Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Happy Birthday, Michael
It's a good thing someone caught this old-school TV footage from Soul Train. It's just in time to show Marvin Davis and Stacia Little, Optimist Club of Central Detroit, dancing in the Soul Train line as a "Happy Birthday" performance for Michael Jones, the Dancing Poet. Happy Birthday, Michael.
"Carol of the Bells" - Trans Siberian Orchestra
Always has been my favorite Christmas carol, along with "What Child Is This?" Actually, I love all of them!
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Blind Side
This is a compelling story. I can't wait to see it! November 20, 2009. My son is an extra in this movie... YESSSS!
Monday, August 10, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Rev. Ike Died Tuesday At 74
The minister known as Reverend Ike, who preached the gospel of material prosperity to millions nationwide, died Tuesday. He was 74.
Family spokesman Bishop E. Bernard Jordan told The New York Times that The Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, who suffered a stroke in 2007 and never fully recovered, died in Los Angeles. He moved to the city two years ago, Jordan said.
Reverend Ike preached the power of what he called "positive self-image psychology" to his 5,000 parishioners at the United Church Science of Living Institute. The church was housed in a former movie theater in New York's Washington Heights neighborhood.
In the 1970s, Reverend Ike was one of the first evangelists to reach an audience of millions through television.
See REV. IKE...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
A War For Your Soul-Birmingham version from Erisai Films on Vimeo.
This video was created to inspire young at-risk African-Americans not to fall prey to some of the problems they face in society. The use of the voice "Master of Darkness" represents the abstract concept of evil.
This video should not to be used to divide people (Black & White).
This video should not be used to criticize all aspects of hip-hop culture.
This video should not be used to condemn the millions of Black youth that are striving for excellence in their classrooms and communities.
This video should not be used to degrade the millions of children that do not have the proper educational resources offered in their community.
This video should not be used to scare our precious Black youth into a position of change.
This video should not be used to allow the rest of society to escape from their responsibility, to reach back and help with financial & academic support.
This video, if used properly, will allow our youth to see some of the horrific conditions that our ancestors fought through & some of the horrific conditions we face today.
All Americans should be upset, that Black children are being murdered in Chicago, Detroit, Birmingham, Norfolk, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Seattle, Philadelphia, New York and many other cities throughout the nation.
All Americans should be upset, that in many of the above mentioned cities, schools are struggling for proper funding, thus leading to an unfair start in our academic based society.
Many have asked "Why should I care?"...but can you imagine, the first person to find a cure for cancer, could be living in one of these areas, that we are afraid to reach out and help.
Some of the images from the past can be unsettling, but they are used to show all Americans how far we have come, and how far we still have to go. This film is being strategically placed in school systems, churches and youth orgs around the country, in hope of helping a lost generation of kids that we as Americans have forgotten. As fellow Americans, we must continue to love each other, and take that love and spread it to the rest of the world. Peace & Love - Erisai Films www.myspace.com/erisaifilms **THIS VIDEO IS NOT FOR SALE & I AM NOT ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR THE FILM, I ONLY WANT THE MESSAGE TO REACH AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT ANY HIDDEN POLITICAL OR FINANCIAL AGENDA.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Kenyette Godhigh
These four videos are posted for Kenyette Godhigh in a Father's Day video card greeting for her father, Ralph Godhigh. Thank God for thoughtful, original people like her!
Monday, June 15, 2009
We Are Blessed!
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Praise Him In Advance - Marvin Sapp
Since praise confuses the enemy, we should be praising Him every day and every hour. And, when we are not praising Him we should be in prayer! Thank God for the blood!
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Obama names US space agency chief
Major-General Charles Bolden (NASA)Maj-Gen Bolden flew four times on the space shuttle.
President Barack Obama has chosen retired astronaut Charles Bolden to lead NASA, ending months of speculation about the position.
Lori Garver, a former NASA official and space adviser to the Obama campaign, was named as his deputy. Both positions require US Senate confirmation.
If confirmed, Maj-Gen Bolden, 62, would be only the second astronaut to lead NASA during its 50-year history.
Vice-Adm Richard Truly, who ran NASA from 1989-1992, was the first.
"He's a real leader," George Abbey, a former head of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, and friend of the major-general, told the Associated Press news agency.
"NASA has been looking for a leader like this that they could have confidence in."
Challenges
Maj-Gen Bolden grew up in segregated South Carolina and flew on more than 100 combat sorties in Vietnam.
He joined NASA in 1980 and is a veteran of four space shuttle flights, commanding the mission that launched the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit in 1990.
Maj-Gen Bolden inherits the space agency at a critical time, when it faces significant challenges amid budgetary constraints.
In 2004, President George W Bush instigated ambitious plans to return astronauts to the Moon by 2020, necessitating the replacement of the shuttle by a new space vehicle.
However, the new Ares-Orion vehicle is not expected to be ready until at least 2015.
So for five years after the shuttle's retirement in 2010, American astronauts will be dependent on Russia to fly them into orbit on their space capsule, Soyuz.
The Ares rocket system being developed to loft the shuttle's replacement into orbit has also come under fire. Critics say alternative launchers could be built faster and more cheaply.
In addition, some of NASA's biggest science programs are over-budget.
This month, the White House ordered a sweeping independent review of NASA's manned spaceflight strategy.
Earlier this year, retired Air Force General Scott Gration was said to be favored for the position of NASA administrator. However, his bid reportedly ran into opposition on Capitol Hill.
In April, the previous NASA chief, Dr Michael Griffin, joined the University of Alabama in Huntsville as a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Man Charged With Throwing Baby Out of Car Window
By Associated Press May 6, 2009 8:41 am
A 21-year-old man was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday after police said he snatched up his ex-girlfriend’s 3-month-old son during a fight and then threw the baby from his car on an interstate highway.
The child’s lifeless body was found near Interstate 275 north of downtown Tampa early Tuesday. The man, Richard A. McTear Jr., was captured several hours later. Deputies said he is not the child’s father.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said McTear was arguing with his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend, Jasmine Bedwell, at her apartment when he began beating her and the child. She reported that McTear threw her son, Emanuel Wesley Murray, down on the concrete, then picked him up and fled in his Chevrolet Impala.
Jason Bird, a news photographer for WTVT-TV in Tampa, spotted the baby’s body on his way to work at about 4:30 a.m.
“On the side of the road, I saw something out of the corner of my eye and at first I thought it was a baby doll, and then as I was thinking about it more I thought that was awfully big for a doll,” Bird said in an interview on the station.
He turned around and went back to take another look.
“It was laying there with its eyes open,” he said. “I couldn’t look at it. It freaked me out, but fortunately law enforcement came right away.”
“It’s hard to find words to describe why someone would do this to a poor, defenseless child,” sheriff’s Maj. Harold Winsett told reporters at the scene.
Deputies located McTear’s car at his home. Witnesses told deputies where he could be found, and he was arrested about four hours later after a foot chase.
McTear also was charged with burglary with a battery, felony battery, aggravated child abuse and kidnapping, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Debbie Carter.
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Rear Admiral Michelle Howard
Task force commander has busy first week
Rear Adm. Michelle Howard took command of the Navy’s counterpiracy task force with incredible timing:
Within three days of her April 5 turnover with outgoing Rear Adm. Terry McKnight, Somali pirates attacked the U.S.-flagged cargo ship Maersk Alabama and took its captain hostage.
Howard said she expected to be handed a full plate.
“It was full before I got here. I just got a little more exciting,” she said in a telephone interview from the amphibious assault ship Boxer. “It’s probably one of the most exciting missions the Navy has been on in for a long while.”
While some call for more aggressive action against pirates pending some international solution ashore, Howard said the mission of Combined Task Force 151 will remain deterring and disrupting piracy off the Horn of Africa.
“Right now, the policy is, fight piracy, and I am all about that policy,” she said. “We are quite capable of staying out here and doing this mission.”
CTF 151 operates with U.S. warships deployed to the area as well as those sent from allied nations. Naval forces from Russia, China and Korea have also deployed to the area to protect civilian merchant ships from those nations.
She said she has been impressed with the naval cooperation in the region. “We don’t ordinarily work with Russia and China.”
Howard has been in the news before. In 1999, she became the first African-American woman to command a U.S. Navy ship, the dock landing ship Rushmore.
Medical Prodigy
African American youth 14-year-old comes up with new way to sew up patients
The Flordia Times Union
Submitted by Stanley Scott on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 09:49
He will present his findings today to the medical community.
A Jacksonville researcher has developed a way of sewing up patients after hysterectomies that stands t;o reduce the risk of complications and simplify the tricky procedure for less-seasoned surgeons.
Oh, and he's 14 years old.
Feel free to read that again.
Tony Hansberry II is a ninth-grader who, as it happens, will be presenting his findings today before an auditorium filled with doctors just like any of his board-certified - and decades older - colleagues would. He would say he was following in the footsteps of "Doogie Howser, M.D." - if he weren't too young to have heard of the television show.
Instead, he says that his remarkable accomplishments are merely steps toward his ultimate goal of becoming a University of Florida-trained neurosurgeon.
"I just want to help people and be respected, knowing that I can save lives," said Tony, the son of a registered nurse mom and an African Methodist Episcopal church pastor dad.
To be sure, he had some help along the way, but, then again, most researchers do. The seeds of his project were planted last summer during his internship at the University of Florida's Center for Simulation Education and Safety Research, based at Shands Jacksonville.
To understand why a teenager would be a hospital intern, it's important to know that Tony is a student down the street from Shands at Darnell-Cookman Middle/High School, a magnet school geared toward all things medical. (Students, for example, master suturing by the eighth grade.)
At the simulation center, where medical residents and nurses practice on dummies, the normally shy student warmed up to the center's administrative director, Bruce Nappi. In turn, Nappi, a problem-solver with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology aeronautics degree, found someone willing to learn.
One day, an obstetrics and gynecology professor asked the pair to help him figure out why no one was using a handy device that looks like a dipstick with clamps at the end, called an endo stitch, for sewing up hysterectomy patients. In other procedures, it proved its worth for its ability to grip pieces of thread and maneuverability.
What Tony did next is so complicated that the professor who suggested the project has to resort to a metaphor to explain it: "Instead of buttoning your shirt side to side, what about doing it up and down?" Brent Seibel said.
Here's the literal explanation: The problem was that the endo stitch couldn't clamp down properly to close the tube where the patient's uterus had been. Tony figured that by suturing the tube vertically instead of horizontally, it could be done. And he was right.
Nappi said he came up with the idea but didn't tell Tony, letting him come to the conclusion himself.
"It was truly independent that he figured it out," Nappi said, adding that a representative for the device's manufacturer told him that the endo stitch had never been used for that purpose.
Tony's unpracticed hands were able to stitch three times faster with the endo stitch vs. the conventional needle driver. Further study may prove whether the same is true for more experienced surgeons, Seibel said.
In addition to cutting surgical time, the technique may help surgeons who don't do many hysterectomies because it's easier to use the endo stitch, he added.
Tony's presentation today is part of UF's medical education week, a time to spotlight teaching advancements, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Tony often speaks in the highly technical, dispassionate language of doctors. In that respect, he's not the exception but the rule at Darnell-Cookman, said Angela TenBroeck, the school's medical lead teacher. But he has surged ahead of others when it comes to surgical skills.
"I would put him up against a first-year med student," she said. "He's an outstanding young man, and I'm proud to have him representing us."
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Obsessed
Derek Charles, a successful asset manager who has just received a huge promotion, is blissfully happy in his career and in his marriage to the beautiful Beth. But when Lisa, a temp worker, starts stalking Derek, everything he's worked for, is placed in jeopardy. The new movie, Obsessed, starring Beyonce Knowles and Ali Larter starts Friday, April 24, 2009, at Detroit area theaters. For an advance midnight showing see the Phoenix Theatres West River Centre, 30170 Grand River Avenue, Farmington Hills, MI, MI 48336. Click HERE for local showings, times, and tickets.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Majora Carter: Greening the ghetto
About this talk
In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and shows how minority neighborhood suffer most from flawed urban policy.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
A world of fading light and sound
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Rebecca, 30, has a rare genetic disorder called Usher syndrome, type III. It is among the cruelest of disorders -- progressively stealing normal life away from roughly 16,000 people nationwide. And, currently, there is no treatment or cure. Rebecca lives courageously each day with the hope that a cure will be found before it's too late."
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
White House Watermelon Email From California Mayor Dean Grose Inspires Outrage
The mayor of Los Alamitos is coming under fire for an e-mail he sent out that depicts the White House lawn planted with watermelons, under the title "No Easter egg hunt this year."
Local businesswoman and city volunteer Keyanus Price, who is black, said Tuesday she received the e-mail from Mayor Dean Grose's personal account on Sunday and wants a public apology.
"I have had plenty of my share of chicken and watermelon and all those kinds of jokes," Price told The Associated Press. "I honestly don't even understand where he was coming from, sending this to me. As a black person receiving something like this from the city-freakin'-mayor - come on."
The Orange County Register first reported the e-mail on its Web site Tuesday night.
Grose confirmed to the AP that he sent the e-mail to Price and said he didn't mean to offend her. He said he was unaware of the racial stereotype that black people like watermelons.
He said he and Price are friends and serve together on a community youth board.
"Bottom line is, we laugh at things and I didn't see this in the same light that she did," Grose told the AP. "I'm sorry. It wasn't sent to offend her personally - or anyone - from the standpoint of the African-American race."
Grose, who became mayor in December, said he sent an apology e-mail to Price and her boss and also left her a voicemail apology.
Regardless, Price said it will be difficult for the two to work together.
"Now I am like - wow, is this really how he feels?" Price said.
Los Alamitos is a 2¼-square-mile Orange County city of around 12,000 people. The mayor is elected by fellow members of the five-seat City Council.
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When first exposed to this stereotype as a child, I was actually ashamed to eat watermelon in public places where Whites might see my eating. Stupid, stupid, stupid... and ignorant to the fact (which I soon learned) that people everywhere love watermelon and this is a stereotype that is racist in portraying Blacks and watermelon.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Suspect Transforms
Nigeria police hold 'robber' goatBut another police spokesman told the BBC the goat was being held in case its owner claimed it.
The belief in witchcraft and the power to change shapes is common in Nigeria.
Police reform activists have condemned the "arrest", saying it highlights the low education levels of many Nigerian police officers.
Nigeria's Vanguard newspaper has a picture of the goat and reports that police paraded it in front of journalists in the Kwara state capital Ilorin on Thursday.
But this was denied by national police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu.
"The vigilante group arrested the goat and took it to the police, then they told the media."
The next morning journalists turned up demanding to see the goat, he said.
"But of course goats can't commit crime."
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Oakland, Ca Fruitvale Bart Station Shooting. Full Video and Interview with Karina Vargas
Video and eyewitness evidence that Oakland police murder unarmed restrained Black father, by shooting Oscar Grant in back of his head. Click HERE for K-TVU video report. Click HERE for Oscar Grant funeral video.
On New Year's Eve, Oscar Grant was shot execution-style by a transit police officer in Oakland, California. He was shot in the back while face-down on a subway platform, unarmed and posing no threat.1,2
Twelve days later--despite several videos showing what happened--the officer who killed Grant hasn't been arrested, charged, or even questioned. He quit the force and has refused to speak. The District Attorney has done nothing.
It's time to demand that California Attorney General Jerry Brown take over the case and arrest Grant's killer, and to ask that the US Department of Justice launch an independent investigation into the conduct of the local authorities. Please join us and ask your friends and family to do the same:
http://www.colorofchange.org/oscar/?id=2487-195325
Oscar Grant is the third man murdered by BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police in the past 17 years. All three victims were Black and none posed a serious threat. In each case, BART and county authorities have failed to hold the officers accountable.3
In the previous cases, BART's internal investigations concluded that the officers felt threatened by the victims and were justified in pulling the trigger. It's unbelievable given the circumstances of the killings:
- In 1992, 19-year-old Jerrold Hall was shot in the back by a BART officer as he tried to leave the parking lot of a station. The officer was responding to reports of an armed robbery and said he suspected that Hall and a friend were involved. The officer tried to detain the two, Hall ran and then the officer shot him in the back and killed him. Hall was unarmed, but the officer said he thought Hall was on his way to get a gun and return for a showdown.4
- In 2001, a mentally ill man named Bruce Seward was the next victim of the rogue force. Seward, 42, was naked and had been sleeping on a bench outside the BART station when an officer approached him. Seward did grab the officer's nightstick at one point, but there were several options for subduing him. Instead, the officer shot and killed him.5
In addition to BART's internal investigation, Alameda County's District Attorney is also investigating Oscar Grant's murder--but the office's record on investigating police killings is horrible too. In both cases just described, the District Attorney bought BART's argument that the officers felt threatened. As a result, the cops were cleared of any wrongdoing.
In the case of Grant's murder, the DA has already let 12 days pass while doing essentially nothing--the officer who killed Grant is able to travel and leave the state, and he's free to talk with other officers and attempt to construct a story to justify his killing of Oscar Grant.
The problem with Alameda County's DA goes beyond BART police murders. In the past two years alone, there have been 11 fatal police shootings in Oakland (not including that of Oscar Grant).6 When asked, the officials at the District Attorney's office could not remember a single case in the last 20 years where an on-duty cop had been charged in a fatal shooting in Alameda County.7 It gives the clear appearance that the District Attorney's office just doesn't have the will to prosecute police crimes.
California's Attorney General needs to step in now and arrest Oscar Grant's murderer. And the US Department of Justice should investigate the failure of the authorities in Alameda County to act. It's the first step towards justice. After that, we will push for systemic changes to create public accountability for BART and other police departments. Creating those structural changes will be a much longer fight, but Oscar Grant's tragic death is a wake-up call that should give us a real chance to help prevent this from happening again.
Please join us in demanding justice, and then ask your family and friends to do the same:
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Notorious- Trailer
Click HERE to see more photos of my "peeps" at the New York movie premier for Notorious.
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