Tonight’s the big showdown – wonder who’s going to get the last punch?
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Monday, May 23, 2011
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Sunday, May 8, 2011
Huffington Post: Black Unemployment and the Great Black Disconnect for Obama
Dr. Boyce Watkins
Professor, Syracuse University
Posted: 05/ 8/11 03:51 PM ET
President Obama has a problem, a very serious one. The president's problem is what I would call "The Great Black Disconnect." This divide is the place where black America's love and appreciation for the Obamas disconnects from the intense economic suffering of the African American community. Like a festering and infected wound that remains untreated, President Obama's support within the black community is threatened by the fact that the people who love him most are suffering unlike anything our nation has seen over the last 50 years.
This week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its unemployment numbers for the month of April. The figures were consistent with the jobless recovery that has taken good care of Wall Street, but created homelessness on Main Street. The national unemployment rate grew from 8.8 percent to 9 percent, which will surely perpetuate President Obama's somber ratings on economic performance.
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Saturday, May 7, 2011
Dr. Boyce: Oprah Fires her CEO, So What’s Next?
Oprah Winfrey has fired the CEO of her network. Is this a sign of desperation?
Friday, May 6, 2011
“Birthers” Replaced by “Deathers”: Don’t Believe Bin Laden is Really Dead
by Brook Griffin, Your Black World
Last week, when President Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate, he silenced many of the critics, birthers, who didn’t believe that he was born in the United States. Now, the birth certificate controversy has been replaced by another one: whether or not Osama Bin Laden is actually dead.
“Jumping the Broom”: Just a Classier Version of Madea
"Jumping the Broom" is like a Tyler Perry movie with polish.
The ensemble comedy is about a wedding involving a bride from a family of wealthy African-American professionals and a groom from a family of working-class Brooklynites. It is well-cast, well-played and passably written.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Study: Minorities Still Locked Out of Most Institutions
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, YourBlackWorld.com, Scholarship in Action
I took a look at an ABC News picture of President Barack Obama sitting in a Situation Room with lead advisers watching the assassination of Obama bin Laden. Everyone had a tense look on their face, as 10 years of hard work suddenly came down to the wire. I couldn’t help but notice, as I scanned all the faces across the room, that there were only two women present (Hillary Clinton and another woman in the back), and one bi-racial black man (President Obama). Every other person in the room was a white male.
What startles me the most is that millions of other Americans can look at this picture and see absolutely nothing wrong with it. The “white guy’s club” has always been the status quo in leadership positions.
Monday, May 2, 2011
How are Black Women Affected by Not Having a Father in the Home?
In the conversation below, I interview Squeaky Moore and Ashley Shaunte, two aspiring filmmakers who’ve been able to make fatherless homes into a viral topic on the Internet. Their short public service video on the topic has drawn hundreds of thousands of viewers, primarily because the idea of being without a dad has such a profound emotional impact on us all.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Black Unemployment More than Double Whites for Michigan Residents
Your Black World reports
A recent report by the Economic Policy Institute has revealed that the economic situation for African Americans is disproportionately bad for the state of Michigan. According to the report, African Americans in Michigan have had an unemployment rate above 20 percent for every quarter since the start of 2009. Their 2010 annual unemployment rate was 23.4%. White Michigan residents currently enjoy an unemployment rate of only 9.5% for last quarter.
The conditions are so bad that the lowest black unemployment rate since 2008 (12.2%) is only slightly lower than the highest unemployment conditions experienced by whites in Michigan (12.7%). So, their terrible times are our good times and our horrible times don’t get attention from political leaders whatsoever.
Perhaps we don’t live in a post-racial America after all, since the unemployment picture is clearly different for blacks and whites.
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