Monday, March 17, 2008 |
David Paterson & Eliot Spitzer at an event last year. ( Splash News )
When Eliot Spitzer’s resignation took effect on Monday, David A. Paterson became New York’s first black governor, the fourth black governor in America’s history and America’s second blind governor.
Paterson was sworn in Monday afternoon as the state’s 55th governor. Check out the recap of the ceremony and an interactive timeline of Paterson’s life and career.
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Monday, March 17, 2008 |
(Photo: Hillary is 44)
Although the candidates agreed to play nicer on Friday, two days later Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had clashed over his ties to an indicted Chicago businessman and her tax records.
The Clinton campaign questioned Obama’s judgment in dealing with Antoin “Tony” Rezko, who is currently facing federal charges of attempted extortion, money laundering and fraud.
Obama’s campaign retorted that it was “the height of hypocrisy for Sen. Clinton to demand the release of documents already on our campaign website” while she has refused to release her full tax returns during her time in the Senate.
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 |
In case you missed Saturday Night Live (or want to see it again and again), check out Tracy Morgan responding to Tina Fey’s skit from a couple of weeks ago. Tina Fey, co-stars with Morgan on NBC’s “30 Rock.”
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Friday, March 14, 2008 |
( Photo: Trinity United Church of Christ )
Sen. Barack Obama, writing on the Huffington Post, addressed the controversial remarks by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
“I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy,” Obama writes. “I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue.”
Shout out to CL Reader Tonya for the info.
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Friday, March 14, 2008 |
As you know, we usually present relevant information regarding the upcoming presidential election, but I came across this video and thought it was too amusing not to share. For more, check out the ATLAHWorldwide YouTube channel.
Thursday, March 13, 2008 |
Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman (ca. 1788-1816) is not a name most are familiar with, but it is a name we all will remember after this.
As mentioned in the video, after Baartman’s death in 1816, George Cuvier dissected her genitalia and brains and made a plaster cast of her body which were then placed on public display at the Musée de l’Homme (Museum of Mankind) in Paris as late as 1974, under the name “Hottentot Venus“. Baartman was one of many other skeletons, whose remains were gathered by European scientists to prove the “inherent inferiority” of non-white individuals.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 |
Neighbors and friends mourn the shooting death of Jamiel Shaw Jr.
(Photo: Damian Dovarganes/AP)
Seventeen year old Jamiel Shaw was killed Sunday, March 2, just a few doors from his home, close enough for his father, Jamiel Sr., to hear the gunfire. He ran outside and found his mortally wounded son in a pool of blood.
On the same day of Jamiel’s funeral on Tuesday, authorities announced that the alleged gunman, Pedro Espinoza, 19, had been formally charged with Shaw’s death.
Several Los Angeles neighborhoods have experienced gang violence in recent weeks. Eight people - five of them children - were wounded when a man fired into a crowd near a bus stop; a 6-year-old boy was shot in the head and critically wounded while riding in a car with his family; and an 18-year-old man was shot outside of an elementary school.
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