We just learned that the Raiders owner, Al Davis, is dead. Developing… The Oakland Raiders website published an obituary for Mr. Davis, An unyielding total commitment to excellence has marked the three-time World Champion Raiders monumental rise during the last 48 years to the very top of the professional sports world. In these memorable 48 […]
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a heavyweight of the Civil Rights Movement died today. The New York Times reports, The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a storied civil rights leader who survived beatings and bombings in Alabama a half-century ago as he fought against racial injustice alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died on Wednesday in […]
Steve Jobs was a prophet of that uniquely American genius, the Creative Entrepreneur – something no one can copy, no one can outsource, no banker can hire – a visionary who created a movement that changed generations through painstaking tenacity – even after he was fired in 1985 from the company he founded for thinking […]
The America we’ve dreamed of is not the America we’ve become. Many of the young people who are occupying Liberty Plaza in lower Manhattan, protesting the money grab from the rich and the corporate control of our government, have inspired me to amplify their message as loud as I can. The people in this country […]
Today I will join in solidarity the peaceful protesters at Liberty Plaza in New York City who are “Occupying Wall Street.” For far too long in this country we have allowed the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer. I believe in a nation where everyone gets a fair share of the […]
11:08. 11:08PM. 11:08PM EST, September 21st, 2011 was the moment that America lost a piece of her soul. Tonight America lost more of her innocence when she injected Troy Davis with a lethal drug cocktail that took his life for the belief that he was the person who murdered police officer, Mark MacPhail. Before I […]
Our system of justice is SUPPOSED to convict a citizen when there is beyond a reasonable doubt. Especially when it comes to the brutal business of the government taking a man’s life. A man, a black American man, Troy Davis, is about to be killed in Georgia, today, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 7:00 pm […]
I’ve been in the beautiful city of Hong Kong for almost a week now. I am here to raise money for the Diamond Empowerment Fund (DEF), my non-profit organization which is dedicated to supporting the empowerment of African youth. The event I’m here for, Diamonds in Sky: Hong Kong is already off to an amazing start! […]
As we approach the anniversary of 9/11, this evening we have been told of a “credible” terror threat for New York City and Washington DC. The White House released information tonight that there they are looking for three people who might be plotting a car bombing with a rented truck. The New York Daily News, […]
Obama laid out his case to the people and his challenge to Congress in his jobs speech this evening. Many in politics might want to argue out their differences at the ballot box, but that’s fourteen months away. The President said what the users of my Rushcard tell us every day – the American people […]
The first time I saw Chaz Bono she went by the name Chastity and I was moving into her mother, Cher’s, house in New York’s Greenwich Village as her mother was moving out. Chas (as she was known as then) had long blonde hair, was in a band and looked like a pretty young woman. […]
I am saddened, but not surprised, that the forces that strive to keep us divided have silenced a vital dialogue in a Synagogue in West Hampton, NY in which Reverend Al Sharpton and Rabbi Marc Schneier of the Foundation For Ethnic Understanding strove to bridge a deeply troubled part in America’s past, the Crown Heights […]