At the September meeting of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, Baltimore City State’s Attorney, Patricia Jessamy, made the case for her re-election. Touting her years of experience and multi-faceted approach for engaging crime in Baltimore, Jessamy criticized her challenger in the race, Gregg Bernstein, by saying, “he doesn’t think a prosecutor’s office should have anything...
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Posted in African American Christian, Africans in America, Clergy, Culture, Freedom!, Gregg Bernstein, Maryland, Patricia Jessamy, Police, Politicians, Politics, Social Justice, State of Black America, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, White folks, baltimore, baltimore politics, black baltimore, civil rights, martin o'malley | 1 Comment »
It’s election season in Baltimore so that means incumbents are making their rounds attempting to remind people how good life is with them in office and hopeful newbies are hitting the pavement making the case as to why they should be catapulted to political office. Admittedly, I am a bit disenchanted with electoral politics...
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Tags: 43 District, baltimore, Curt Anderson, election, Jill Carter, Joan Carter Conway, Maggie McIntosh, Mary Washington, Rodney Burris, State Delegate
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Ask most people about the “civil rights” movement and you’re likely to eventually hear the names of men woven into their response. Without proper perspective, one could grow up in this country believing that the fight for “civil rights” was led, organized, and executed solely by men. Deeper study, however, will reveal that in...
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Tags: Barbara Ransby, Black Freedom, Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Ella Baker, Jr., NAACP, SCLC, Self-determination, SNCC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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When you take a nearly 90% African American student population and you willfully ignore their culture while subjecting them to a European-American educational setting you set them up for psychological enslavement. The African student population is not permitted to engage in the process of knowing themselves, the story of their people on the map...
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Tags: African American Self Determination, African Educational Pedagogy, Andres Alonso, Asa Hillard, Baltimore City Public School System, Baltimore City School Board, Black Student Achievement, Carter G. Woodson, Governor Martin O'Malley, Jawanza Kunjufu, Jewish Schools in Baltimore, Kill Them Before They Grow, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Naim Akbar, Paulo Friere, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Ray Winbush
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In C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence Mamiya’s classic work on the Black Church, they rightly describe the character and nature of the “Black sacred cosmos.” Much more than just casual weekend activity or flippant denominational recognition; Christianity for practicing African Americans is so interwoven into personal and social identity that it’s hard just to...
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Tags: Black Church, Christian Zionism, Christians United for Israel, CUFI, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, John Hagee, Palestine, Zionism
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SOURCE: NPR Legendary civil rights leader Dr. Dorothy Height, who spent most of her life battling for the empowerment of women and African Americans, died Tuesday. She was 98. A winner of the Congressional Gold Medal, Height had the ear of U.S. presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama. In 1963, she was the...
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Tags: civil rights, Council of Negro Women, Dorothy Height
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for their upcoming edition entitled “Separate Lives: Why Baltimoreans Don’t Mix, and What We Can Do About It.” They are partnering with Open Society Institute (OSI) on this being as though OSI has spent about half this year rolling out their Talking About Race Series. I was only allowed to submit 300 words max...
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As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, one of the books I’m reading these days is entitled Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of our Daily Choices by Julie Clawson. It’s a book that has sensitized me to how some of my lifestyle choices – as innocent as they seem – have an adverse impact...
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Tags: African American community, Clark Atlanta, copenhagen, Environmental Justice, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental racism, EPA, landfill, paper plates, plastic forks, pollution, United Nations, washing dishes, waste
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After six days of deliberation, the jury in the corruption case against Mayor Sheila Dixon (Baltimore, MD) came to a decision today. They found Mayor Dixon guilty on one out of five counts against her. She was found guilty of taking gift cards intended to be given to “the city’s poor.” This according to...
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Photo Credit: static.guim.co.uk Good Morning Delegate Haynes, I pray this email finds you and your family well. I’m writing because I just finished reading an article in today’s Baltimore Sun by Julie Bykowicz entitled, “Maryland Detention Center Plans Move Forward” which details how the state is prepared to spend $100 million dollars to build...
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