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    African Buying Power

    Sacramento Business Journal - April 10, 2009
    /Business News - Local News  
    Friday, April 10, 2009
    Africans in U.S. have purchasing power of $50 billion
    http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2009/04/06/daily81.html

    The African immigrant community in the U.S. is an untapped economic segment, with purchasing power of $50 billion per year, according to a recent study.

    The study, commissioned by the United States African Chamber of Commerce, reports there is a wealth of opportunity for businesses that offer products and services that cater to emerging African markets.

    Between 1970 and 2000, the share of foreign-born blacks in the overall black population rose nationwide from 1.3 percent to 7.8 percent, according to a release from the chamber.

    To foster growth, the USACC has partnered with the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. The two chambers are planning to work together to advance in the areas of education, immigration and economic development.

    Washington, D.C.-based USACC is an advocacy organization for U.S.-African relations and emerging African markets. It also is the umbrella organization for African chambers of commerce and professional trade and business associations throughout America and abroad.

    Dayton (Ohio) Business Journal
    http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2009/04/06/daily81.html
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    Troy Davis - We Fight On!

    Court issues stay of execution for Troy Davis

    By BILLRANKIN, RHONDACOOK

    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
    Friday, October 24,2008

    The federal appeals court in Atlanta on Friday stayed the executionof Troy Anthony Davis, who was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injectionMonday evening.

    “Upon our thorough review of the record, we conclude thatDavis has met the burden for a stay of execution,” the court said in a rulingissued by Judges Joel Dubina, Rosemary Barkett and Stanley Marcus.

    Theruling is only the latest in what has been a roller-coaster ride of appeals forDavis. It marks the third time in 16 months he has won a stay shortly before hisscheduled execution.

    Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would nothear Davis’ most recent appeal.

    Davis, 40, sits on death row for the Aug.19, 1989, murder of 27-year-old Savannah police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail.Since Davis’ trial, seven of nine key prosecution witnesses have recanted theirtestimony.

    Davis’ claims of innocence have drawn opposition to hisexecution from leaders across the globe, including former President Jimmy Carterand Pope Benedict XVI. The European Union this week called for a halt to Davis’execution.

    Martina Correia, Davis’ sister, said she and her mother,Virginia Davis, were packing for the trip to death-row in Jackson when they gotthe news.

    “I’ve been praying,” Correia said. “He deserves to be free. Heat least doesn’t deserve to die for something he didn’t do.”

    Correiatalked on the phone to Davis after the court issued its stay. “To all the peoplearound the world working hard and fighting for him, he wants to say thank youand this fight has to continue,” she said.

    Neither MacPhail’s mother orsister had heard the news when a reporter called. The officer’s 75-year-oldmother, Anneliese, declined to comment until she had moreinformation.

    MacPhail’s sister, Kathy McQuary, cried.

    Davis’lawyers expressed relief over the court’s decision.

    “This is the firststep toward a court hearing to consider the new evidence — something we havebeen asking for for almost a decade now,” attorney Jason Ewart said.

    RussWillard with the state Attorney General’s Office said the office had told theDepartment of Corrections that the execution was off for Monday. In themeantime, he said, state attorneys are reviewing the court’s order and exploringthe their options.

    Earlier this week, Davis asked the 11th U.S. CircuitCourt of Appeals for permission to pursue another round of litigation in federalcourt on claims he is innocent. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death PenaltyAct of 1996 requires such a request to be made to an appeals court beforeanother federal habeas corpus lawsuit can be filed.

    On Friday, 11thCircuit said the stay of execution is conditional. Davis must make a showing hecan meet the “stringent requirements” to pursue another round of appeals, thedecision said.

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    In the News


        * AP foreign
        * , Saturday October 25 2008

    PARIS, Texas (AP) - Two white men have been charged with murder in the death of a black man dragged under a pickup truck in East Texas last month.

    Brandon McClelland's death has powerful echoes of the dragging death of another black man, James Byrd, in the same area a decade ago.

    Black activists and the victim's mother are calling it a racist attack. But prosecutors cast doubt on that, noting the three were friends.

    But they are investigating reports one of the defendants had been in a white supremacist gang in prison.

    : Jacquline McClelland poses with a photo of her son Brandon McClelland, Friday, Oct. 24, 2008, in Paris, Texas.
     
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    NJNP: Beating Back Batson

    Beating Back Batson
    [col. writ. 9/6/08]  (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal
     
     
        For those who read court opinions, few can ignore the U.S. Supreme Court's 1986 Batson v. Kentucky decision.
     
        Essentially, it prohibited the State from removing Black jurors for racial reasons.  It re-wrote the rules from the Swain v. Alabama ( 1965) case, where the court required systematic discrimination over a number of cases, over a period of years.  Needless to say, such a challenge was clearly beyond the resources of most people, and relatively few were made, and even fewer successful.  It is hard to resist the suspicion that this was merely judicial lip service to a principle that was easily ignored, in the breach.
     
        For, it took over a generation, over 20 years, for Swain to be overruled by Batson, and now, Batson is beginning to bear an eerie resemblance to its unworkable parentage, because courts have been loathe to grant relief, and have either created new rules, or simply ignored its dictates.
     
        We see this at work recently in a number of cases, among them Com. v. (Robert) Cook, WL 284060 (July 24, 2008).  In this case, the DA used 74% of his strikes to remove 14 Black jurors.  Incredibly, the Phila. Court of Common Pleas initially found that even this didn't constitute a prima facie case of discrimination. Later, it found a prima facie case, but ruled that the DA put forth sufficient race-neutral reasons for exclusion, and therefore not a violation of Batson.
     
        Recently, the PA Supreme Court agreed, even though the DA couldn't recall why he removed 2 Black jurors -- or, in other words, couldn't articulate a justification.
     
        Now remember -- Batson states that the improper removal of one juror violates the constitution.  One -- not 14.
     
        But here's the kicker.  The DA in Mr. Cook's case made a video training tape, where he taught his fellow prosecutors how to violateBatson - and how to lie about it to judges.
     
        but perhaps the then prosecutor, Jack McMahon, didn't need to work that hard, for courts would take up the slack.  For where the DA can't remember a reason, the court will invent one.
     
        This is especially egregious in this case, for the man who wrote the opinion was the DA when McMahon made the tapes, but now sits as Chief Justice of the court.  Can you spell 'conflict of interest?'  Did he recuse himself?  (What do you think?)
     
        For over a decade, Pennsylvania courts have painted McMahon as the bad guy, a kind of rogue prosecutor, and most of his convictions have been reversed (except Cook's), but McMahon wasn't, and never should've been, the issue.  For he was simply describing the pattern and practice of the office, and training his colleagues in techniques used over years of trials.
     
        Mr. McMahon was putting into words what DAs did to get convictions.  Does that mean his office sought a fair and impartial jury? In McMahon's words, " Well, that's ridiculous. You're not trying to get that."  In fact, McMahon explained, their jobs were to get the most "unfair" jury possible.  And, in many cases, that meant getting as few Blacks to serve on the jury as possible.
     
        Batson is as empty as Swain was, for if they don't want to give it up, any reason will do.
     
        They proclaim ideals of fairness that bear no relationship to the real process happening daily in courtrooms all across America.
     
        That would be, to quote McMahon, "ridiculous."
     
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    RIP MAC MAN

    Dear Bernie,

    Thanks for all you have given to us.  All the Love.  All the Laughter
    You will live on in our Hearts and in our Memories.  Rest Dear
    Brother in Peace with the Ancients.  Our Prayers, Our Love and
    Comfort goes to your immediate and extendent family.  You will
    be sorely missed.

    Peace and Blessings
    MS

    NOTE:  A brief overiew of Bernie's life available on:
    Legacy.com  http://www.legacy.com/NS/ 

    Guestbook Link:  http://tinyurl.com/6adkun

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    Has Television Lost Its Color?

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    Has Television Lost Its Color?

    this is an npr audio report on  the lack of "characters of color" . the discusstion follows an     EW.com article http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20206185_5,00.html
    i think this discussion superbly shows the pathetic mindset of current black intelligentsia that works in mainstream media, yes npr is still part of the mainstream. its all about how the "jobs for persons of color" are drying up. okay, these are "media experts", but aside from discussing network and cable tv in america, no discussion of internet media channels, or bringing programming in from overseas or forming a global black consortium of actors/producers to make original content. and all this "diversity" bs.... fair skinned latinos have access to multiple channels of programming in this country, in some markets unlike black folks, who chose not to create vibrate, independent industries and gave their wealth away and wait for the jobs to show up.  not quite  the same situation.   just a bunch of corporate employees talking about why there arent more house slaves in the plantation.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92223523&ft=1&f=11

    Has Television Lost Its Color?

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    News & Notes , July 4, 2008 · Long gone are the days of The Cosby Show and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. More recent shows like Girlfriends and All of Us have ended their runs, as well.

    Has TV been whitewashed?

    That's a question Entertainment Weekly magazine asked a few weeks ago, with a special report titled "Why Is TV So White?"

    We dig into the question with three people who keep a keen eye on media and its cultural impact: Eric Deggans, TV and media critic for the St. Petersburg Times; Miki Turner, entertainment writer for MSNBC.com; and Melanie McFarland, TV editor for IMDB.com.

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