Old School Viewpoint
On July 14, Crossroads Charlotte will launch Know It 2 Work It (KIWI) an education and outreach effort that will equip Charlotte-area residents with tools and knowledge to become more effective grassroots organizers, community advocates and participants in the governmental decision-making process in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. It’s Time To Get Real [My Viewpoint] Know It 2 Work […]
During a closing monologue for his HBO show “Real Time,” Bill Maher stated in his typical sarcastic fashion that, “If you’re a Christian who supports killing your enemies and torture, you have to come up with a new name for yourself.” Ouch. Maher is a self-proclaimed atheist who is ruthlessly efficient at using comedy to […]
BY: CARLITO RODRIGUEZ “They got him, yo. They got Bin Laden.” That’s how I heard. Unlike other hip-hop journo cum Twitter pundits whose daily grind requires them to keep eyes glued to the tube (“flatscreen” just doesn’t do it for me, sorry) while thumb-typing their way into relevance at 140 characters a minute, my May […]
What started off as a normal day would turn into something completely different not only for me but the entire Shaw family on April 16. My day started with a meeting with our sorority graduate chapter at the graduate house only minutes from school. What I thought would be a rather long meeting, turned into […]
In my usual Facebook prowl for website content, I happened upon this post from a Facebook friend. It seemed interesting; so, I clicked the link and began reading. I was pleasantly surprised at what I read. The article is by Richelle Ransom, a Florida A&M graduate who was competing for a spot on Oprah’s Your […]
Consider these statistics from the Pew Research Center Report, “Marrying Out”: The rates of interracial marriages among newlyweds more than doubled between 1980 (6.7%) and 2008 (14.6%) in the United States. 9% of whites, 16% of blacks, 26% of Hispanics and 31% of Asians married someone of a different race or ethnicity. Intermarriages comprised 11% of newlywed couples in North Carolina compared to 22% in […]
Alabama is one of the Civil Right’s Movements most important geographic symbols. In the struggle for Voting Rights in the South, John Lewis and about 600 marchers were beaten and tear-gassed by police, as they attempted to walk from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama on March 7, 1965, a date that has come to be known […]
As I was doing my daily reading, I ran across this post – P. Diddy “I Just Want the President to Do Better!” I automatically agreed with P. Diddy, which for me is a big deal (I think Diddy is the dirt in Dirty Money … but that’s a subject for another day). I dug […]
Last week while sitting under the hair dryer at the salon, I listened to two older African American women discuss the state of the black community. They discussed everything from parenting to the current budget issues, with the focus of the entire conversation on how young black women and men are not prepared to be […]
Since reviving and presiding over the Charlotte NAACP in 2009, Kojo Nantambu has insured the venerable Civil Rights organization will remain insignificant in Charlotte. Nantambu has spent much of his presidency screaming racism at any and everyone. His latest target is the entire city of Charlotte, which he calls a bastion of racism. During an […]
“We serve who walks into our office and we don’t even ask what party they belong to.” ~ Gabe Zimmerman, Congresswoman Giffords 30-year-old communications outreach director – Zimmerman one of the victims of the Arizona Shooting on Saturday. Recently, a home-grown terrorist unleashed his fury in Arizona. The terrorist walked up to Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle […]
It’s been a few weeks since Lauryn Hill announced she was going on tour. Immediately fans across the nation began grabbing tickets to Hill’s shows like it was a snow storm coming to Charlotte and there was a shortage of bread and milk. Well, it seems that the snow storm was a fake. Reviews of […]
