My brother on BET’s Celebration of Gospel
(I lowered my weapons aimed at BET for 1 minute and 25 seconds for this.)
(For my Feedburner Family click here to view the video)
Video done? Good. Truce over.
Archive for January 19th, 2008
Waiting for the day when MURDER is played out
The murders in this town must stop! I could actually feel stress and grief gripping my heart this week as I tried to offer support to the family of Zachariah Hallback - the 18 year old Algebra Project student who was murdered last week on the corner of The Alameda and 33rd while waiting for a bus at 8pm. Zach’s Homegoing Service was today at Israel Baptist Church and his mother informed me that there will be a prayer vigil for her son this Monday - MLK, Jr. Day at 6pm on the corner where he was killed.
Concerned Baltimoreans are also mourning the loss of 14-year-old Edward Smith gunned down in Cherry Hill. Smith was a student at the ConneXions Community Leadership Academy. The circumstances involving his murder are yet unclear, but I think that it was truly insensitive on The Baltimore Sun’s part to publish information concerning Smith’s history with the Department of Social Services. Is that supposed to be some type of justification for this child’s death?
Baltimore Sun: Whatever happened to Rev. Vernon Dobson?
Baltimore Sun
January 19, 2008
The Rev. Vernon N. Dobson, who played a pivotal role in the struggle for civil rights in Baltimore during the 1950s and 1960s, first came to historic Union Baptist Church as assistant pastor in 1958, and then was pastor for 39 years, until retiring last year. “I’m doing a little writing now, and I still preach at different churches several times a month,” said Dobson, 84, the other day. He said he keeps busy with a number of organizations, including BUILD - Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development - a church-based social action group, of which he was a founder.”
Dobson was a friend of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights heavyweights, such as Ralph Abernathy, Jesse Jackson, and Andrew Young. “Whenever Martin came to Baltimore, he’d visit Metropolitan, Douglass Memorial and Union Baptist Church, and we marched together,” Dobson recalled. “I remember when we marched from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, we had thousands of people, and I never saw so many cracker cops in my life.
YouTube Delivers the Smackdown
I was so excited when I got my IMac because I knew that I could begin taping interesting programs on TV with my VCR/DVD recorder and then upload them for public consumption. I have so many DVDs lined up and ready to be uploaded to my youtube page. One of the programs that I was excited about getting online was the BET Interview with presidential hopeful - Barack Obama. The show was entitled “What’s in it for us?”
I burned it, uploaded it, and in a matter of 2 days I had hundreds of viewers to the show and one request that I upload part two of the program. I did and then it happened.
YouTube got a tap on the shoulder from Viacom and sent me the following email:
