Thursday, July 24, 2008





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should president bush grant marion jones' request to have her sentence commuted?
i think so. she's already served the majority of her sentence, plus she's been stripped of her medals.
no. a message needs to be sent to professional athletes that they wont get off with a slap on the wrist.

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Marion Jones Asks Bush For Mercy
AP via Blackvoices.com

Disgraced Olympic track star Marion Jones has asked President Bush to commute her six-month prison sentence for lying to federal agents about her use of performance-enhancing drugs and a check-fraud scam.
Dallas Bank Charged With Racial Profiling After Wrongful Arrest Of Minority Customers
Gordon Jackson
For four Dallas-Fort Worth minorities, going to the bank has become an apprehensive experience. “I don’t think I can ever enter an establishment as I did before and see things the same,” said Derrill Ewans.
Nas Marches On Fox
EURWEB.com

Nas will join activists from MoveOn.org and ColorOfChange.org today as they march on Fox News headquarters in Manhattan demanding that the conservative network end what protesters call a "pattern of racist attacks.

NATIONAL HEADLINES

Forget Apologizing to Obama -- Jackson Should Apologize to Blacks
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Special to BlackAmericaWeb.com

On Nov. 26, 2006 at a press conference in Los Angeles, guess who said this: "We will challenge and urge all artists and comics to stop using this word. What other group is subjected to such a degrading terminology?"
CNN’s ‘Black in America’ Examines Nation's State of Racial Progress and Regress
Sherrel Wheeler Stewart, BlackAmericaweb.com

When the producers at CNN began putting together its special “Black in America” series more than 18 months ago, Sen. Barack Obama was not yet considered a front-runner in the race for the Democratic nomination for president.
Artist Turns 112, Draws On Experience
AP via Blackvoices.com

Bent over or sitting at a table, gripping a ballpoint pen, marker or crayon, Frank Calloway spends his days turning visions from his youth into lively murals — and at 112 years old, the images of his childhood are a window to another time.
How to Fight Business Burnout
Wendy Harris, Blackenterprise.com

In December 2007, Lynn Sutton, owner and managing principal of management consulting firm Kairos Consulting Worldwide L.L.C., was in the Philippines to make a presentation to Lufthansa Technik.

EDITORIALS

We Know What Works -- Now Let's Do It
Leonard Pitts Jr., The Miami Herald

This will be the last What Works column. I reserve the right to occasionally report on any program I run across that shows results in saving the lives and futures of African-American kids.
Elephants in the Grass of Presidential Politics
Betty Bayé, The Courier-Journal

Each time I encounter yet another re-run of Jesse Jackson whispering to another black man on the Fox network that he'd like to separate Barack Obama from his testicles -- for ostensibly "talking down" to black people -- I think, oh, Jesse, why?
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