Katrina Information Network has a list of 29 things you can do right now to assist the displaced and victimised citizens of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. They have some beautiful New Orleans local music on their site....
The Congressional Black Caucus annual legislative conference ends tomorrow, Saturday. Monday, Oct 1st, I plan to attend "A New Challenge to the Congressional Black Caucus", my former boss Major Owens' Library of Congress think-tank panel on the CBC and his...
For some strange reason we just don't seem to be hearing as much regular, in-depth news and information as we should about post-Katrina issues facing New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and the USA. So, we suggest you check the Summer...
In 14 Million Dreams, Miles Roston's documentary film about Africa's millions of children orphaned by HIV and AIDS, Ms. Lucy Yinda describes how she started the Wema Centre for the rehabilitation of street children and community orphans. I can never...
I should've posted this weeks ago but here goes. If anyone believes there's a level playing field in competing for leadership in the US, you need to remove your head from whatever hole in which it's stuck. Just because it's...
Barely a month ago George Bush pere (the daddy) told all of us how badly he felt for his boy George as Rev. Joseph Lowery and former president Jimmy Carter took W to task at Mrs. Coretta Scott King's funeral.Well,...
This is for my buddy and brother Washingtonian George over at Negrophile (one who loves and admires Black people). Thank you for that inspiration, in spite of such things as Harvard University's implicit association test - which neither mentions nor...
My brother just shared with me that the annual, public, free SOBU conference - the State of the Black Union - sponsored by broadcaster Tavis Smiley, is now being televised on CSPAN. Tavis says there are 5,000 persons attending the...
This information is from the Southern University New Orleans (SUNO) campus website. Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fundis offering US$500 emergency scholarships to students affected by Hurricane Katrina who normally attend SUNO, and also to students who are from New Orleans who...
Melvin Collier over on the Afrigeneas forum kindly informed me of BlackAmericaWeb's Hurricane Relief Fund which is providing support to families who are assisting those displaced by Hurricane Katrina. You can donate online or mail it to: BlackAmericaWeb.com Relief Fund,...
