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Dr. Edmondo Robinson is medical doctor with an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an internist who completed residency at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. A 2003 graduate and Dean’s Merit Scholarship recipient of the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine,  Dr. Robinson participated in an AIDS Care Fellowship at the University of California-San Francisco AIDS Institute while attending UCLA. He also served as National Vice President for the Student National Medical Association and was an appointee to the National Board of Medical Examiners.

Dr. Robinson earned a master’s degree in business administration, with an emphasis in healthcare management, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, during a two-year leave of absence from medical school. During his studies at Wharton, Dr. Robinson traveled as a member of a team of students and alumni to South Africa to make an assessment of state-sponsored, community clinic operations for the Director of Health Services for the Cape Town Metropolitan Region.

Dr. Robinson graduated from Wharton with honors in 2002. He completed his undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, in 1997. His research interest involves the development of indicators to measure the value and quality of health care delivery to special populations. One can readily see Dr. Robinson’s credentials make him eminently qualified to be a member of the medical profession’s newest specialty. Dr. Robinson is a hospitalist. His practice is near Delaware’s Christiana Care Health System. (more…)

For the past year a documentary film, “Fresh”, has been  making the round in communities all across the country. If you are going to be in New York City beginning April 1st 2010 you don’t want to miss “Fresh Week”.

The documentary film by Ana Sophia Joanes takes on as its subject the inferior quality of our food, and the promising features of our national food system. (more…)

” I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says, ‘They’re looting.’ You see a white family, it says, ‘They’re looking for food.’ And, you know, it’s been five days [waiting for federal help] because most of the people are black. And even for me to complain about it, I would be a hypocrite because I’ve tried to turn away from the TV because it’s too hard to watch. I’ve even been shopping before even giving a donation, so now I’m calling my business manager right now to see what is the biggest amount I can give, and just to imagine if I was down there, and those are my people down there. So anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help — with the way America is set up to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off, as slow as possible. I mean, the Red Cross is doing everything they can. We already realize a lot of people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way — and they’ve given them permission to go down and shoot us!”

“George Bush doesn’t care about black people!”

~Kanye West, musical artist, during fund raising event in the aftermath of the devastating hurricane Katrina on NBC live telecast Friday, September 2, 2005

We assembled the smartest people on our staff to view and discuss the following controversial 39 second video clip:

George W. Bush appears to have wiped his hand on Bill Clinton’s shirt after shaking hands with a crowd of Haitians.
The conclusion of our gathered collective brain trust is Kanye West was right. (more…)

Blanche Africa Reilly Dark is back with commentary about Gabourey Sidibe, the award winning, Oscar nominated actress who made her debut in the Lee Daniels directed independent film “Precious, Based on the Novel ‘Push” by Sapphire”.

Gabourey Sidibe is  young, vivacious and beautiful. Let’s commend her fine award winning, Golden Globe and Oscar nominated performance. Her portrayal of an abused, emotionally challenged urban female youth brought attention to the issues of child abuse, mental illness and poor nutrition, features of home life for too many American families.

While we applaud her success can we just give the lady a break on the assessment of her appearance? There is no doubt Ms Sidibe is aware she is fat. There I said it. (more…)

In 1869 President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Ebenezer D. Bassett   U.S. Minister Resident to Haiti in making him the first African American diplomat and one of the highest ranking black members of the United States government at the time.
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Our favorite political cartoonist, Mark Fiore has his say about the relief efforts for the survivors of last month’s Haitian earthquake disaster. Take a look and be sure to help….

“There’s a choice we’re making.
We’re saving our own lives…”-Lionel Richie

Nearly twenty-five years after the initial recording of the song created by the late Michael Jackson with lyrics by Lionel Richie, a new generation of Hollywood celebrities, singers, actors, models and people just known for being known, gathered to record a remake of the song that raised in 1985 more than $30 million for the charity USA For Africa.

This new crop of celebrities met on February 1, 2010, almost 25 years after the first gathering headed by music producer Quincy Jones, to record the cover to raise money for the survivors of the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti.

We’ve decided to revisit the original recording from 1985: (more…)

Blanche Reilly Africa Dark, Clark Dark’s mother,  and the matriarch to us all at YouThinkWhat, speaks about the tragedy in the Caribbean island nation of Haiti.

I’m having trouble understanding how until last week’s powerful earthquake struck in Haiti, most of us in the Western hemisphere thought it was no big deal for the people there to live as they have all these years in heartrending poverty and squalor. In fact many Americans did not know such a place exists. I am confident when I say many can not point to it on a world map. Of course considering many Americans do not know where they are, it is not surprising to know they can not identify the location of the object of this outpouring of human concern. (more…)

VeriChip Corporation, the marketing arm and a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions, a successful technology company in Southwest Florida has been manufacturing Radio Frequency Identification chips for years for use in animals. (more…)

Cassy Rivera of Brooklyn New York lost her vision when she gave birth to her daughter two years ago.

Rivera, the mother of two, became blind due to a rare disease called uveitis. (more…)