Genarlow Wilson was released from prison Friday, after spending more than two years behind bars for a teen sex conviction. “At times I dealt with adversity … my family and myself, we finally get to deal with happiness now,” Wilson said, with his mother and sister at his side. The Georgia Supreme Court earlier Friday [...]
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Address at the NAACP’ on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education On poor people: “The lower economic and lower middle economic people are not holding their end in this deal. In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on. … I’m talking about people who cry [...]
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Clarence Otis Jr., 48, has served up successful strategies for nine years at Darden Restaurants Inc. (NYSE: DRI), parent company of Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Bahama Breeze, Smokey Bones Barbeque & Grill, and Seasons 52 restaurants. In December 2004, the executive vice president will become the seventh African American leading a Fortune 500 company when [...]
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NFL truth: Hip-hop culture hurting NFL Jason Whitlock / FOXSports.com You get one NFL Truth today. Watching Chad Johnson and Larry Johnson undermine their respective head coaches, Marvin Lewis and Herm Edwards, on Sunday gave me a singular focus, forced me to contemplate an uncomfortable truth. African-American football players caught up in the rebellion and [...]
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