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Obama’s Leadership in War on Al Qaeda - NYTimes.com
It was not only Mr. Obama’s distaste for legislative backslapping and arm-twisting, but also part of a deeper pattern, said an administration official who has watched him closely: the president seemed to have “a sense that if he sketches a vision, it will happen — without his really having thought through the mechanism by which it will happen.”
Kari Copeland, Margo Montgomery, Jeffrey Veals, Chemistry UM Graduates | Breaking News for Black America
Link: http://newsone.com/2017032/kari-copeland-margo-montgomery-jeffrey-veals/?goback=.gde_2730249_member_118601964 (sent via Shareaholic) ---- At the University of Mississippi (UM), a year-long initiative to increase graduates in fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has paid off in epic fashion. Ole Miss News reports that three African-American chemistry students graduated on May 11 with doctorates, setting a school record.
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Nielsen: Black consumers are �'above average' in many of their online activities
Link: http://targetmarketnews.com/storyid05221201.htm (sent via Shareaholic) ----
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The Mills Brothers ("Paper Doll") - YouTube
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First African-American artists to have a #1 hit on the Billboard charts
Friday, May 18, 2012
Captains Courageous - The Daily Beast That dreaded reply, “Well, it’s complicated,” is the mantra of our age. The modern leader is essentially a castrato. Between media terror, poll-tested positioning, legal restraints, and crony capitalism it takes
Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/13/tina-brown-captains-courageous.html (sent via Shareaholic) ---- That dreaded reply, “Well, it’s complicated,” is the mantra of our age. The modern leader is essentially a castrato. Between media terror, poll-tested positioning, legal restraints, and crony capitalism it takes massive moral character to remember who you are. And once in a while act on it. Sometimes leadership is just saying what you believe. Susana Martinez, Republican governor of New Mexico, is a beguiling veep option for Mitt Romney. “I don’t want to be a politician,” snaps America’s first Latina governor, reassuringly. “I want to be a leader.” She’s always been one. Growing up in a working-class Mexican-American neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, Martinez was known for ordering the other kids around. Her grandmother called her “la abogadita,” the little lawyer; her older brother remembers her as “muy bossy.”
Reality check?
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From: "EZRA MCCANN"
Date: May 16, 2012 10:59 PM
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As my Daughter inters into her fourth year of medical school, this question must be ask, have I or we done enough to end these on going stories. If you have been an victim or have witnessed this type of disrespect and did not respond with a course of action, you are also a part of our on going problems. It is ok to Speak Up and oppose these mind sets. Please support this Doctor, watch this YouTube piece........
Ezra McCann
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Pacers' Bird Named NBA's Executive Of The Year - Sports News Story - KMBC Kansas City
http://www.kmbc.com/sports/31074130/detail.html
Congrats Larry Bird from a Chicago Bulls fan. Only thing left to do is buy a team like Magic and show Michael how it's done
Carlos Fuentes: Tribute to a Mexican literary and political icon - CSMonitor.com
Remembers FDR who he met and heard say "that society grows from the bottom up. I had great respect for the New Deal."
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52% of Black Men in Chicago Are Not Working
May 9, 2012 Contact: Phillip Jackson
For Immediate Release Executive Director
The Black Star Project
312.771.1010 - cell
MEDIA ADVISORY
52% of Black Men in Chicago Are Not Working
Black community demands $100 Million Chicago Plan for Black Men and Boys Similar to New York City's $127 Million Plan and Los Angeles' Multi-Million Dollar Plan to Improve Outcomes for Black Men and Boys
WHAT:
Chicago cannot achieve its full potential as a great city when 52% of its Black men are not in the labor force. Only 48.3% of available Black men in Chicago between the ages of 16 and 64 are employed, (according to a recent report, Race and Male Employment in the Wake of the Great Recession by Marc Levine of the Center for Economic Development at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). A similar study by Andrew Sum with the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston shows that 90% of young Black men 16 to 19 years old did not work in Chicago last summer.
New York City is investing $127 million over three years in Black and Latino men and boys to improve the city. Los Angeles launched a multi-million dollar initiative for Black men and boys this week. The Black Star Project is calling for a similar Chicago Plan for Black Men and Boys that would invest $100 million to improve societal outcomes for Black men and boys in Chicago.
Massive unemployment among Black men and youth drives violence and murders, contributes to broken family structures, indirectly discourages educational achievement, and causes chaos and disfunctionality in Chicago communities. The Chicago Plan for Black Men and Boys would include mentoring, educational support, job training, job connection, entrepreneurship, fathering support, strengthening families, spiritual development and community building.
WHY:
Chicago has become a tale of two cities: One city wealthy with good schools and safe communities for Asian and White citizens and the other city poor with horrible schools and dangerous neighborhoods for Black citizens. The Chicago Plan for Black Men and Boys will help to make Chicago a high-quality city for all citizens.
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Ten Worst Cities in America for Black Men Working
Percentage of working-age (16-64) black males employed
Detroit 43.0
Buffalo 43.9
Milwaukee 44.7
Cleveland 47.7
Chicago 48.3
St. Louis 51.3
Philadelphia 51.7
Cincinnati 52.6
Richmond 52.7
Memphis 53.2
San Francisco 53.3
Information from Race and Male Employment in the Wake of the Great Recession by Marc Levine of the Center for Economic Development at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Silent Genocide:
Facts about the Devastating Plight of Black Males in America[1]
Education/Family
· In Chicago, only three out of 100 Black boys earn a college degree by age 25.
- In 2008, only 44% of Black males graduated from high school in Chicago (near the U.S. average for Black males); only 28% graduated in New York City and 27% in Detroit.
- Just 22% of Black males who begin at a four-year college graduate within six years.
- 69% of Black children in America cannot read at grade level by the 4th grade, compared with 29% of White 4th-grade children.
- The average 17-year-old Black student has the reading and math scores of the average 14-year-old White student.
- 7% of Black 8th-graders perform math at grade level.
- 67% of Black children are born out of wedlock.
Employment/Economics
- In Chicago, 52 % of all Black men between the ages of 16 and 64 years old are jobless.
- In Illinois, 47% of all non-institutionalized Black men do not have a job.
- In New York City in 2003, only 51.8% of Black men ages 16 to 64 were employed compared to 75.7% of White men and 65.7% of Latino men in that age group.
- At comparable educational levels, Black men earn 67% of what White men earn.
- White males with a high-school diploma are just as likely to have a job and generally earn just as much as Black males with college degrees.
- Blacks make up only 3.2% of lawyers, 3% of doctors and less than 1% of architects in America. Many of these are Black women.
- 53% of Black men aged 25 to 34 are either unemployed or earn too little to lift a family of four from poverty.
- Nationally, 72% of Black high-school dropouts are unemployed.
- Black America lost between $72 billion and $96 billion in the recent mortgage fiasco.
- The median net worth of a Black family in America is $6,100 verses $67,000 for a White family.
- Young Black men with a Black sounding or Africanized name, Like Trayvon, even with a college degree and the exact same academic credentials as a person perceived to be a White male, are 1/2 as likely to be called back for a job interview
- White men with prison records receive more offers for entry-level jobs in New York City than Black men with identical records (and White male ex-offenders are offered jobs just as often - if not more so - than Black men who have never been arrested).
Incarceration/Crime:
- More Black children died in Chicago from gunfire in 2010 than Chicago soldiers died in Iraq.
- Murders of Black males between the ages of 14- and 17-years old rose by 40% between 2000 and 2007. During that same period, murders committed by Black males between the ages of 14- and 17-years old rose by 38%.
- In 2001, the chances of going to prison were highest among Black males (32.2%) and Hispanic males (17.2%) and lowest among White males (5.9%).
- Blacks comprise only 12% of the U.S. population, but 44% of all prisoners in the United States are Black.
- Blacks, who comprise only 12% of the population and account for about 13% of drug users, constitute 35% of all arrests for drug possession, 55% of all convictions on those charges, and 74% of people sentenced to prison for possession.
- In at least 15 states, Black men were sent to prison on drug charges at rates ranging from 20 to 57 times those of White men.
- In 2003, 1,172 Black children and teenagers in the United States died from gunfire.
- One in nine Black men between 20- to 34-years old is imprisoned and one in 15 Black men over 18-years old is imprisoned.
- 1.46 million Black men out of a total voting population of 10.4 million Black men have lost their right to vote because of felony convictions.
These statistics were compiled from various sources by The Black Star Project. You may request sources at blackstar1000@ameritech.net. To join the movement to save young Black men and to educate Black children, please call us at 773.285.9600, email us at blackstar1000@ameritech.net or visit our website at www.blackstarproject.org.
These statistics were compiled from various sources by The Black Star Project. You may request sources at blackstar1000@ameritech.net. To join the movement to save young Black men and to educate Black children, please call us at 773.285.9600, email us at blackstar1000@ameritech.net or visit our website at www.blackstarproject.org.
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