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Black History: 390 Years Of "Yes We Can" Pt. 1

Black History: 390 Years Of

Much like Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama is a man for all people. He is humble yet confident; he is gracious yet firm; and he is a peacemaker in every situation. People from every continent love him. He has been called a cultural icon, bringing hope where there is none. His election to the highest office in the world is an historic achievement that many of us thought would never happen. Thousands of martyrs have sacrificed, marched, protested, fought and died for equal rights in America, paving the way for Obama or anyone else daring to push the limits of success. It is on the shoulders of those giants that Barack Obama stands. The journey has been long for Barack, and even longer for BlackAmericans as a whole. What began on a hot day on the West Coast of Africa some four centuries ago in packed-to-capacity slave ships,... Read more

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Black Pilot to Create Classroom in the Sky

Black Pilot to Create Classroom in the Sky

    Barrington Irving was the youngest and the first black pilot to fly solo around the globe. In high school, Barrington Irving was a football star who never dared to imagine a career in aviation until he met a United Airlines pilot who asked him if he'd ever considered flying. A few years later he was in college on a full scholarship, studying aeronautical engineering. By age 23 Irving, born in Jamaica and raised in inner-city Miami, had become the youngest and first black person to fly solo around the globe. Now Irving is 28, and his goals today have less to do with breaking records and more to do with giving students interested in aeronautics careers the same opportunities that propelled his achievements. At Experience Aviation Learning Center, which Irving founded while he was still in college, middle and high school students learn about aviation and aerospace through simulators, participation in hands-on... Read more

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Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera sing tributes at Etta James' funeral

Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera sing tributes at Etta James' funeral

Mourners pass by Etta James’ casket during her funeral at City of Refuge Church in Gardena. President Obama said she will be remembered “for her legendary voice and for her many contributions to our nation’s musical heritage.”   Pioneering R&B singer Etta James was saluted at her funeral service Saturday by fellow musicians, including Stevie Wonder and Christina Aguilera, and eulogized by the Rev. Al Sharpton as an artist who not only "changed the world of music [but] the cultural paradigm of the United States."Best known for the rapturous joy or primal ache she brought to ballads of love and heartbreak such as "At Last," "I'd Rather Go Blind" and "All I Could Do Was Cry," James, who died Jan. 20 at age 73, also was lauded for overcoming adversity and persevering long enough to see a career renaissance that included multiple Grammy Awards, induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of... Read more

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Allen West To Liberals: Get the Hell Out Of The U.S.

Allen West To Liberals: Get the Hell Out Of The U.S.

  Speaking to a Lincoln Day Dinner in West Palm Beach for the Palm Beach County GOP, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla) fired off a humdinger of a line that within minutes drew recriminations from Democrats on Twitter. "We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, (audience boos) and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain't on the table," West said. "Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America." Following cheers, West added, "Yeah I said 'hell.'" Moments after the quote was mentioned on Twitter,... Read more

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Who is Saul Alinsky, and why is Newt Gingrich so obsessed with him?

Who is Saul Alinsky, and why is Newt Gingrich so obsessed with him?

Saul Alinsky   Wherever Newt Gingrich goes these days – stumping in Florida, arguing on televised debates with fellow Republican presidential hopefuls, jotting down notes for his umpteenth book – he carries with him a scary but useful ghost: Saul Alinsky. The radical community organizer (gone now these 40 years) is the specter on which Barack Obama has modeled his life, Gingrich warns. It’s no coincidence, he says, that both Alinsky and Obama were from Chicago or that the President passed up far more lucrative possibilities to become … a community organizer. “The centerpiece of this campaign, I believe, is American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of Saul Alinsky,” Gingrich said in his South Carolina primary victory speech, a charge he finds constant ways to repeat. "Saul Alinsky radicalism is at the heart of Obama,” he said on CNN. So who was Saul Alinsky?       Born in Chicago in 1909 to Russian immigrant parents, Alinsky worked his way... Read more

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Quotes to Remember

   Low aim, not failure, is a sin."  - Dr. Benjamin Mays

 

  "Prepare, Pursue, Perform, and Prevail."- Dr. Benjamin Mays

 

 "We do not have to be victims of circumstance." - Kweisi Mfume

 

 "Our past choices are what have brought us our Today. Today's choices are what will bring us our Tomorrows" - Dr. Ben Carson

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