...::When Beauty Trumps The News

Husan Thompson and Tanesha Terrell are getting ready to pool their talents.

Beautiful woman sunning herself by the pool… handsome dude looks up from newspaper at beautiful woman sunning herself. Not too unusual-- so why is this image in this blog?

We like images that are unexpected, that have an unusual twist, images that suprise us.

So what's the unusual twist here? Look closely at that newspaper… It's The Final Call, the newspaper of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam! It's the last place on Earth where you will find an image of a sister getting her daily dose of Vitamin D from all that sunshine.

Reminds me of these lines from Julian Bond, former board chair of the NAACP--

"Looka that lady shake that thing.
We can't all be Martin Luther King."

So, thanks to all the beautiful people, and thanks to all the great leaders. The world I want must have both!

[Husan and Tanesha are engaged to be married 26.Jun.2010!]

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...::Co-Founder Of BET Is "Ashamed" Of The Network

Sheila Johnson is crying all the way to the bank.

Sheila Johnson was right beside hubby Bob Johnson at the creation of Black Entertainment Television back in 1980. After decades of raking in money, after a nasty divorce and the selling of BET, Ms. Johnson looks back in shame.

“I don’t watch it. I suggest to my kids that they don’t watch it… I’m ashamed of it, if you want to know the truth.”

“When we started BET, it was going to be the Ebony magazine on television. We had public affairs programming. We had news… but the problem is that then the video revolution started up… And I remember during those days we would sit up and watch these videos and decide which ones were going on and which ones were not. We got a lot of backlash from recording artists… and we had to start showing them. I didn’t like the way women were being portrayed in these videos.”


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...::You Think The Gulf Oil Spill Is Bad

The rupture of this oil pipeline in Nigeria in 2008 killed more than 100 people. In the Gulf of Mexico tragedy, 11 died.

In Nigeria, "oil companies have acted with such impunity and recklessness that much of the region has been devastated by leaks."

"In fact, more oil is spilled from the delta's network of terminals, pipes, pumping stations and oil platforms every year than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico..."

The Gulf of Mexico disaster "has made headlines round the world. By contrast, little information has emerged about the damage inflicted on the Niger delta. Yet the destruction there provides us with a far more accurate picture of the price we have to pay for drilling oil today."

More >>> Guardian newspaper of London

“We don’t have an international media to cover us, so nobody cares about it,” said Emman Mbong, a Nigeria official. “Whatever cry we cry is not heard outside of here.”

More >>> New York Times