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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Blagojevich to serve time in Colorado | VIDEO Convicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his family now know where he will serve his prison sentence. Body found in trash-filled Worth home | VIDEO A woman's body was found buried under mounds of trash inside a southwest suburban house. Police look for missing Lake Zurich woman Police in the northwest suburbs are searching for a missing 60-year-old woman. South Shore fares go up Wednesday South Shore Railroad commuters will be paying more Wednesday for their fares. Joggers hit road for Occupy Chicago at 4 a.m. It's shaping up to be a busy day for members of the Occupy Chicago movement. NY woman looks for Chicago sports fan | VIDEO A New York woman is trying to solve a Super Bowl camera mystery that may involve Chicago. MORE STORIES Strange News NY woman looks for Chicago sports fan | VIDEO 35-foot camera to capture big shots across the country | VIDEO Bulldog adopts 6 wild boar piglets in Germany His Airness' hand gives cops clue about fake shoes Valentine's gift blamed for Calif. power outage Consumer BBB warns about florists, online dating, e-cards | VIDEO FDA testing reveals lead in lipstick Angry Birds launched on Facebook Kraft launching Belvita biscuits in US Airline launches gift card exchange Healthbeat FDA testing reveals lead in lipstick 'Miss' Diagnosed: Hernias and Women Medicare puzzle: Big rise in artificial feet costs Air quality link to increased stroke risk, memory loss? Stem cells might help body recover from heart attack MOST POPULAR Body found in trash-filled Worth home Best in Show: Pekingese wins Westminster dog show 35-foot camera to capture big shots across the country Blagojevich to serve time in Colorado Soldier fatally shot in Austin neighborhood All Most Popular

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Harry Belafonte -- Where is the rage of our leaders?

Making Progress; Moving Forward! Where is the rage of our leaders? Take A Young Black Man To Worship Day Major PTA Learn and Earn Conference Omaha To Broadcast Mentoring Across United States New Jim Crow Instant Classic Links: The Black Star Project's website: blackstarproject.org Black Star Jounral: blackstarjournal.org Become a Member: Click Here Event Calendar: Click Here Like us on Facebook:   Belafonte - "Where are (our) leaders? What's missing is that rage." It was both a walk down memory lane and a call to action when singer, actor, civil rights activist and international humanitarian Harry Belafonte spoke at St. Sabina Church.  Part of a Black History Month program that also brought Princeton Professor Cornel West to the South Side church on Sunday, Belafonte, espousing incendiary views on racism and capitalism for six decades, did not hold back during his presentation Friday night.   Read More... Take A Young Black Man To Worship Day The Black Star Project's Million Father Movement is partnering with the most dynamic force in the Black community-the Black church.  Black churches, mosques, temples and synagogues across the country are working together on "Take a Black Male to Worship Day," Sunday, February 26. 2012.  Faith-based institutions throughout America are participating in this event.  Please email blackstar1000@ameritech.net or call Bruce Walker at 773.285.9600 to bring this effort to your city, to receive a complete organizing kit or for guidance concerning this event.   Participating faith-based institutions will be listed in our national directory. Read More...  Major Learn and Earn PTA Parent Conference    Saturday, February 18, 2012 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the University of Illinois Chicago     Behavioral Science Building      1007 West Harrison Street                 Chicago, Illinois   Keynote by  Professor Charles Payne University of Chicago     Read More... Race still matters, nonprofit leader says BY MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA, Chicago Sun-Times February 8, 2012   Race still colors everything, according to one of the most powerful women in the nation's nonprofits.  From disproportionate numbers of minorities incarcerated, to their high rates of unemployment, infant mortality and chronic diseases, America's deep-rooted racism is to blame, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's vice president for program strategy, Dr. Gail Christopher, declared in a keynote address at the Ritz-Carlton Tuesday night.   Read More... Omaha to Broadcast Segments on Black Male Mentoring from Across The United States   1690am 'The One' will conduct "Live call in Radio Interviews" with every city that's participating in the The Black Male Achievement Mentoring Initiative. Starting, Jan. 31, 2012 until Feb. 28, 2012 cities can schedule a 15-30 minute 'Live Interview' to highlight your community mentoring initiatives. Please schedule by calling 1690am 'The One' owner, William King at 402-714-6482.   To hear your City interview Click on the links below to download our Free Radio App Today or Search:1690am   Read More... This is one of the best options for educating Black students in America -- Saturday University!!!     Please call 773.285.9600 to learn how to start a Saturday University in your city.  We have 15 free Saturday Universities operating in and around Chicago.  Please call 773.285.9600 to register your child for free academic enhancement or for more information about Saturday University.   Read More... The New Jim Crow Is An Instant American Classic      "Much like a great explorer, Michelle Alexander has discovered another America-a bizarro world where prejudice and discrimination have replaced truth and justice. An America that is as intent on destroying young Black men as it is at proclaiming its passion for freedom and fairness. Even some of the most conscious and best-intentioned Americans can't see The New Jim Crow and their roles in supporting it.  Michelle Alexander holds a mirror up to America and reveals a monster!   Phillip Jackson, The Black Star Project   Read More... National "Hidden Colors" viewing marathon proposed by Milwaukee Black Male Achievement Forum On Wednesday, January 18, 2012, representatives from four Milwaukee Black owned centers met at the Coffee Makes U Black restaurant to plan an area marathon showing of the DVD "Hidden Colors:  The untold Story of People of Aboriginal, Moor and African Descent."   Read More...

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Big Story, By Gene Lyons A Partisan Power Play Won't Redeem Bishops For the record, the priest who married my wife and me in 1967 advised us that we could in good faith practice birth control. He reasoned that as Pope Paul VI was then preparing an encyclical regarding faith and sexuality, young Catholics could reasonably assume that church dogma regarding contraception would soon change to reflect contemporary realities: specifically that a couple intending to bring children into their marriage might legitimately seek to do so in their own time. A university chaplain, he no doubt understood how the combination of Rome's authoritarianism and theological nit-picking tended to drive educated young people from the church. Anyway, everybody knows how that worked out. Next came Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI's 1968 doubling down on the church's blanket condemnation of artificial means of birth control -- a blast from the medieval past as most American Catholics now see it. READ MORE

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Featured Column: Leonard Pitts Jr. Why Did U.S. Marines Pose With A Nazi Flag? One explanation is ignorance, i.e., that when a troupe of U.S. Marines posed in Afghanistan with a flag bearing the logo -- a double "s" in the shape of lightning bolts -- of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, the military and police arm of the Nazi Party, they had no idea what it was. If that's the best case scenario, it indicts the facts-optional "truthiness" that often dominates political debate. READ MORE

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Featured Column: Ellen Chesler The Long History Of The War Against Contraception Two things we can be sure of: Whoever emerges from the bloodbath of the GOP contest will try and backtrack from the birth control extremism of the primary. And Obama supporters, backed up by the advocacy community, will in turn stand ready to pounce on this inevitable flip-flopping. READ MORE

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Law & Order Will Rupert Murdoch Get Slapped With Bribery Charges? This weekend, five more journalists from a Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid were arrested as part of an ongoing bribery investigation. The arrests have once again raised questions about whether Murdoch's News Corp. might face prosecution for bribery in the U.S. under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Reuters reported last week that U.S. authorities are "stepping up investigations" of the possible bribery by Murdoch employees. READ MORE

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Today In Stupid Rick Santorum: The Next George Washington? Rick Santorum has a new TV ad running statewide in Michigan, which promotes an eyebrow-raising claim from right wing pundit Glenn Beck: "Santorum is the next George Washington." READ MORE

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Treason Right Wing Militia Trial Underway In Michigan On Monday, the government showed jurors automatic weapons, vests and other military gear seized when the nine members of the "Hutaree" militia were arrested in southern Michigan, Indiana and Ohio in March 2010. "They wanted to start an armed confrontation," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Graveline. "The war to them meant patriots rising up against the government." READ MORE

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Driver shot in alleged road-rage incident | VIDEO A motorist in unincorporated Lemont says he tried to apologize to a fellow driver and ended up getting shot. Mayor buying new police gear for summits | VIDEO The mayor is using new power to help protect police as Chicago gears up for the G8 and NATO summits and a protest that could come with them. White Sox sign ex-Cub Kosuke Fukudome Ex-Chicago Cubs outfielder Kosuke Fukudome has been signed by crosstown rivals the Chicago White Sox. 2 men charged in connection with carjacking scam Two men are accused of targeting people who were selling their vehicles and then stealing the cars. Carbon monoxide displaces South Side residents Dangerous levels of carbon monoxide forced more than two dozen people from a South Side apartment building. Pot, cash seized at alleged Jefferson Park grow house Chicago police say they have busted a pot-growing operation on the city's Northwest Side. MORE STORIES Strange News Lice for Valentine's Day? | VIDEO Starbucks opens first ski-thru location | VIDEO Indiana city keeps its softball field on graveyard New Vegas museum highlights mob bosses, tommy guns Police: Indy man wore 'Scream' mask in robberies Consumer BBB warns about florists, online dating, e-cards | VIDEO Airline launches gift card exchange US probes door fires in 2006, 2007 TrailBlazers Feds investigate door fires in 2007 Camrys, RAV4s Apple's 'iPad 3' could come out in March Healthbeat Antibiotics could curb COPD attacks New study casts doubt on cancer treatment Fitness could reduce dementia risks Children getting less sleep Overeating could increase memory loss risk MOST POPULAR Driver shot in alleged road-rage incident Dalmatian spot on at Westminster Elgin library becomes hangout for eagles Cops accused of stealing cash run from cameras Pot, cash seized at alleged Jefferson Park grow house All Most Popular

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Your City Should Join 108 Cities in Mentoring Young Black Men and Boys

Your City Should Join 108 Cities that Are Mentoring Young Black Men and Boys During January and February 2012 Call 773.285.9600 today and join the movement to help build and encourage strong, positive Black men across America and the world. Sometimes, you only get one chance to change the world.  Mentoring young Black men and boys might be that chance. Join the Black Male Achievement Mentoring Initiative in changing the world.      Ideas for Mentoring Young Black Men and Boys 1) Mentor at a school or community center 2) Take A Young Black Male to Worship on February 26, 2012 - Click Here To Join This Effort 3) Coach a sports team 4) Take a trip to a museum, library or cultural center with one or a group of young Black males 5) Read The New Jim Crow or another book with a group of young Black men 6) Real Men Read to pre-school through 3rd-grade black boys 7) Take one or a group of young Black males to see Red Tails 8) Have dinner with one or a group of young Black males 9) Have a discussion about respecting women and girls with one or a group of young Black males  10) Teach young Black males about entrepreneurship and personal finance 11) Visit and mentor young Black men in correctional and detention centers 12) Create all male Saturday Learning and Tutoring Academies for young Black men and boys 13) Encourage young Black men and boys who are living as drug dealers, gangsters, thugs and hustlers to seek education and to help rebuild their communities 14) Build institutions and structures that support and mentor young Black men and boys 15) Encourage young Black men and boys towards healthy living, exercise and good nutrition 16) Teach young Black men and boys to be good fathers and good husbands and good neighbors -------------------------------------------------------------------------   If you have had any doubts about the value and importance of responsible fatherhood or mentoring, click here to have them removed!!!   To become one of the the Servant Leaders in your city planning and directing this effort, please call 773.285.9600. We will provide you with an organizing kit that will help you step-by-step to create, manage or support an outstanding mentoring program in your city.  We will also provide technical assistance and ongoing support. Schools, faith-based organizations, fraternities, Masonic organizations, veterans associations, community-based organizations, affinity organizations, military service personnel, social service agencies, companies and corporations will participate in this effort.  Most mentoring events will occur on January 31, 2012.  The last event will occur on February 29, 2012.  Please see cities that are expected to participate as of January 11, 2012:  Albany, New York Alton, Illinois Atlanta Georgia Aurora, Colorado Baltimore, Maryland Baton Rouge, Louisiana Blandensburg, Maryland Boston, Massachusetts Bowie, Maryland Buffalo, New York Carbondale, Illinois  Chicago, Illinois - South Side Chicago, Illinois - West Side  Chicago, Illinois - South Suburbs Chicago Heights, Illinois Cincinnati, Ohio Colorado Springs, Colorado Columbia, Missouri Columbus, Georgia Dallas, Texas Danbury, Connecticut Danville, Illinois Decatur, Georgia Delray Beach, Florida Detroit, Michigan Denver, Colorado Dolton, Illinois Durham, North Carolina East Chicago, Indiana East Orange, New Jersey Englewood, Colorado Flint, Michigan Flossmoor, Illinois Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fredricksberg, Virginia Gary, Indiana Gilbert, Arizona Griffin, Georgia Hammond, Indiana Hartford, Connecticut Harvey, Illinois Hillside, Illinois Houston, Texas Hyattsville, Maryland Indianapolis, Indiana  Irvington, New Jersey Jackson, Mississippi Kansas City, Missouri Kenesaw, Georgia LaGrange, Georgia Lauderhill, Florida Lenoir, North Carolina Lexington, Kentucky Lithonia, Michigan Los Angeles, California Louisville, Kentucky Macon, Georgia Manassas, Virginia Markham, Illinois Matteson, Illinois Mentor, Ohio Milwaukee, Wisconsin Minneapolis, Minnesota Munster, Indiana  Nashville, Tennessee New Orleans, Louisiana New York City, New York - Manhattan New York City, New York - The Bronx New York City, New York - Brooklyn New York City, New York - Queens New York City, New York - Long Island New York City, New York - Harlem Newark, New Jersey Oakland, California Oak Park, Illinois Omaha, Nebraska Palmdale, California Peoria, Illinois  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Phoenix, Arizona Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Richmond, California Richmond, Virginia Riverdale, Illinois San Bernardino, California San Francisco, California Santan Valley, AZ Seattle, Washington Shelbyville, Indiana  Southaven, Mississippi Spotsylvania County, Virginia St. Louis, Missouri St. Paul, Minnesota St. Petersburg, Florida Tampa, Florida Thomasville, Georgia Toledo, Ohio Tougaloo, Mississippi Tshwane, Botswana, Africa  Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territory, Canada Tuscaloosa, Alabama  University Park, Illinois Upper Marboro, Maryland Vicksburg, Mississippi  Washington, D.C. Waukegan, Illinois White Plains, New York Yazoo City, Mississippi     This event was inspired by the life and life principles of Muhammad Ali (Rumble Young Man, Rumble!).  The Black Male Achievement Movement was born in Louisville, Kentucky in September 2011.  Guidance, support and encouragement for this movement is provided by Open Society Foundations' Campaign for Black Male Achievement.  The National CARES Mentoring Movement and Mentoring U.S.A have signed on as national supporters.  For more information, please call 773.285.9600.   Click Here to listen to amazing stories of mentoring efforts around the country.    Click Here to see the Fathers Incorporated PSA on mentoring.    Click Here to see the Mentoring USA PSA on mentoring.