Writing is my biggest passion and I love it when people enjoy my work. Better Late Than Never has received 3 Great Book Reviews! Check out the Reviews!Happy Reading!Stephanie Morris
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May, 28, 2009Raynard JacksonPresident Obama’s pick of judge Sonia Sotomayor was a supreme choice. I say this not for all the conventional reasons one would expect.Before I explain my position, let me establish a few facts that will give you the context for my position.First, a president is entitled to have his nominees confirmed, unless a disqualifying issue is discovered. Disagreeing with a person on abortion, gay rights, or affirmative action are not disqualifying issues. Non payment of taxes,
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Greetings Family,(Contact Information At Bottom Of Page)It's your friendly neighborhood "Digital Drummer" again (smile)There has been a rash of new Phishing attempts on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and Ning networks. Cybercriminals follow popular trends. Wherever There’s A Crowd….There’s MoneyOne of the three schemes that have suddenly appeared on Twitter, appears to have begun last Thursday with the creation of a few bogus accounts utilizing the age-old lure of “Hot Women”. The tr
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hetep,in considering myself a politically conscious afrikan-n-amerikkka, having delved into the various mechanizations that have affected my people for the past five hundred years on this side of the planet, correctly styled by me, as the united snakes of amerikkka, i've come to the conclusion that there will be a dividing line among the black collective masses of my people. an unfortunate line will be drawn or at least the potential of it has a strong chance or rearing its head.this is due to c
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No country that commits the sort of truly evil war crimes America has committed recently can possibly rest easy with itself, and no people like the American people can even slightly escape the implications and the weight of our nation's most evil crimes. That is why we are jumpy lately, why there is an edge to our interpersonal relationships that wasn't there ten years ago, and why there is a tone of subdued hysteria in our mass media. That is why "reality" shows (Freud would have a field day wi
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For about three weeks now, the British Media have been a having a field day with the inconvenience and embarrassment of British Members of Parliament and the Government in the scandal of the fiddling of expenses by various elected members of the British government.Many MPs (as we call them) have virtually fallen on their own swords. Cabinet Officers have been forced to resign; some MPs are standing down at the next election (whenever that is called); the Prime Minister himself was implicated and
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This is why,When you have time, you don't have moneyWhen you have money, you don't have timeYou don't earn money if your not physically laboring.You get paid to do thingsthe same things that someone once laid whips across your ancestors backs to make them do.before they realized that1) It be cheaper to just pay people to do them, (until the people could be replaced with machines)2) If you offer people money, you create competition for the same work3) The simpler a task, the more people you put t
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For Immediate Release:Friday, May 22, 2009Contact: Corey Halstead954-588-5919(Washington, DC)— Please join Talking Right with Raynard Jackson on Saturday, May 23, 2009 from 7-9:00 p.m. where the entire show will be a tribute to Wayman Tisdale. Tisdale died May 15th after a two year battle with cancer.Tisdale grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and played college basketball at Oklahoma University. He then went on to play 12 years in the N.B.A. (Indiana, Sacramento, and Phoenix). Upon retiring from the N.B
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I would like to invite everyone to come check out my Free short story Propositioned. You will love Kristina and Robert's story.Blurb:Kristina Ward is looking for a fresh start. She has just gotten out of a relationship with a married man who also had children. She would have never guess a woman as intelligent as her would miss the warning signs of his deception. But she had. There was nothing like a heartbreak to make a woman reevaluate her life. Too bad her first night in town gets off to a bad
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The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America
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Media Alert
Contact: Njere Alghanee, NCC
ncobrakazi@yahoo.com
404/587-2709
“ All Roads Lead to Juneteenth 2009 ”
Atlanta, GA. NCOBRA, the National Coalition of Black for Reparations in America will convene its 20th Annual Conference in commemoration of Juneteenth (June 19, 1865), which became a celebration of jubilee for the enslaved Africans when the public notice of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 was finally d
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ROYAL RASTAFARI FAMILY
PINNACLE- UPDATE
Greetings:
June 16th, 2009 we’ll celebrate the Earth Strong (birthday) of the Founding Father of the Rastafarian Movement, Dr. Leonard Percival Howell at Pinnacle Groundation Site in Sligoville, St. Catherine. A press conference will be held that day to bring awareness to private and public sectors in Jamaica and abroad.
June 25th, 2009 at noon in the Spanish Town Magistrate’s Court the case with the St. Jago Hills Developers continues. Together, we wi
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WHY NO FURORE OVER THE TORTURE OF INMATES BY POLICE DEPARTMENTS IN THE US?"WE DO NOT TORTURE" President Barak Obama said recently. Really now and since when? Where did thepresident live?? Oh Chicago..The Persistence of Andrew Wilson November 29, 2007A cop killer who fought to expose torture in the Chicago Police Department has died, but his testimony from beyond the grave could still help bring down its perpetrators. http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/andrewwilson/Report on Chicago Po
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May 21, 2009Raynard JacksonLast Friday, I received the shocking news of the sudden death of my good friend, Wayman Tisdale. Tisdale played basketball for 3 years at Oklahoma University and 12 years in the N.B.A. (Indiana, Sacramento, and Phoenix).Upon retiring from basketball, he went on to have a critically acclaimed music career as a jazz bassist. He recorded a total of 8 CDs beginning in 1995 (“Power Forward” on the Motown Label). His last CD, Rebound (2008), was written and released during h
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In nineteen sixty seven, tanks and armed troops moved past this house towards Grand River and West Grand Blvd and thisI was three years old, that corner was walking distance from both of my family's home and both of my grandmothers' homes at that time.
This is just around the corner from where Big Four (Detroit Police Unit S.T.R.E.S.S.) were known to have beaten young men to death and left them in trash cans behind local businesses. Down the street from the home of David Nelson of the Last Poets
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Has anyone paid attention to the expanding list of free tools, instructional material and services meant for collaborative enterprises, especially for mass communication media and alternative energy?I don't know what anyone is focused on, but I'm looking at the gaps and holes in our communities, with a personal and rather passionate interest in mass media and energy.Because a lot of our community's attention is placed in consuming shiny, tightly, packaged, melodramatic, advertising driven conten
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I'm posting this because I need to muster up the courage to seek forgiveness from someone that I've hurt.The fact that I love this person more than air is irrelevant to the truth that I caused them pain.I feel the need to reach out to them to offer them support while they're dealing with an even greater pain.I'm putting this into the universe in the way that is most comfortable for me.Because in some odd way this seems somewhat more lasting than just speaking it aloud.
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Live or Let Die:Should We Save Black Radio?Paul Scott"I can't explain why Hip Hop died or the fact that it did and no one cried. "Big Swagg (local artist)Funerals are funny things, sometimes. Never mind that the dearly departed cheated on his wife, borrowed a small fortune of unpaid loans from friends and habitually kicked his neighbor's dog, according to the pastor during the eulogy, the man was a saint.I thought about that scenario when I heard folks mourning over the impending doom of black r
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Greetings Family,(Contact Information At The Bottom Of The Page)It's your friendly neighborhood "Digital Drummer" again...smileAfrican immigrants like US Blacks, are an untapped niche market within the US population. US African Chamber of Commerce estimates the buying power of African immigrants to be $50 billion dollars in annual consumer spending.A new first-of-its-kind study undertaken by New American Dimensions and commissioned by the US African Chamber of Commerce (USACC) found this market
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by Kwasi SeituNancy Pelosi is trying to deny that which is applicable to the entire Congress with regard to the international criminality of George “Baby Doc” Bush’s “War on Terrorism,” which is that they went along with and approved of the ends justifying the means, even if that meant subjecting people to torture. Even though America has yet to admit that it engaged in torture, referring to its conduct as “enhanced interrogation techniques” or “what some people call torture,” it is not doing a
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