And the Jena Six case, now at full throttle in Louisiana, where 16-year-old Mychal Bell and five other Black high school students could face up to a combined 100 years in prison after a school brawl that started with them being insulted by nooses hung in a so-called “White Tree.”

Coinciding with consistent news reports on such cases, Potok says the heated immigration debate that railed in the U. S. Senate well into the spring apparently exacerbated negative reaction to the racial climate. He says the perception of the rising number of Black and Brown people in America is directly connected to the rise in hate groups.

According to the Intelligence Report, 602 such groups, including the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations, were documented throughout the U. S. in 2000. That number has now risen by 40 percent to 844 in six years, he says, calling it “quite a significant rise and a real one.”

Potok describes, “The reaction of very many people is that, ‘My country is changing all around me. This is not the country that my forefathers built. It must be because those brown-skinned people are coming in and destroying it.”

Actual hate crimes and attacks soon follow, he says:

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Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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:-(

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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wow ...

Qchele
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07-29-2007

Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Qchele a private message Print Post    
F.Y.I.

There has been very little information in the National and Local news concerning a 'racial' breakdown in Jena, Louisiana.

http://www.whileseated.org/photo/003244.shtml

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 12:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
Thanks for that link, Qchele, we've been discussing that issue and others here. come on over!

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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Black women unite at U.S. Open

Last night was the celebration of Althea Gibson and her induction into the Hall of Fame.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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Black ABC's

I remember these from grade school ...

Tishala
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08-01-2000

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Not strictly black history, but...

Anniversary Today: Strom Thurmond’s 1957 Filibuster Against Voting Rights
American heritage


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Fifty years ago today, on August 29, 1957, Sen. Strom Thurmond, the South’s champion of states’ rights and white supremacy, secured a place in the annals of congressional history when he finally yielded the floor after speaking for 24 hours and 18 minutes straight. His speech set the record for a Senate filibuster.

Thurmond’s filibuster made for good political theater, but it never stood a chance of derailing the bill. …But outside the nation’s capital, many Southerners loved Thurmond’s performance. Georgia’s governor, Marvin Griffin, defiantly promised, “We’re not going to let a Federal judge tell us who can vote,” while South Carolina’s governor, George Bell Timmerman, Jr., proudly announced, “I don’t have any intention of cooperating.” Thurmond’s grandstand may have been legislatively ineffectual, but it almost certainly encouraged white Southerners in resisting federal law, as they had begun doing three years earlier after the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

In its immediate goal, Thurmond’s stand proved unnecessary. Stripped of its teeth, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 proved an ineffective safeguard of black voting rights. It would take a much stronger measure, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, to get the job done. It’s hard to say who won in the long run. In 1964 Thurmond, a Democrat, switched political affiliation again, this time for good, leading a massive exodus of white Southerners to the Republican party. [...]

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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White heroines turning more to black best friends in TV, film
Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times
Saturday, September 1, 2007

(09-01) 04:00 PDT Hollywood -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus has one. Sandra Bullock had one. So did Jennifer Garner and Katie Holmes. Jennifer Love Hewitt has had two. Calista Flockhart took hers dancing. Kate Walsh had one, lost her, and got another one with a different face but the same name. And Scarlett Johansson got her first one last weekend.

They're stars who have all played lead characters who experience adventure with the help of their BFF (best friend forever). But in many cases, these BFFs might more accurately be characterized as BBFs - black best friend - played by a black actress whose character's principal function is to support the heroine, often with sass, attitude and a keen insight into relationships and life.

Celluloid BBFs have been featured in the just-opened "The Nanny Diaries," as well as "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Premonition." But BBFs have been even more of an influence in TV series, including "The New Adventures of Old Christine," "Ghost Whisperer," "Alias," "Ally McBeal," "Felicity," "Summerland" and "Private Practice," the spin-off of "Grey's Anatomy" premiering this fall.

The BBF syndrome isn't something that Hollywood likes to talk about, even as it continues to be a winking in-joke among blacks in the industry. One black actress said she and her actress friends tease one another about forming a support group for characters who had to help out their "woefully helpless white girls."

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Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, September 05, 2007 - 12:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Yankee I'm posting the link you posted in The View thread here also.

Per Yankee

quote:

Here's a column by Eric Deggans, a media critic whom I know professionally, and whom I respect:




http://blogs.tampabay.com/media/2007/09/black-folks-and.html

September 05, 2007
Whoopi Apologizes for Vick Comments, But Avoids Wider Question: Why Do So Many Black Folks Stand By Him?

UPDATE: Whoopi Goldberg clarified her comments about Michael Vick on today's View, claiming that press accounts exaggerated her explanation of Vick's involvement in dogfighting as "part of his cultural upbringing."

"I was not condoning...I did not say that I thought (Vick) was good about what he did," Goldberg said during the show's Hot Topics discussion segment today. "I condemn what he did."

<snip>

But Goldberg's defense of Vick echoes something I've seen elsewhere in black America: a deep discomfort over the football player's fall, ranging from skepticism about the charges to outright rejection of his guilty plea and speculation about a conspiracy to bring him down.

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Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

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I would like to clarify that my "whom I respect" line does not indicate my agreement or disagreement with Deggans in this column. I have known him for many years, and do respect him as a writer and a person, though, and that's what I meant.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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Np Yankee. I just thought he brought up something very intriguing.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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hmmm ...

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

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I think that black people have been unjustly attacked and discriminated against so much for so many years that any sort of criticism of a black person regardless of the circumstances is greeted with a healthy skepticism.

Zachsmom
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07-13-2000

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so there i was sitting at the bus stop and met a lady who has a lot of books and history in storage. this is all african american history. she is going to lose all of this because she cannot afford it.

i would hate for these books to be trashed. right now, she cannot afford to pay the storage. is there anyone out there that would possibly pay the storage and then donate the books?

if you are interested, pm me. i have the phone number of the lady.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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quote:

the rush by black folks to protect other black people, especially black men, accused of crimes or wrongdoing.




First I thought to myself hmmm interesting did he grow up in the United States of America? If so where? What community? Has he ever been pulled for DWB? Has he ever experienced racism either overt or covert? I then thought why shouldn’t black folk stand by black folk? Why shouldn’t we have each other’s back? If we don’t who will? Who?

No one has said Michael Vick wasn’t wrong. If this was Peyton Manning or Tom Brady would public reaction be the same? Sorry but I’m living in America and I have to ask that question. If we didn’t have each other’s back would anyone speak out about Jena 6? Or Genarlow Wilson? Maybe if justice truly was blind this wouldn’t have to be.

Spangs
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Personally, I feel that Black folk have to have each other's back. I believe that Oj did it, but I must admit that a big part of me wanted White America to know the sting that I feel as a Black American each and every time that justice is denied a person of my race.

Yusef Hawkins was killed by a mob in Bensonhurst simply for being in Bensonhurst. Eleanor Bumpers was an elderly grandmother in the Bronx killed by police for essentially being 98 dollars behind in her rent.Amadou Diallo shot 41 times by police as he attempted to reach in his wallet to show id. Abner Louima sodomized with a nightstick while in police custody. The Jena kids, yes they are essentially kids being tried in Louisiana by such a blatently racist system of so called justice, and the hits go on and on. It's business as usual in America. Anyone remember Howard Beach?

We have to have each other's backs. 125,ooo signatures of support for those kids in Jena is fine I guess, but where is the NATIONAL outrage? They are children of America....Right?

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

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Some excellent points, Spangs. I appreciate the insight, especially about OJ. That one continues to bug me, because I believe juries almost always do the right thing, yet I also believe OJ did it.

Jena 6, I am hoping America is just being slow on this one. Surely, SURELY, this case cannot proceed as it has been in 21st century America.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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Jena 6 happend last year. It took 40yrs to convict that guy (can't think of his name) for lynching or something.

Howard Beach:

Racism Comes Home:
The Howard Beach Case
By Reed Albergotti, Thomas Zambito, Marsha Schrager
and John Rofe

On Dec. 20, 1986, racial tension in Howard Beach exploded into headlines when a gang of white youths brutally beat three black men who had stumbled into the neighborhood, chasing one of the three to his death when he was hit by a car crossing the Shore Parkway.


More than 5,000 angry protestors marched through the streets of Howard Beach, carrying signs and chanting “...This is not Johannesberg.”

The case was immediately hoisted into national headlines and dominated the news in New York City.

The three black men — Cedric Sandiford, 36, Timothy Grimes, 20, and Michael Griffith, 23 — were driving through the almost entirely white community of Howard Beach when their car broke down.

Finding themselves stuck in the neighborhood, they were first confronted by some white passersby who shouted racial epithets and warned them to leave their turf. But they were stuck and they were hungry, so they decided to eat at a local pizza parlor. When they walked outside, a gang of more than 10 whites were waiting for them – with baseball bats.

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Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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Unfortunately there are many examples of Jim Crow justice today. I admit to being skeptical when I hear of many charges brought against prominent African American men. One of my first thoughts is "wonder if the same thing would happen if the person was white". Now, I'm not saying that justice is never color blind, just that I think it's not always.

Spangs
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10-07-2005

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Mocha. I think that you are referring to Byron De La Beckwith, the klan member who killed Medgar Evers.