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Black Youth Vote!

Our Voices! Our Issues! Our Politics!

Black Youth Vote! is a broad based coalition of organizations and individuals committed to increasing political and civic involvement among black men and women aged 18-35. BYV! is youth led and dedicated to educating young voters in the Black community who are increasingly disenfranchised and alienated from the electoral and legislative process. Through civic education, leadership development and training, BYV! works to educate youth and young adults on how to identify issues and ways to influence public policy.

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About the Dogon Village

Founded over 11 years ago, Dogon Village is a grassroots site dedicated to providing a vehicle for Blacks of the Diaspora to get the word out to the community globally.

Dogon is read “Dog-On” by some and Dogon by others. We believe that it takes a Dog-On Village to raise a child and that proper education requires a thorough knowledge of history including the ancient Dogon tribe of Mali located in the Homburi Mountains just outside of Timbuktu. Children, elders and technically savvy remember to click on the “Dog On” Village and upon arrival, encounter an experience that informs, educates, motivates, validates, and invigorates.

The Dogon Village Digital Hit Squad (DHS) partners with civic organizations to help encourage citizens to register and vote. In 2000, the DHS made history successfully mobilizing the Black Community in Phoenix Arizona for the first legally sanctioned online elections ever. The DHS set up computer access in barber shops, churches, and community centers allowing people to register and vote online. Featured in USA Today, the DHS was credited with contributing to a historic increase in voter turnout.

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Join our concert performance tour. First Stop = Cali

The BBS Value Tour is an entertainment and business development product that showcases, core values and business etiquette, fine art, independent performance artists, business supporters as well as businesses of the members of Black Business Space, a program of the National Black Business Trade Association, via a concert performance tour uniquely enhanced by fine art exhibits and a business resource publication. The BBS Value Tour was designed to "Bring the Value of CommUNITY to a city n… Continue

Posted by W. Lazone Grays on April 23rd, 2008 at 10:22am — No Comments (Add)

Thoughts from The Dream Re-Born Conference

So, here I am at the dream reborn conference in Memphis learning more about green living. That is my new term. GREEN LIVING- is doing everything in your life Green. This means that we work green jobs or have offices that are green and have green homes and green cars. Okay, I know I am probably pushing it, but the point here is that we as people should strive to live every part of our lives as sustainably as possible. We waste way too much. It’s time that we start taking responsibility as individ… Continue

Posted by Illai Kenney on April 5th, 2008 at 1:49pm — No Comments (Add)

Introduction

My name is Jim Neusom. I'm an online entrepreneur and freelance journalist. I publish a bi-monthly online journal "The City Lights Reporter" that focuses on Afrocentric and multicultural issues, people and technology. You can review some of my past articles at http://www.citylightssoftware.com/reporterindex.html. I hope the group accepts me as part of this esteemed community. I believe I can be a positive contributor to this online community in many areas but after you review this introduction,… Continue

Posted by Jim Neusom on March 18th, 2008 at 9:56pm — No Comments (Add)

Barack Obama on Race

The Pre-Game Show: Clinton News Network (CNN) and all of the other stations sat on pins and needles waiting on Barack to make his speech. Every station had their people and their "experts" tell what they though Barack would say and how he would say it. They also told what they thought he should talk about. The anchorwoman on Fox news network had Barack Obama's speech in her hand and almost read it out loud! If there is an embargo on the speech please don’t wave it around in front of the camera a… Continue

Posted by Illai Kenney on March 18th, 2008 at 12:58pm — No Comments (Add)

Unity: The Black Campaign Hosts Economic Justice Forums In Toledo And Youngstown, Ohio

Labor, civic, and business leaders will discuss middle class jobs for working people, closing the wealth and health gap, and extensive get-out-the-vote efforts in Ohio As top financial analysts debate whether the US economy is headed toward a recession, countless people from communities of color are already facing foreclosure, bankruptcy, and unemployment. The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation’s (NCBCP) Unity ’08 Campaign will host two Economic Justice Forum’s in Ohio to talk abou… Continue

Posted by Edrea Davis on March 3rd, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments (Add)

Black Youth Vote! hosts community forums in Dallas and Houston featuring BET's Jeff Johnson

Dallas, Houston, TX - After successfully galvanizing young voters for the primaries in South Carolina, Virginia, DC, Alabama and Georgia, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation’s (NCBCP) youth division, Black Youth Vote! (BYV) will host Justice Speak Out’s in Dallas, Sunday, March 2, and Houston on Monday, March 3. In addition to extensive get-out-the-vote efforts, BYV! launched the Justice Speak Out Tour to mobilize young voters around issues that impact them. The town hall type fo… Continue

Posted by Edrea Davis on March 3rd, 2008 at 10:57am — No Comments (Add)

How To Shoot A Cop...(This Is The Revolution)

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Learn How To Shoot A Cop Without Going To Jail. An exclusive doumentary on the NYPD right here on the streets of Harlem. Witness Police getting followed, questioned, and interrogated, kinda how they do to certain people. Gaurenteed Nothing You Ever Seen Before! Cliffy Barz Also Has Plans Of Pitching This To HBO. There Are 3 Simple Steps On How To Shoot A Cop. Step 1 Get A…

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Posted by Cliffy Barz on December 10th, 2007 at 7:38pm — No Comments (Add)

California NAACP ratifies Resolution in support of "King Is Ours" Protest Movement

Martin Luther King Memorial Project Resolution 11

To repatriate the proposed Monument to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from the People's Republic of China by demanding that African American Artists be named Artists-of-Record, and that American Granite is utilized;

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Posted by Gilbert Young on November 10th, 2007 at 4:48pm — No Comments (Add)

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Its Over, Lady! - By Maureen Dowd

Although I have to say Senator Clinton looked and acted quite plesant during Unity, I hope she is not Senator Obama's choice for Vice President.

Here's a cute column on the disUnity at Unity.

Unity was spared the banality of unanimity.

Carmella Lewis, with her Hillary T-shirt and Hillary placard, came all the way from Denver to make sure there would be plenty of ambiguity, duality and ferocity in Unity.

Just as Hillary was testing out the unfamiliar familiarity Barack and me Friday and talking about his grace and his grit, Carmella began loudly booing and waving her sign.

We want Hillary! screamed the 57-year-old retired ad saleswoman and Clinton delegate.

Its over, lady! yelled some Obama supporters a few yards away. For the full story go to the New York Times

Michelle Obama: Ain't She A Woman?

I was wondering when someone was going to talk about the attack on Michelle Obama and the lack of response from so-called feminists. Thanks to Gary Flowers, executive director of the Black Leadership Forum for exposing the card carrying feminists for what they really are. There were a handful that did speak out on Mrs. Obama's behalf but for the most part, the pro-women don't care if Mrs. Obama is attacked. Do you think it's because she doesn't wear pant suits?

Michelle Obama: Ain't She A Woman?by Gary L. Flowers, NNPA

Sororal treatment has linked Sojourner Truth and Michelle Obama in history.

In 1843, a domestic servant in up-state New York whose given name was Isabella Van Wagenen changed her birth name to one that would reflect her mission in life - Sojourner Truth.

In 1843, a domestic servant in up-state New York whose given name was Isabella Van Wagenen changed her birth name to one that would reflect her mission in life -Sojourner Truth.

Her life's journey would lead her to be revered for her stature, intellect, and fearlessness. Like Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth was one of the first Black feminists to publicly assert that Black women should be viewed as total human beings.
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Michelle Obama called the picture of graciousness, style and extraordinary intelligence

America's new Jackie O is called Michelle, supporters say

WASHINGTON (AFP) Michelle Obama, the wife of the presumptive Democratic contender for the White House, has come under fire for being allegedly unpatriotic, pushy, even racist.

She has been called her husband's "bitter half" and "Mrs Grievance" by conservative media, who claim she harbors a grudge against whites and is forever moaning.

....The hour-long appearance on ABC Television's "The View" won the towering mother of two (Obama is five feet, 11 inches -- around one meter 82 centimeters) heaps of praise for everything from her dress sense to her intelligence.

"She comes across as incredibly bright," Frank Settipani, a cancer doctor and haematologist from Colorado told AFP of the Princeton and Harvard educated Obama.

Thyra Lees-Smith of Los Angeles said in an entry on Obama's Facebook page that she was "the picture of graciousness, style and extraordinary intelligence" on The View.
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McCain: I 'Didn't Love America' Until Held Prisoner

The Huffington Post has a video of Sen. John McCain saying "I didn't really love America until I was deprived of her company." McCain made the stateent in an interview on Fox News on March 13, 2008. Watch the video at The Huffington Post.

So much for the smear campaign against Michelle Obama.

Demand Fox stop race baiting and fear mongering

After Senator Obama won the Democratic nomination, he and his wife gave each other a "pound" in front of the camerasa Fox anchor called it a "terrorist fist jab." Then last week, a Fox News on-screen graphic referred to Michelle Obama as "Obama's baby mama"an attempt to associate the Obamas with racist stereotypes.

Tell Fox News chief Roger Ailes to stop racism before it hits the airwaves, and make it clear that you'll take action when another racist smear happens.
Click here to send a letter to Roger Ailes, president of Fox News.

Poll: Obama leads McCain in swing states

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama is leading Sen. John McCain in the crucial swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, according to a new survey.

Obama lost the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania by 9 percentage points. But a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows him leading McCain by 12 points, 52 to 40 percent.

In Ohio, a state Obama lost to Sen. Hillary Clinton by 10 points in March, he's leading McCain 48 to 42 percent.

And in Florida, where he did not campaign this primary season and lost an unsanctioned Democratic contest, he leads McCain 47 to 43 percent.

The Ohio and Florida results are reversals from Quinnipiac polls published a month ago, when Clinton was still in the race and McCain led Obama in hypothetical match-ups.Read it here