Hunt for Commerce Secretary Continues No word on the short list of candidates for commerce secretary but  Black lawmakers are once again pitching technology executive John W. Thompson’s (pictured) name for the short list.  You may recall in January members of the Congressional Black Caucus sent a letter to the president requesting Thomas be given consideration for the job.  “We commend you for making diversity an important priority as you consider your Cabinet selections, in terms of race, perspectives, party and geography given past progress by other presidents in naming African-Americans to senior Cabinet posts,” the letter stated. Read more at Pamela on Politics.

Flavor of the “Weeks?” What do Flavor Flav and Bishop Thomas Weeks have in common? Both have gone to the route of publicly advertising their searches for new love. Weeks, who split with his popular author and minister wife, Prophetess Juanita Bynum, after allegedly choking and kicking her in an ATL hotel parking lot last year, is posting reality-show-style clips of his hunt for “the next Mrs. Weeks.” While finishing his three years of probation, the pastor can be seen on his Web site talking with staff members about the attributes he seeks in what would be his third wife: “sensual,” “diverse” and of child-bearing age, among them. Oh, and, “She can’t be ugly,” Weeks says in one clip. And you thought ministers were deep.

He says that the media and police are transfixed on finding White females.
Nine months have passed since a 16-year-old Black girl was reportedly kidnapped from her southern California high school, but there has been no massive public outcry from law-enforcement agencies or the media like that afforded missing White females, an NAACP official said Thursday. Find out more about her disappearance and what you can do at BET.com/News. Anyone with information about Chimoa should contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST.