By now many of you are aware of the new sidewalk construction on North Hughes Street. The east side of the street is nearing completion. BlackAmarillo.com would like for you to voice your opinions on the sidewalk project.
Please take time to complete our survey.
Friday April 9, 2010
Come and Share and
Let us say thank you for your
Business and Professional support
Public Reception
5:00 – 6:30
Door is locked at 6:50 p.m.
The Business Program
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Theme: Business Ethics & Image
“Returning the Hand Shake Integrity to Business”
**RSVP: (817-469-9229) or jclewismoss@sbcglobal.net
N. L. Robinson Family Life Center
Mount Olive Baptist Church
301 West Sanford Street
Arlington, Texas 76011
by Dexter Harper
Amarillo began its Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration with the 21st annual MLK celebratory service at St. John Baptist Church.
The theme of the service was ‘Continuing the dream’. The inspirational speaker was Rev. Joe Taylor.
The MLK Community Choir under the direction of Mrs. Jessie Fincher and musician Mr. Sylvania Jeffery brought those in attendance to their feet several times. The singing and songs were both emotional and uplifting.
Elder Elisha Demerson was masterful in his oratory of Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former first lady Laura Bush is defending President Obama’s decision to address the nation’s school children, telling CNN Monday that it is “really important for everyone to respect the President of the United States.”
“I think that there is a place for the President of the United States to talk to school children and encourage school children, and I think there are a lot of people that should do the same,” she told CNN’s Zain Verjee, in an interview set to air Monday on The Situation Room. “And that is encourage their own children to stay in school and to study hard and to try to achieve the dream that they have.”
The former first lady said she believed criticism of the speech had arisen because of the accompanying lesson plans. If parents are opposed to the address, said Bush, “That’s their right. You know that certainly is the right of parents to choose what they want their children to hear in school… (But) I think it’s also really important for everyone to respect the President of the United States.”
Read More CNN - Laura Bush defends Obama school speech
by the cajun boy | gawker.com
Since getting this tip earlier I’ve tried to to examine this objectively from every possible angle, but frankly there is no other conclusion that can be drawn other than this: This is just plain creepy.
The gaffe, if it can even be called that because it appears nearly impossible for this to have been an accident, appears to have been originally caught by the blog, No More Mister Nice Blog. The Times, which later pulled the photo from its story, makes no mention of the Obama girls anywhere in the piece, yet clearly identified them in the photo caption that ran with the story.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS The Obama daughters (above) - Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10 - attended the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. This school year 36 of the city’s school children have been killed.
How the hell does something like this happen, even at the country’s most conservative daily newspaper during a Democratic administration? Are there no humans with active souls, with warm blood pumping through their veins, around to man the ship over there?
Eric Boehlert at Media Matters chewed on this a bit earlier today.
Think about the specifics of today’s case. The Obama children, of course, are not actually mentioned in the news story. But somebody at the WashTimes thought it made perfect sense to insert the image of the underage White House occupants into a story about murdered kids in Chicago.
And no, this was not an example of an unfortunate juxtaposition, where the the Obama girls photo was actually part of another, more innocuous story and because of a layout quirk simply appeared near the murdered-kids story. Instead, the Obama girls photo was specifically selected to accompany the article.
Here’s an interesting side note to the story: Looking though the comments, it appears as though only one Times reader, commenting under the name “jiff,” bothered to express outrage at the use of the photo.
“I am appalled that you put a picture of the President’s children with this article. Please explain the reasoning behind this.”
Say what you want about the politics of former Times editor-in-chief Wesley Pruden, and he was as radically conservative as they come, but I doubt there’s any way horseshit like this would’ve happened under his watch.
Acknowledging that “tough times for America often mean tougher times for African-Americans,” US President Barack Obama called for more local and national engagement by fellow blacks.
“You know that tough times for America often mean tougher times for African Americans. This recession has been no exception,” Obama told the 10th annual “State of the Black Union” gathering, noting that the unemployment rate among African-Americans is five points higher than the national average.
“At the same time, we know that government cannot and will not succeed alone. It will take all of us stepping up and doing our part. It will take the commitment of parents and teachers and community leaders. It will take a renewed faith in our common purpose and common values.”
Pastors hope Obama will become member
by Manya A. Brachear | Chicago Tribune
Frederick Douglass once worshiped in the fifth pew on the 16th Street side of Metropolitan AME Church. President Bill Clinton prayed in the front pew before both of his inaugurations.
Come January, members hope President-elect Barack Obama and his family pick a pew at the historic black church located walking distance from the White House.
“When our forefathers established this church, it was intentionally placed six blocks from the White House, close to the seat of power,” said Tony Hawkins, a member since 1991. “We would expect him to pay us a visit some time in the next four to eight years. If he decided to make us his church in the city, we would be honored.”
Metropolitan AME is not the only congregation willing to roll out the red carpet—and metal detectors—for the First Family and its entourage. Elsewhere, the choir at Shiloh Baptist Church has already begun arranging hymns for a January worship service marking Obama’s inauguration and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.
And earlier this week, the United Church of Christ invited Obama to shop for a church within the denomination he has called home for more than 20 years.
Across town from the White House, Rev. Graylan Hagler, pastor of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, is taking a more laid-back approach.
“From our perspective, there’s enough pressure on President-elect Obama and his family at this point,” he said. “What they really need . . . is the luxury and leisure of making that decision on their own.”
But following the controversy over Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, where Obama became a Christian more than 20 years ago, the new president’s anticipated choice of a spiritual haven in Washington is a public affair, whether he likes it or not.
Read More: Seeking a spiritual home in D.C.
The Power of their Example
by: Hassan Al-Haifi | Yemen Times
It is indeed with great honor that this observer must concede to the greatness of the American people, not so much because they are the great power that they possess, but because they have shown that they can correct the course that their misguided leaders have taken them. In the most difficult of times, Mr. Barack Obama comes to the forefront, to indeed take his country to the prominence it deserves and to fully confirm that the United States is indeed a shining hope of opportunity for all people who strive diligently to reach the limits that their intellects can take them. That does not happen so easily, nor does it come by luck. On the contrary, it takes a number of elements to come together at one particular slate of time to move the synergies that are needed for the time to be seized.
The election of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States could not have come at a better time, not just for the United States, but for the world at large as well. One should not expect miracles to arise because of this remarkable rise to the most powerful office in the world by a not so long ago unknown young man, who had faith in his own ability, faith in the ability of his fellow men to bring about the change that his country needed after some of its leaders have failed to steer it properly, or rather actually misguided its course and with that brought on so much unneeded havoc in a world that has so much challenge to confront. What Barack Obama will bring to the United States is the inspiration that will energize the American people to harness their energy to get their economy back on a sound footing and to get their leadership position in its proper context.
This observer recalls the time that he spent in the United States, when the country also underwent a remarkable transition and it was a transition that was triggered by the youth of the country. It was a transition also powered by an unwanted war, where American young men were sent out to a war that really was out of their league and one of its casualties was one of the aspirants to the office that that destiny has allocated for Mr. Obama. It was indeed a tumultuous period when the civil rights movement was going full throttle and many of its advocates were either shot dead by loonies or by a mysterious conspiracy that sought to stop progress. It was the time when two great black Americans gave their lives for the cause of liberating their people from 400 years of slavery, oppression and injustice, not to mention the ungodly bigotry and unforgivable hatred that is symbolized by the separate bathrooms for different colored people, segregated schools, and other ugly signs of the apartheid that discolored the image that the founders of the United States intended for their newly established regime born after independence from the British Crown. Yes, it is not easy to forget the cold blooded murder of Dr. Martin Luther King and Malik El-Shabbat (Malcolm X), both of whom sought in their own way the liberation of their brethren. We, as Moslems can relate to the latter in that he has elected to embrace our faith, because he found in Islam the brotherhood that can heal the animosity that can be embedded in men’s hearts. He was denied the chance to prove to the world the remarkable brotherhood he found in the Islam he embraced after rejecting the misconceptions of his former teacher Elijah Mohammed, who had corrupted the teachings of Islam and proclaimed himself a prophet.
It is amazing also to note that Barack Obama is a religious hybrid and that could be of paramount significance in heeling some of the rift that has arisen between Christians and Moslems, which is partially the result of our own doing and the doings of those, who still hold a strong Crusader mentality that Islam is not a Divinely inspired religion and thus should be looked upon with disdain.
For now we will congratulate the United States on a great achievement and congratulate Barack Obama for reaching for the maximum of his intellect and proving that indeed, yes he can.
by Tahman Bradley, Rigel Anderson and Arnab Datta | ABC News
While Sen. Barack Obama’s late grandmother Madelyn Dunham will not live to see the outcome of this historic election, her 2008 vote will count.
Hawaii Chief Elections Officer Kevin Cronin told ABC News this evening that the absentee ballot cast by Dunham before she passed away will count. Cronin said Dunham’s absentee ballot was received on October 27 and found to meet the requirements of a valid absentee ballot and will therefore be counted with the rest of the state’s ballots tomorrow.
Obama learned that his grandmother lost her battle with cancer early Monday. She was 86.
