Teen who burglarized celebs' homes was threatened Nov 10, 2009
The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a judge's ruling that allowed prosecutors to charge a reputed Ku Klux Klansman with kidnapping more than 40 years after two black men were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi. The justices rejected a plea from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on whether too much time had elapsed for the case against James Ford Seale to go forward. (Fresno Bee -- State)
New finding suggests prostate biopsy is not always necessary Nov 7, 2009
After adjusting for age, race and obesity because PSA levels increase with age, are higher in black men, and are lower in overweight men the researchers found that the higher the level of parathyroid hormone in the blood, the higher the PSA level ... The finding is especially significant for black men, added Skinner ... About 20 percent of black men have elevated parathyroid hormone levels, compared with about 10 percent of white men which means blacks have a greater chance of being... (EurekAlert!)
Is Obama inspiring black men? Nov 5, 2009
Is Obama inspiring black men to step up ... Is Obama inspiring black men to step up ... Since election, more black men are volunteering, activists say. (CNN)
An NAACP Chapter of a Different Hue Nov 4, 2009
A Native American with long black hair is sitting four rows from the front; and two black men, one bald and another with cornrows, are sitting in the back row. A Latino man is near the front, and a South Asian man is in the center of the crowd. (CBS News -- US)
High court won't review civil rights-era case Nov 3, 2009
The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a judge's ruling that allowed prosecutors to charge a reputed Ku Klux Klansman with kidnapping more than 40 years after two black men were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi ... High court won't review civil rights-era case Articles (11-02) 08:00 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a judge's ruling that allowed prosecutors to charge a reputed Ku Klux Klansman with kidnapping more than 40 years after two black men were. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Valuing supplier diversity Nov 3, 2009
When you consider that 52 percent of black men are unemployed, by having thriving minority-owned businesses locally, it would solve a lot of economic problems in this community, said Fields, who recently received the Award for Excellence and has advocated for minority business participation at the state and federal levels. In the minority community, we have to say to these corporations that the expectation is that we come together to make the community better. (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
High Court: 1964 KKK Slay Case Can Stand Nov 3, 2009
Justices Won't Rule On Whether Too Much Time Elapsed Since Reputed Klansman Allegedly Kidnapped, Killed 2 Black Men in Miss ... (AP) The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a judge's ruling that allowed prosecutors to charge a reputed Ku Klux Klansman with kidnapping more than 40 years after two black men were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi. (CBS News -- US)
Lets end the War on Drugs Oct 31, 2009
Much of the social cost has been borne by black men, who use illegal drugs at rates about equal to whites but are nearly 12 times as likely to be imprisoned for drug convictions as adult white men, according to a Human Rights Watch report released last year ... More often, those tactics yield less dramatic but equally tragic results: Prison has disrupted the lives of hundreds of thousands of non-violent black men, ripping them from their families and neighborhoods, rendering them unemployable... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Spotsylvania store robbed Oct 30, 2009
Both suspects were described as black men in their mid 20s with thin builds, 5 feet 8 to 5 feet 11 inches tall wearing black pants and black shirts. One was wearing a black hat and had a thin goatee. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Good schools aren't only for rich kids Oct 29, 2009
Watch "Black Men in the Age of President Obama," on CNN, Oct. 31 at 10 p.m. ET. RELATED TOPICS. (CNN)
Dose of Realism in a Drug War Oct 29, 2009
For one thing when I was closely acquainted with those folks behind bars our figure was that one in three black men between the ages of [if I remember correctly] 18--50 either were just out, "in...carcerated," or about to go. The ones who make 50+ either never had been or have finally figured it out. (Townhall.com)
Atlantas small-town vision Oct 28, 2009
White flight was exasperated by perimeter politicians that ran on anti-MARTA fears of that Atlanta s criminal element [big scary black men] would be taking a bus out to the burbs to rob and rape. And those who fled were too blinded by racism to realize that you cant take a TV set or stereo stolen from the McMansionville homes on the bus to the pawnshop. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Live blogging the Mother’s Bar incident town hall Oct 27, 2009
Live blogging the Mother s Bar incident town hall. By and Student Life Editors. (Washington University Student Life, MO)
Fla. Girl's Mom on Killer: "I Hate Him" Oct 24, 2009
etc are statistically committed by BLACK men. would I be allowed to say that the next unsolved car theft or robbery resulting in murder should justify the immediate death penalty of a BLACK MAN. (CBS News)
Chris Rock's 'Good Hair' gets tangled up in controversy Oct 23, 2009
He interviews black men about their funny/painful experiences of sex with women with weaves. (Don't touch the hair. (USA Today)
LETTER: Today, no one takes responsibility for actions Oct 22, 2009
shumphreys wrote on Oct 21, 2009 8:21 AM:" Cedric I think you need to learn about American history. You obviously don't seem to realize that there was a time not to long ago when a Black man could NOT buy land in many places in America even if he had the money. There was a time when a black man couldn't get a job even if he had a college degree or was a skilled craftsman in many places in America. There was a time when black men were forced to abandon their wives and children because their... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Common sense emerging on drug enforcement Oct 21, 2009
Just like the who knows how many young black men spending half their lives in jail for smoking a little pot or crack or whatever, and should be out raising their children and working jobs and buying stuff and not simply soaking up taxpayer dollars in jail while providing jobs for low education white people to be prison guards. Paul. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Morehouses Crossroads Has Nothing To Do With Ghetto Gear or Cross-Dressing Oct 21, 2009
The idea that young black men on college campuses are so developmentally arrested that the only way that they can distinguish between what to wear in the classroom vs. what to wear in "corporate America" is by prohibiting them from wearing sagging jeans at all times, is not only absolutely ridiculous, its also quite racist. Young black men are all too familiar with having our cultural fashions and stylistics pathologized as deviant, criminal or dysfunctional ... It is thus painfully ironic... (Slate)
Special Report: Underground Pledging vs. Membership Intake Process Oct 20, 2009
Only a third of Black men at black colleges graduate with a bachelors even in 6 years. Let's focus on something tangible and real, all the stomping in the world hasn't lowered our crime rate or the number of black men going to prison. (Slate)
In defense of Elder Oaks Oct 19, 2009
" (Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, 10:110)Leading up to June 8, 1978, the LDS Church was under enormous political pressure. Hence, Spencer W. Kimball, after spending many hours in the "Upper Room" of the LDS Temple, claimed that God had removed the curse. All worthy black men could now receive the Priesthood.Food for thought, on all your little moral-analogy missions here. Mormons should really research the history of their church. ". cairo wrote on Oct 18, 2009 5:12 PM:" When the church... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
'Good Hair': Chris Rock's new documentary Oct 19, 2009
Black men incur a heavy financial responsibility keeping their wives or girlfriends in "good hair." "That's a responsibility you probably wouldn't have if you dated a white woman," Rock points out. "You are talking about people on fixed incomes, like a cop making 38 grand a year and his woman wants $6,000 for her hair. "Then a woman won't let him touch her hair," he says. "She won't go swimming. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
McCain presses Obama to pardon boxer Johnson Oct 17, 2009
His 2005 documentary, "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson," explored the case against the boxer and the sentencing judge's acknowledged desire to "send a message" to black men about relationships with white women. McCain and King both of whom have done their share of amateur boxing pushed similar resolutions in recent years but only this year were able to get it through both chambers of Congress. (USA Today -- Sports)
Newsweek: Appearance matters more for black CEOs Oct 16, 2009
The short and discouraging answer, they find, is yes: having a nonthreatening, disarming appearance is, for black men but not for white, a plus when it comes to business success ... So while "angry, authoritative ... styles can benefit White male leaders," Livingston and Pearce conclude, "these tactics can backfire for nonprototypical leaders." That would be black men. (MSNBC -- Race)
Leader likens anti-Mormonism to Southern racism in '60s Oct 16, 2009
The Mormon church has faced criticism for its past stances on race; it wasn't until 1978 that the church lifted a prohibition that denied full church membership to black men of African descent. In an interview Monday, Oaks said the Proposition 8 saga was one of several trends that motivated him to deliver the address, but it was "not the trigger.". (USA Today -- News)
Man found beaten, wrapped in rug Oct 16, 2009
Witnesses report that they saw three black men dragging the rug into the yard on Scott Road and then leaving in a white Cadillac, Cochran said. "We're going to have to have a little bit more information than a description of a white Cadillac before we know anything more about what happened," he said. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Feminism Ruined Womens' Lives? Not Really Oct 15, 2009
To quote the authors: "happiness has trended quite strongly upward for both female and male African Americans Indeed, the point estimates suggest that well-being may have risen more strongly for black women than for black men." The study should more accurately be titled "The Paradox of Declining White Female Happiness," only that might have suggested that the problem could be cured with melanin and Restylane. But let's assume the study is sound and that (white) women have become less happy... (CBS News)
Old skool tie Oct 15, 2009
I listen to quite a lot of hip-hop but I cant help but feel some of the messages that some rappers send out glorifying violence and regarding getting rich through guns and drugs has had a negative impact, particularly on young black men. It inspires a get rich quick approach that combined with the modern celebrity culture for some young people seems to put them off actually working hard to achieve their goals. (BBC News -- UK)
S.C. Pardons 2 Black Men Executed in 1915 Oct 15, 2009
COLUMBIA, S.C., Oct. 12, 2009. Great-Uncles of Radio Host Tom Joyner were Framed and Sent to Electric Chair for Killing Confederate Army Vet. (CBS News -- US)
Mormons & religious freedom Oct 14, 2009
"In their effect they are like well-known and widely condemned voter-intimidation of blacks in the South that produced corrective federal civil-rights legislation." The Mormon church has faced criticism for its past stances on race; it wasn't until 1978 that the church lifted a prohibition that denied full church membership to black men of African descent. In an interview Monday, Oaks said the Proposition 8 saga was one of several trends that motivated him to deliver the address, but it was "not... (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
A prize that’s also for us Oct 10, 2009
Our history is rooted so deep in slavery and segregation that terrible vestiges among the masses are still with us today in poor public schooling and disproportionate unemployment of black men. But slowly over these last three decades, individual people of color have risen to positions of power. (Boston Globe)
Education secretary stresses need for strong new teachers Oct 10, 2009
He said the need is especially acute for black men in the nation's classroom. "Put plain and simple, this country needs an army of great, new teachers and I can think of no better place to start recruiting them than in 's hallowed halls," he said. (USA Today -- News)
Few teachers are black men Oct 10, 2009
Jones directs the program from Clemson University in South Carolina, where it began in 2000 after researchers found that fewer than 1% of the state's elementary school teachers were black men; the overall K-12 student population at the time was 42% black ... Wilkes, 50, sees himself as an African-American giving back to the community where he grew up an image he hopes will dispel negative stereotypes of black men for students and parents alike ... Many are being raised by single mothers and are... (USA Today -- News)
The Naked Truth About Serena Williams Oct 9, 2009
Are we to believe that ESPN is selling some "enhanced pornographic idea" of black men as well ... Now I agree that white media not only portraying sistas being inappropriately sexualized, but punking Black men in the process for the pleasure of white men. (Slate)
Serena takes it off Oct 8, 2009
She has a very sexy body , us hispanic and black men love a body like hers , Dam. Pingback by October 7, 2009. (The Palm Beach Post)
Sexist!? Misogynistic!? Chauvinistic!? Oct 8, 2009
Prior to the success of mens magazines like King, Black Men and Smooth, the only publication where I could get my beautiful-black-woman fix was reading, or rather looking at, Jets Beauty of the Week. But none of these titles have ever had the mainstream cachet of, say,Sports Illustrated, which didnt feature a black woman () on the cover of their annual swimsuit edition until 199730 years after they premiered their first swimsuit edition. (Slate)
ASU announces grant to focus on black male students Oct 6, 2009
Augusta State University announced today it will be one of 13 University System of Georgia institutions to receive a grant to increase the number of black men receiving bachelor s degrees ... Augusta State will be involved in a national pilot research project involving SAAB chapters and analyzing psycho-social factors, with data helping find ways to better retention and graduation rates of black men, the release states. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Continuing racial differences in HIV prevalence in US Oct 6, 2009
The population gender ratio (number of men:women) is a major determinant of the structure of sexual networks and both high male mortality and disproportionate incarceration of black men reduce the gender ratio among African Americans. This likely influences not only marriage rates, but also participation in sexual risk behaviors and sexual mixing and other network patterns. (EurekAlert!)
OBAMA DATE NIGHT: CELEBRATE WEDDING ANNI... Oct 5, 2009
Obamas' night out: First WH anniversary: The Swamp. Posted October 3, 2009 10:15 PM. (The Drudge Report)
Treatment Clinic for HIV/AIDS Patients Opens in Foggy Bottom Sep 30, 2009
An estimated 3 percent of D.C. residents have HIV or AIDS, including 7 percent of black men in the District, according to a report released by D.C. health officials in March. The CDC defines an HIV epidemic as generalized and severe when more than 1 percent of residents in a specific geographic area have the virus. (The Hoya, Washington DC)
Tupacs writings to join MLK, Jackson papers at AUC Sep 26, 2009
how come you people only call black men thugs , just curious ... Black men are not the only group of people carrying guns and committing crimes, they re just the only group being constantly scrutinized in the media ... Terri you mean how ALL black men are labeled as thugs. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
The Death (And Life) of Conservatism Sep 26, 2009
For some reason once, when we drove around Charlotte, young black men attacked my car at an intersection. We pulled out of the intersection after they started hitting glass. (CBS News)
Body's immune system response to dental plaque varies by gender and race Sep 26, 2009
"If you get a bacterial infection anywhere in the body, billions of neutrophils come flooding out of your bone marrow to defend against the intruder. Our observation that with poor dental hygiene white blood cell activity increased in black men but not black women or whites of either sex suggests both gender and racial differences in the inflammatory response to dental plaque. This finding could help us identify individuals at greater risk for infections anywhere in the body including those... (EurekAlert!)
This Week's Bidenisms Sep 26, 2009
"some historical revision during the 2008 vice presidential debate, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 2, 2008Click to see video of Biden's comments."I spent last summer going through the black sections of my town, holding rallies in parks, trying to get black men to understand it is not unmanly to wear a condom, getting women to understand they can say no, getting people in the position where testing matters. I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS."putting the... (Slate)
County employee is charged with fraud Sep 25, 2009
Two black men, one armed with a handgun, approached an employee as he was opening the store shortly before 7:30 a.m. and forced him inside, according to a Richmond County Sheriff's Office release. The suspects forced the man to deactivate the alarm and open the safe. (The Augusta Chronicle)
A-C police seek four in home invasion robbery Sep 24, 2009
Police said the robbers, all black men, are 23 to 27 old. One suspect is 6 feet tall, weighs 145 pounds and was wearing a red hat with black bandana and black pants. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Mad Men, Season 3 Sep 24, 2009
Actually, what's most striking about a quick glance at the Time covers from 1963 is how many of them feature black men: , NAACP chief ... There are headlines about "The Negro Push for Equality" and "The Negro Revolution to Date." Time in the '60s was a fairly conservative institution, and the fact that it was devoting so much space to prominent black men and the civil rights movement indicates just how blinkered and out of touch the men at Sterling Cooper really are. (Slate)
One Orangeburg road divides two ways of thinking Sep 23, 2009
In 1968, police here fired into a crowd of demonstrators protesting a segregated bowling alley, killing three unarmed black men and wounding 27 others in what became known as the. But the city, home to two historically black colleges, has a youthful energy and is attracting businesses. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Too Many Bars In Rural America Linked To High Suicide Rates Instead Of Idyllic Life Sep 22, 2009
3, 2008) A study examining suicide rates and pre-suicide clinical symptoms in people from different ethnic groups, has found that rates of suicide vary between ethnic groups with young black men aged 13 to 24. (Oct. (Science Daily)
White Philly officer told to get rid of cornrows Sep 22, 2009
But four officers filed a lawsuit saying the policy discriminates against those with a skin condition that primarily affects black men and gets worse with shaving. Quinto dons the ears with eyes wide open. (Fresno Bee)
Daily guide to television and radio Sep 17, 2009
A group of black men heads to the Million Man March. Ossie Davis. (Boston Globe)
BofA's Milton Jones retiring Sep 17, 2009
Jones said he will continue to serve as the top officer of 100 Black Men of Atlanta, though he will transition off the board of the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Most Read Stories. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)
Orly Taitz and the birthers, falling down into the rabbit hole Sep 17, 2009
Of course, Gary is just one of dozens of black men on America s death row with questionable convictions. But what kept me coming back to his case was its almost incredible links with the area s deeply rooted racist past. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Neighbors question GPD in aftermath of accident Sep 16, 2009
All of sudden, you have two black men, who are businessmen, come in a neighborhood and people want to talk about a drug test and sobriety test, Patterson said. Those officers were senior lieutenants and I trust in what my lieutenants say. (Greenville Delta Democrat Times, MS)
Five cell phones stolen from Watertown store Sep 15, 2009
According to a store manager, a group of five to eight young, black men came into the store around 2:45 p.m. on Sept. 9. Some of the suspects went to the counter and disconnected five phones from a display and then the whole group ran out of the store. (Watertown TAB & Press, MA)
This is the President. Get Used to It. Sep 14, 2009
Joe Wilson Gets Loud. Monday, September 14, 2009. (Slate)
Black history pioneer: Alexander Clark became prominent achiever while residing in Muscatine (2) Sep 14, 2009
After the war, Clark was instrumental in getting Iowa s laws changed so that black men could vote. In 1868, Clark sued the Muscatine Board of Education on behalf of his 12-year-old daughter Susan, who had been turned away from a public school. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Bigotry with a lighter shade of blues Sep 14, 2009
That difference in melanin has, they say, been a source of daily friction with a gang of black men in their neighborhood for months. She's been shot with paintballs. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
Calif. Lawmakers Agree on $1B Prison Cuts Sep 13, 2009
If they were poor black men they would have been put away for life. Prison reform would save tens of billions in the US but that won't happen because too many people are getting rich off prisons. (CBS News -- US)
Bigotry in Buffalo with a lighter shade of blues Sep 13, 2009
That difference in melanin has, they say, been a source of daily friction with a gang of black men in their neighborhood for months. She's been shot with paintballs, they've both been repeatedly cursed and taunted. (Juneau Empire)
CRIME TRENDS ARE DOWN, BUT MORE WORK TO BE DONE Sep 13, 2009
Add to that mix the number of homicides reported each year, many of them involving young black men killed by other young black men. There s not an outrage of the use of violence in general because in a sense, I think the public is saying these are two individuals with differences because most of our acts involve people who know each other, Dalrymple said. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
University of Hawaii at Manoa CRCH scientists report adulthood body size associated with cancer risk Sep 12, 2009
While excessive weight gain between younger and older adulthood was observed to increase the risk of advanced and high-grade prostate cancers in white men and increase the risk of localized and low-grade disease in black men, it appeared to decrease the risk of localized prostate cancer in Japanese men ... An estimated 30 percent of prostate cancer cases occurred among Japanese men, 25 percent among white men, 27 percent among Hispanic men, 13 percent among black men, and seven percent among... (EurekAlert!)
Document hints at motive for bribe offer, lawyer says Sep 10, 2009
Two black men, Charlie Reid Jr., and his father, the late Charlie Reid Sr., filed a discrimination lawsuit. The younger Mr. Reid told The Chronicle that he and his father tried to go to Marlowe's for lunch and were told they couldn't enter without a membership card. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Inmate claims unfairness Sep 10, 2009
An example of the kind of black men I LOVE. ... georgerogers wrote on Sep 8, 2009 10:52 PM:" A prison offering Justice?good luck.everybody knows what the modern prison system is all about.creating more social unrest, and creating a big government.higher taxes, locking up black men to ruin their lives, create them into life crimes. same reason the CIA/government put crack on the streets.they are creating many of the problems they then claim they are going to fix. al qaeda being one of those... (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
What Van Jones Tells Us About President Obama Sep 9, 2009
The Van Jones story is about our president: a man who fills the void in his emotional past with "authentic" black men who have no interior struggle for definition. President Obama has incessantly injected himself into racial matters that require no clarification (see Henry Louis Gates Jr.); he has turned every debate into a racial debate (see his 2008 campaign, which repeatedly referenced his "funny name" and the fact that he does not look like the "other presidents on the dollar bills"). (Townhall.com)
Schools right to get permission Sep 9, 2009
JsBlasi wrote on Sep 8, 2009 4:56 PM:" Well David i highly disagree. Im a local Student and i like what he's doing to help this country. Some can't always follow the constitution. Earlier presidents helped this country without it and many have not gone fully by it. For once we have someone in office that isn't white. Its not called a White House because it's only for white men. White Women, Black Women, and Black men can do just as good as any other person in the white house maybe better who... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
