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Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Brothers Speak: Charlamagne Tha God on Dr. King’s Dream
Expand Your Reality - Expand your reality to the point where you pursue what you love doing and excel at it. Involve yourself in high-energy levels of trust, optimism, appreciation, reverence, joy, and love when you engage in every activity in your life.
-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer The Power of Intention
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a DREAM that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal. A DREAM that his four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. He had a DREAM that one day the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. He hoped for a freedom that would allow blacks and whites to work together as well as pray together. He had a dream that one day we all would be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
Monday, January 18, 2010
Would Dr. Martin Luther King Support Obama
Dr. Boyce Watkins on MSNBC Live discussing if Dr. King would support President Obama's policies
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Dr. Boyce Watkins Talks With MSNBC Live
Dr. Boyce Watkins Talks With MSNBC Live about the need for a national conversation on race.
Dr. Wilmer Leon: “The Dream” Is Still a Dream
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
On January 18, 2010, America will celebrate the birth, death, and legacy of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We will hear those powerful words "I Have A Dream.” What has troubled me over the years is how Dr. King, the visionary, prophet, and revolutionary’s vision, action, and ultimate sacrifice have been hijacked, compromised, and relegated to being those of just a dreamer.
Dreamers are safe, docile, and non-threatening. People are comfortable with dreamers. Why? To be a dreamer you must be in a restful state, usually asleep. To cast Dr. King in the light of a dreamer allows people to be convinced that action resulting from clear vision is not necessary. It allows the oppressed to be fooled into being patient and non-revolutionary; yours will come by-and by. It allows Dr. King’s “Dream” his vision to remain a dream.
What many fail to realize is that Dr. King was no dreamer. He was a visionary, not some abstract thinker or philosopher. He was a prophet and a true revolutionary.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Lloyd Banks Gets Locked Up
G-Unit's Lloyd Banks is being held by police in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, on assault and robbery charges after an incident involving a local promoter on Friday night. Authorities say that Banks and three others assaulted the promoter after the G-Unit member performed at Club NV in nearby Brantford late Friday night.
Sergeant Brad Finucan of the Waterloo Regional Police's Criminal Investigations branch told MTV News on Sunday (January 10) that Banks (real name: Christopher Lloyd) and three associates got into a dispute with the promoter at a local hotel over payment for performance and an appearance fee. The promoter's name was withheld by police.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Senator Harry Reid - Racism or Poor Choice of Words
Dr. Boyce Watkins on CNN discussing Senator Harry Reid's "Light Skinned and Negro Dialect" comment
What the the world think about the situation with Harry Reid?
Click here to watch Dr. Watkins on CNN discussing the recent comments by Harry Reid about “negro dialect.”
News: Dr. Boyce on CNN to discuss Harry Reid
Click here to watch Dr. Watkins on CNN discussing the recent comments by Harry Reid about “negro dialect.”
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Nelly Gettin Cocky?!
Nelly was really feeling himself on NYE in Las Vegas, so much that he decided to jump on a bar and perform a mini concert. Then, after feeling himself even more, he stopped the music and began to brag about how he is the biggest selling rapper of the decade… Wait, we thought that went to Eminem with 32 million sold???
Martin Lawrence--The Executive Producer
Martin Lawrence is executive-producing a new African-American comedy for cable network TV One called Love That Girl! Four episodes have already been shot and the show stars Tatyana Ali as a young divorcee who returns home to live with her wacky family.
Great. Another predictable TV show--exactly what America needs.
Gilbert Arenas—No License, But Still Strapped
NBA star Gilbert Arenas didn't have a license to possess the guns he stored in his locker in D.C.,law enforcement sources tell TMZ.
Arenas could be charged with “CPWL", carrying a pistol without a license.
Uh oh!
Sunday, January 3, 2010
We Must Fix Our Prisons Right Now
As the battle lines for health care reform are being drawn – and redrawn – a silent segment of the population is strategically left out of the conversation. A group of individuals who have been deemed enemies of society, and cast away behind iron bars to fend for themselves. In California, health care in the state’s 33 prisons is so inadequate that one unnecessary death takes place per week, as inmates are often stacked in triple bunk beds in hallways and gymnasiums. With nearly twice the number of prisoners than it was designed to hold, California prisons will have to be cut by about 40,000 in the next two years – and it’s about time.
Federal judges just released a 184-page order demanding that California’s inmate population be reduced by 27%, and gave the state 45 days to come up with a plan. In what they termed an ‘unconstitutional prison health care system’, the three-judge panel concluded that disease was spreading rampantly and prisoner-on-prisoner violence was all but unavoidable. Forced to close a $26 billion dollar budget gap, California will now have to look at mechanisms to reducing its extensive prison spending, which in 2007 topped out at nearly $10 billion (approximately $49,000 for each inmate).
Whether it’s for pure economic reasons or for an actual concern over the well being of prisoners, California will hopefully serve as an example for a reversal of the ever-growing prison industrial complex. A system that unfairly profiles and detains minorities, American jails produce a vicious cycle of recidivism and community breakdown. Last year, the Pew Center on the States released a scathing report stating that one in every 100 American adults was in jail, and that an astonishing one in 15 Black adults was behind bars. According to government reports in 2007, there were three times as many Blacks in jail than in college dorms, with Latinos not far behind at 2.7 times more behind bars than in secondary schooling.
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