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The Black Informant
African-American culture, news commentary, politics.
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Posted on Wednesday July 23, 2008 at 02:12 AM
Just rich! City gives DNC host committee pass on gas tax By Daniel J. Chacon, Rocky Mountain News The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is using the city's gas pumps to fill up on fuel, avoiding state and federal highway taxes, officials said today. "There's something there that just doesn't seem right to me because, in a [...]...
Posted on Tuesday July 22, 2008 at 01:15 PM
Get this, "Validation" from government!!!!!!!! Just yesterday I blasted an article (Our never-ending search for a role model continues) that talked about how Michelle Obama "…normalizes black women." I thought that it couldn't get any worse. It got worse. Here are some excerpts from the article "Why do so many have a Man Crush on Barack Obama?" ===== The presumptive [...]...
Posted on Tuesday July 22, 2008 at 06:05 AM
A quick reminder on some of the benefactors of the current subprime mortgage crisis. From Bloomberg.com Through Fannie's foundation, company executives gained access to members of Congress and their staffs, spending millions to support groups such as the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Metropolitan Mayors Caucus and National Conference of State Legisl...
Posted on Tuesday July 22, 2008 at 05:16 AM
"Kids are dying every single day. I don't see where the NAACP, the Urban League, the Black Caucus, have decided that the fact that black boys are being locked up at alarming rates means we need to stop the nation and have a discussion about how we're going to eradicate that as a problem. It [...]...
Posted on Monday July 21, 2008 at 07:12 AM
Former president of Mississippi Valley State University, Lester Newman has come up with a plan to help boost enrollment of Black males in college. According to this article, he is suggesting that "…the College Board establish incentives to encourage schools to recruit and graduate more black males in teacher education and work to place quality [...]...
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