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African-American News - December 22, 2010
African-American News a " December 21, 2010 (All Bronx News, All the Time!)
African-American News - December 21, 2010 Tuesday,December 21, 2010 African-American News - December 21, 2010 Quitting menthol cigarettes may be harder for some smokers Menthol cigarettes may be harder to quit, particularly for some teens and African-Americans, who have the highest menthol cigarette use, according to a study by a team of ... NAACP to Protest Secession Ball (Free Republic)
Members of South Carolina's NAACP will march in protest of a 'secession ball' in Charleston later this month which will commemorate the 150th anniversary of South Carolina's secession from the Union. (CNN) -- An American school founder who young Haitian men once hailed as a savior was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 20 years in prison for sexually abusing them. Douglas Perlitz, 40, was sentenced in federal court in New Haven, Connecticut, to about 19 years and 7 months behind bars for abusing the Haitian men when they were boys under his care, said Bruce Foucart, special agent in charge of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston. "We're very pleased with the sentence," he said. "He was brought to justice and I hope it sends a strong message to people who are doing that or who are even thinking about doing that." Perlitz arrived in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haitien in 1997. There, he opened a charitable school called the Project Pierre Toussiant (PPT). He got homeless boys off the streets and gave them shelter, food and education.
2010 census results give Texas four additional seats in Congress (Dallas Morning News)
Torrid growth over the last decade has earned Texas four additional seats in Congress - the state's biggest leap in political clout in a century, far outstripping any other state. Stop Defending R. Kelly (womanist-musings)
Black women are continually accused of being angry and unreasonable, when we speak out against the harmful actions of abusive, violent, rapist, Black male celebrities. The fact that some find Kelly's music pleasant to listen to, should in no way invalidate the fact that he has a history of abuse. (Yes, I remember his so-called marriage to a teen-aged Aaliyah) In the spam que, which contains comments I refuse to publish, on the various R. Kelly posts, there are a multitude of comments asking me to seek Jesus and to turn the other cheek. Only God has the right to judge I'm told, which makes me wonder why we have a judicial system in the first place. God did not create Black women to be abused by Black men because they can sing, act, or box. Everytime a Black woman allegeds wrong doing against a Black male celebrity, she was asking for it in some way, she was acting grown or she is nothing but a gold digger. It seems that once one achieves a level of fame, rape and violence are deemed an impossiblity. It is victim blaming at it's finest and it has to stop. Black history group coming to Clarksville (The Leaf Chronicle)
To educate the community, inspire youth and to commemorate Black History Month and the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Mount Olive Cemetery Historical Preservation Society will bring the group "Female Re-Enactors of Distinction" to Clarksville in early February. 
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