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    Benjamin Hooks Attorney, Civil Rights Activist, Baptist Minister

    Apr 25, 2010 in We Think

    “A young black man can’t understand what it means to have something he’s never been denied. I can’t make them understand the mental relief I feel at the rights we have. It almost infuriates me that people don’t understand what integration has done for this country.”
    ~ the late Benjamin Hooks in an interview with
    U.S. News & World Report~

    Benjamin Lawson Hooks was a son of the American South. (more…)

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    Dorothy Height: Educator, Activist For American Blacks And Womens Rights

    Apr 22, 2010 in We Think

    Dorothy Irene Height a renown and respected educator and activist has died. She was a champion for women and a champion for Black people in the United States and elsewhere around the world.

    Dorothy Height was born in Virginia and at a young age moved to Pennsylvania with her family. When she was 17 years-old she was admitted to Barnard College; (more…)

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    Jessye Norman: World Renowned Opera Superstar from Augusta, Georgia, U.S.A.

    Apr 02, 2010 in We Think

    “Jessye Norman said not long ago that she simply “would like it to be that it made a difference to some people that I came and went, that I was here.” She has made a difference to anyone who loves music, and indeed it matters quite a lot that she is here: Jessye Norman, a great American singer.”~ from Kennedy Center: Biographical Information for Jessye Norman

    We echo those sentiments. Ms Jessye Norman, is the youngest recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors

    Norman’s vocal range is uncommonly wide, encompassing all female voice registers from contralto to high dramatic soprano.

    When she was 16 years-old, Norman was entered in to the Marian Anderson Vocal Competition in Philadelphia. (more…)

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    Raymond Pace Alexander-Philadelphia Lawyer, Judge and Activist

    Mar 30, 2010 in We Think


    Philadelphia Judge Raymond Pace Alexander (RPA) has been called by historian Darlene Clark Hine, one of the “black legal soldiers … who transformed constitutional jurisprudence to embrace the primacy of civil rights over states rights, and replaced the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ with one of equality.”

    Raymond Pace Alexander born in Philadelphia in October 1898 into a working class family, the grandson of slaves was destined to beat the odds to become a distinguished Philadelphia lawyer, who later was to serve as a judge as well as advisor to other lawyers including the future federal Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

    Raymond Pace Alexander with his talented wife, Sadie T. M. Alexander, worked to transform a segregated society in order to afford opportunity for those who had been denied.

    Early on in his education Alexander, influenced by historian Carter G. Woodson, chose to study black history and use it as a tool to vigorously oppose racism and develop better relations between the races. (more…)

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    The Largest Street Gang In the U.S.: Cops Gone Wild

    Mar 28, 2010 in We Think

    Once again we ask,  “Who let the dogs out?!”




    For more information visit:
    MySpace.com/BoilingFrogs101
    FlexYourRights.org
    Police Abuse.com~ Good Cops
    RateMyCop.com
    Google: Cop Watch

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    Leon H. Sullivan Creator Global Job Training Opportunities, Global Social Activist and Baptist Minister

    Mar 28, 2010 in We Think

    “Realistically, the only way to solve our problems at this point in our history is by planning our future, clearly and objectively, and then working to make that plan a reality.” Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, author Alternatives to Despair 1972

    Back in 1972 the late Leon H. Sullivan, author and innovator of Philadelphia’s  Opportunities Industrialization Center, (OIC), was sounding the call to make definitive plans for our future.

    “Strangely enough in Philadelphia, the big metropolitan city, you think people had work, but discrimination was still very strong . . . I decided to confront discrimination, again, because businesses were not employing blacks in Philadelphia, blacks couldn’t even get jobs as waiters in the good hotels.”~Rev. Leon Sullivan

    Choosing to confront the racial discrimination he witnessed in hiring practices in Philadelphia, he organized 400 other ministers to implement a successful boycott of companies that did not support equal employment opportunity. This demonstration of  “selective patronage” resulted in more than 4000 jobs open to dark skinned African Americans. However many still lacked the necessary training to perform the jobs now available.

    That is when in 1964 founded in an abandoned jailhouse, the OIC was born. (more…)

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    GWB Wipes Hand on Bill Clinton: Kanye Was Right!

    Mar 26, 2010 in We Think

    ” 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…)

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    Detroit Michigan Bridal Shop Brawl Or The Bride Wore Stripes!

    Mar 10, 2010 in We Think

    We found the following video on another site on the Internet. We read the back-story. It goes something like this: difficult, demanding bride becomes upset when shop owner will not acquiesce to her demands. She makes threats on one day–even called the police to make the owner do as she asked; and returns the following day to insist the shop comply with her unreasonable requests by changing its policy. As we read the story we thought, “Planning for events like weddings often brings out some peculiar behaviors.”

    However, when we viewed what happened we could not believe our eyes. Of all the reports we found we liked this one video report because of the fairness of the presentation–both sides were told and we liked the frumpy looking anchor’s closing remarks. Watch and you’ll see what we mean…

    There is no doubt this is a family (more…)

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    2010 Black History Month: Lucille Clifton, Poet, Writer, Educator

    Feb 28, 2010 in We Think

    “People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.”~Lucille Clifton

    Lucille Clifton, (nee Sayles), acknowledged as one of the most accomplished women in the world of literature, died February 13, 2010.

    Clifton, an artist known for her affable demeanor, common sense approach to poetry and writing, served as the Poet Laureate of the state of Maryland for six years from 1979 to 1985.

    She was born and raised in upstate New York. Upon graduation from high school at age sixteen she received a scholarship to Howard University in Washington, D.C., where (more…)

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    2010 Black History Month: Harry Edwards Sociologist

    Feb 23, 2010 in We Think

    “We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. The chances of your becoming a Jerry Rice or a Magic Johnson are so slim as to be negligible. Black kids must learn to distribute their energies in a way that’s going to make them productive, contributing citizens in an increasingly high-technology society.”
    ~ Harry Edwards, author and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley as quoted in Time Magazine March 6, 1989.

    Sociologist, scholar and author Harry Edwards, born 1942, is from East St. Louis, Illinois; he received his doctorate in sociology from Cornell University.

    Harry Edwards stated desire is to be a role model of “the promising athlete who gave up the possibility of a career in professional sports to become a scholar instead.” (more…)

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