Stand Your Ground , Voter ID and ALEC

Democracy Now presentes 
The United States of ALEC:

Bill Moyers on the Secretive CorporateLegislative Body Writing Our Laws

A must see presentation on how laws are being written other than by and for the people.

 

Cowardly Racial Assault /please share and expose this igno/rant.

A disturbing video exposes  racist assault.  I have one question, can you spot the COWARD?





Businessman Josh Jambon of Jambon Boat Rentals really laid into this woman.


Oh and I see he's listed here, I wonder what he's doing for the federal government?

EO 10925

By the time John F. Kennedy was elected President, it was evident that to advance equal employment opportunity federal involvement needed to be broader and more proactive. On March 6, 1961, shortly after JFK took office, he signed Executive Order 10925, opening a new chapter in achieving access to good jobs by requiring government contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color or national origin."

Executive Order 10925 gave federal contracting agencies authority to institute procedures against federal contractors who violated their EEO obligations-including contract cancellation, debarment from future contracts and other sanctions.

It also created the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, which upon passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 became the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee. The President's Committee was chaired by Vice President Lyndon Johnson and later by Vice President Hubert Humphrey. The Committee's vice chair was Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz.

Like its predecessors, EO 10925 gave each federal department and agency Executive Order enforcement responsibility for its contractors, and each developed its own organizational approach to carrying out these responsibilities. The President's Committee oversaw issues of policy and the Department of Labor played a coordinating role.  Read more


For more details see story at The Intersection of Madness and Reality

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African-American Digital Consumers and The African-American Blogger

 Since I'm always scanning the web I am always finding things of interest. Here's an article that most Black bloggers, indeed all African Americans should find very interesting. I hope it will generate some discussion.  I found it at "Think With Google" Forward thinking and rooted in data, Think Insights offers you a one-stop shop for consumer trends, marketing insights and industry research  (google's description of the site.)
Google give African Americans high marks as qualified online consumers. According to Think we are at the leading edge of online consumption. They present data to back up their claim. We should pay heed to this information and use it to our advantage in marketing, product development and creating employment among African Americans. Share this info and generate some dialog so we can get the economic ball rolling inside the African American community.

5 Truths of African-American Digital Consumers                                                                        

Montreal - Belafonte appeared at "Sing Your Song" screening

Sing Your Song
A film by Susanne Rostock


was screened on Thursday September 20, 7pm at Concordia University as a special feature of the Montreal International Black Film Festival 


This biopic was followed by a Q&A with HARRY BELAFONTE

March on Washington, DC for Civil Rights, 1963: James Baldwin

with Julie and Harry Belafonte on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

From the Jack T. FranklinPhotography Collection of the African American Museum in

Philadelphia.

HE’D had no singing lessons and he couldn’t read a note. But Harry Belafonte was what they call a natural, plucked from obscurity to stardom thanks to a lucky break at a New York jazz club.

At the time he was a struggling actor and his phenomenal success as a singer soon fed into Hollywood and Broadway. Blessed with charm and good looks, by the 1960s he was a top American entertainer, living the highlife in Las Vegas and rubbing shoulders with the Rat Pack.

Like all good stories this one has a twist. Belafonte was also a man on a mission, using his fame and fortune to support the forward march of civil rights

HARRY BELAFONTE: Star who was on a mission to use fame to push civil rights movement