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        <title><![CDATA[Book Review:  "Music…like Life, is a Struggle"]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing I think we each come to appreciate music not solely for the way that it makes us feel, but because of the inherent struggle that it comes to represent. In some way a chord, lyric, and in this case a break beat come to represent so much more than a song...it can symbolize a particular moment in one's life or an entire lifetime. Music is transformative in that way. If you speak to the earliest blues musicians they would tell you that the blues was something much bigger than a song, but represented the joys and the pains of life. It was not just a musical genre, but also the very essence of an expressive culture. The latest incarnation of American music--hip-hop is no different. Born from similar oppression and injustice, hip-hop was the child borne of the oppressive public policies and the urban decay of the South Bronx in New York City. Hip-hop and its associative culture is truly what Tupac called, "The Rose the Grew from Concrete." In "It's Just Begun: The Epic Journey o]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[All You Need To Know About Law Firm Diversity]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer The American Lawyer released its Diversity Scorecard 2010 issue this week.  Reading it, we were reminded of that quote often attributed to Malcolm X:  When White America catches a cold, Black America catches pneumonia.
Full report here:  Before reading the highlights provided below, you might want to take a Xanax.
One Step Back:  For the first time [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Minority Law Firms:  Show Me The Money]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer $30 Million pledged to Minority- and Women-Owned Firms:
Prudential and about a dozen other companies, including DuPont and Microsoft, pledged Thursday to spend $30 million in 2010 on minority- and women-owned law firms.
In-house lawyers at DuPont and Prudential hatched the idea and recruited in-house lawyers at other companies to build a larger coalition, Blount tells us. [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Minorities Losing Ground in BigLaw]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer This seems to be a last hired, first fired scenario:
Deferred start dates for first-year associates at many firms may help explain what became of some of the missing minority attorneys. Because our survey asked for data as of Sept. 30, 2009, deferred first-years were not included in the firms&#8217; head count. (Milbank, for instance, deferred [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[AG Holder Gives Annual Race Speech]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Due to &#8220;Snowmageddon&#8221; this year Black History Month came in March at the Justice Department.  Mr. Holder gave a shout out to the Spingarn Senior High School JROTC Color Guard and Howard University Gospel Choir (who no doubt rocked it) before ruminating on the distance this country has let to travel on the issue of [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Law School Rankings > Law School Diversity]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer U.S. News &#38; World Report is catching it from all sides in the legal community.  They are being slammed for trying to rank law firms and accused of contributing to the decrease in minority law students.  At its midyear meeting, the ABA passed a resolution to &#8220;study&#8221; these so called &#8220;rankings.&#8221;
This recent study in the Southern California [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Carlos Moore Wins $12M Award For His Client]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer It was a good day in snowy Mississippi for Carlos Moore and his client, Michael Archie.  From the Greenwood Commonwealth:
A Leflore County jury decided Tuesday for Michael Archie.
It set the price of his ability to use the lower half of his body at $12 million.
The a-mount is to be paid by the owner and security [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Website Posts Naked NBA Player Pics; Lawyers Have Pissing Contest]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Earlier this month, TheDirty.com posted nude pictures of San Antonio Spurs Point Guard George Hill.  The photos show Hill in a Spurs cap (and little else).  Hill had apparently texted the pictures along with some revealing text messages to his jump off (he apologized to his girlfriend in an open letter to his fans) about [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is the Criminal Justice System “The New Jim Crow?”]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Jarvious Cotton’s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[ABA Report Calls For More “Nuanced” Diversity]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer The American Bar Association met in Orlando, FL for its 2010 Midyear Meeting, where it formally issued its &#8220;Diversity in the Legal Profession:  The Next Steps&#8221; Report. According to the ABA Diversity Commission:
Diversity approaches, according to the study, need to be inclusive, not pigeon-holing lawyers into affinity groups by discrete racial and ethnic categories, gender, [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Disparate Impact Claim Against Covington Proceeds]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer From The ABAJournal:
A former staff attorney of Covington &#38; Burling can proceed with her federal discrimination claim over the law firm&#8217;s policy of assigning work, based on a disparate impact theory.
However, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton found that Yolanda Young had waited too long to bring a similar claim that the firm&#8217;s refusal to promote her [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Former Howrey Associate Files Discrimination Suit]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer From The National Law Journal:
Kamisha Menns, a black woman born in Jamaica, says in the complaint, filed in D.C. Superior Court on Wednesday, that Howrey violated the D.C. Human Rights Act by retaliating against her, creating a hostile work environment, and inflicting emotional distress, both intentionally and negligently. Menns has asked for $30 million.
According the complaint, [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hell Hath No Fury Like YaVaughnie Scorned!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Oracle president Charles Phillips is worth over $100 million.  The NYU New York Law School graduate may need every penny to smooth over the mess created by his mistress&#8217; public chronicling of their 8-year affair.

A billboard displaying a picture of the executive and his mistress, YaVaughnie Wilkins, during happier times went up recently in Atlanta, [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Moonlighting as NFL Cheerleader–New Trend?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Last week in a story about the dearth of marriageable black men we brought you Nicole Marchand, a Prosecutor by day and Atlanta Falcons cheerleader by night (and weekends).  We had assumed this was an anomaly; however, our friends over at Above The Law has found another one.
From ATL:
An ATL reader alerted us that Raven Akram, an [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Percentage of Black Law Students Drops]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer With high law school debt and low attorney employment we are left to ponder whether the decrease in African American enrollment is indeed a bad thing.  According to The American Lawyer, a study by Columbia Law School&#8217;s Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic noted the following:
Over the relevant 15-year period, the study &#8212; conducted in [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Howard Law Grad, Kasim Reed, Takes Helm As Mayor of Atlanta]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Watch Kasim Reed take the oath of office as Mayor of Atlanta.

According to his campaign:
Mayor-Elect Kasim Reed was raised in the Cascade community. He was educated in Fulton County&#8217;s public schools where he graduated from Utoy Springs Elementary School and Westwood High School (now Westlake High School) and went to Howard University, where he received [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Philly’s First Black DA, Seth Williams, Sworn In]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Today Philadelphia gets its first ever African American District Attorney.  From Philly 57:
A longtime assistant prosecutor has easily been elected Philadelphia&#8217;s first black district attorney.
Forty-two-year-old Seth Williams will be the city&#8217;s first new DA in nearly 20 years.
He will succeed longtime incumbent Lynne Abraham, who did not seek another term. She has served in the [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[All the Single Lawyers]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Nicole Marchand is a beautiful 31 year old attorney, who is surrounded by black men&#8211;during the week she prosecutes them and on Sundays she roots for them as an Atlanta Falcons cheerleader.  Still this aspiring judge does not have a husband.  Will the madness?  Steve Harvey says not until black women start dating older men [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Chicago Law Student Considers Congressional Run]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer The soon to be 25 yr. old William Godwin has formed an exploratory committee to weigh a run for the 8th District of Mississippi.  The former Hill staffer attended Georgetown University and the London School of Economics.  Here&#8217;s a head-scratcher&#8211;he&#8217;s worked for both Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Democratic Illinois U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Following Settlement Conference, Former Clifford Chance Associate Drops Race Discrimination Lawsuit]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer In March 2008, New York attorney, Caroline Memnon, filed a discrimination lawsuit against Clifford Chance and Sullivan &#38; Worcester LLP. She sued Clifford Chance for blacklisting her after she agreed to leave in 2002 and failing to give her a contracted-for letter of recommendation. According to her complaint, Big Law refused to employ her for [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Let's Quit the Pulpittin'!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing (He'll be back.&nbsp; Just wait.)I told a number of people that I was not going to comment on Tiger Woods, and have tried not to. However, with the continued media blitz that has become the "24hr Tiger News cycle" (ESPN has given him his own ticker on their family of networks) and the recent announcement that he was taking an indefinite leave from golf prompted me to write (outside of the 140 characters allowed me on Twitter). Let me state from the outset--I am a Tiger Woods fan and have been one since I started playing golf in 1996.&nbsp; Even before that, I was intrigued by the game as I watched Calvin Peete and Jim Dent as a kid. To get more exposure to the game, I worked as a caddy at Glen Echo Country Club, one of the oldest and historic golf courses in my hometown of St. Louis. Thus, I became quite aware of the culture around the game, the good and the bad. Historically, golf has not been that inviting to African Americans.&nbsp; Despite that fact, we continued to play (shout ou]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Law students are no doubt discovering that it&#8217;s going to take more than an appointment with Career Services to secure a legal job in this economy.  It&#8217;s going to take some hustle, moxie and probably a bit of entrepreneurial spirit.  To help you along, Bizunesh Scott, Esq. has founded Advice &#38; Counsel PLLC.  From the [...]]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing By Tikia K. HamiltonAdmittedly, a friend had prepared me  in advance for some of the inadequacies to be found in Chris Rock's  film Good Hair, and I am probably a bit behind the rest of the  world (and I do mean rest of the world, see problems with film below)  in viewing it. Still, it left me with a few thoughts...The very first  problem with the movie is that it is told through the eyes of a person  who can never truly experience what it means to be a black woman living  amidst a world of images that reinforce the notion that, while black  can sometimes be trendy, it can never truly represent the highest attainment  of beauty.&nbsp;While Rock might be able to sympathize with his daughters  and perhaps even a wife addicted to "creamy crack," he is  in some ways like the whites and Asians (and Indians) whom he criticizes  for their “blacksploitation” in profiting from black women’s hair  obsessions.&nbsp; Of course, that he is a comedian makes the film at  times comical, but, in]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Last week TheRoot.com published it’s first ever The Root 100.  According to its editors:
The Root 100 is a newly minted honor intended to celebrate the leadership, service and excellence of African-American men and women whose passion, dedication and innovative work have set them apart. The Root 100 is the manifestation of a core component [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Law Firm Recruiter, Ron Jordan Offers OBABL Readers Career Advice]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer OBABL has heard from many attorneys and law students seeking career advice, so we’ve decided to partner with Ron Jordan, the founding Principal of Carter-White &#38; Shaw.  With more than thirteen years of experience in attorney placement and law firm mergers and acquisitions, Ron has successfully placed many law firm partners and facilitated mergers [...]]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer The National Law Journal has a lengthy story on the lack of diversity in the legal profession.  It seems we lag behind accountants, dentists, and even doctors.  While there are several initiatives and institutions&#8211;Call to Action, Minority Corporate Counsel Association, the ABA&#8217;s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Legal Profession, and the Center [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Thankful 31st...]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing I thought I would take the opportunity to write something briefly about my day of birth.&nbsp; This is, however, not an attempt and at promotion or some weird intellectual vanity, but a young man taking an honest inventory of himself (hopefully briefly as I have the tendency to be long winded sometimes). On this day at 4:06pm at Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, Norma and Vernon Mitchell welcomed their first child into the world--Me!&nbsp; Now thirty-one years later, here I am. So where is "here" and "Who Am I"?This birthday has been quite a reflective one as I have looked back over my brief life and thought about "What have I done?"(especially since I am now on the other side of thirty).&nbsp; Was Jay-Z right? is this the new twenty?&nbsp; I'm not so sure.&nbsp; I would like to think so since my generation is doing thing much later than my parents' generation did.&nbsp; My sister left me a voice mail message this morning where she mentioned, "Brother it is time to start looking]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Prominent Civil Rights Lawyer, Raymond A. Brown, who represented the Black Panthers and Rubin &#8220;Hurricane&#8221; Carter, has died.  From the New York Times:

Mr. Brown, a tall, slender man blessed with the courtroom gifts of a strong voice, sweeping arm gestures and a prowling gait, developed his ardor for civil rights as an African-American soldier sent [...]]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer The Minority Law Journal reports that top in-house lawyers fear erosion of law firm diversity efforts.  They quote our &#8220;Call to Action&#8221; hero, Roderick Palmore, General Mills Executive VP &#38; General Counsel and Microsoft GC Brad Smith:
The danger is that the progress we have made on diversity will erode,&#8221; says Roderick &#8220;Rick&#8221; Palmore, general [...]]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer The New York Law Journal reports that a gang member convicted of murdering a 14 year old was granted a new trial because prosecutors repeatedly referred to him by his unfortunate nickname.  Hmmm&#8230;C-Murder take note:
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing This past Friday not just Americans, but likely the world was shocked by the announcement that the 44th President of the United States, Mr. Barack Hussien Obama was selected as the 2009 Awadee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Obama himself mentioned in his comments at the White House Rose Garden that he was, "surprised and deeply humbled by the decision of the Nobel Committee." Of course this has not been enough for both many of supporters and all of his detractors and socio-political enemies. He seems live in a world where he is damned if he does or damned if he doesn't...no matter what it is. I read and re-read several blogs and op-ed pieces before writing this post today.&nbsp; Once such post by NYTimes columnist Thomas L. Friedman entitled, "Peace (Keepers) Prize." He makes the argument that "The Nobel committee did President Obama no favors by prematurely awarding him its peace prize." He goes on to say "...and it dismays me that the most important prize in the world has been devalu]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Prominent Civil Rights Lawyer, Raymond A. Brown, who represented the Black Panthers and Rubin &#8220;Hurricane&#8221; Carter, has died.  From the New York Times:
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing Hanging out in the studio...reppin' the STL with Maxwell(l to r, Me, Shedrick, Keyon (in front), Max, and Keyon's brother Emmanuel)  Maxwell not only has the hottest new album out, but his new tour might equal, if not eclipse the accolades that the studio production is receiving. After an eight year hiatus, Maxwell is back and this weekend his BLACKsummers'night Tour will hit St. Louis.Maxwell's new album boasts a sound that blends love with laughter, pain with perseverance. BLACKsummers'night is the marriage of Maxwell's soulful, intimate, and inspiring vocals to the superb musicianship of an outstanding band. Two of those band members, Shedrick Mitchell and Keyon Harrold, are St. Louis natives that are excited about their homecoming this Friday.For both Shedrick and Keyon the black church was an integral part of their musical and personal coming of age. Shedrick began playing the piano and organ for his grandfather's congregation and later for his father's church, (both located in Ki]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer From the St. Petersburg Times:
In a highly embarrassing mea culpa, Florida&#8217;s powerful trial lawyer lobby admitted Wednesday that it was behind an ugly race-baiting flier in a recent North Florida Senate election.
&#8220;Morally and politically, it was indefensible,&#8221; said Scott Carruthers, executive director of the Florida Justice Association, the trial bar group, who said its leaders [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[There is WORK to be Done!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing On this Sunday morning I sat reflected on one of my favorite parables from the Bible. It is the story of the rich man who was a fool.  Found in the twelfth chapter of Luke, verses 13-21, it recounts the all too familiar story of a man who is only concerned with himself and while he wades in the waters of self-righteousness and selfishness, he famously extols that he will build bigger store houses for himself then he will relax, “eat drink and be merry.”  That parable is still apropos today.

     Over the past few months it seems that many of the one-time “die hard” supporters of President Obama have become that rich man in one way or another. They say that he is not as progressive as he should be.  They question whether or not he is cowering too much to corporate interests and the associative lobbies.  They wonder if the GOP has his number, as they search for meaning themselves.  Some have even gone as far as to question Mr. Obama’s integrity not just as a poli]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer In his 89 years, Frank Morton has blazed a trail that will be hard for any black attorney to follow.  From the Lakewood Ranch Herald:
Really, it all started in the late 1700s, when Carruthers Stanly, Morton’s great-great-great-grandfather, was emancipated from slavery at age 21 and became a wealthy plantation and barber shop owner.
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Ms. Kimberly Miller is a 2000 graduate of the Florida State University College of Law. She has a Bachelors of Science in Criminology and is in the process of obtaining Masters in Political Management at the George Washington University.  Social Justice is Ms. Miller’s passion and politics is her vehicle for change. Currently, Ms. [...]]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing Sheer Genius! Pryor was a man before his time.President Obama had a similar look when he was heckled, but couldn't react as "President Pryor" did, but I'm sure he wanted to. Would this be life imitating art?]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing Embedded video from CNN VideoSouth Carolina as a state is known historically for showing incredible audacity to do what others will not, no matter what the circumstance for what they believe is right, no matter how wrong it is. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina passed an ordinance of secession.  This was the pivotal step that paved the way for the strategy of separate state secession. South Carolina was arguably the most extreme pro-slavery state in the Union and it seemed logical to Southern Democrats that any fight over maintaining the peculiar institution should be fought in one of their strongholds.  Not surprisingly, it was also in South Carolina at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861 that the first shots were fired in the Civil War.Another shot was fired tonight during President Obama's speech to the nation regarding healthcare.  The shot rang from the mouth of Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina.  During the President's speech, Wilson yelled, "You Lie!" to the top of his lungs, mirro]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing Seems Like a Parenting Problem To Meby Mark Anthony NealPresident Obama’s planned address to the nation’s school children on Tuesday has generated criticism as some of his political opponents argue that he is using the opportunity to, at best, infect America’s classrooms with partisan politics and, at worst, indoctrinate them with a radical and “socialist” agenda. Never before has such an address been subject to the kind of scrutiny that the president’s rather innocuous call for good grades and a stay in school mentality has. There is little doubt that the uproar over the president’s address is just further evidence of efforts by some to try to delegitimize the presidency of Barack Obama—like those in the birthers movement—and a desire by political opponents to deny Obama any political goodwill in the midst of a heated debate over health care.I’d like to suggest that some of the apprehensions surrounding the president’s speech are also the product of a general fee]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing I think I was in sixth grade when Spike Lee’s film School Daze came out around 1988.  I vividly remember reenacting, with as much precision as I could muster, the steps of the “Brothers of A-Phi-A”, not knowing what a “fraternity” was. Ironically enough I ended up joining that most distinct brotherhood of Alpha Phi Alpha once I went to college (shout out my bros from Zeta Alpha Chapter).  What I found most perplexing about the movie, aside from filling my head with notions of the social and intellectual promise of higher education, was trying to figure out what the last scene in the movie meant. “Wake up?  Huh? What does that have to do with anything,” I wondered. As a twelve-year-old kid I didn’t know…even when I got to high school I still did not understand what Spike’s vision was for the last scene of the movie.  In it, just as the sun breaks through the clouds rising over the eastern sky, Laurence Fishburne’s character, “Dap” rings a historic bell at the c]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Gov. Steve Beshear continues to fulfill his diversity pledge by appointing Brian Edwards, an African-American lawyer to Jefferson Circuit Court.  From the Courier-Journal:


Brian Edwards, is currently a sole practitioner who handles criminal and civil cases. He also has taught for the past two years in the University of Louisville&#8217;s Department of Pan-African Studies and served [...]]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing Roland Martin faces off with Jim Greer, Chairman of Florida GOP, about Obama's speech to American's youth. I do not recall the same type of "enthusiasm" about any other president speaking to school age children in our nation...EVER. In the calls for socialism, where is the cry for nationalism? Oh, that's right we have a "subversive" in the White House now.  I'm just waiting for the new McCarthy Era to begin...maybe it already has.  My country is such an interesting place.  Gotta love it.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing Amidst the urban decay of post-industrial centers like Detroit, someone is meeting a need for revolution.  It is a revolution of access and opportunity.  It is a revolution of the body and what we put into it. It is a revolution of lifestyle. Across this nation, large numbers of folk who live in the most depressed urban areas have access to plenty of liquor and non-healthy food (if you want call it food).  Again in Detroit, and similar cities, there are plenty of liquor stores, and no grocery stores...places that call themselves groceries do not have the type of produce that is needed to provide folk with quality diets.  Such situations are ripe for those who are socio-economically dispossessed to continue to be so. But this is how capitalism works right? There are "winners" and "losers", are they not?  Despite the lack of federal and state support, "Five days a week, the Peaches & Greens truck winds its way through the streets as a loudspeaker plays R&B and puts out the call: "Nutriti]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing If you haven't already heard, hip-hip pioneer, Roxanne Shante's so called "revenge" where she allegedly got her record label to pay for her education is a farce. She still has my respect for what she contributed to the music and the culture of hip-hop, but this situation leaves me shaking my head in disillusionment. Read the story HERE (Slate.com).]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Yolanda Young has amended her complaint against her former law firm, Covington &#38; Burling LLP to include a disparate claim.
YoungvCovington-amended-complaint:
Through its pattern and practice, Defendant, Covington &#38; Burling LLP, systematically relegates its black attorneys to its lowest rung of practicing attorneys––the position of staff attorney. Firm policy bans the promotion of staff attorneys to the [...]]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer During his time on the bench, the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist was called racially insensitive and clandestine.  We don&#8217;t cast judgement here; however, his writings do seem to suggest he had quite the sense of humor.
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Elie Mystal is a man obsessed.  From his perch as Editor of About The Law he has encouraged law grads buried under student loan debt to emigrate, sacrifice and revolt in order to right student loan wrongs.
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing I don't know about you, but I am really appreciating former ESPN contributor, Stephen A. Smith's socio-political commentary. On the Ed Show on MSNBC, he lets this guy from PETA have it! They get into a discussion about whether or not Michael Vick should play in the NFL.  The issue that I find more disturbing that the PETA representative says  Michael Vick needs to undergo a psychological evaluation--by a neurologist and psychologist, then maybe he can play football. Yes, you read right, he says Vick should have a brain scan!  Don't take my word however, watch for yourself.  Is it just me or is Vick becoming a modern day Bigger Thomas?]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer This morning&#8217;s USA Today features advice from Darden Restaurants CEO Clarence Otis on surviving the recession.  The head overseer of Olive Garden and Red Lobster had some interesting things to say about pinching pennies, but nothing about how he made the jump from Big Law to the big time.  For that we go to JRank.
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing Forgiveness--It is a word that many of us loosely throw around like “love.” We say it, often want and need it at some point in our lives, but do we really mean it or even know what it means? How do we define forgiveness? In the book of Matthew (18:21-22) the disciple Peter asks Christ about forgiveness, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Until seven times?”  Christ’s reply was that you should forgive your brother seventy times seven.That’s a lot.Michael Vick seems to test some our collective ability to forgive and also to judge one’s actions. Vick was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles yesterday and it has been the top news story across sports media outlets around the country.  Moments ago an official press conference was held to publicly announce him as part of the team. Vick, surrounded by Coach Andy Reid and former NFL coach and now mentor, Tony Dungy, made yet another series of apologies for his actions and it still seems to some that i]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Judge Pauline Drake graduated from Tuskegee University in 1974, Secondary Education:  Social Studies, English, University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) Master in Special Education, Graduated in December, 1984 University of Florida Law School.   Judge Drake was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1986.  She is currently a County Court Judge in Duval County.  Judge Drake was appointed [...]]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing Recently, the clown on FOXNews,  Glenn Beck, proclaimed that President Obama has "a deep seated hatred for white people."  I grow so weary of this continued racist projection.  The real racist is Beck himself.Beck fans the flames of white angst and backlash that still exist in this nation that see any gains by anyone other than them as a direct negative to their socio-economic position in this republic.  My honest thought is that extreme views like Beck's while in the minority, do represent a thought in this nation that hearkens back to Alabama Governor George C. Wallace. White politicians like him sounded just like their confederate forefathers.  They mixed populism with white supremacy (though some may argue they are one in the same).  Sworn in on the very spot that Jefferson Davis was as president of the confederate States of America, Wallace boldly proclaimed, on January 14, 1963 "In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and tos]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Now that Supreme Court Nominee, Sonia Sotomayor is headed to One First Street, we can finally admit that without the fallout from her highly criticized comment that &#8220;a wise Latina&#8221; might reach better conclusions than white males, her confirmation hearings would&#8217;ve been a real yawn. Thank God for her &#8220;rhetorical flourish!&#8221;
While her professional capacity demands [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Kodak Caves:  Settles Race Disc. Lawsuit for $21 Mil]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Eastman Kodak will pay between $1,000 and $75,000 to over 3000 current and former employees.  What&#8217;s left of the $21.4 million dollar settlement will be shared among attorneys.
From WaPo via AP:
The settlement comes a decade after Kodak paid $10 million in back wages and granted $3 million in annual raises to correct disparities in pay [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[SHOCKER:  Minority Women Don’t Stay At Firms]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer A study by Catalyst, a nonprofit committed to expanding business opportunities for women, has found that 75% of women of color leave their law firms within five years.  The report, Women of Color in U.S. Law Firms, emphasizes that the potential cost of replacing an attorney is equal to her total salary and benefits.  Catalyst [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[MoFo’s Ketanji Brown Jackson Looks to Join The Posse]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Ketanji Brown Jackson graduated magna cum laude and cum laude from Harvard and HLS where she was an editor on the Harvard Law Review.  She then clercked for three federal judges not the least of which was Justice Stephen G. Breyer. (Wonder what she did with that big bonus firms like to lavish SCOTUS clerks&#8230;)  Before [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Prof. Verna Williams on The First (Black) Lady]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: On Being A Black Lawyer Professor Verna Williams of Cincinnati College of Law has been close friends with First Lady Michelle Obama since their days at Harvard Law.  Ms. Williams partnered with Mrs. Obama in Moot Court, supported the Obamas&#8217; courtship and marriage and championed Mrs. Obama&#8217;s role during her husband&#8217;s presidential run.  Now the former DOJ attorney and Sidley [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Symptoms or the Disease]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing It's easy to blame the messenger. When it came to CNN's Black In America this was no exception. Correspondent Soledad O'Brien received her fair share of shame and blame for how the documentary turned out. She was the most visible symbol, the most accessible face and the easiest target. But did she deserve it?I was recently asked if Soledad O’Brien wasn’t the host of the documentary would I still be upset about the airing of the show? My answer to that is an emphatic “YES”!!! O’Brien is but a pawn in a larger game by the so called “left-leaning” media corps that will defend this documentary. They will claim that Black in America 2 and its previous installment show the diversity of this nation, while I see it as an attempt at getting ratings at the expense of the African Americans.Click Here to read the rest...THE RETORT It’s time to talk back.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE, JULY 6, 2009]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Nat Turner in Bryant Gumbel's Clothing THE RETORT It’s time to talk back.For those that view my blog regularly (how ever few of you there are) let me say that I appreciate you reading my thoughts and views on the myriad of topics I cover. I would like to announce that I will be joining a host of other black progressive bloggers in the creation of The RETORT.The Retort is a critical and analytical response to CNN's Black America 2.  When the original documentary series aired it drew a lot of attention most of which I found was negative.  However, journalist Soledad O'Brien is back for another installment of what promises to be more of the same, maybe not. As such we aim to answer questions and concerns about the series.  Was this critique by the station warranted? Was it a true-to-form examination of black life, or was it a primer for the uninitiated? What was CNN's motivation? How could they make it better? Or was it necessary at all?The Retort, will feature the work of bloggers Jay Anderson of AverageBro, Danielle Belton]]></description>
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