This week I visited Capri’s Bar and Restaurante in East Liberty, Questions Night Club in the Strip District, Krobar Night Club in the Strip District and the Shadow Lounge in East Liberty. My first stop was the Shadow Lounge where I met with hip-hop artists “The Finest.” They were showing support to “Weapons of Mass Productions” by Boka. Folks came out to this event to show their skills in the studio lab and compete for cash money. Hollywood actor Ving Rhames and friends chilling at Krobar Night Club in the Strip District for Snoop Dogg’s concert.
They said it couldn’t be done. It wasn’t possible. Nobody’d done it, and you weren’t going to be the first. Try all you want, it ain’t happenin.’ That’s what they all said, and they were wrong.
Thursday 24 Part Three The Carnegie Museum of Art presents “Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project, Part Three” from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. It features photographs selected by a guest curator, Charles A. “Little Teenie” Harris, the oldest son of “Teenie” Harris. Harris has selected images by his father that have never before been viewed by the public, in addition to other well-known favorites. The 184 photographs have been divided into the following themes: landmarks, celebrities, children, family, occupations, politics, protests, social, sports and weddings and religious events. In addition to the images selected, the exhibition features the 50 winning photographs from the “One Shot” Teenie Harris Photo Contest. The exhibit will run to Jan. 31, 2010. For more information, call 412-622-3131.
by Talibah Chikwen (NNPA) - People from across the county flowed into the west end of the National Mall, in front of the Capital Building, on Sept. 12 in a march organized by Freedomworks, Tea Party Express and several other groups. The goal of the march seemed to be determined by who was speaking at the time. Brenden Steinhauser, grassroots director of Freedomworks, a group headed by former Congressman Dick Armey, said the message of the march was, "Big government isn't popular, whether it's done by Republicans or Democrats. Demostrators holds up banners during the taxpayer rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington Sept. 12. Thousands of fiscal conservatives have packed streets in the nationís capital to protest what they consider the federal governmentís out-of-control spending.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA)—The line is drawn. The Congressional Black Caucus has pledged to kill any House health care bill that doesn’t include a robust public option. Organizational members of the Black Leadership Forum are rolling out an array of grass roots campaigns in support of passing health care reform overall. CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED—NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous and Marc Morial, BLF chair and National Urban League president, have launched a grass roots campaign to push for health care. CBC Chair Barbara Lee, D-Calif., far left, says bill will likely fail without public option. “All of us combined, the organizations who make up the Black Leadership Forum, are going to begin a series of efforts across the nation—in our neighborhoods, in our churches, in our communities to pass comprehensive health care reform,” said National Urban League President Marc Morial, also chair of the 34-member BLF. “This effort is going to be far ranging. It’s not the kind of effort where we have a big sack of money to buy television commercials. But it is an effort that is going to appeal to people’s hearts and minds."
LOS ANGELES (NNPA)—The NNPA, the Black Press of America, has announced that it will not hold its mid-winter conference in South Carolina scheduled for January 2010. The organization of more than 200 Black-owned newspapers is joining the NAACP economic boycott of the state that has been in effect since July 1999 when the South Carolina NAACP called for it as a protest of the Confederate flag—a symbol of racial hatred—atop the State House and inside the House and Senate chambers. The boycott, still in effect, calls on groups and individuals to avoid traveling to the state for business or pleasure and discourages residents from visiting South Carolina beaches or patronizing restaurants and motels. DANNY BAKEWELL SR.
(NNPA)—Four men who committed three hate crime assaults in response to President Barack Obama’s election victory have been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Carol B. Amon in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y. Ralph Nicoletti, 19, was sentenced to 108 months in prison; Bryan Garaventa, 18, was sentenced to 60 months; Michael Contreras, 19, was sentenced to 55 months; and Brian Carranza, 21, was sentenced to 70 months. The sentencing was Sept. 11.
Week of September 17-23 September 17 1787—The United States Constitution is approved but it includes three clauses allowing for the continuation of slavery even though it was supposed to be a document of freedom. 1861—Hampton Institute (now a university) is founded. It has become one of the nation’s leading predominately Black educational institutions.
Drama, catfights, chaos and just plain foolishness are a few of the things you’ll see on this season’s episodes of “the Real Housewives of Atlanta.” But it is those things that are the perfect ingredients to a successful reality television show and keeps America coming back for more. The cast of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” Season two of the housewives welcomes back NeNe Leakes, Sheree Whitfield, Kim Zolciak, Lisa Wu Hartwell and newcomer Kandi Burruss. Like last season, which was the most watched show on the Bravo network, the women try juggling their family and business ventures all while trying to make it on the hot Atlanta social scene.
