AudioBuzz: Tavis Smiley Al Sharpton 2010: The Real State of Black Unity – What’s Up with that Brother Buzz | Watch Radio

Monday morning Tavis Smiley appeared on the Tom Joyner morning to announce an upcoming symposium to include Black leaders.  For the past ten years during Black History month, Smiley would convene Black leaders in a forum called State of the Black Union (SOBU).  He canceled that event for 2010.  This new event, as you can tell will now convene on the hills of much controversy over comments made about “Black leaders” during the announcement.

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We Count! The Black Agenda is the American Agenda will take place on Saturday, March 20, 2010, 8am (CT), on the campus of Chicago State University at the Convocation Center. (free and open to public)

Obama meets black leaders on economy | Dorothy Height, Benjamin Jealous, Marc Morial, and Al Sharpton – CSMonitor.com – It has been reported that the honorable Dorothy Height was unable to make the meeting scheduled for one of the coldest days in DC. (Question: non-profit civic organizations to discuss economics?)

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We’ve Been Here Before - Black History – State of Mind 2009
….There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.” …Booker T. Washington

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Political Moment:  Republicans are fighting republicans, democrats are fighting democrats, and black agenda is perturbed with black agenda.  Perhaps now, the people can get something done.