State panel finds Valley Swim Club guilty of discrimination

A state commission issued a finding of probable cause that racism was involved in the decision by a suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, swim club to revoke privileges of a largely minority day care center.

The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, in its 33-page finding, details the incident. It notes that the swim club maintains that it canceled its relationship with the day care center because members were requesting that their membership fees be refunded and because of safety concerns “attendant with overcrowding of the shallow end of the pool by a large number of non-swimmers.”

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Valley Swim Club Busted

King Children still fighting over father’s estate. May loose control!

It seems that the King Children still can not resolve their difffernces when it comes to their fathers estate, and it could have dire consequences.

A judge expressed serious concern Friday about the way the estate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is being managed, and he warned the three surviving King children that they may lose control of it.

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King Children Still Fighting

Desmond Tutu, Sidney Poiter, & Joseph Lowery awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is a decoration bestowed by the President of the United States and is, along with the equivalent Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of Congress the highest civilian award in the United States.

President Obama honored 16 individuals today with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Three were Sidney Poiter, Desmond Tutu, and Rev Joseph E. Lowery

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My interview with Regina Kelly the woman the film American Violet is based on

Hi this is George Cook of www.letstalkhonestly.com . Many of you may or may not know who Regina N. Kelly is. She is a African American woman falsely arrested on drug charges who refused to take a plea deal and fought back. Her story is the basis of the film “American Violet” now playing in limited release across the united States. I have been honored to interview Regina and some of the things we discuss are:

*What happened the day she was arrested

*How she feels about her country today

*Why she wouldn’t take the plea deal

*How her arrest affected her children

*How other than the NAACP no civil rights “leaders” stepped up to help her and much more.

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http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/LTHSpecialReport.html

Video: President Obama’s entire speech at the NAACP Convention

It was an amazing visual to see the a black president addressing the 100 NAACP Convention.

I love the fact that he not only exposed self responsibilty and said that there were no more excuses but that he did so from a position of love not superiority. Click the link below to watch the entire speech:

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Civil rights leaders not happy with Obama’s first 100 days

Civil rights leaders are not that happy with President Obama. It appears that it’s not so much what he has done about civil rights issues and race relations as much as it is he doesn’t seem to want to address either issue at all.

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Audio: Lost recordings of Martin Luther King speech given in 1964

Please check out these lost recordings of a specch that Martin Luther King Jr gave at the University of Dayton in 1964.

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Video: Al Sharpton leads protest march in Homer Louisiana

This past weekend Rev. Al Sharpton led a march in Homer Louisiana to protest the police shooting of a 73 year old black man. Bernard Monroe. This incident happened back in February and the Homer police have yet to comment on the status of their investigation. Click link below to watch video of the march below:

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Cops own video saves innocent man from jail

Terence Jones was falsely accused of filing a false police report after he filed a complainst accusing an officer of racial profiling. He lived with the threat of posibly going to jail for 18 months if found guilty. Fortuanately for Mr. Jones the police crusiers own video proved his innocence. Read the entire story by using the link below:

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Jesse Jackson’s letter to Barack Obama

ESSENCE.com asked the civil rights leader and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Inc. to pen an “open letter to President Barack Obama.” With the passion Jackson is known for, he asks the nation’s first Black President to carefully examine important policies including those relating to the economy, education and Voting Rights Act.

Read the Jesse Jackson letter by clicking here: http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html