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National: Connecticut Ponders Slavery Apology; A Renowned “Modern-day Griot” Dies; Prudential Names First Black CEO
March 25th, 2009Connecticut Ponders Slavery Apology
Lawmakers in Connecticut are considering following the footsteps of five other states by apologizing for its role in the slave trade and other government-sanctioned racist policies of the past. On Monday, a legislative committee pondered a resolution that would issue a formal, general apology and express the General Assembly’s “profound contrition” for the official acts that sanctioned and perpetuated slavery hundreds of years ago. Read the rest.
A Renowned “Modern-day Griot” Dies William H. Smith, lauded by admirers as a “modern-day griot” for the way he handed down to future generations essential cultural elements, has died of heart failure. He was 88. Smith, a painter, sculptor, and advertising professional, passed away at Silver Lake Center, a nursing home in Bristol, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia. It was as a teen that Smith first gained notoriety, having painted a series of murals on African-American history at Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore, from which he graduated in 1939, Philly.com reports. Smith’s acrylic, oil, pastel and pencil works had been exhibited at the U.S. embassy in Oman, the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Pennsylvania, according to his daughter, Claire, a former sports columnist for The Inquirer and the New York Times. “He was a modern-day griot,” she said, “an African storyteller, historian and entertainer.” His sculpture of Harriet Tubman, commissioned by the African American Historical and Cultural Society of Bucks County, stands in Bristol Lions Park, Philly.com reports.
Prudential Names First Black CEO West Africa native Tidjane Thiam is the first Black CEO ever to run a FTSE 100 company after he was named to head Prudential. Read more.
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Sorry for what ? Waste of time , there are bigger problems today.
GIVE US THE $$$$$$ YOUR WHITE WOMEN AND A CHANCE TO SELL EVERY RACIST WHITE PERSON IN AMERICA!! TO IRAQ!!
Obama looks like a modern day slave.
Archie…..your and idiot….enslaved to ignorance. some of you people… yes i said you people….are a trip… If you don’t have an intelligent opinion…..don’t speak!
To me an apology is not good enough, if they really want to apologize give us our 40 acres and our mule. Because of the slavery laws that were put into place, a lot of states still to this day modernize the situation. So , yes it has played a significant part in AA’s lives right now today because people are still stuck on racism.
I HAVE BEEN DOING MY PART TO GET RID OF REDNECKS IN AMERICA!! EVERYTIME I COME ACROSS A FAT UGLY WHITE GIRL I GET HER WITH BABY !! SO FAR IN MY LIFE SPAN I COUNT FIFTY FIVE !!
I will give my $$$ to Michael Vick.
Well you white trailor trash honkies won’t intimidate me with your trite remarks. Remember: Your still white, smell like garbage, eats human flesh (which is digusting.) And then you wonder why you people look funny. You trailor trash honkies are so immoral what goes around comes around. What’s done in the dark shall come to light.
Oh Shevers me Timbers!! You how those hads are !! Bubba My Big Beefy Black Lover ties me up like that before we do the Wild Thing!! Oh give me some koolaid extra sweet please!!
You people need to get a apologize from the Arabs, Who introduced black slavery to the europeans from Africa, and your own people for salling you people Out! If thay had never done that there would of never have been a (Atlantic slave trade) Read Arabic slave trade ! go to Wikipedia encyclopedia is free and read all of it !
Whore bring me a side of dem their fries!! By they way your son David would look nice with a wig and some heels on !!
I feel we need an apology and some money for all the hard work some of our third grandparents removed provided. I think it would be even better to give more money to the people that can prove their lineage.
It trips me out how everybody is running like roaches with the lights on, because Obama got elected. Don’t they realize the only reason and don’t get me wrong…Obama IS educated, he is getting voted in is because…THE COUNTRY IS IN THE TOILET and who better to go down with it than, A Mulatto. White America is here to teach the same lesson they have been trying to teach for hundreds of years. Stay in your place N_____R! All these officals need to realize that white america is on vacation in politucs and we’re only acting until things get in their eyes ‘Serious”. It is not even serious that hundreds of thousands of men and women are dying on foreign soil. Wake up! This is not a democracy.
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