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For a More Perfect Union SIFI Schools MPS has 36 SIFI schools hanging in the balance. They are: 13 Elementary and Kindergarten 7 Middle and Middle-High 16 High Schools No Child Left Behind For More, Press Release

Back-2-School CN-CFNBA No Child Left Behind Table Top Meeting Wednesday, August 6, 2008 UW-M Union, 2200 W. Kenwood 6:00pm - 8:00pm Topic: Milwaukee Public Schools Parent Inclusiveness - DIFI/SIFI Status Results Twelve (12) Southeastern Wisconsin professionals An engaging, enlightening and purposeful strategy meeting I. - Quorum 12 Strategists

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The week of August 24, 2008 - August 31, 2008
We love you Yvette, Charles Jr and Ruthie!

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Welcome to www.bdcproundtable.info -
An “Information” Website.

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Neighborhood Strategic Planning

CN-CFNBA Smart Growth 5-Year Signature Plan (2005–2010)

Goal: Linkage of residential, commercial, light industrial, institutional (church-school- social-government) stakeholders in Smart Growth decision making for sustainability. 5-Year Signature Plan

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Our Philosophy

Horton Hears a Who is a Philosophy we have adopted that starts with Maslow’s Hierarchy to build self-sufficiency. We can all be “a Horton”, in fact, we should be if we are all-for-one and one-for-all. Lastly, it is “doing unto others as we would want others to do unto us”.

• Horton Hears a Who Philosophy

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Summer Delicious

Yum Yum

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For our FOOD DISHES page, go to,
TAKE A LOOK

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Infrastructural Challenge

Aids Awareness Ribbon Hear how America outrank Africa in Aids Epidemic. CNN Report

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Today Aids is a major health problem in Milwaukee and the USA for African Americans.

CN-CFNBA will run a series of information for AWARENESS.
We have added in partnership the Black Health Coalition and Milwaukee Health Department for starters, to help ensure that sex without condones is not an option and awareness for aids through use of needles.

We need you to share! Tell a Friend. Tell the Family. Be sure you are embracing and practicing the safe methods.

For more information, go to:
Black Aids Institute

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ESSENCE Magazine

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CN-CFNBA UPDATES

WI State Department of Education Public Hearing

Milwaukee Public Schools DIFI Status

Milwaukee, WI - (June 9, 2008) – Campaign Neighborhood – CFNBA introduced a Parent and Public Media Campaign for the summer (June 16 – August 31) to inform and educate the parents of Milwaukee Public Schools as well as the public about the No Child Left Behind program and status of Milwaukee Public Schools.

The purpose of the campaign is to “call attention to” and “to put MPS parents”“ at the training, communication and decision making table at the national, state and local level.

The media campaign and case study will also address the following:
• Need for Milwaukee Parents at the Head of MPS table of strategic planning, training and decision making
• Need for Milwaukee Parents to be spokespersons to other parents
• Need for Milwaukee Parents advocating for their child (ren) and neighbor’s children
• Need for Milwaukee Parents to be organized “OUTSIDE” of the CONTROL of MPS hired staff
• Need for Charter and Choice parents to have dialog with MPS parents
• Need for ongoing monthly meetings by the board and staff of MPS to work with and give updates of what is being done to change the DIFI status
• Need for a monthly posting of progress - changes, updates and recommendations
• Need for specific training for each parent group for adequate knowledge for decision making
• Need for transparency and ACCESS to Board Members, Superintendent, Catherine Thome, MPS director of district and school improvement, James Davis, CIO, Title 1 staff, and anyone directly related to the DIFI improvement.
• Need for WI State Department to hold quarterly meetings for follow-up
• Need for WI State Department to provide leadership for training of parents
• Need for WI State Department to send out a communication to ALL MPS parents letting them know of the two Milwaukee meetings – what was shared and when to expect the next meeting.
• Need for WI State Department (local representatives) to hold hearings in each of the MPS School district before summer end.
• Need for the DIFI meetings for parents to ALWAYS be held according to the BEST TIME they are available.

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Inter-Neighborhood Business Development

Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA
DIAMONDS in the Rough 5-month Pilot
MPA-Barber & Cosmetology Group
STATE STRATEGY SESSION - 3

L-R
Ken Moore - DWFD/Apprenticeship, Lisa Larson - MATC, Elise Garrett - Martha’s Salon, Gaulein Smith - Gee’s Clippers

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July 28, 2008

Moderator:
Ken Moore, Chief Field Director
Department of Workforce Development/Apprenticeship

State Strategy Session 3 was another successful discussion that allowed for meaningful exchange of what is on the books and what are some avenues of update.

Moderator and state agency representative Ken Moore brought three other participants. They were:

• Hafeezah Ahmad - DWFD, Area Representative
• Joan Karvitz - Waukesha County Technical College
• Lisa Larson - Milwaukee Area Technical College

After a thorough overview of Apprenticeship program with statistical outlook, the group discussed at length hot button areas in need of change for more quality control, continuity of training services, image upgrade and industry standards.

A candid discussion on misconcepts, enforcement, maintenance and awareness prove to be fruitful.

Action Plan
Ken agreed to work with CN-CFNBA/MPA-BC to upgrade a draft of present standards as part of the October DIAMOND in the Rough 5-month Pilot Evaluation of the 4 state agencies and the barber and cosmetology licensed practitioners - journeymen, practitioner, master, instructor.

Prior to the October meeting, contact with Milwaukee Professionals Association Barber Cosmetology, 20 industry Apprentice programs, barber and cosmetologists, Haafeezah Ahmad - DWFD, Lisa Larson - MATC, Joan Karvitz - Waukesha County Technical College, monitoring agency - Workforce Development and Department of Regulations and Licensing Board.

We will also submit our findings to Senator Lena Taylor’s office in support of present legislation she has proposed on behalf of the barber and cosmetology industry.
Senator Taylor’s office was instrumental in pulling the four state agencies together as a request of Chair/CEO, Mary Glass.

Ken and Lisa

Lisa Larson - MATC, Hafeezah Ahmad - DWFD and Joan Karvity - Waukesha County Technical College

Not shown are:

• William Campbell - Monk’s Barber Shop
• Clarence Kelly - Admiracion Barber and Beauty Salon
• Mary Glass - CN-CFNBA & MPA-BC

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Clarence Kelly - Industry Highlight

Latoya Stamper - AVON

Barbara Smith - Supporter
Not pictured - Avis Nichols - New York Life
- Dee Cobbs, Licensed B&B Professional
_ Elise Garrett - Martha’s Salon
_ Joseph McGowan - JD & Sons Construction, LLC

Meet & Greet Series promote:

• Networking
• Info sharing
• Niche marketing
• Fundraising
• Enjoyment
• Paradigm Shifting

Presenters in July
• Avis Nichols – New York Life
• Clarence Kelly – Admiracion
• Julia Means, RN – Columbia St. Mary’s
• Kiera Castle – UW-M & Kay Productions
• Latoya Stamper – AVON

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JULY MPA-BC STATE STRATEGY SESSION

Date:
Monday, August 25, 2008

Place:
MSOE - Todd Weir Conference Center
1047 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI

Time:
8:45am - 12 Noon

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5-Month - DIAMONDS in the Rough Initiative Workshops

State Department:
Department of Regulations & Licensing

Speaker/Moderator:
Secretary Celia Jackson

Secretary Jackson is expected to provide an in-dept picture of the DRL.
CN-CFNBA will present a B&B industry standard plan that includes the employers of Apprenticeship programs.

R.S.V.P REQUIRED - Limited seating
Email: mgurbanicongroup@yahoo.com
414/610–1044

This is the fourth month of the Diamonds in the Rough pilot Initiative, a State department representative will be present from 1) Departments of Commerce, 2)Regulation and Licensing, 3) Financial Institution and 4) Workforce Development - Apprentice) to provide information about how to access their department for support for Governor Doyle’s Wisconsin Growth - Invest in the People.

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MPA-BC

Milwaukee Professionals Association Barber & Cosmetology Group

June 23, 2008
MSOE/Milwaukee School of Engineering
1047 N. Broadway

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DIAMONDS in the Rough Initiative
5-month Pilot(May 19-October 31)
STATE STRATEGY SESSION #2
WI Department of Commerce

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L-R
Gaulien Smith - Gee’s Clippers, Kiera Castle - UW-M Peer/Mentoring, Elizabeth Smith - Gee’s Clippers, Laura Schmitz - UW-M Extension, Mary Glass - Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA, Seyoum Mengesha - Department of Commerce, Elise Garrett - Martha’s Hair Salon, Clarence Kelly - Admiracion Beauty Salon, Dee Cobb - Averno College

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Panelists

Moderator Seyoum Mengesha - Area Manager, WI Department of Commerce

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Laura Schmitz - Client Services Manager, UW-M, Small Business Development Center

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Kamela Goodwyn - Business Specialist, Wisconsin Entrepreneur Network (WEN)

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Kiera Castle - Acting Director
UW-M Peer/Mentoring
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Production Manager
Kay Productions
Music Mentoring Role-Modeling

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Licensed Practitioners

William Campbell - Monk’s Barber Shop
- Exit Strategy - Manager Level

Mr. Monk has 50 years in the industry

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Dee Cobb
- Re-Entry Strategy - Manager Level

Ms. Dee has 20 years in the industry

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Gaulien Smith and Elizabeth Smith
- Gee Clippers and Hair Design
- Legacy Strategy - Manager Level

Mr. Smith - “Gee” has 13 years in the industry

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Danielle Shakoor
- Gee’s Clippers - Practitioner Level
- Entry Upgrade Strategy

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Elise Garrett
- Martha’s Hair, Skin, Nails Salon
- Intructor/Trainer Level

- Legacy Strategy

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Clarence Kelly
- Admiracion Beauty Shop
- Manager Level

Mr. Kelly is a 28-year professional.

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Mary Glass - Chair/CEO
Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA

- MPA-BC Producer, Facilitator & Project Director

Mary is giving Opening Remarks at the DOC/Department of Commerce State Strategy Session, Monday, June 23, 2008.

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Book Review

Book Review: ‘Slavery by another name’
What emancipation didn’t stop after all

By Janet Maslin
Published: April 10, 2008

Slavery By Another Name The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II By Douglas A. Blackmon 468 pages. $29.95. Doubleday.

In “Slavery by Another Name” Douglas A. Blackmon eviscerates one of our school children’s most basic assumptions: that slavery in America ended with the Civil War. Blackmon unearths shocking evidence that the practice persisted well into the 20th century. And he is not simply referring to the virtual bondage of black sharecroppers unable to extricate themselves economically from farming.

He describes free men and women forced into industrial servitude, bound by chains, faced with subhuman living conditions and subject to physical torture. That plight was horrific. But until 1951, it was not outside the law.

All it took was anything remotely resembling a crime. Bastardy, gambling, changing employers without permission, false pretense, “selling cotton after sunset”: these were all grounds for arrest in rural Alabama by 1890. And as Blackmon explains in describing incident after incident, an arrest could mean a steep fine. If the accused could not pay this debt, he or she might be imprisoned.

For more info, go to article
Visit photo gallery, Slavery by Another Name

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CN-CFNBA UPDATES

WI State Department of Education Public Hearing

Milwaukee Public Schools DIFI Status

Milwaukee, WI - (June 9, 2008) – Campaign Neighborhood – CFNBA introduced a Parent and Public Media Campaign for the summer (June 16 – August 31) to inform and educate the parents of Milwaukee Public Schools as well as the public about the No Child Left Behind program and status of Milwaukee Public Schools.

The purpose of the campaign is to “call attention to” and “to put MPS parents”“ at the training, communication and decision making table at the national, state and local level.

The media campaign and case study will also address the following:
• Need for Milwaukee Parents at the Head of MPS table of strategic planning, training and decision making
• Need for Milwaukee Parents to be spokespersons to other parents
• Need for Milwaukee Parents advocating for their child (ren) and neighbor’s children
• Need for Milwaukee Parents to be organized “OUTSIDE” of the CONTROL of MPS hired staff
• Need for Charter and Choice parents to have dialog with MPS parents
• Need for ongoing monthly meetings by the board and staff of MPS to work with and give updates of what is being done to change the DIFI status
• Need for a monthly posting of progress - changes, updates and recommendations
• Need for specific training for each parent group for adequate knowledge for decision making
• Need for transparency and ACCESS to Board Members, Superintendent, Catherine Thome, MPS director of district and school improvement, James Davis, CIO, Title 1 staff, and anyone directly related to the DIFI improvement.
• Need for WI State Department to hold quarterly meetings for follow-up
• Need for WI State Department to provide leadership for training of parents
• Need for WI State Department to send out a communication to ALL MPS parents letting them know of the two Milwaukee meetings – what was shared and when to expect the next meeting.
• Need for WI State Department (local representatives) to hold hearings in each of the MPS School district before summer end.
• Need for the DIFI meetings for parents to ALWAYS be held according to the BEST TIME they are available.

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Date: Monday, June 23, 2008

Place:
MSOE - Todd Weir Conference Center
1047 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI

8:45am - 12 Noon

The next State Strategy Session
5-Month - DIAMONDS in the Rough Initiative Workshops

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State Department: DOC/Department of Commerce
Speaker: Seyoum Mengesha
Area Development Manager

R.S.V.P REQUIRED - Limited seating

Email: mgurbanicongroup@yahoo.com
414/610–1044

Panelists
Technical Assistance/Resources
Kamela Goodwyn
Business Specialist
WI Entrepreneurs’ Network (WEN)

Business Education/Training
Laura Schmidt
Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
UW-Milwaukee

Financial Resources
Seyoum Mengesha
Area Development Manager
WI Dep. of Commerce

Certification Program
Seyoum Mengesha
Area Development Manager
WI Dep. of Commerce

Each month of the Diamonds in the Rough pilot initiative, a State department representative will be present from 1) Departments of Commerce, 2)Regulation and Licensing, 3) Financial Institution and 4) Workforce Develoment - Apprentice) to provide information about how to access their department for support for Governor Doyle’s Wisconsin Growth - Invest in the People.

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DIAMONDS in the Rough Initiative
A growth plan to encourage and empower Cultural Competency businesses in high unemployment areas of Milwaukee.

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Target Audience
Owners, managers, individual practitioners, faculty, suppliers, students, and distributors are invited to the table to share dialog for best practices, customer care, safety and growth of the barber and cosmetology cultural competency industry.

They are invited to Join MPA-BC and be a part of the State Strategy Pilot (May-October, 2008).

Meter Street Parking.

Tell a Barber and Cosmetology Friend.

Milwaukee Professional Association Barber & Cosmetology Groupis a membership organization sponsored by CN-CFNBA/Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA.

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What’s For Dinner

TAKE A LOOK

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June 3, 2008 - Candidate Obama and wife, Michele Obama in St. Paul, MN.

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History-making
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
1st African American elected for nomination for President of the United States

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Meet Democratic Nominee Barack Obama

Meet Barack

Early Years
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British.

Barack’s mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton’s army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii.

It was there, at the University of Hawaii, where Barack’s parents met. His mother was a student there, and his father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams in America.

Barack’s father eventually returned to Kenya, and Barack grew up with his mother in Hawaii, and for a few years in Indonesia. Later, he moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983.

The College Years
Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment.

The group had some success, but Barack had come to realize that in order to truly improve the lives of people in that community and other communities, it would take not just a change at the local level, but a change in our laws and in our politics.

He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

Political Career
It has been the rich and varied experiences of Barack Obama’s life - growing up in different places with people who had differing ideas - that have animated his political journey. Amid the partisanship and bickering of today’s public debate, he still believes in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose - a politics that puts solving the challenges of everyday Americans ahead of partisan calculation and political gain.

In the Illinois State Senate, this meant working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.

In the U.S. Senate, he has focused on tackling the challenges of a globalized, 21st century world with fresh thinking and a politics that no longer settles for the lowest common denominator. His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent. He has also been the lead voice in championing ethics reform that would root out Jack Abramoff-style corruption in Congress.

As a member of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan. Recognizing the terrorist threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, he traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. And knowing the threat we face to our economy and our security from America’s addiction to oil, he’s working to bring auto companies, unions, farmers, businesses and politicians of both parties together to promote the greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards in our cars.

Whether it’s the poverty exposed by Katrina, the genocide in Darfur, or the role of faith in our politics, Barack Obama continues to speak out on the issues that will define America in the 21st century. But above all his accomplishments and experiences, he is most proud and grateful for his family. His wife, Michelle, and his two daughters, Malia, 9, and Sasha, 6, live on Chicago’s South Side.

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LAS VEGAS - A 26-year-old entrepreneur from Texas was named Miss USA on Friday, besting 50 other beauty queens for the coveted crown.

Crystle Stewart, of Missouri City, Texas, runs a party-planning and motivational speaking company, as well as modeling professionally. She says she wants to dedicate her life to international philanthropy.

She also becomes a spokeswoman for breast and ovarian cancer awareness and other causes, while traveling to promote the organization.

Full Story
Photo Gallery

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Obama Raises $55 Million in February
By Jim Kuhnhenn, AP Writer

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama raised a record $55 million in February for his presidential campaign …. All told, Obama has raised $193 million during his yearlong bid for the White House. Complete Story…

For more, go to:
NEWSVINE

Obama Raises More Than $40 Million in March
Senator Barack Obama’s campaign continued its fund-raising tear in March, …, bringing in more than $40 million, campaign officials said today.
DETAILS

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Tears flow down the face of supporter Marty Nesbitt as Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks about race during a news conference in Philadelphia, Tuesday, March 18, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Race Speech

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The War Behind Closed Doors

A must see - Americans should make it their business to see - more than once, Frontline’s 4-part series on how we got and are in Iraq. How Americans were duped by President George W. Bush and our present administration; likewise, the price we are all paying today and generations to come.

FRONTLINE

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Another, MUST SEE documentary - $50 billion, $300 billion or $3 Trillion
Five Years In, Cost of Iraq War Far Exceeds Early Estimates

This documentary depiction a $3 Trillion cost. Take a look at how our dollars are running as you read this article.
NewsHour w/Jim Lehrer

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The Kerner Commission — 40 Years Later - March 28, 2008
Bill Moyer’s Journal - PBS

THE JOURNAL looks at an update of the Kerner Commission Report, which blamed the violence on the devastating poverty and hopelessness endemic in the inner cities of the 1960s and includes an interview with former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, one of the last living members of the Kerner Commission - Talks about Milwaukee’s segregation.

and

Forty years after race riots in Detroit, Newark, and dozens of other cities stunned the nation, has anything changed?

Bill Moyers interviews Newark Mayor Cory Booker for a frontline report on race and politics today.

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Hunger in America - April 11, 2008
Bill Moyer’s Journal - PBS

Food is the big story this week. We’re paying a lot more for it, a lot of people don’t have enough of it, and Washington may be about to make a bad situation worse.

First, the price of food. Rice alone has shot up by more than half in just two weeks —double its price a year ago. But corn, wheat, and other grains are sky-high, too, creating a crisis for poor people around the world.

Here at home milk prices have soared over the past year by 26%, eggs by 24%, bread by 13%. Add rising grocery prices to the higher cost of gas and electricity, throw in disappearing jobs and home foreclosures, and you can understand why people are struggling to keep food on the table.

Our government figures 28 million Americans will be using food stamps this year —the highest level since the program began in the 1960s.

Hunger in America

CASH COWS & COWBOY STARTER KITS
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL teams up with the PBS series EXPOSÉ: AMERICA’S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS to follow the trail of Washington Post reporters who uncovered more than $15 billion in “wasteful, unnecessary, or redundant expenditures” that have flowed from Washington to America’s farmers.
Farm Exposé

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U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Jeremiah Wright - Attending the 36th President of the United States - Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S. Navy

REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT
Bill Moyers interviews the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in his first broadcast interview with a journalist since he became embroiled in a controversy for his remarks and his relationship with Barack Obama.

Wright, who retired in early 2008 as pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where Senator Obama is a member, has been at the center of controversy for comments he made during sermons, which surfaced in the press in March.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright - The Scholar, Patriot, the Man of God

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T R A V E L
Treat yourself to learning about AFRICA, Canada, Cuba, Haiti and Australia through the Maps of Africa, Canada and Cuba, just click on the country and learn.
Map of Africa
Australia
Map of Canada
Map of Cuba
Map of Haiti
China
TianAnMen Square
Beijing, China
DOHA

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A More Perfect Union

Candidate Barack Obama
by Nedra Pickler, Associated Press Writers

This is a copy of Candidate Barack Obama’s speech on Race - March 18, 2008 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

It is the speech that brought tears to Marty Nesbitt eyes and mine.

Full speech,
Race Speech

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“The Post-American World”

In The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria argues that the “rise of the rest” is the great story of our time.
“This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s important new work on the era we are now entering.

Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures.

He sees the “rise of the rest”—the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, and many others—as the great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States.

This economic growth is producing political confidence, national pride, and potentially international problems. How should the United States understand and thrive in this rapidly changing international climate?

What does it mean to live in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination
More Fareed

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California Poet Laureate Al Young’s ‘Blues

Morning Edition, April 24, 2008 • Al Young took to writing poetry, as he describes it in one poem, “to make out the sound of my own background music.”

He’s now the poet laureate of California, celebrating National Poetry Month with a collection called Something About the Blues.
Al Young - Poet Laureate of CA

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40 Years Later After April 4, 1968 - Memphis, Tennessee

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Martin Luther King Jr Photo Gallery

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METRO DETROIT’S BEST SANDWICH

Ham connoisseurs delight.
Here’s a restaurant devoted to nothing but your precious pork. Fresh roasted daily and carved to order, Mike’s Famous Ham Place definitely lives up to its name.

Famous far and wide, Mike’s is a favorite of not only locals but many who have come before and now make the journey to enjoy not only the fantastic food but the friendly atmosphere, both provided by owner Junior Muftari. With the exception of desserts, ham reigns supreme on Mike’s simple menu. Running the gambit from split pea soup to eggs and toast, Mike’s believes everything tastes better served with a side of swine. —Erin Branstner Detroit Press

Mike’s Famous Ham Place

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