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Capital Jazz Fest Update 14th Annual Capital Jazz Fest June 2-4, 2006 www.capitaljazz.com Capital Jazz Fest 2006 The 14th annual Capital Jazz Fest is only a few months away!  This year's event will be held June 2-4, 2006.  Information on the talent lineup, venues, and tickets will be announced on Thursday, February 23 on the Capital Jazz Fest web site, www.capitaljazz.com.  Tickets will go on sale Friday, March 3 at 10am.  Stay tuned to the ...More

First, the news... From:Chicago Tribune As Ghanaian district leader Emmanuel Ntow Bediako looked over the crowd of African-Americans in a Chicago Heights church to launch a sister city agreement, many of the faces resembled those he sees in his country an ocean away, he said. Bediako and four other officials were making their first visit to the United States and the Chicago region. The trip came only weeks after leaders in his ...More

If you were to ask me my favorite soul food dish, I would have to say baked mac and cheese. But I would also say colla'd greens. How about some 'tatah salad? Can't forget black-eye peas---Man! Just too much to choose from. Variety! That is what I look for in many of the things that interest me. Unfortunately I am not seeing that in many black films today. What I do see ...More

Starting today, I will be highlighting each member of the Congressional Black Caucus. My reason for doing this is to introduce you to two very effective tools that you can use to evaluate the overall performance of elected officials from independent sources: Project Vote Smart and Follow the Money. Over the years I have grown very tired of politicians (regardless of what stripe) who in many cases know all they have ...More

Sac State organization shows some love to black men "In an effort to show African American men appreciation during Black History Month, the Black Women of Excellence of Sacramento State put on “Why I Love Black Men 2006†this last Friday. “Why I Love Black Men" was a compilation of song, poetry and spoken history. The program was created to give appreciation to African American men past and present." (more...) More

'Afro Samurai' to debut on American TV screens "Japan's own "Afro Samurai" is set to hit the small screen in the United States as an animated series, to be followed up by a feature film starring Samuel L. Jackson. Comic book aficionados in Japan, though, may be scratching their heads as they have likely never heard of this manga export. Though in Japan "Afro Samurai" only appeared in a self-published magazine, it ...More

First, the news... "Are cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad as a terrorist the moral equivalent of using the n-word when speaking to an African-American? Ihsan Bagby, a University of Kentucky professor of Arabic and Islamic studies, says a deep racism is behind the cartoons that have sparked riots and deaths throughout the Muslim world. "This is simply another manifestation of racism that they have decided to cloak in freedom of speech," he said. Bagby ...More

Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER ) CEO E. Stanley O'Neal had barely resigned from the General Motors Corp. (GM ) board on Feb. 6 before GM began thinking about recruiting another African American to fill his slot. Typically, a corporation like GM would look to replace him with another marquee African American name. Someone like Time Warner CEO Richard D. Parsons, who sits on the Citigroup, Estee Lauder, and Time Warner ...More

As if all the other "discoveries" of the contents of McDonald's food wasn't bad enough, I come across this article: "At least three U.S. lawsuits have been filed against McDonald's Corp. after it revealed last week that its french fries contain wheat and dairy products. The company acknowledged last week that wheat and dairy ingredients are used to flavor the french fries. Until recently, the company said the fries did not contain ...More

Protestors during the 1960's and early seventies were correct to protest against the intentional killing of innocent civilians during the Vietnam war. Since that time, anti-war activists aided by the Hollywood machine have not grown tired of reminding us of these unfortunate events in our history. What you will not hear is a comparison of the civilian casualty count during versus after America's involvement in the war. It is estimated that ...More