LIL KIM, DAVID ALAN GRIER GO ‘DANCING’
Lawrence Taylor also among cast of new hoofers for ABC’s competition series
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Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration
The Regional Inaugural Balls are an inaugural tradition that President-elect Obama continued, inviting guests from the Midwest, the West, the East, the South, and the Mid-Atlantic regions to their own celebrations. It is one of the 10 balls that the president and Michelle attended. Photo by Barbara Roberts Mason
JUSTICE: Post-Katrina, White Vigilantes Shot African-Americans With Impunity
In the days after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans fractured along racial fault lines as its government collapsed. Read about it in our next edition. White vigilante gunmen nearly killed Donnell Herrington.
Photo by Chandra McCormick & Keith Calhoun
The way Donnell Herrington tells it, there was no warning. One second he was trudging through the heat. The next he was lying prostrate on the pavement, his life spilling out of a hole in his throat, his body racked with pain, his vision blurred and distorted.
FIRST LADY NOT HAPPY WITH SASHA/MALIA DOLLS
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First Lady Michelle Obama has spoken out about two newly-released dolls that share the same names as her young daughters,
News Brief 8-1
The Ingham Change Initiative is tackling the challenges facing local young men of color with a new undertaking announced Jan. 19.
The Initiative, already a year in the planning stage, launched its implementation phase at 10 a.m. in the Governor’s Room at the Lansing Center.
Green Collar Jobs=Eco-Friendly Economy
Green collar jobs signal employment shift toward eco-friendly economy
“The Color Purple” Set at The Wharton Center
Producer Scott Sanders always heard music between the pages of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Color Purple." Then when the story was adapted into a Steven Spielberg film, Sander’s feeling that this tale deserved a musical voice increased.
We Remember Community Activist Sherill D. Pittman …May 23, 1954 – January 10, 2009…
“There has been a lot of speculation going on around about me having cancer. This is true. This is something that can happen to anyone; therefore, you have yourself examined annually.”
– Sherill Pittman