Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA
salutes
Our Veterans!
The week of December 1, 2008 thru December 8, 2008
We love you Yvette, Charles Jr and Ruthie!
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A Safe, Caring and Enjoyable Holiday Season
From:
* Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA
* MPA-BC/Milwaukee Professionals Association Barber Cosmetology Group
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Enjoy!
Have you purchased your RED BALLticket?
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Milwaukee Professionals Association Barber Cosmetology 2008 RED BALL
December 26, 2008
Humphrey Masonic Center
790 N. Van Buren
The holiday season is fast approaching.
MPA-BC will host its 1st Annual Red Ball.
It is called:
An Evening of Elegance and Holiday Fun.
| From the Silent Auction to the selection of the Best Dressed Male and Female, from the sit down dinner to the Kwanzaa highlight, from the entertainment in 3 spots to you dancing, it will be fun, entertainment and true enjoyment. |
Attire: Evening wear with at least a corsage or boutonniere RED.
Get your ticket early.
Ticket: $50.00 PER PERSON
Table of 8: $360.00
For more information, go to:
mpadivisionbc.ning.com
Click on, Red Ball.
Did you say, it is your birthday?
We Hope YOU are having a grand Birthday today!
Looking for RECIPES?
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B Smith Recipes for the HOLIDAYS.
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B Smith
What’s For Dinner
It is Turkey Time.
TAKE A LOOK
White House Visit
The Bushes and Obamas
43rd & 44th Presidents w/wives
History
President George W. Bush - 43rd U.S. President & 1st Lady Laura Bush
welcome
President-Elect Barack H. Obama - 44th U.S. President & 1st Lady Michelle Obama to the White House.
What a historic portrait!
It’s an historic event that drinks well across the world.
President-Elect, Barack Obama
Here’s to the U.S. President-Elect, Barack Obama.
The man who is being celebrated around the world - A FIRST for any President of the United States.
How sweet it is.
November 4, 2008, it is a FAMOUS day in history.
It is the day Candidate Senator Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States..
It is the day, the first African American became President-Elect of the United States of America.
2008
Democratic Nominees
Candidate Obama - President
Candidate Biden - Vice President
More …
August 26, 2008 - Democratic Convention Nominee & Family
Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA
2008/09 Public & Technical Schools
MPA-BC Academic-Focus Apprenticeship
A DIAMONDS in the Rough Initiative
- Barber & Cosmetology Apprenticeship
1. Milwaukee Area Technical College
2. Waukesha Technical College
3. Gateway Technical College
4. Other authorized sites
- DIAMONDS in the Rough Initiative
MPA-BC/Milwaukee Professionals Association, a Membership organization and a subsidiary of the Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA Family, has initiated its education attainment leadership and beginning support for the growth of the BC/Barber Cosmetology industry. It includes:
- MPA-BC Membership affiliation and expectations of Apprenticeship students
- Strengthening the Apprenticeship process at MATC/Milwaukee Area Technical College
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CN-CFNBA College Bank
MPS/Milwaukee Public Schools Academic-Focus - Parents and Students
The Bedrock
Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA will continue to review, research, evaluate and report on the the following:
- 1. MPS DIFI/SIFI - PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT 2008/09, - Thirty-two Schools
- 2. PROJECT LEAD THE WAY
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CN-CFNBA College Bank
For List of Schools, go to:
32 Schools
BREAKING NEWS
MPA-BC Slogan - “Pass It On, Barber Cosmetology, A GROWTH Industry
MPA-BC Mission is to promote a robust BC industry that will provide support to business development, specialized talent pools, education attainment and family-supporting employment for licensed hand, skin and hair professionals.
The selection of the new slogan: “Pass It On, Barber Cosmetology, A GROWTH Industry has been added to its brand.
MPA-BC SUMMIT - HOST SPRING WAAC MEETING
MPA-BC/Milwaukee Professionals Association Barber Cosmetology Group will host a Barber Cosmetology Summit that will include a visit from the 20-member WAAC/Wisconsin Apprenticeship Advisory Council.
The BC summit will culminate a 10-month focus on business development, education attainment, skilled talent pool, salary standards and policies in the BC industry of Wisconsin, with a focus on Milwaukee and the Southeastern Wisconsin region.
“We are proud to sponsor in conjunction with a spring BC Summit, a visit from the WAAC. It is part of our special efforts to empower licensed hand, skin and nail professionals”, said Mary Glass, Founder”
RECENT NEWS
Marketplace 2008 - Reach for the Sky
Department of Commerce
Milwaukee Professionals Association Barber Cosmetology Group was on hand at the 2008 Department of Commerce Marketplace 2008 Conference as an Expo Exhibitor and attendee, October 2.
Wyndham Milwaukee Airport & Convention Center, 4747 S. Howell Avenue.
WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY
Our Exhibitors were our two (2) top BC employers:
- Darrell & Ruby Pate - Deps Halls of Fade and Deps Hair Gallery
- Gaulien “Gee” Smith - Gee’s Clippers I & II
CEO Gee Smith has 32 employees.
Co-Owners Ruby & Darrell Pate have 15 employees.
We are very proud of these top full-time employers in Milwaukee.
Membership Status
“1st corporate member”, Gaulein Smith.
Apprenticeship Status
Both Smith and The Pates are participants in WI Department of Workforce Development/Apprenticeship “Apprenticeship Program”.
Karlabeth Beste, Owner of Illustria Salon & Academy was on hand in the afternoon for support of MPA-BC, the BC industry and the Apprenticeship program that she is a part of.
CN-CFNBA No Child Left Behind Table Top Meeting
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
UW-M Union, 2200 W. Kenwood
6:00pm - 8:00pm
MPA-BC/Milwaukee Professionals Association Barber Cosmetology Group is pleased to have the DIAMONDS in the Rough and Cultural Competency Group make such a splashing opportunity.
Bold Leadership
Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA leadership is inspired by the day-to-day challenges seen in our world. It is especially acute in the City of Milwaukee due to the “deliberate” high poverty and lack of moral will on behalf of elected and neighborhood-level leadership.
If you are hurting physically, you do not need me to tell you that you are hurting. You on the other hand may ask for my assistance in relief of your pain. The onus is on the one with the pain to kick the ball off the plate. We make it a habit to kick the balls off the plate and draw attention to the imposed and self-inflicting pain.
CN-CFNBA Inner City Wireless is a member of the Smart Growth Network — at SmartGrowth.org.
CN-CFNBA is a FreePress supporter and Media Reformer
Aids Awareness Ribbon
Hear how America outrank Africa in Aids Epidemic.
CNN Report
Today Aids is a major health problem in Milwaukee and the USA for African Americans.
CN-CFNBA will run a series of information for AWARENESS.
We have added in partnership the Black Health Coalition and Milwaukee Health Department for starters, to help ensure that sex without condones is not an option and awareness for aids through use of needles.
We need you to share! Tell a Friend. Tell the Family. Be sure you are embracing and practicing the safe methods.
For more information, go to:
Black Aids Institute
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ESSENCE Magazine
CN-CFNBA UPDATES
WI State Department of Education Public Hearing
Milwaukee Public Schools DIFI Status
Milwaukee, WI - (June 9, 2008) – Campaign Neighborhood – CFNBA introduced a Parent and Public Media Campaign for the summer (June 16 – August 31) to inform and educate the parents of Milwaukee Public Schools as well as the public about the No Child Left Behind program and status of Milwaukee Public Schools.
The purpose of the campaign is to “call attention to” and “to put MPS parents”“ at the training, communication and decision making table at the national, state and local level.
The media campaign and case study will also address the following:
• Need for Milwaukee Parents at the Head of MPS table of strategic planning, training and decision making
• Need for Milwaukee Parents to be spokespersons to other parents
• Need for Milwaukee Parents advocating for their child (ren) and neighbor’s children
• Need for Milwaukee Parents to be organized “OUTSIDE” of the CONTROL of MPS hired staff
• Need for Charter and Choice parents to have dialog with MPS parents
• Need for ongoing monthly meetings by the board and staff of MPS to work with and give updates of what is being done to change the DIFI status
• Need for a monthly posting of progress - changes, updates and recommendations
• Need for specific training for each parent group for adequate knowledge for decision making
• Need for transparency and ACCESS to Board Members, Superintendent, Catherine Thome, MPS director of district and school improvement, James Davis, CIO, Title 1 staff, and anyone directly related to the DIFI improvement.
• Need for WI State Department to hold quarterly meetings for follow-up
• Need for WI State Department to provide leadership for training of parents
• Need for WI State Department to send out a communication to ALL MPS parents letting them know of the two Milwaukee meetings – what was shared and when to expect the next meeting.
• Need for WI State Department (local representatives) to hold hearings in each of the MPS School district before summer end.
• Need for the DIFI meetings for parents to ALWAYS be held according to the BEST TIME they are available.
Inter-Neighborhood Business Development
Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA
DIAMONDS in the Rough 5-month Pilot
MPA-Barber & Cosmetology Group
STATE STRATEGY SESSION - 3
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Ken Moore - DWFD/Apprenticeship, Liza Larson - MATC, Elise Garrett - Martha’s Salon, Gaulein Smith - Gee’s Clippers
July 28, 2008
Moderator:
Ken Moore, Chief Field Director
Department of Workforce Development/Apprenticeship
State Strategy Session 3 was another successful discussion that allowed for meaningful exchange of what is on the books and what are some avenues of update.
Moderator and state agency representative Ken Moore brought three other participants. They were:
- Hafeezah Ahmad - DWFD, Area Representative
- Joan Karvitz - Waukesha County Technical College
- Liza Larson - Milwaukee Area Technical College
After a thorough overview of Apprenticeship program with statistical outlook, the group discussed at length hot button areas in need of change for more quality control, continuity of training services, image upgrade and industry standards.
A candid discussion on misconcepts, enforcement, maintenance and awareness prove to be fruitful.
Action Plan
Ken agreed to work with CN-CFNBA/MPA-BC to upgrade a draft of present standards as part of the October DIAMOND in the Rough 5-month Pilot Evaluation of the 4 state agencies and the barber and cosmetology licensed practitioners - journeymen, practitioner, master, instructor.
Prior to the October meeting, contact with Milwaukee Professionals Association Barber Cosmetology, 20 industry Apprentice programs, barber and cosmetologists, Haafeezah Ahmad - DWFD, Liza Larson - MATC, Joan Karvitz - Waukesha County Technical College, monitoring agency - Workforce Development and Department of Regulations and Licensing Board.
We will also submit our findings to Senator Lena Taylor’s office in support of present legislation she has proposed on behalf of the barber and cosmetology industry.
Senator Taylor’s office was instrumental in pulling the four state agencies together as a request of Chair/CEO, Mary Glass.
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Ken and Liza
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Lisa Larson - MATC, Hafeezah Ahmad - DWFD and Joan Karvity - Waukesha County Technical College
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Not shown are:
- William Campbell - Monk’s Barber Shop
- Clarence Kelly - Admiracion Barber and Beauty Salon
- Mary Glass - CN-CFNBA & MPA-BC
MEET & GREET - JULY 14
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Charles Davis - Supporter, Al - Bartender, Latoya Stamper - AVON Representative, Clarence Kelly - Admiracion Barber & Beauty Salon, William “Monk” Campbell - Monk’s Barber Shop, Julia Means, RN - Columbia St. Mary’s
MPA-BC Meet & Greet events are to promote dialog, networking, marketing of related products, services, health care, relaxation and fundraising.
Presenters:
- Latoya Stamper, AVON products - skin, hair, nails
- Julia Means, RN - Columbia St. Mary’s — Breast Exams and Vouchers
- Clarence Kelly - Admiracion Barber & Beauty Salon — industry business highlight
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Clarence Kelly - Industry Highlight
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Latoya Stamper - AVON
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Barbara Smith - Supporter
Not pictured - Avis Nichols - New York Life
- Dee Cobbs, Licensed B&B Professional
_ Elise Garrett - Martha’s Salon
_ Joseph McGowan - JD & Sons Construction, LLC
Meet & Greet Series promote:
- Networking
- Info sharing
- Niche marketing
- Fundraising
- Enjoyment
- Paradigm Shifting
Presenters in July
• Avis Nichols – New York Life
• Clarence Kelly – Admiracion
• Julia Means, RN – Columbia St. Mary’s
• Kiera Castle – UW-M & Kay Productions
• Latoya Stamper – AVON
JULY MPA-BC STATE STRATEGY SESSION
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Date:
Monday, August 25, 2008
Place:
MSOE - Todd Weir Conference Center
1047 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI
Time:
8:45am - 12 Noon
5-Month - DIAMONDS in the Rough Initiative Workshops
State Department:
Department of Regulations & Licensing
Speaker/Moderator:
Secretary Celia Jackson
Secretary Jackson is expected to provide an in-dept picture of the DRL.
CN-CFNBA will present a B&B industry standard plan that includes the employers of Apprenticeship programs.
R.S.V.P REQUIRED - Limited seating
Email: mgurbanicongroup@yahoo.com
414/610–1044
This is the fourth month of the Diamonds in the Rough pilot Initiative, a State department representative will be present from 1) Departments of Commerce, 2)Regulation and Licensing, 3) Financial Institution and 4) Workforce Development - Apprentice) to provide information about how to access their department for support for Governor Doyle’s Wisconsin Growth - Invest in the People.
DIAMONDS in the Rough Initiative
A growth plan to encourage and empower Cultural Competency businesses in high unemployment areas of Milwaukee.
MPA-BC
Milwaukee Professionals Association Barber & Cosmetology Group
June 23, 2008
MSOE/Milwaukee School of Engineering
1047 N. Broadway
DIAMONDS in the Rough Initiative
5-month Pilot(May 19-October 31)
STATE STRATEGY SESSION #2
WI Department of Commerce
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Gaulien Smith - Gee’s Clippers, Kiera Castle - UW-M Peer/Mentoring, Elizabeth Smith - Gee’s Clippers, Laura Schmitz - UW-M Extension, Mary Glass - Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA, Seyoum Mengesha - Department of Commerce, Elise Garrett - Martha’s Hair Salon, Clarence Kelly - Admiracion Beauty Salon, Dee Cobb - Averno College
Panelists
Moderator Seyoum Mengesha - Area Manager, WI Department of Commerce
Laura Schmitz - Client Services Manager, UW-M, Small Business Development Center
Kamela Goodwyn - Business Specialist, Wisconsin Entrepreneur Network (WEN)
Kiera Castle - Acting Director
UW-M Peer/Mentoring
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Production Manager
Kay Productions
Music Mentoring Role-Modeling
Licensed Practitioners
William Campbell - Monk’s Barber Shop
- Exit Strategy - Manager Level
Mr. Monk has 50 years in the industry
Dee Cobb
- Re-Entry Strategy - Manager Level
Ms. Dee has 20 years in the industry
Gaulien Smith and Elizabeth Smith
- Gee Clippers and Hair Design
- Legacy Strategy - Manager Level
Mr. Smith - “Gee” has 13 years in the industry
Danielle Shakoor
- Gee’s Clippers - Practitioner Level
- Entry Upgrade Strategy
Elise Garrett
- Martha’s Hair, Skin, Nails Salon
- Intructor/Trainer Level
- Legacy Strategy
Clarence Kelly
- Admiracion Beauty Shop
- Manager Level
Mr. Kelly is a 28-year professional.
Mary Glass - Chair/CEO
Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA
- MPA-BC Producer, Facilitator & Project Director
Mary is giving Opening Remarks at the DOC/Department of Commerce State Strategy Session, Monday, June 23, 2008.
Great Beginning
The June attendees for the MPA-BC Department of Commerce State Strategy Session received an introduction of services from three (3) different areas that will help “ground” their organization for business development. They also met one of our recent partners in Peer/Mentoring - UW-M Links.
The presenters, Seyoum Mengesha - Department of Commerce, Laura Schmitz - UW-M, Kamela Goodwyn - WEN; and Kiera Castle - UW-M Peer/Mentoring were state-of-the-art in what is available in/for Certification, resources, networking and business strategies.
It is clear that some policy issues will need to be addressed so that a more “even playing” field is available for Licensed practitioners of the Barber and Cosmetology service industry.
Seyoum provided the group with special pocket folders for the volume of information shared.
MPA-BC participants look forward to next month’s presenter, Ken Moore, Field Director, Department of Workforce Development/Apprentice.
Book Review
Book Review: ‘Slavery by another name’
What emancipation didn’t stop after all
By Janet Maslin
Published: April 10, 2008
Slavery By Another Name The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II By Douglas A. Blackmon 468 pages. $29.95. Doubleday.
In “Slavery by Another Name” Douglas A. Blackmon eviscerates one of our school children’s most basic assumptions: that slavery in America ended with the Civil War. Blackmon unearths shocking evidence that the practice persisted well into the 20th century. And he is not simply referring to the virtual bondage of black sharecroppers unable to extricate themselves economically from farming.
He describes free men and women forced into industrial servitude, bound by chains, faced with subhuman living conditions and subject to physical torture. That plight was horrific. But until 1951, it was not outside the law.
All it took was anything remotely resembling a crime. Bastardy, gambling, changing employers without permission, false pretense, “selling cotton after sunset”: these were all grounds for arrest in rural Alabama by 1890. And as Blackmon explains in describing incident after incident, an arrest could mean a steep fine. If the accused could not pay this debt, he or she might be imprisoned.
For more info, go to article
Visit photo gallery, Slavery by Another Name
CN-CFNBA UPDATES
WI State Department of Education Public Hearing
Milwaukee Public Schools DIFI Status
Milwaukee, WI - (June 9, 2008) – Campaign Neighborhood – CFNBA introduced a Parent and Public Media Campaign for the summer (June 16 – August 31) to inform and educate the parents of Milwaukee Public Schools as well as the public about the No Child Left Behind program and status of Milwaukee Public Schools.
The purpose of the campaign is to “call attention to” and “to put MPS parents”“ at the training, communication and decision making table at the national, state and local level.
The media campaign and case study will also address the following:
• Need for Milwaukee Parents at the Head of MPS table of strategic planning, training and decision making
• Need for Milwaukee Parents to be spokespersons to other parents
• Need for Milwaukee Parents advocating for their child (ren) and neighbor’s children
• Need for Milwaukee Parents to be organized “OUTSIDE” of the CONTROL of MPS hired staff
• Need for Charter and Choice parents to have dialog with MPS parents
• Need for ongoing monthly meetings by the board and staff of MPS to work with and give updates of what is being done to change the DIFI status
• Need for a monthly posting of progress - changes, updates and recommendations
• Need for specific training for each parent group for adequate knowledge for decision making
• Need for transparency and ACCESS to Board Members, Superintendent, Catherine Thome, MPS director of district and school improvement, James Davis, CIO, Title 1 staff, and anyone directly related to the DIFI improvement.
• Need for WI State Department to hold quarterly meetings for follow-up
• Need for WI State Department to provide leadership for training of parents
• Need for WI State Department to send out a communication to ALL MPS parents letting them know of the two Milwaukee meetings – what was shared and when to expect the next meeting.
• Need for WI State Department (local representatives) to hold hearings in each of the MPS School district before summer end.
• Need for the DIFI meetings for parents to ALWAYS be held according to the BEST TIME they are available.
Date: Monday, June 23, 2008
Place:
MSOE - Todd Weir Conference Center
1047 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI
8:45am - 12 Noon
The next State Strategy Session
5-Month - DIAMONDS in the Rough Initiative Workshops
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State Department: DOC/Department of Commerce
Speaker: Seyoum Mengesha
Area Development Manager
R.S.V.P REQUIRED - Limited seating
Email: mgurbanicongroup@yahoo.com
414/610–1044
Panelists
Technical Assistance/Resources
Kamela Goodwyn
Business Specialist
WI Entrepreneurs’ Network (WEN)
Business Education/Training
Laura Schmidt
Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
UW-Milwaukee
Financial Resources
Seyoum Mengesha
Area Development Manager
WI Dep. of Commerce
Certification Program
Seyoum Mengesha
Area Development Manager
WI Dep. of Commerce
Each month of the Diamonds in the Rough pilot initiative, a State department representative will be present from 1) Departments of Commerce, 2)Regulation and Licensing, 3) Financial Institution and 4) Workforce Develoment - Apprentice) to provide information about how to access their department for support for Governor Doyle’s Wisconsin Growth - Invest in the People.
DIAMONDS in the Rough Initiative
A growth plan to encourage and empower Cultural Competency businesses in high unemployment areas of Milwaukee.
Target Audience
Owners, managers, individual practitioners, faculty, suppliers, students, and distributors are invited to the table to share dialog for best practices, customer care, safety and growth of the barber and cosmetology cultural competency industry.
They are invited to Join MPA-BC and be a part of the State Strategy Pilot (May-October, 2008).
Meter Street Parking.
Tell a Barber and Cosmetology Friend.
Milwaukee Professional Association Barber & Cosmetology Groupis a membership organization sponsored by CN-CFNBA/Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA.
What’s For Dinner
TAKE A LOOK
June 3, 2008 - Candidate Obama and wife, Michele Obama in St. Paul, MN.
History-making
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
1st African American elected for nomination for President of the United States
Meet Democratic Nominee Barack Obama
Meet Barack
Early Years
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British.
Barack’s mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton’s army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii.
It was there, at the University of Hawaii, where Barack’s parents met. His mother was a student there, and his father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams in America.
Barack’s father eventually returned to Kenya, and Barack grew up with his mother in Hawaii, and for a few years in Indonesia. Later, he moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983.
The College Years
Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment.
The group had some success, but Barack had come to realize that in order to truly improve the lives of people in that community and other communities, it would take not just a change at the local level, but a change in our laws and in our politics.
He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
Political Career
It has been the rich and varied experiences of Barack Obama’s life - growing up in different places with people who had differing ideas - that have animated his political journey. Amid the partisanship and bickering of today’s public debate, he still believes in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose - a politics that puts solving the challenges of everyday Americans ahead of partisan calculation and political gain.
In the Illinois State Senate, this meant working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.
In the U.S. Senate, he has focused on tackling the challenges of a globalized, 21st century world with fresh thinking and a politics that no longer settles for the lowest common denominator. His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent. He has also been the lead voice in championing ethics reform that would root out Jack Abramoff-style corruption in Congress.
As a member of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan. Recognizing the terrorist threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, he traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. And knowing the threat we face to our economy and our security from America’s addiction to oil, he’s working to bring auto companies, unions, farmers, businesses and politicians of both parties together to promote the greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards in our cars.
Whether it’s the poverty exposed by Katrina, the genocide in Darfur, or the role of faith in our politics, Barack Obama continues to speak out on the issues that will define America in the 21st century. But above all his accomplishments and experiences, he is most proud and grateful for his family. His wife, Michelle, and his two daughters, Malia, 9, and Sasha, 6, live on Chicago’s South Side.
LAS VEGAS - A 26-year-old entrepreneur from Texas was named Miss USA on Friday, besting 50 other beauty queens for the coveted crown.
Crystle Stewart, of Missouri City, Texas, runs a party-planning and motivational speaking company, as well as modeling professionally. She says she wants to dedicate her life to international philanthropy.
She also becomes a spokeswoman for breast and ovarian cancer awareness and other causes, while traveling to promote the organization.
Full Story
Photo Gallery
Obama Raises $55 Million in February
By Jim Kuhnhenn, AP Writer
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama raised a record $55 million in February for his presidential campaign …. All told, Obama has raised $193 million during his yearlong bid for the White House. Complete Story…
For more, go to:
NEWSVINE
Obama Raises More Than $40 Million in March
Senator Barack Obama’s campaign continued its fund-raising tear in March, …, bringing in more than $40 million, campaign officials said today.
DETAILS
Tears flow down the face of supporter Marty Nesbitt as Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks about race during a news conference in Philadelphia, Tuesday, March 18, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Race Speech
The War Behind Closed Doors
A must see - Americans should make it their business to see - more than once, Frontline’s 4-part series on how we got and are in Iraq. How Americans were duped by President George W. Bush and our present administration; likewise, the price we are all paying today and generations to come.
FRONTLINE
Another, MUST SEE documentary - $50 billion, $300 billion or $3 Trillion
Five Years In, Cost of Iraq War Far Exceeds Early Estimates
This documentary depiction a $3 Trillion cost. Take a look at how our dollars are running as you read this article.
NewsHour w/Jim Lehrer
The Kerner Commission — 40 Years Later - March 28, 2008
Bill Moyer’s Journal - PBS
THE JOURNAL looks at an update of the Kerner Commission Report, which blamed the violence on the devastating poverty and hopelessness endemic in the inner cities of the 1960s and includes an interview with former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, one of the last living members of the Kerner Commission - Talks about Milwaukee’s segregation.
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Forty years after race riots in Detroit, Newark, and dozens of other cities stunned the nation, has anything changed?
Bill Moyers interviews Newark Mayor Cory Booker for a frontline report on race and politics today.
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Hunger in America - April 11, 2008
Bill Moyer’s Journal - PBS
Food is the big story this week. We’re paying a lot more for it, a lot of people don’t have enough of it, and Washington may be about to make a bad situation worse.
First, the price of food. Rice alone has shot up by more than half in just two weeks —double its price a year ago. But corn, wheat, and other grains are sky-high, too, creating a crisis for poor people around the world.
Here at home milk prices have soared over the past year by 26%, eggs by 24%, bread by 13%. Add rising grocery prices to the higher cost of gas and electricity, throw in disappearing jobs and home foreclosures, and you can understand why people are struggling to keep food on the table.
Our government figures 28 million Americans will be using food stamps this year —the highest level since the program began in the 1960s.
Hunger in America
CASH COWS & COWBOY STARTER KITS
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL teams up with the PBS series EXPOSÉ: AMERICA’S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS to follow the trail of Washington Post reporters who uncovered more than $15 billion in “wasteful, unnecessary, or redundant expenditures” that have flowed from Washington to America’s farmers.
Farm Exposé
U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Jeremiah Wright - Attending the 36th President of the United States - Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S. Navy
REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT
Bill Moyers interviews the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in his first broadcast interview with a journalist since he became embroiled in a controversy for his remarks and his relationship with Barack Obama.
Wright, who retired in early 2008 as pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where Senator Obama is a member, has been at the center of controversy for comments he made during sermons, which surfaced in the press in March.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright - The Scholar, Patriot, the Man of God
T R A V E L
Treat yourself to learning about AFRICA, Canada, Cuba, Haiti and Australia through the Maps of Africa, Canada and Cuba, just click on the country and learn.
Map of Africa
Australia
Map of Canada
Map of Cuba
Map of Haiti
China
TianAnMen Square
Beijing, China
DOHA
A More Perfect Union
Candidate Barack Obama
by Nedra Pickler, Associated Press Writers
This is a copy of Candidate Barack Obama’s speech on Race - March 18, 2008 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It is the speech that brought tears to Marty Nesbitt eyes and mine.
Full speech,
Race Speech
“The Post-American World”
In The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria argues that the “rise of the rest” is the great story of our time.
“This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s important new work on the era we are now entering.
Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures.
He sees the “rise of the rest”—the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, and many others—as the great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States.
This economic growth is producing political confidence, national pride, and potentially international problems. How should the United States understand and thrive in this rapidly changing international climate?
What does it mean to live in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination
More Fareed
California Poet Laureate Al Young’s ‘Blues
Morning Edition, April 24, 2008 • Al Young took to writing poetry, as he describes it in one poem, “to make out the sound of my own background music.”
He’s now the poet laureate of California, celebrating National Poetry Month with a collection called Something About the Blues.
Al Young - Poet Laureate of CA
40 Years Later After April 4, 1968 - Memphis, Tennessee
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Martin Luther King Jr Photo Gallery
METRO DETROIT’S BEST SANDWICH
Ham connoisseurs delight.
Here’s a restaurant devoted to nothing but your precious pork. Fresh roasted daily and carved to order, Mike’s Famous Ham Place definitely lives up to its name.
Famous far and wide, Mike’s is a favorite of not only locals but many who have come before and now make the journey to enjoy not only the fantastic food but the friendly atmosphere, both provided by owner Junior Muftari. With the exception of desserts, ham reigns supreme on Mike’s simple menu. Running the gambit from split pea soup to eggs and toast, Mike’s believes everything tastes better served with a side of swine. —Erin Branstner Detroit Press
Mike’s Famous Ham Place
