Virginia Union University

Wright on BoT of Virginia Union University

Leslie Carbone (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008

Jeremiah Wright is a member of the Board of Trustees at Richmond's Virginia Union University. Mr. Wright attended VUU for three and one-half years before enlisting in the United States Marine Corps, according to the Trinity United Church of Christ Web site, which still names him as Pastor. Founded in 1865, VUU describes itself as " a premier historically black institution of higher education, transforming...

THE REAL REV. WRIGHT: Former Obama pastor to speak Sunday in Detroit

Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008

In many ways, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright could be viewed as a representation of quintessential Detroit: brutally honest, gritty and provocative, battered but resilient, and unapologetically black and proud.

Shaw Captures Fourth Consecutive CIAA Men's Tennis Championship

HBCU Sports Blog (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008

Courtesy: TheCIAA.com In the final day of singles competition, all six of Shaw University's number one seeds emerged as their respective singles competition champions. Shaw served for a sum of 63 team points to claim their fourth consecutive championship crown....

Virginia State's Washington No-Hits Virginia Union Softball

HBCU Sports Blog (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008

Courtesy: Virginia State Sports Information Virginia State University's Geneva Washington became the second Lady Trojan pitcher this season to toss a no-hitter as the sophomore struck out four as the VSU downed Virginia Union University 14-0 in the opening game...

Virginia Union's Dave Robbins Set to Announce Retirement

HBCU Sports Blog (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008

School officials with Virginia Union University have called a 2:00 p.m. press conference, with sources close to the university giving reports that men's basketball head coach Dave Robbins will announce his retirement. In thirty years with Virginia Union, Robbins has...

Patriotism-it’s all relative

rochesterturning.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008

Who is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright? We’ve been paying tribute to local civil rights activists who are also members of the clergy (and you all know that I am not a church person, but you also know that I give credit where credit is due). This is what Wikipedia has to say about the Reverend [...]

Rosetta E. Gardner, 91, social worker

Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008

Rosetta Evangeline Gardner, 91, of West Philadelphia, a tireless social worker who devoted her life to the service of others, died of kidney failure Sunday at Albert Einstein Memorial Hospital.

Jeremiah Wright's No Simple Fool

Sportive Thoughts (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008

I was going to right about aesthetics and politics with special attention to Wynton Marsalis' brilliant "The New Orleans Function" (Columbia Records, 1983). Then I discovered that part two, a jazz sermon called "Premature Autopsies," was delivered by none other than the now-infamous Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. Then I checked--as a matter of Internet ritual-- Wright's Wikipedia entry to be sure it is...

Three Black Governors Since Reconstruction—Who Have They Been?

TexasLiberal (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008

Newly inaugurated New York Governor David Paterson is America’s third black post-reconstruction governor. Who are the other two black governors in American history and who is Mr. Paterson? ( Please click here for a post on black U.S. Senators and reasons why there have been so few black Senators.) Click here for information about black statewide officeholders in the United States. It was only relatively...

The Code Has Been Broken

Transterrestrial (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008

The media style guide for defending Obama....

Phila. clergy respond to Obama's minister

Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008

Some people mellow with age. Others grow more passionate. If the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.'s weekly sermons seem overly zealous, Barak Obama's outspoken minister has earned his outrage over decades of social injustice, a longtime friend said yesterday.

Phila. clergy respond to Obama's minister

Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008

Some people mellow with age. Others grow more passionate. If the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.'s weekly sermons seem overly zealous, Barak Obama's outspoken minister has earned his outrage over decades of social injustice, a longtime friend said yesterday.

Some balance about Wright

Plunderbund (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008

I’d like to provide some balance to the portrayal of Jeremiah Wright in the press. It is indisputable that he’s had several well-publicized moments of over-the-top outspokenness, and that Obama is being hammered for this. Asking questions after such video appears is, in fact, good and necessary. But, perhaps one should look [...]

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All Wright now

Attytood (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008

In an effort to make sure that Swifty didn't cancel his subscription to the Daily News, I wrote about the Philadelphia roots of Barack Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in today's newspaper. There seems to be some interest among...

The CIAA tournament starts today (See Brackets)

CIAA in the Queen City (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008

Hey, CIAA fans. Welcome back to Charlotte. Today kicks off the CIAA Tournament's third straight year in the Queen City, and it's going to be here at least three more years. I couldn't be more excited. I know you are too because many of you have let me know through emails and comments on this blog over the past month leading up to the tournament. I can't wait to hit some of the parties and check out...