“As a parent, or as an entrepreneur, you begin imprinting your beliefs from day one, whether you realize it or not. Once the children, or the people of the company, have absorbed those values, you can’t suddenly change their world view with a lecture on ethics. It’s difficult, if not impossible, to reinvent a company’s […]
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Doc Gooden, Gary Sheffield & Police Brutality (Part 2)
Doc Gooden discusses his encounter with police terrorism, and the deadly chokehold that was put on him: “I was joined by my nephew Gary, Vance Lovelace, my childhood friend Troy, and some other local athletes and celebrities. After the games, a bunch of us took some teenagers who were waiting for kidney transplants to a […]
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Gary Sheffield’s Perspective: “Doc loved coming home to Tampa, home to the high school and family he cared about most. One of those trips, though, turned bad. It also happened my senior year. Twenty years later, people are still talking about that night. Dwight invited me and a group of friends to a University of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” By: Dr. Joy Leary
“Since the capture and transport of the first African slaves, those brought to the shores had to deal with systematic efforts to destroy the bonds of relationships that held them together, as well as continuing efforts to have them believe themselves to be less than human. The maintenance of healthy and secure relationships is the […]
Read the rest of this entry »What Johnnie Cochran Said About Police Officers In His Autobiography
“The policeman on the street is the most powerful person in the criminal justice system. If he is in the grip of some grim private impulse or carries with him some bigoted private agenda, he can- all on his own- take your life, beat you and choose to lie about your guilt or innocence. If […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week- Part 3: “Amusing Ourselves To Death” By: Neil Postman
“…Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world. I say this in the face of the popular conceit that television, as a window to the world, has made Americans exceedingly well informed. Much depends here, of course, on what is meant by being informed. I will pass […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week- Part 2: “Amusing Ourselves To Death” By: Neil Postman
“You may get a sense of what is meant by context-free information by asking yourself the following question: How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to alter your plans for the day, or to take some action you would not otherwise […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week- Part 1: “Amusing Ourselves To Death” By: Neil Postman
“To Understand the role that the printed word played in providing an earlier America with its assumptions about intelligence, truth and the nature of discourse, one must keep in view that the act of reading in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had an entirely different quality to it than the act of reading does today. […]
Read the rest of this entry »James Brown, Police Terrorism & Black Media Ownership
“Near year’s end, Brown played a show in Knoxville Tennessee. The scene afterward was utterly familiar: handshakes with local celebs, smiles and autographs for fans. An off-duty police officer working security brusquely told Brown to get out. It was time to close the hall. The conversation with fans continued and the officer returned with more […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review: “Sweet Poison: How the World’s Most Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing Us” By: Janet Starr Hull
“Sweet Poison: How The World’s Most Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing Us- My Story,” By: Janet Starr Hull is a tome that was published in 1999 but is still shockingly relevant today. In this book, the author engagingly recounts how she discovered the deadly dangers of ingesting foods that are plied with toxic artificial ingredients. […]
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