SAN DIEGO JAZZ FESTIVAL - MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

CHARLIE WILSON, KEM, BRIAN MCKNIGHT, LEDISI AND MANY MORE.  CHECK OUT THE LINEUP:

http://www.sandiegojazzfest.com/lineup

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HELP FIND MISSING NOLA SCHOOLTEACHER TERRILYNN MONNETTE

New Orleans police and family members are frantically searching for an elementary school teacher who has been missing since last Saturday.


Twenty-six-year-old  Terrilynn Monnette was last seen with friends at a bar in the Lakeview section of the Crescent City  last Friday evening. She left the bar around 4 o’clock Saturday morning with a male acquaintance,  reported ABC’s  New Orleans affiliate WGNO, telling her friends that she was going to take a nap in her car before driving home because she’d had a few drinks.

Madam C.J. Walker Business and Community Recognition Awards, Friday, March 22, 2013, San Francisco

The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., (Oakland/Bay Area Chapter) presents the 15th Annual Madam C.J. Walker Business and Community Recognition Awards


Friday, March 22, 2013
S.F. Marriott Marquis Hotel
55 Fourth Street
San Francisco, CA  

Keynote Speaker:  Sophia A. Nelson, Esq., author, Noted Columnist and Political Pundit

Mistress of Ceremonies:  Renel Brooks Moon, Public Address Announcer for the S.F. Giants

For further information, call CDA Consulting Group, 510-653-4085

Presented by:

www.onehundredblackwomen.com


Click here to Purchase Tickets

The Rise and Fall of Jesse Jackson Jr.

I don't condone trickery, lying, stealing, or misleading and abusing public trust and funds in any form.

However, there is something much deeper surrounding the recent fall from grace of former Representative Jesse Jackson Jr.

Oh, sure, it's easy enough to make jokes about the outrageous ways in which he spent the public's money:  a Michael Jackson fedora here, an elk head there, a mink cape or two.  But, for me, what his careless, wreckless and illegal behavior points to is something much more complex.  Mental illness.

There are those who say they believe that his admission of being diagnosed with bipolar disorder was simply another ruse to avoid prosecution.  I don't believe that.  I believe that he truly is a sick man.  The role his wife played either willingly or unwilling is a little more complicated to explain.  But that's not really for me or any of us to explain.  That's why we allow the judicial system to run its course.

I do know that the real victims here, besides his constituents, are the couple's children who face the possibility that both their parents could be incarcerated and they are now the subject of public ridicule.  The children did nothing wrong.

Let's talk about children for a minute.  It is my honest opinion that the sons of famous and prominent fathers should not be named "Junior." 

Time and again, I have seen where paying honor to a famous father by way of naming a male child "Jr." has been more of a curse than a blessing.  Of course, that's not always the case.  But it sure doesn't make it easy for any junior to follow in senior's footsteps when the shoes are pretty big to fill.

I'm not a doctor, but I do understand that one of the more common traits of bipolar disorder is excessive spending and illusions of grandeur.  There's no arguing that Jesse Jr. had a serious spending problem (obviously for things he didn't need) and saw himself as above being caught.  I don't necessarily take that to mean that he was arrogant.  I believe that there is some underlying reason that he made these terrible choices.

The fact that the morning he entered his plea, he said to a reporter, that he "had a beer that morning, but had never been more clear in his thinking" says a lot.

Dude - you had a beer?  Weren't you just get released from a medical facility for treatment with medication which more than likely means you shouldn't be consuming alcohol?

If any good comes from this entire mess - and it is a mess (I was one of those people who a decade ago believed that Jesse Jr. might actually be the first African American president), it will be that Mr. Jackson Jr. will get the medical help he desperately needs and after serving his time will be given the benefit of the doubt, and can reclaim his life at some future point.

Remember, "He who is without sin. . .cast the first stone."

"POWERFUL WOMEN OF THE BAY"

"POWERFUL WOMEN OF THE BAY"

4TH ANNUAL AWARDS LUNCHEON

Celebrating the contributions of outstanding women in the San Francisco/Bay Area

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Reception

11 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Luncheon

11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

SCOTT'S SEAFOOD RESTAURANT

JACK LONDON SQUARE

75.00 per person

Purchase your tickets online at:  www.powerfulwomen2013.eventbrite.com

Guest Speaker:  Barbara Williams, HR Director, Diversity and Inclusion, Oracle

(For further information, please contact CDA Group at (510) 653-4085)

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Macy's Union Square - Gordon Parks: American Icon, In-Store Event - February 21, 2013

Kudos to Macy's, Esterlina Vineyards, the Gordon Parks Foundation, the American Black Film Festival  and 100 Black Men of the Bay Area for a fabulous evening!

Featuring:  Eriq La Salle and Kim Coles

Emcee:  Ms. Dana King

Panel Moderator:  Renel Brooks-Moon

"Pastor Brown" on Lifetime - upcoming dates February 26 and 28, 2012

My sister phoned me tonight and said "Pastor Brown" is on Lifetime.

Now, I hate it when she does that.  Calls me and tells me that something is on, an hour into the movie!

Anyway, luckily, I had seen it when it was in the "premiere" phase a couple of years okay.

But, it's one of those movies that I could watch ten times.

Finally, something that we can proud of and enjoy with our families.

And, isn't that "Black History Month" should represent.

The movie features the beautiful Salli Richardson as "the prodigal daughter." 

The cast includes:

Salli Richardson-Whitfield 
Nicole Ari Parker
Keith David
Michael B. Jordan
Ernie Hudson
Rockmond Dunbar 
Michael Beach 
Tasha Smith 
Tisha Campbell-Martin 
Dondre Whitfield 
Angie Stone 

Directed by Rockmond Dunbar

Check out, Lifetime for Airdates this month:

http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/pastor-brown

"Where are your shoes?"

(Kudos to Lifetime for making this happen)