It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.-Muhammad Ali
The outcome for the search for Nailah Franklin has ended in the most tragic way. Nailah who disappeared last week was found dead near a forest preserve, not far from where her car was abandoned, her uncle said Thursday."We have to create a vision, make choices based on what moves us most swiftly toward our goals, and go after them with determination and single - mindedness. And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up."
-Stedman Graham
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
-Jean Toomer
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.-Dr. Maya Angelou
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
-Langston Hughes
ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana (CNN) -- Authorities in Alexandria, Louisiana, arrested two people after nooses were seen hanging from the back of a red pickup Thursday night, the city's mayor told CNN.
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
-Ossie Davis
Educated Black Brother in Los Angeles, CA show their support
Teachers and students in New Jersey show their support
Tallahassee, FL. – Students in Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) School of Business Industry (SBI) won first place at the 13th Annual National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) Case Competition defeating teams from Columbia, University of Chicago, New York University, Penn State and Purdue.
This is the first time FAMU has entered the NBMBAA case competition.
FAMU is the only university in the state of Florida that competed in the national competition. The competition featured 30 teams from across the country, including Case Western Reserve, Brandeis, Emory, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Penn State, Univ. of Southern California and Ohio State University.
Sponsored by Chrysler, the case study was built around a real business issue dealing with labor relations, hourly wages and health care. Each competing teams were given four weeks to prepare an analysis and presentation. Students presented their solutions and defended their analyses before a panel of senior executives, who evaluate the teams on presentation skills, thoroughness, and creativity evident in the analyses.
"A lot of the schools participate every year, and so there's rivalry between each school, and so each one wants to outdo the other," said Kim Harris Jones, vice president and chief controller at Chrysler. "Schools go away with bragging rights. It's clearly a competition, and everyone puts their best foot forward." (Continue reading here)
Today is the day people. Are you donning your black? Have you called your sister, brother, nieces, nephews, and friends and tell them about Black Thursday? It is this day that we come together to show solidarity against injustice in this country. We as a people have to say that enough is enough and we are going to fight for our youth. So if you couldn't make it to Jena to march, the least you can do is don black and show that you are in support of these young men.
Don't forget tonight at 8pm CNN will be airing a Special Investigations Unit that focuses on Jena.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
-Oprah Winfrey
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
-Pearl Bailey
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
-James Baldwin
(CNN) -- A Louisiana appeals court Friday vacated the remaining conviction of a teenager accused in a violent, racially charged incident in Jena, Louisiana, his attorney said.
Mychal Bell's defense team will be filing a motion to get him out of prison.
Bob Noel said the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Lake Charles threw out the conviction for second degree battery against Mychal Bell, saying the charges should have been brought in juvenile court.
The future of the case against Bell is up to the district attorney, who must decide whether to refile the charges in juvenile court, Noel said.
Bell, who is now 17, was 16 at the time of the fight in December 2006.
Earlier this month, a district court judge vacated a conviction for conspiracy to commit second degree battery, saying that charge should have been brought in juvenile court.
He left standing the second degree battery conviction, however.
Bell's defense team would be filing a motion to get him out of prison, where he has been since his arrest in December, Noel said.
A sentencing hearing that had been scheduled for September 20 is now off, he said.
(Continue reading at CNN.com)
Finally the justice system got something right (even though it should have never gotten this far). Hopefully the district attorney will not be stupid enough to try and pursue this matter in juvenile court. This young man (Mychal Bell) has already lost nine months of his life that he will never be able to get that back because of the systemic racism that is inherent in this country. Just because they (the justice system, white America, or whoever you want to call them) finally got this right doesn't mean it won't happen again. We can't be foolish enough to believe that something like this won't happen again. Look how long it took for this case to get national attention. That young man had been in jail since December of last year. This entire thing is unacceptable. How do you explain this to young black kids? It seems as though the Civil Rights' Movement was for nothing because instead of moving forward we are constantly moving backwards. In the famous words of Fannie Lou Hamer "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired." This foolishness has to end.
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
-Mary McLeod Bethune
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
-Malcolm X
I just don't get it. I mean is Mr. West going to throw a temper tantrum every time he loses an award. When will he learn that these award shows are not about the best artists, but rather the artist with the best backing behind the scenes. He needs someone like Clive Davis on his team then he'll be guaranteed to win all the awards he so covets. Show business is just like every other business. It's politics baby...pure and simple. Don't get it twisted.
"Brother my brother oh how I love
thee let me count the ways..."
To my beautiful, outstanding, and phenomenal mother, Ms. Iris. I would like to wish you a happy and joyous birthday because without you I am nothing. I love you.
-Your Daughter
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
-Booker T. Washington
“American justice is on trial in Jena. The world is watching,” Jackson told BlackAmericaWeb.com. “The more outside pressure is applied, the greater the impact.”
If you need or desire more information about the rally in Jena on the 20th of this month please check out my previous post on this subject.
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference"
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Britney Spears. All I can say is "Who in da hell left the gate open..." Lord bless her heart! I'm not one for kicking a person when they are down, but "Lawd hava mercy". What happen to this girl? She's never been a singer, but once upon a time she at least use to be a performer. She didn't even try. The entire performance was pathetic. I would post a video clip, but it hurts my feelings everytime I look at it.
ESSENCE: Your sister, Neffeteria, who plays a big part in your BET reality show, The Way It Is (premiering October 30), seems to have had a pretty difficult life. What advice do you give her?
COLE: I’ve told her, “You need to work on you.” After going through so much, you really gotta worry about yourself first. Everything else is secondary. Everything else. Husband, kids…well, not the kids, ’cause she takes care of those babies very well. But really, you gotta work on yourself first. If you don’t, you ain’t gonna be able to deal with people.
ESSENCE: How do you feel about constantly being compared to Mary J.
Blige?COLE: I feel like we are very similar based on everything we’ve been through in our personal lives. It’s helped make us sing the way we sing. Because she didn’t have a vocal coach, and neither did I. And when I met her I told her, “You winning all those Grammy’s—congratulations—it gives me inspiration to this day that maybe I can do the same thing.” You know, it’s just a real big life circle. I think there are a lot of things that she could tell me that’d help me. I’m not trying to take nobody’s place or nothing like that. But I’m just saying, as a woman—as a young Black woman—if she knows some of the answers, Give ’em to me!” (Laughing.) But she said that I could call her anytime. I just haven’t done it yet. Continue Reading
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