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Duane
Here is a quick interview I did recently with Steelers RB Rashard Mendenhall. We talked briefly about his involvement with Champion® Gridiron Kings. This weekend, ESPN will be hosting this event as the top 64 skill-position football players are invited to play in seven-on-seven competitions.
Link: Champion Gridiron Kings
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I just finished both submitting my article for a popular Black web publication and was just up some hours ago being interviewed by Rhonda Deniston of KCBQ 1170am San Diego (podcast of show). Also, I will be interviewing Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall today. So needless to say, I had very little time to sort through all the race talk and find something worth talking about.
Here is a post I did a while back.
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While many in the black community are well familiar with the downfall of what was considered “The Black Wall Street” of its time (Tulsa, Oklahoma), not may of us are familiar with the many successes of the black community right on the heels of the slave era here in the US. Although these pioneers still had to face racism, I think that once you read the excerpts below you will have to agree that their generation possessed something that we so desperately need today in our community. Read more »
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Do you remember some years ago here in blogtown, USA when it was the thing to put a counter on your site to show spending in Iraq? Or how about the big debate over publishing pictures of soldiers in coffins as they were being unloaded off of military planes. What happened to all of that? Read more »
July 21st, 2010 Duane July 21st, 2010 DuaneA good knock off.
July 20th, 2010 DuaneThe only time I get email from CNN directly from their PR department is when it is a story that involves race. So I know they were intentional with this one.
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Shirley Sherrod, former USDA official, tells CNN’s Tony Harris she was forced to resign after her remarks from a 1986 speech were taken out of context. The wife of the farmer Sherrod mentioned in the speech called in to say that Sherrod was the person she credited with helping to save their farm.
Video Link of Live Coverage Here:
http://news.turner.com/video_display.cfm?instance_code=turner&video_id=8080
Shirley Sherrod was also interviewed on American Morning:
http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/20/usda-employee-says-statements-on-white-farmer-misconstrued/
Please credit CNN Newsroom/Tony Harris
Thank you,
Christal
Christal Jones
CNN Public Relations
Email: christal.jones@turner.com
Twitter: @joneschristal
Additionally, you can follow @CNNpr on Twitter
www.CNNPressroom.com Cell: 404-606-0530 Office: 404-878-0285
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I wish they were on point with some other stories that come to mind.
Sphere: Related Content July 20th, 2010 Duane
Apparently the $20 mil pledge by Comcast to our self-appointed Black representatives isn’t enough.
“Stanley E. Washington, NCAAOM President & CEO stated, ‘Comcast has approximately 100,000 employees and spends more than $20 million per year on paperclips. Their meaningless pledge confirms that Comcast believes African American Read more »
July 19th, 2010 Duane
Unfortunately, I do not have time this morning to comment on this one. But check out this article.
The title of my post says it all for me, but I do want to really break this down later this evening/early tomorrow morning.
More Baptist pastors adopt bishop title
Backers say promotion helps value leadership
The last thing the protestant church (in particular the Black portion) needs is a latching on to what the protestant church left behind ages ago. Read more »
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Rush Limbaugh Insults Black People with “Cracker” Remark
So now we Black folks are adopting the word “Cracker” as an insult? Is the word “honky” next Dr. Boyce?
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But We Need 50 Channels
What I wrote earlier this week:
“[Stanley E.] Washington (NCAAOM President & CEO) goes on to say in the article that Comcast should give us (Black folks) 50 channels, not 4 to own and operate as we wish.
Again, the two things that I still have not heard from Washington and NCAAOM is what do they plan on broadcasting on these 50 channels? Secondly, is Black-owned television really in that big of a demand or is it just good programing?”
Targetmarketnews.com is a website that follows Black trends in the marketplace. That also includes trends in what we as Black folks watch on television. The recent “Top 25 Cable Shows in Black Households” list show a trend that goes back beyond December of last year (I stopped looking beyond 12/09. Here are some of my observations: Read more »
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