Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Race-Baiting by NBC? White Females Claim Black Athletes Raped Them
Two white female students claim that black athletes raped them. But the way the story is presented is racially-disturbing.
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Dr. Boyce Watkins: Those Ugly, Ugly Black Women
Dr. Boyce Watkins analyzes the recent conclusion by a London scholar that black women are less attractive than other races
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Hearing it from the Man Who Knew Osama bin Laden
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Why Would Osama bin Laden Try to Recruit Black People?
Dr. Wilmer Leon and Dr. Boyce Watkins discuss the allegation that Osama bin Laden once tried to recruit disgruntled blacks to be part of his revolution.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
What Your Probably Don’t Know about bin Laden, Pakistan and US Foreign Policy
With the killing of Osama bin Laden, Americans remain woefully ignorant of what our government does overseas in the name of the United States.
Osama Planned to Use Disgruntled Blacks to Attack the United States
Reports say that Osama bin Laden planned to recruit disgruntled blacks to engage in widespread attacks on the United States.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Giving Bush Credit for Bin Laden Means Giving Him Credit for EVERYTHING
by Dr. Wilmer Leon
After releasing the long form of his birth certificate President Obama said, “We’ve got some enormous challenges out there… We’re not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers.”
“Birthers” Replaced by “Deathers”: Don’t Believe Bin Laden is Really Dead
by Brook Griffin, Your Black World
Last week, when President Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate, he silenced many of the critics, birthers, who didn’t believe that he was born in the United States. Now, the birth certificate controversy has been replaced by another one: whether or not Osama Bin Laden is actually dead.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
President Obama Heads to Ground Zero
Washington (CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama will visit New York's ground zero Thursday, days after a nighttime raid in Pakistan led to the death of the terror leader behind the attacks that toppled the twin towers.
Obama's visit will include a wreath-laying ceremony, the White House said. He does not plan to deliver a speech.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Dead NFL Player Dave Duerson would Not Have Qualified for Full Disability Benefits
By ALAN SCHWARZ Published: May 4, 2011
BOSTON — As the football world absorbs Monday’s news that Dave Duerson had the football-related brain damage he suspected before fatally shooting himself in February, an overlooked detail has emerged: had Duerson reached out for help via the N.F.L.’s disability plan, which he helped administer, his neurological injuries would not have qualified for a high level of benefit, if any at all.
Obama Refuses to Release Bin Laden Photos
Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama has decided not to release photos of Osama bin Laden's body as evidence of his death, an administration official briefed by the White House told CNN Wednesday.
The decision settles the debate over whether to release the images, though Obama's choice is sure to garner criticism.
Earlier, two top senators involved in national security said the photos of bin Laden's corpse should be released.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, who chairs the Armed Services Committee -- and who has not seen the photos -- said the United States should wait to allow the emotions of people around the world who may be sympathetic to bin Laden to cool down.
"I'd let a little time pass so we that we don't play into the hands of people who want to retaliate with what obviously will be a sensational picture. I would not want to feed that sensation so I'd wait days or weeks," he said.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Bishop Desmond Tutu Announces Changes in South African Aids Policy
Your Black World Reports
Desmond Tutu -- former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa -- says South Africa should not be embarrassed about its policies to combat AIDS.
"For many years we were embarrassed in international gatherings for what we were not doing in fighting AIDS. We therefore thank the Minister of Health, Aaron Motsoaledi, for the change in policy....It is a very rare privilege and honor for us the older ones to say we are passing the baton to you the young to carry on with the fight against this pandemic." - Desmond Tutu
How does the Bin Laden Assassination a Impact the Obama Presidency?
Dr. Boyce Watkins, YourBlackWorld.com – Scholarship in Action
I spoke to noted political scientist, Dr. Wilmer Leon from Howard University about the recent killing of Osama Bin Laden and what this means for the Obama Presidency.
Glenn Beck Says “Let’s kill Obama, I mean Bin Laden”
Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black World
In yet another interesting Fox News public gaffe, Glenn Beck recently made a comment about killing President Obama, by mistakenly making reference to the president when discussing Osama Bin Laden.
During one of his monologues, Beck was arguing that President Obama came off as arrogant in his speech about the death of Bin Laden, and that he doesn’t deserve as much credit as the troops who’ve been looking for Bin Laden since 2001.
Chisholm Commission on presidential Accountability Gives Its Assessment of the 2012 Budget
The Shirley Chisholm Presidential Accountability Commission
Assessment of President Barack Obama’s 2011 Budget Address
Institute of the Black World, 31-35 95th Street, East Elmhurst, NY 11369
www.ibw21.org Email: info@ibw21.org 718-429-1415
President Obama’s recent address concerning the budget and fiscal crisis facing our nation has been the focus of much reflection and thought. After extensive discussions among members of the Shirley Chisholm Presidential Commission (SCPAC) and consultations with national organizations and agencies keenly interested in the interest and aspirations of Black America the Commission has formulated the following response.
Donald Trump Congratulates President Obama on Bin Laden Killing
Your Black World Reports
In the video below, “The Donald” congratulates President Barack Obama for killing Osama Bin Laden. Twitterers had been joking that Trump would now begin asking to see Bin Laden’s death certificate as official proof that President Obama has actually killed him.
Monday, May 2, 2011
How are Black Women Affected by Not Having a Father in the Home?
In the conversation below, I interview Squeaky Moore and Ashley Shaunte, two aspiring filmmakers who’ve been able to make fatherless homes into a viral topic on the Internet. Their short public service video on the topic has drawn hundreds of thousands of viewers, primarily because the idea of being without a dad has such a profound emotional impact on us all.
Rush Limbaugh: “Thank God for President Obama”
Your Black World Reports
It looks like even Rush Limbaugh is seeking to give President Obama credit for killing Osama Bin Laden. On his radio show, Limbaugh had this to say:
Out-of-Work Mom Explains Why She Broke the Law
I lost my job.
For the next few months, we got by on small consulting contracts and what was left of our savings. It will get better, I told myself, as I picked up boxes of food from a local church.
It didn't.
Day turned to night, and soon we lost our home. My children and I moved into a small, rodent infested apartment. I put the kids to bed, scrubbed the walls, fixed the toilet, taped the windows and patched the holes in the baseboards with steel wool and duct tape. It had to be enough.
In a post 9/11 economy, there were few opportunities for an out of work communications executive. It didn't matter that I had cut my teeth as a vice president with one of the world's largest public relations agencies. A bevy of stock options earned in Silicon Valley weren't worth the paper they were printed on.
Four months later, I sat in the middle of the living room floor clutching an eviction notice. The electricity had been shut off. I started to pray. The tears became sobs. Then, there was wailing. I shouted at a God I swore either didn't exist or didn't care that we had no food, no place to go. "If you are who you say you are, you wouldn't do this to them!"
We left almost everything. Our dog, Claire, was taken to a local shelter.
Detroiters Protest NAACP Giving Award to Confederate flag-waving Kid Rock
Your Black World Reports
A group of protesters met outside the Cobo Center in Detroit to protest the NAACP’s decision to give an award to Kid Rock, an entertainer who flies the Confederate Flag during his concerts. Adolph Mongo, head of Detroiters for Progress, spoke to the group.
"Do you know what that flag stands for? It stands for hatred, bigotry, racism, murder," he said.
NAACP President Wendell Anthony defended giving an award to Rock.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Russell Simmons’ Open Letter to President Obama: Don’t Forget Our Plight
Your Black World Reports
I listened to your speech last week at Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network's 20th anniversary dinner, talking among friends and close supporters. This was an annual African American dinner, a very important one. While I know that any Democrat would have fulfilled their promise to come back if they had won the '08 election, I also know the significance, and the special burden it poses on you, as the first African American President, at the same time.
Still, I woke up the next day feeling uneasy, not because you didn't take issues of direct significance to the black community head-on -- like the fact that one in three black children go to jail once in their lifetime or that black people have an unemployment rate double the amount of white people -- but because nowhere in your deep and thoughtful remarks did you talk about the elephant in the room that affects ALL Americans, irrespective of color: the growing ranks of poor Americans, Americans struggling not just to meet their mortgage payments but to eat, sleep under a roof, educate their kids and pay their basic bills.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
My Personal “WTF Moment” – 4/30/11
You never know what you’ll see walking through a random antique store. I’m speechless
Friday, April 29, 2011
President Obama Meets with Participants in the 1968 Sanitation Strike
“The President invited the living participants in the Memphis Sanitation Strike to honor their courage, and their fight on behalf of all workers for safe conditions, respect in the workplace and a better life for themselves and their families. As workers across the country continue to face challenges to their rights, the issues for which these men fought continue to be relevant and the President remains committed to the causes for which they marched.” – from the White House
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Oil Companies are Making Less Gas but Much Higher Profits
Gasoline prices are skyrocketing — and so are oil company profits.
Exxon Mobil Corp. earned nearly $11 billion in the first three months of the year, a rollicking 69% increase over its performance for the same period last year. That's on sales of $114 billion.
It's the same story for the other big oil companies. Royal Dutch Shell turned a profit of $6.3 billion in the first quarter, and BP — despite lingering costs from the Gulf Coast oil spill— made $7.1 billion.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
President Obama Picks a New Defense Secretary
Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama will name CIA Director Leon Panetta as his nominee to succeed Robert Gates as defense secretary, a senior defense official and another U.S. official said Wednesday.
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, will be named to replace Panetta as CIA director, a senior defense official said.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
CNN Kills the Birther Movement Once and For All
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, YourBlackWorld.com
Let’s hope that the Birther Movement is on its way out the door. If it isn’t completely out the door, it’s on its death bed. CNN has engaged in an all-out assault on the Birther Movement by doing a detailed investigation on whether or not President Barack Obama was born in the United States.
In the video below, the network goes to the extreme to settle the question once and for all. Personally, I found the investigation to be quite compelling. There are others, however, including Donald Trump, who’ve spent all of their time engaging in their own investigations and coming to “very interesting” conclusions.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Your Black News – 4/25/11
- 3 bombs in northeast Nigeria city, deaths reported
- Bloomberg to Trump: Drop 'birther' issue
- Getting past the 'birther' myth
- Rap music inspires Libyan rebels to defeat Gadhafi
- Ohio governor looks to expand minority business share
- Bishop Long sends message to accusers during Easter sermon
- NY mom who killed 3 kids in Hudson is laid to rest
- When MC Hammer talks, Silicon Valley startups listen
- Report finds banks neglecting REOs in minority neighborhoods
- NYC officials defend choice to cuff first-grader
- President Obama suffered racist abuse, says biography
- Who owns the rights to African genomes?
Sunday, April 24, 2011
25% of All Americans Don’t Believe President Obama was Born in the United States
From CBSnews.com
A quarter of all Americans incorrectly think President Obama was not born in the United States, according to a new CBS News/ New York Times poll.
Among all Republicans, 45 percent believe he was born in another country, as do 45 percent of Tea Party supporters, the poll shows.
Since the start of Mr. Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, rumors have existed that he was born outside of the United States. The"birther" myth has steadily persisted through Mr. Obama's presidency, in spite of overwhelming evidence he was born in the United States -- including his 1961 birth announcement, printed in two Hawaii newspapers.
Businessman and television personality Donald Trump has pushed the issue into the spotlight in recent weeks, insisting that he is unconvinced of Mr. Obama's origins. While Trump has used the issue to bring more attention to his possible Republican presidential bid, other Republicans are trying to tamp down the "birther" talk.
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