BARACK OBAMA A MAN FOR CHANGE

Last night I had the wonderful opportunity to see a 30 minute infomercial by Presidential hopeful, Barack Obama. I was so proud of him and that is rare in a campaign for the Commander in Chief of the United States of America. When all you hear on television is bad things and downing someone's character, Obama wove a story and had me from the word Go.

People if you haven't voted, please go out and vote for the candidate of your choice but, by all means vote. I have heard so many negative things and doubts about whether his infomercial was a success. Just let me go on record that I feel it was well done and hit to the core issues we face in America today. I felt tears running down my face just thinking that maybe we might get this right, this time. Just maybe we will be able to have more money than month, like in the days of President Bill Clinton.

I liked those days, days when shows like Cosby's, Living Single and Touched by an Angel gave hope to the American people. I could sit back and unwind from the job of being a single Mom of three kids. I wasn't rich or even working half the time, but my kids never went hungry or went without the main stables of life. I was still able to take my kids on vacation, always had cable television, and they we involved in all sorts of extra-curricular activities. We need to do what we can to ensure that all American's are able to have the basics like healthcare, food, a roof and especially food. We cannot let America start to look like a third world country with thousands of homeless children walking the streets in the winter without coats, because their family had a setback or lost their job.

Please join with me in celebrating the freedoms that we all enjoy living in America and always remember, "If it's broke,it needs fixing."

OBAMA/BIDEN '08

PRAYER FOR JENNIFER HUDSON AND FAMILY

Julian King





Jennifer singing the same song with the Soul Children of Chicago











Jason Hudson

Darnell Donerson

I would like to take this time to send my condolences to the Hudson family for the triple murders of their family members. This was all so senseless and I pray that these two strong black women can carry on with their lives. I don't know how to begin to tell them to move on and that will be alright, because it's not going to be alright for a very long time.

To lose your Mom, brother and that poor seven year old baby is almost too much to fathom. I can't stop thinking about Julian King, with his big fat cheeks and precious smile. He reminds me of my first grand, Jordan and I know I would lose all my cool points if something happened to him. So, let us take time out of our busy schedules and pray for this family.

Sister Souljah in stores November 4, 2008

Alrighty now, the best selling author of "The Coldest Winter Ever", Sister Souljah, is coming out with another great masterpiece on November 4, 2008. For those who know her work, know that we are in for a treat. Please support this talented sister as she brings the funk one mo gain.

Let me just give you alittle bio on the artist, author and activist according to Wikipedia.

Sister Souljah (born as Lisa Williamson in 1964, Bronx, New York) is an American hip hop-generation author, activist, recording artist, and film producer. She is best known for Bill Clinton's criticism of her remarks about race in the United States during the 1992 presidential campaign. Clinton's well-known repudiation of her comments led to what is now known in politics as a Sister Souljah moment.

Souljah was the executive director of Daddy's House Social Programs Inc., a not-for-profit corporation for urban youth, financed by Sean Combs and Bad Boy Entertainment.

Early life

Lisa Williamson recounts in her autobiography that she was born into poverty and raised on welfare. At age 10 she moved with her family to the suburbs of Englewood, New Jersey, a wealthy suburb of New Jersey with tree-lined streets,[1] which is also home to other famous Black artists such as George Benson, Eddie Murphy, and Regina Belle.[2]

Souljah disliked what she was being taught in school. She felt that she was being taught very little of her history, since the junior high school and high school left Black history, art, and culture for Black Studies Week only once a year. The Englewood school district, however, took an active role with respect to including African studies in the curriculum from the early 1970s. This district also took an active role recruiting Black educators and administrators. The junior high school that Williamson attended was renamed Janis E. Dismus School after the death of a well-respected Black educator in the district as well as the mother of one of her classmates.

Souljah took a very active and special interest in learning everything she could about African history, which she felt was left out of the education curriculum in this country purposely: "I supplemented my education in the white American school system by reading African history, which was intentionally left out of the curriculum of American students."[3] While at Dwight Morrow High School, a school that had a 55-percent Black enrollment, and a majority Black faculty and administration during the time of her studies, from 1978 to 1982, she was a legislative intern in the House of Representatives for the Republican Party.[2]

Souljah was also the recipient of several honors during her teenage years. She won the American Legion's Constitutional Oratory Contest, a scholarship to attend Cornell University's Advanced Summer Program, and a chance to study abroad in Spain at the University of Salamanca—all before the age of 18.[2]

Throughout college she traveled, visiting Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Finland, and Russia. Her academic accomplishments were reinforced with first-hand experiences as she worked in a medical center in Mtepa Tepa, a village located in Zimbabwe, and assisted refugee children from Mozambique. She also traveled to South Africa and Zambia. She graduated from Rutgers University with degrees in American History and African Studies. She became a well-known and outspoken voice on campus and active writer for the school newspaper. One of her noted campus initiatives was spearheading a campaign to bring Jesse Jackson to Rutgers to speak against the university's controversial investments in South Africa at the time, when divestiture from apartheid-era South Africa was a heated political issue.

In 1985, during her senior year at Rutgers University, she was offered a job by Reverend Benjamin Chavis of the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice. She spent the next three years developing, organizing, and financing programs such as African Survival Camp, a 6-week summer sleep-away camp in Enfield, North Carolina.[4]

She became a controversial figure during the 1990s as a frequent guest on American talk shows. Unwilling to separate her pro-Black stance from her disdain for people of European origin, Souljah shocked many viewers with her racially charged statements. She became known for the line "I'm not saying there aren't any decent white people; I've just never met one."
Sister Souljah is married and has one child.[5]

Career

Music
She appeared on several tracks as a featured guest with the hip-hop group Public Enemy, and she became a full member of the group when Professor Griff left the group after allegedly making anti-Semitic remarks. In 1992, she released her only album, 360 Degrees of Power. Both of her videos, "The Final Solution: Slavery's Back in Effect" and "The Hate that Hate Produced," were banned by MTV because of their inflammatory imagery. Her album sold only 27,000 copies, and so her label, Epic/SME Records, dropped her. It is believed that the album sold poorly due to public backlash from her comments in response to the beating of Rodney King, but it also received terrible reviews in the music press.

Sister Souljah moment

Souljah became infamous for her statements that year about the 1992 Los Angeles riots. In an interview conducted May 13, 1992, she was quoted in the Washington Post as saying:
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If Black people kill Black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?
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The quotation, which was taken out of context, was later reproduced in the media, and she was widely criticized. Presidential candidate Bill Clinton publicly criticized that statement—and Jesse Jackson for allowing her to be on his Rainbow Coalition—thus the Sister Souljah moment was created.

Author

In 1995, at the age of 31, she published her autobiography, No Disrespect (Times/Crown/Random House ISBN 0-812-92483-5). In 1999, she made her debut as a novelist with The Coldest Winter Ever (Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-671-02578-3). The latter was praised by The New Yorker. A sequel of the novel, titled Midnight: A Gangster Love Story (Atria/Simon & Schuster ISBN 978-1-4165-4518-7), originally scheduled for October 14, 2008, is now to be published November 4, 2008.[6]
She also does occasional pieces for Essence Magazine and has even written for The New Yorker.

[edit] Community Activist
As a community activist, Souljah has organized a number of service programs. In 1985, during her senior year at Rutgers University, she developed and financed the African Youth Survival Camp for children of homeless families, a 6-week summer sleep-away camp in Enfield, North Carolina. She has been a motivating force behind a number of hip-hop artists' efforts to give back to the community, organizing major youth events, programs, and summer camps with artists such as Lauryn Hill, Doug E. Fresh, and Sean "Diddy" Combs.
Souljah was the executive director of Daddy's House Social Programs Inc., a not-for-profit corporation for urban youth, financed by Sean Combs and Bad Boy Entertainment. Daddy's House educates and prepares youth, aged 10–16, to be in control of their academic, cultural, and financial lives. The students progressing through the program earn support to travel throughout the world.[7]

Senator Barack Obama draws a crowd of over 100,000 at a Denver, Colorado rally on Sunday, October 26, 2008. This is absolutely amazing to watch unfold.