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Kelly Rowland was spotted leaving her hotel in Cardiff, Wales, looking quite stunning I might add, earlier today headed to a bit more X-factor auditions.
What's even more important, however, the track listing for her forthcoming album, 'Her I Am'.
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It's been only a half-hour or so since the Giants were stunned at home by the Eagles 23-11.
That's plenty of time for the Big Blue faithful to share their disgust with the rest of the world. Here's a sampling of Giants' fans reaction from the team's message board.
"The better team won. Period. They smacked us around twice in our own stadium.
Of all the ways to go out, I never thought it would be like this"
"I am crushed. I am bleeding blue right now."
"this (sic) last few months have been horrible for me. I lose my job, can't find a new one, baby on the way, bills piling up, car is falling apart on me and now the giants are choking against the eagles"
"bring back plax. this team died with him"
"I blame Plaxico for this loss and the previous ones, I mean, since he had those stupid incidents, the team got worse and worse, they (sic) guys seemed a little bit down."


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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Film with great direction of Chris McInroy. This movie was presented in 2014, with original production from USA. You can watch Bad Guy #2 online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2014.
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Evelyn Preer, one of the first African American silent screen actresses to transition into sound Hollywood films, was born on July 21, 1896 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After her father's death, Preer and her mother relocated to Chicago, Illinois where she completed high school before pursuing acting.
Preer's big break came when she landed a role in Oscar Micheaux's first film, The Homesteader (1919), in which she played a tragically unhappy woman abandoned by her husband for a mulatto woman whom he believed to be white. Impressed with her talent, Micheaux cast Preer in several roles in which she generally played dramatic characters, challenging many of the prevailing black film stereotypes. Preer expanded her acting abilities into the area of theater, frequently alternating between the screen and stage as she became a staple for Micheaux's dramatic films and an esteemed actress for the Lafayette Players.
Preer met and married stage actor Edward Thompson while traveling with the players and the duo headlined productions for the traveling section of the Lafayette Players throughout the early 1920s. Preer's impressive theatricality led her to Broadway where she recorded with the legendary musical composer Duke Ellington, performed with Ethel Waters, and won acclaim for her role as Sadie Thompson in the revival of Somerset Maugham's classic melodrama Rain.
Pearl Bowser, Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001); Thomas Cripps, Slow Fade to Black. The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977); Francesca Sr. Thompson, Drop me off in Harlem, http://www.artedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/themes/lafayette.html.
Early 20th Century Seattle civil rights
Quintard Taylor, The
Forging of a Black Community (Seattle: University of Washington Press,
1994); http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20040207&slug=history07.
Quintard Taylor, The Forging of a Black Community (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994); http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20040207&slug=history07.
Younge was born on November 17, 1944 in Tuskegee, Alabama. His parents were educated professionals; Samuel Sr. was an occupational therapist, and Younge's mother, Renee, was a schoolteacher. Unlike most black men in Macon County, Sammy Younge and his younger brother, Stephen ("Stevie"), grew up with middle class privileges and comforts.
Aaron Henry and Constance Curry, Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000); Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995); John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1995).
Robert Wood is believed to be one of the first African American mayors in the United States. He served as mayor of Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1870s. Wood was born in 1844 to Susie Harris, an African American housekeeper, and Dr. Robert Wood, a white doctor from Virginia. His parents never married, but lived side by side. According to oral histories, Wood was never a slave and lived mostly with his father, a former mayor of Natchez himself.
Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn appointed Robert Wood as mayor of Natchez, Mississippi in 1869. He later was elected mayor in 1870. His election was part of the "Black and Tan Revolution," a short-lived political shift in Mississippi in which citizens of Mississippi elected many African Americans to state offices between 1868 and 1875. At its peak in 1873, half of Mississippi's state elected officials were black.
David Duncan Collum, Black and Catholic in the Jim Crow South: The
Stuff that Makes Community. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 2006);
Mike Brunker, "Race, Politics and the Evolving South: A Black Mayor,
130 Years Later," http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5676325/, Aug. 17, 2004.
Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, born in Atlanta, Georgia on April 25, 1942, was a civil rights leader. Robinson, the second oldest of seven children born to Alice and John T. Smith, was raised in Atlanta's black middleclass neighborhood of Summerhill. She graduated from Price High School in 1958 and earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from Spelman College in 1965. Robinson's exposure to racial discrimination in her city, the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the Greensboro, North Carolina sit-ins in February 1960, all influenced her to become involved in the civil rights movement.
Cynthia Griggs Fleming, Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson (Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998). Bettye Collier Thomas, and V.P. Franklin, Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement (New York: New York University Press, 2001). Howard Zinn, SNCC, the New Abolitionists (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964); James Forman, The Making of Black Revolutionaries (Washington, DC: Open Hand Publishing, 1985).
Jane Mersky Leder and Howard Schroeder, Walter Payton (Mankato, Minn.: Crestwood House, 1986); Walter Payton and Don Yaeger, Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton (New York: Villard, 2000); http://www.bearshistory.com/lore/walterpayton.aspx
Andry's Rebellion, also known as the German Coast Uprising, was a slave revolt that occurred in the Territory of Louisiana between January 8 and 10, 1811. The revolt, the largest servile uprising in United States history, was named after the owner of the plantation, Manual Andry, where the uprising originated. At its peak on January 10, it involved approximately 400 to 500 enslaved men and women along the east bank of the Mississippi River north of New Orleans. Led by a Saint-Domingue-(Haiti) born slave named Charles Deslondes, the uprising was inspired by the Haitian Revolution of 1791. Slaveholders also feared a Haitian-style uprising partly because blacks outnumbered whites in the region by a ratio of five to one, and in particular because of the large population of free blacks in the area that they assumed would help and support such a revolt.
Hanes Walton, Black Republicans: The Politics of the Black and Tans (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1975); Caroline Goeser, Picturing the New Negro: Harlem Renaissance Print Culture and Modern Black Identity (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2007).
The murder of Mack Charles Parker is considered one of the last civil rights era lynchings. On the night of April 24, 1959, a mob abducted Parker from the Pearl River County Jail in Poplarville, Mississippi, where he was awaiting trial for the alleged crime of rape. They beat Parker, shot him twice in the chest, and then threw his body into the Pearl River.
Mack Charles Parker was a 23-year-old truck driver who had returned to his hometown of Lumberton, Mississippi, after receiving a general discharge following two years in the Army. After the death of his father, he had taken on the responsibility of supporting his mother, Liza, and his two younger siblings, Dolores and Charles.
Furniss was the second son born to William H. Furniss and Mary Elizabeth J. Williams, in Jackson, Mississippi, on January 30, 1874. His family moved to Indianapolis when he was young, and his father became the superintendent of the Special Delivery Department of the Indianapolis Post Office. Furniss received his early education in the local city schools and then enrolled in Lincoln University (formerly the Lincoln Institute). Just before his graduation in 1891, Furniss enrolled in the Medical College of Indiana and received his medical degree in 1894, ranking second in a class of fifty-two. Furniss was the only African American in his class. While in medical school, he worked as a clerk for Dr. E. S. Elder, a prominent Indianapolis physician, to pay for his education. On October 26, 1905, he married Lillian Morris, but no children were born to this union.
Bennie G. Thompson, United States Representative from Mississippi's Second Congressional District, is the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee and as such is one of the most influential African American members of Congress.
Thompson was born in Bolton, Mississippi on January 28, 1948 to Will Thompson, an auto mechanic, and Annie Lauris Thompson, a teacher. He earned a BA in political science from Tougaloo College in 1968, and then earned MS and MA degrees from Jackson State University in 1972. He worked for one year as a school teacher in Madison, Mississippi after graduating from Tougaloo.
Kimbrough graduated from Alameda High School in 1926, attended Sacramento Junior College for two years, and then transferred to the University of California at Berkeley where he majored in chemistry and graduated in 1930. Kimbrough then obtained his dental degree from the University of California Dental School in San Francisco in 1934. Following his graduation, he received the third highest score on the state's required dental board examination.
Politician Elvin R. Caldwell Sr. was born on April 11, 1919 in Denver, Colorado. Raised in Five Points, Denver's predominantly black community, Caldwell was one of 12 children in his family. After graduating from Eastside High School in 1937, Caldwell earned a track scholarship to the University of Colorado and then transferred to the University of Denver, graduating in 1941.
During World War II Caldwell worked as a Chief Statistician for the Remington Arms Company. This munitions manufacturer had 19,500 employees and produced 6.5 million rounds a day during the height of the conflict. After the end of the war, many Denver blacks who had been employed in the war economy were displaced and faced issues of racial discrimination from the larger community. This discriminatory environment led Caldwell into local politics.
Lusia "Lucy" Harris, a former American basketball player, is considered to be one of the pioneers of women's basketball. She played for Delta State University in Mississippi and won a silver medal with the U.S. Women's Basketball Team in the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympic Games in Quebec, Canada. Harris was also the only woman ever drafted by the National Basketball Association (NBA). She has been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
Lusia Harris was born in Minter City, Mississippi, on February 10, 1955, to Ethel and Willie Harris, a homemaker and vegetable farmer, respectively. She is the tenth of eleven children and fourth of five daughters. Harris and her siblings attended Amanda Elzy High School in Greenwood, Mississippi, where she played basketball. Harris won the most valuable player award three consecutive years, 1971 to 1973, served as team captain, and made the state All-Star team. She scored a school-record 46 points in one game and led her school to the state tournament in Jackson, Mississippi.
Ruth Edmonds Hill, ed., The Black Women Oral History Project (Westport, Connecticut: Meckler, 1991); Rayford W. Logan, Howard University: The First Hundred Years, 1867-1967 (New York: New York University Press, 1967); http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_109.html
Davis Bend, Mississippi was an all-black town near Vicksburg, sometimes referred to as Davis Bend colony. It was a 4,000-acre cooperative community made up of former enslaved African Americans seeking equality, justice, and race pride in a society they called their own. In 1865, this community was one of the first black towns to develop after the Civil War. The architect of Davis Bend was African American Benjamin Montgomery. Prior to 1865, when Davis Bend was simply referred to as the "Joseph Davis plantation," an enslaved Montgomery functioned as its overseer and owned the plantation store. After the war, Davis sold the land that his plantations rested on to Montgomery for $300,000 in gold at a 6 percent interest rate.
The largest plantation at Davis Bend was Hurricane. In 1872, Benjamin Montgomery's son, Isaiah, ran Hurricane as its property manager, informal counsel, and diplomat to white neighbors, agents, and suppliers from Vicksburg, Cincinnati (Ohio), New Orleans (Louisiana), and St. Louis (Missouri).
Frenchtown, a community built in 1922 in Houston, Texas, was constructed by hundreds of Creole descendants of free French, Spanish, and African people living in southwestern Louisiana in the eighteenth century. Coming to Houston for economic opportunities, they settled and created this community because of the racial segregation existing at this time that limited them to certain parts of the city.
Houston experienced three major waves of Creole immigration. The first wave occurred at the beginning of the 1920s: Houston was economically booming and attracted a lot of workers. Among them were descendants of a mostly free, mixed-race French, Spanish, or African people living in the southern section of French colonial Louisiana. This first wave included skilled and semi-skilled workers; carpenters, bricklayers, mechanics, and sawmill workers. They were mainly employed by the Southern Pacific Railroad, but they were also present in the oil industry or as longshoremen on the Houston Ship Channel.
Bernice Mathews is a small business owner and the director of the nursing program at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. She is best known as a former Democratic member of the Nevada State Senate.
Mathews was born on November 12th, 1933, in Jackson, Mississippi. Little is known about her parents or her early life. By the time she was an adult, she had migrated to Nevada. She attended the University of Nevada, Reno, and there she earned a bachelor of science degree in nursing. She continued her education, obtaining a master's degree in higher education administration at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU) is a public institution located in Itta Bena, Mississippi. MVSU is the nation's youngest historically black public university. In 1946 the Mississippi legislature passed an act authorizing the establishment of a new institution to be named Mississippi Vocational College. The purpose of the school was to educate teachers for rural and elementary schools and to provide vocational training.
Ground was broken for the new school in February of 1950, and the first classes were held that summer when 250 teachers came to campus to attend in-service classes. The first academic year began in the fall of 1950 with 14 students and seven faculty members. That year the college offered bachelor's of science degrees in 14 areas and provided extension services. In 1964 the college was authorized to offer liberal arts, education, and science degrees, and changed its name to Mississippi Valley State College. Mississippi governor William Waller signed a bill granting university status to the school in 1974. At that time the institution became known as Mississippi Valley State University. MVSU offered its first master's degrees two years later.
Emmett Hercules Holmes was one of Spokane, Washington's first African American residents, as well as an important politician in the young city. Holmes was born on July 7, 1872, near Vicksburg, Mississippi. By the summer of 1888, his mother was interested in moving to the Northwest, a place which seemed to provide more opportunity to blacks than was afforded in the South. She moved the family in July; they found themselves in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with two dollars and fifty cents. At this point, sixteen-year-old Holmes took matters into his own hands. He secured a loan of train tickets to Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, for the family on the word of his former employer, using his luggage as collateral.
The family arrived in Spokane Falls on July, 18, 1888, and Holmes immediately found employment as a bellhop at the Grand Hotel. Over the next several years, he would also work as a porter for a small saloon as well as for the Seattle Lakeshore and Eastern Railroad. For the next decade, Holmes worked for two more railroads, the Spokane Falls and Northern Railroad, as well as the Spokane International Railroad, both in construction and as a porter. All three of these lines proved to be integral to the economy of the young city.
James Melvin "Jimmie" Lunceford, a popular band leader during the swing era, was born near Fulton, Mississippi, in Itawamba County to James Leonard and Beulah Idella Tucker Lunceford in June, 1902. His grandparents, Daniel and Gracie Lunceford, had arrived in Mississippi as slaves from North Carolina in 1860.
The Lunceford family moved to Oklahoma around 1910 and then to Denver, Colorado, where they maintained a home for many years. There, Lunceford studied music under Wilberforce Whiteman, the father of Paul Whiteman, a prominent white musician and band leader of the 1920s and 1930s.
A historically black college located in on a 125-acre campus near downtown Jackson, the capital city of the state of Mississippi, Jackson State University (JSU) has been the designated urban university of the state's higher education system since 1979. The school was founded in 1877 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society as Natchez Seminary "for the moral, religious, and intellectual improvement of Christian leaders of the colored people of Mississippi and the neighboring states."
The institution was originally located in Natchez, Mississippi, but was moved to Jackson in 1882. In 1899 the curriculum was expanded and the school's name was changed to Jackson College. The American Baptist Home Mission Society withdrew its support for the College in the 1930s, prompting the administration to seek state support to continue its operation. The State of Mississippi assumed support of the college in 1940, and mandated that the school's primary purpose should be the training of teachers. In 1942 the Board of Trustees instituted a four year teacher education program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Education degree. Between 1953 and 1956 the curriculum was again expanded to include a graduate program and bachelor's programs in the arts and sciences. In 1956 the institution became known as Jackson State College. Jackson State achieved university status in 1974.
On June 24, 1878, she married Republican senator Blanche K. Bruce, a political leader and plantation owner from Mississippi and the only black United States senator.
James Thomas Bell was born May 17, 1903, in Starkville, Mississippi. Playing baseball as a 19 year-old rookie Bell earned the nickname "Cool Papa" after proving to his older teammates that he was not intimidated by playing professionally in front of large crowds. Signing with the St. Louis Stars in 1922, Bell entered professional baseball as a pitcher, reportedly throwing a wicked curveball and fade-away knuckleball.
The speed of Bell would become apparent when he beat the Chicago American Giants Jimmy Lyons in a race for the title of "fastest man in the league." He immediately switched to center field, where he would play shallow and always manage to run down long hits. Bell stayed with the Stars until 1930 when the league disbanded, and led them to league titles in 1928 and 1930.
Blackbaseball.com, http://www.blackbaseball.com/players/coolpapabell.htm ;
National Baseball Hall of Fame, http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/bell_cool_papa.htm ;
Negro League Baseball Players Association, http://www.nlbpa.com/bell__james_-_cool_papa.html
At a time in when educated, skilled, and ambitious African Americans were systematically excluded from even middle management positions in large white-controlled businesses, for decades Charles H. Dodge remained one of the extremely rare persons in the nation to occupy a high ranking corporate position in the banking industry.
Dodge was born in Illinois on March 28, 1868, the son of Thomas H. Dodge, a goldminer and farmer, and an unidentified black or biracial mother. Determined to escape the poverty that burdened his family, he enrolled at Fisk University and worked as an unlicensed barber until he graduated. He then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, hoping to study law and become an attorney, but lack of money forced him to accept a janitorial job at the St. Louis Bank and Trust Company. Having taught himself accounting and banking principles he secretly practiced balancing passbooks. When the bank president saw Dodge performing the work of a bank clerk, he promoted him to that post.
Naomi Ruth Sims is widely credited as the first African-American supermodel. A businesswoman and author, Sims was the first African-American model to appear on the cover of Ladies' Home Journal.
Sims was born in Oxford, Mississippi, the youngest of three daughters, to John and Elizabeth Sims. Her parents divorced shortly after she was born. Elizabeth Sims moved her family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but shortly after their arrival, she became ill and children were placed in foster care. Naomi, by her freshman year in high school, was 5'10" and became a target of bullying over her unusual height by her classmates when she began attending Westinghouse High School.
Prominent educator Walter Eugene Massey was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on April 5, 1938. His father, Almar, was a steelworker and his mother, Essie, a teacher. Massey had an exceptional mind, even at an early age. By the time he finished 10th grade, his skills in mathematics were strong enough to earn him a college scholarship. Massey enrolled at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and graduated with a BS in math and physics in 1958.
While working on his master's and doctorate degrees at Washington University in St. Louis, Massey conducted research on the quantum of liquids and solids. He received a PhD in 1966. Massey began his teaching career as an associate professor at the University of Illinois then moved to Brown University in 1970, becoming a full professor five years later.
Mound Bayou was an all black town in the Yazoo Delta in Northwest Mississippi. It was founded during the spring of 1887 by twelve pioneers from Davis Bend, a fledgling black colony impacted by falling agricultural prices, natural disasters, and hostile race relations. This migration movement was led by Isaiah Montgomery, former patriarch of Davis Bend. Purchased from the Louisville, New Orleans, and Texas Railroad (L, NO & T), Mound Bayou bordered a new rail line between Memphis, Tennessee and Vicksburg. From 1890 to 1915, Mound Bayou was a land of promise for African Americans. Encapsulated in this "promise" were self-help, race pride, economic opportunity, and social justice, in a self-segregated community designed for blacks to have minimum contact with whites until integration was a viable option to black freedom.
Lamar Smith, voting rights activist and veteran, was a martyr in the fight for civil rights. Smith was born in March 1892 to Levi Smith and Harriet Humphrey in Lincoln County, Mississippi; however, there is little information concerning his early life.
Smith served in World War I, entering in 1917. After returning to Mississippi from the war, Smith became politically active in his community. He was one of the few registered African American voters in Lincoln County, and became passionate about African American participation in politics. He worked to educate his community on the political process, register voters, and ensure they were able to cast a ballot. In 1951, Smith, then fifty-nine, associated himself with the newly-formed Regional Council of Negro Leadership. RCNL was devoted to causes similar to Smith's interests as it focused on the civic duty of African American citizens to participate in the political process and the process of empowering people to do so.
One of the great light heavyweights of all time, Archie Moore, a.k.a., the "Old Mongoose," was born under the name of Archibald Wright on December 13, 1913 in Benoit, Mississippi. Archie turned professional in 1936, originally operating in the middleweight ranks, but ultimately moving up into the light heavyweight class by 1945. He fought a total of 222 recorded bouts over more than 27 years in the ring. He campaigned against most of the toughest men in the business during his long career, posting 187 wins, including 132 knockouts, against only 23 losses and 11 draws.
Moore campaigned for 16 years before gaining an opportunity to fight for a world championship. On December 15, 1952 he became the Light Heavyweight Champion of the World at age 39, defeating Joe Maxim by a decision in fifteen rounds, thereby becoming the oldest light heavyweight champion in history. He defeated Maxim twice in rematches and was nearly unbeatable as a light heavyweight, successfully defending the title nine times, and holding it for almost a decade before finally being stripped of it in February of 1962 for failing to defend the title within the required period of time.
Margaret Lawrence, the first African American psychoanalyst and the first pediatric psychiatrist in the United States, is author of Young Inner City Families: Development of Ego Strength under Stress (New York, Behavioral Publications, 1975) and The Mental Health Team in the Schools (New York: Behavioral Publications, 1971).
Lawrence was born in New York City, New York, on August 10, 1914, the second child of Mary Elizabeth Smith Morgan, a schoolteacher, and Sandy Alonzo Morgan, an Episcopal minister. Two years earlier, the Morgans had had a baby boy whom they called "Candy Man." Born with a congenital illness, their son lived only eleven months, but his "presence" in the Morgan family was palpable and had an indelible influence on Lawrence's early psychological life and the trajectory of her career.
Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. was born June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Morgan Porterfield, Sr. a barber, and Mayme Edna Morgan. Throughout his childhood the Freeman family moved often, living in Mississippi, Indiana and Chicago. Freeman showed early promise as an actor but turned down a partial drama scholarship from Jackson State University to enter the United States Air Force in 1955.
Throughout the early 1960s, after leaving the Air Force, Freeman studied acting and dance in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City. It was in New York that Freeman made his professional theater debut with The Nigger Lovers, a 1967 off-Broadway play about the Civil Rights Era Freedom Riders. In 1971 Freeman broke into television, becoming widely known on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) children's show The Electric Company, where he worked from 1971 to 1976.
The Jackson State Killings took place at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University) on May 15, 1970, in Jackson, Mississippi. Around midnight on May 14, city and state police confronted a group of students, opening fire on them, killing two students and injuring twelve. The Jackson State Killings occurred eleven days after the more widely publicized Kent State University Shootings in Kent, Ohio eleven days earlier.
Etheridge Knight took a very unconventional path on his way to becoming one of the most popular poets during the Black Arts Movement. America's first introduction to Knight's literary skills came with his first book publication, Poems from Prison in 1968. Mr. Knight's troubled past and time in prison led to an unorthodox style of "street" language, drug culture vocabulary, and black slang that immediately separated him from other poets of the era.
Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland was born into abject poverty in Greenwood, Mississippi. She experienced extreme racism, lack of options, and little support to change her life. As a teenager she quit school, turned to prostitution and theft as a way to make it in the world she knew – a world that included being raped by a neighbor, multiple "fathers" and broken dreams.
Her first time in jail was as a teenager having dropped out of school and turned towards a life of prostitution and theft. She was sentenced to thirty days in the county jail – but this wouldn't be the last time. She went to prison on assault and battery charges after having married, given birth, and found her husband cheating. When she was released from prison, her options were narrow and she returned to "streetwalking" – the life she knew.
This time, the man she pursued was active in SNCC. Holland pursued him all the way back to SNCC offices where she was introduced to the Civil Rights Movement. Ms. Holland would go to jail many times in her future, not for streetwalking but for protesting with the Movement. One these trips included the state penitentiary with other Civil Rights activists. After thirty-three days, she was released and shortly thereafter met Dr. Jackson and Dr. King.
The Mississippi River "Great Flood of 1927" inundated large areas in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana. However, it was in Mississippi where the embankments overflowed, drowning hundreds, perhaps a thousand people, and became one of the largest natural disasters in US history in terms of loss of life.
Robert Louis Johnson, founder, chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Black Entertainment Television (BET), is also the majority owner of the Charlotte (North Carolina) Bobcats of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the first African American billionaire. He was born in Hickory, Mississippi in 1946 as the ninth of 10 children. After his family relocated to Freeport, Illinois, Johnson earned a Bachelor of Arts in History at the University of Illinois in 1968. He also received a Masters in Public Administration from Princeton University in New Jersey in 1972.
In this constitutional case, the U.S. Supreme Court, composed entirely of Bok Guey (whites), adjudged Hon Yen (Chinese) to be in the same social classification as Lo Mok (blacks). The Supreme Court's decision permitted the state of Mississippi to define Martha Lum as a member of the "colored races" so that "white schools" could remain segregated. The origins of "Lotuses among the Magnolias" involved southern planters' fears that emancipation had spoiled their newly freed slaves. The question posed by planters was whether the freed people would work without the sting of the lash. Planters answered by recruiting Chinese labor and by 1900 the majority of coolie labor came from the "Sze Yap" or Four Counties district southwest of Canton in South China.
The 13th Street (St.) Colored Branch was a segregated public library established by the city of Meridian, Mississippi, in 1912 and opened in March 1913. It was one of the first free public libraries for African Americans in the state of Mississippi and one of twelve segregated libraries Andrew Carnegie funded during his library philanthropy program of the early twentieth century.
Vasco De Gama Hale, educator, blinded veterans' association organizer, and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) official, was born in Crawford, Mississippi, to Brotop and Jane Hale on February 16, 1915. His father, Brotop, toiled as a sharecropper for a short time before moving to West Virginia in the 1920s where he found work as a laborer in the coal mining areas of the Fairmont District. While working for the Consolidated Coal Company, his father was ordained as a Baptist Minister and served as the presiding pastor of the Morning Star Baptist Church in Marion County for many decades.
Political activist and educator Anna Arnold Hedgeman was the first African American woman to serve on the cabinet of a New York mayor when she worked during the term of New York City Mayor Robert Wagner from 1957-1958. Her career spanned more than six decades as an advocate for civil rights. In 1963 she helped A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin plan the March on Washington and was the only woman among the key event organizers.
Anna Arnold was born on July 5, 1899 in Marshalltown, Iowa to William James Arnold II and Marie Ellen Arnold. When Anna was a child, the family moved to Anoka, Minnesota where the Arnolds were the only black family in the community. Her father created an environment that prioritized education and a strong work ethic. Arnold learned how to read at home and was not allowed to attend school until she was seven years old.
John Roy Lynch, congressman, soldier, and author was born in Concordia Parish, Louisiana on September 10, 1847 to Patrick Lynch, an Irish immigrant and Catherine White, a slave. Lynch's father died soon after his birth. Lynch and his mother were then traded to a plantation in Natchez, Mississippi. During the Civil War, Lynch became free when he fled the plantation and to serve as a cook for the 49th Illinois Volunteer Regiment.
During Reconstruction, Lynch joined the Republican Party in Mississippi. After working as assistant secretary for the Republican State Convention, Lynch became the Justice of the Peace in Natchez County, Mississippi. In November 1869 at the age of 22, Lynch was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives. Three years later, in 1872 he was named Speaker of the House.
Dr. Jane McAllister was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on October 24, 1899. Born into a time of overt racism that severely limited black opportunity, McAllister's family managed to escape poverty's grip and join the small percentage of middle-class African American families in early 20th century Mississippi. Her father's work as a mail carrier, and her mother's position as a school teacher, enabled the McAllister family to avoid the cyclic economic problems of the occupations that most African Americans were forced to pursue like sharecropping and domestic service.
Dr. McAllister flourished in school, graduating from high school at age 15 and from Talladega College in Alabama in 1919 where she became the youngest Talladega graduate by earning her degree at the age of 19. This groundbreaking pattern continued into 1929 when Jane Ellen McAllister became the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. from Columbia University. From there, Dr. McAllister chose to share her wealth of knowledge with others, teaching psychology and education at Southern University, Grambling State, Fisk College, Virginia State and Dillard among others until her retirement in 1970. Dr. McAllister died in January 1996, at the age of 96.
The New York City Draft Riots remain today the single largest urban civilian insurrection in United States history. By the start of the Civil War in April 1861, New York City, New York Mayor Fernando Wood called for the city to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy but the response from most New Yorkers was unenthusiastic. Nonetheless, two years later when the U.S. government instituted the first military draft, anti-government sentiment particularly among the city's large Irish-born population, grew quickly. One could escape the draft by paying a $300 fine (about $5,500 today). The rich were able to afford the fines, while the disenfranchised and poor white men, who in New York City were often the Irish, were forced to enlist because they were often the sole source of income for their families.
James D. Lynch, a Reconstruction era politician, is best known for his position as Secretary of the State of Mississippi from 1869 to 1872. Lynch was the first African American to hold a major political office in that state. Born in 1838 in Baltimore, Maryland, his father was white merchant and minister and his mother was a slave.
Lynch received an early education at an elementary school taught by the Reverend Daniel Payne of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, and was then send to Meriden, New Hampshire to attend the Kimball Union Academy. After studying for only two years he moved to Indianapolis and began preaching at a small church in the town of Galena, Indiana.
After the Civil War, Lynch joined other religious missionaries in South Carolina. As an official of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, he helped establish churches and schools for African American adults and children between 1865 and 1866.
Lynch eventually turned to politics believing that the freedmen's political rights equally important as the development of their religious faith. In 1867 he was elected the Vice President of the first Republican State Party Convention in Mississippi. By 1869 he had become the most prominent African American politician in Mississippi and, after his nomination by the Republican Party and an exhaustive campaign; Lynch was elected Secretary of State.
John Gibbs St. Clair Drake was an American anthropologist and sociologist and the founding Director of Stanford University's African and African American Studies Department in 1968. Drake was born in Suffolk, Virginia on January 2, 1911. Drake's father immigrated to the United States from the Barbados in 1904, and studied at the Virginia Theological Seminary and College in Lynchburg, and upon graduation became a Baptist Preacher. Drake's mother, Bessie, was a devout churchwoman born in Virginia. When his parents divorced Drake moved to live with his father in Staunton, Virginia. A few years later Drake accompanied his father to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1916 when the Rev. Drake continued ministering to his African American congregants who migrated north. Drake later returned to Staunton, Virginia to live with his mother, who had separated and later divorced his father in 1924.
Father Divine, religious founder of the International Peace Missions Movement, businessman, and civil rights activist was born George Baker in Rockville, Maryland to George and Nancy Baker. Viewed by many to be a cult leader, his doctrine was a compilation of optimistic thinking based on many widely accepted mainstream religions. Father Divine and his followers believed that he was the second coming of Christ. He required his followers to adhere to his International Modest Code which required strict commitment to a celibate lifestyle and abstinence from immoral actions.
Edward Rose, also known by the names Five Scalps, Nez Coupe and "Cut Nose," was the son of a white trader father and a Cherokee and African American mother. Little else is known about his early life including where he was born. He may have spent some years working on the Mississippi River between southern Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana.
"The Murder of Emmett Till," The American Experience, pbs.org; Ruth Feldstein, "I Wanted the Whole World to See': Race, Gender, and Constructions of Motherhood in the Death of Emmett Till" in Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960, Joanne Jay Meyerowitz, ed., (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994); Mamie Till Bradley, "Speech given at Bethel A.M.E. Church, Baltimore, Maryland, Oct. 29, 1955," in Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965, eds., Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon, (Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 2009).
In the extended article that appears below historians Daudi Abe and Quintard Taylor explore the history of African Americans in Martin Luther King County from 1858 to 2014. They analyze the forces which encouraged people of African ancestry to settle in the county and discuss the rapid political, social, and economic changes that its black residents have faced since the first arrival, Manuel Lopes, came to the county in 1858.
With 119,801 people of African ancestry in a total population of 1,931,249 people, Martin Luther King, Jr. County is the most populous county in the state of Washington and is home to 29% of the state's inhabitants and half of Washington's black population. It is also the only county in the United States named after the 20th Century civil rights icon.
James Bevel was one of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most trusted advisors during the American Civil Rights campaigns of the mid-20th century. Bevel was born on October 19, 1936 in Itta Bena, Mississippi. During his childhood years, he resided in both Itta Bena and in Cleveland, Ohio working as a plantation laborer in the Mississippi town and as a steel mill worker in the Ohio metropolis.
In 1957 Bevel attended the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee. Bevel dropped out of the seminary in 1961 to work in the civil rights movement. He also attended Highlander Folk School during this time where he met several other prominent civil rights leaders including his future wife, Diane Nash.
Bevel's civil rights activism began in 1960 when he joined the student sit ins in Nashville. One year later he participated in the Freedom Rides across the Deep South. In 1962 Bevel met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and joined King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) as Director of Direct Action Campaigns and Director of Nonviolent Education.
In 1931 twelve year old Thomas J. Pressly witnessed the lynching of George Smith in Union City, the county seat of Obion County, Tennessee. Now a University of Washington historian and Professor Emeritus, Dr. Pressley describes that lynching in the article below.
When I was twelve years old, I saw the body of a young black man hanging from the limb of a tree where he had been hung several hours earlier. The lynching had taken place in April, 1931, in Union City, the county seat, of Obion County, in Northwestern Tennessee, not too far from the Kentucky line to the north, and from the Mississippi River to the west.
The painter and sculptor James Washington, Jr. was a leading member of the Northwest School, a group of artists, writers, and sculptors who became internationally prominent in the mid-20th Century. Washington was born and raised in Gloster, Mississippi, one of six children of Baptist minister James Washington and his wife, Lizzie. While Washington was a child, his father fled Mississippi due to threats of violence and the two never met again.
Washington's mother encouraged his talents. He began to draw around the age of 12, becoming an expert pavement chalk-artist, making random marks by other children into figures and faces. In 1938 at the age of 29 he became involved with the Federal Works Progress Administration when he was employed as an assistant art instructor at the Baptist Academy in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Excluded from shows in Mississippi that featured white artists, he organized the first WPA-sponsored exhibition for black artists in the state.
Gloria Naylor, a major 20th century writer of African American literature, was born on January 25, 1950 in New York City, New York to Roosevelt and Alberta Naylor. She was born just six weeks after her parents moved to the city from Robinsville, Mississippi, to escape the racially segregated South. It is that combination of her family's Southern roots and her on upbringing in the urban North that influenced her writing.
Legendary blues singer B.B. King was born Riley B. King on September 16, 1925 in Itta Bena, Mississippi. King spent his childhood in the Mississippi Delta, but in 1946 left to pursue a music career in Memphis, Tennessee. While in Memphis, King was employed as a singer and disc jockey at radio station WDIA where he was given the radio name "Beale Street Blues Boy" which he shortened to B.B. In 1949 while at WDIA he recorded many of his early singles for RPM records in Los Angeles, California.
King began to have significant success as a blues artist in the 1950s with a string of recordings such as "Please Love Me," "Whole Lotta Love," "Every Day I Have the Blues," and "Ten Long Years." His hits brought him to the attention of Paramount Records which signed the blues performer in 1962. In November 1964 he recorded Live at the Regal at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois, at that point one of the most successful blues albums ever produced.
In the article below, historian Quintard Taylor describes the origins and evolution of the Juneteenth holiday sine 1865.
Chester Arthur Burnett, better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was a blues performer and bandleader born in White Station, Mississippi to Leon "Dock" and Gertrude Young Burnett. He was married to Lillie Burnett and is survived by two stepchildren, Barbra Marks and Bettye Kelly.
After hearing and meeting Charlie Patton (sometimes spelled Charley), the most popular Delta blues performer at the time, Burnett decided to take up guitar and became a student of Patton. Burnett studied Patton's music as well as his showmanship, and later traveled throughout the Delta performing with Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Willie Brown and other well-known Delta blues performers of the period. He was also influenced by Jimmie Rodgers, Tommy Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson, among other performers.
Alan Gilbert, University of Denver political scientist and anti-racist activist, is the author of Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence, one of the few works that examines the free and enslaved blacks who joined the American Patriots and the British during the American Revolution and the anti-racist whites who supported them. In the account below he describes the book and why he wrote it.
York was an African American slave best known for his participation in the (Meriwether) Lewis and (William) Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. York was born in Caroline County, Virginia in 1770. York, his father, mother (Rose), and younger sister and brother (Nancy and Juba) were all owned by the Clark family of Caroline County. York at 14 became William Clark's slave, passed down by a will from Clark's father. When the Clark family moved to Kentucky in 1784 York was Clark's "manservant," a position he held into adulthood. When Clark and Meriwether Lewis selected men to go on what would be known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition, commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Clark selected York to accompany him.
The Robert Charles Riots began when whites in New Orleans, Louisiana became infuriated after Robert Charles, an African-American, shot several white police officers on July 23, 1900. A manhunt for Charles began after he fled after an altercation with New Orleans police officers. The race riots lasted over four days and claimed 28 casualties, including Charles.
Robert Charles came to New Orleans from Mississippi and was a self-educated, articulate activist. He believed in self-defense for the African-American community and encouraged African-Americans in the United States to move to Liberia to escape racial discrimination.
Jean-Baptiste-Point DuSable, a frontier trader, trapper and farmer is generally regarded as the first resident of what is now Chicago, Illinois. There is very little definite information on DuSable's past. It is believed by some historians that he was born free around 1745 in St. Marc, Saint-Dominique (Haiti). His mother was an African slave, his father a French mariner. DuSable traveled with his father to France, where he received some education. It was through this education and the work that he performed for his father on his ships, that he learned languages including French, Spanish, English, and many Indian dialects.
The Republic of New Africa (RNA) is a black nationalist organization that was created in 1969 on the premise that an independent black republic should be created out of the southern United States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, which were considered "subjugated lands." The group's manifesto demanded the United States government pay $400 billion in reparations for the injustices of slavery and segregation. It also argued that African-Americans should be allowed to vote on self-determination, as that opportunity was not provided at the end of slavery when the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution incorporated African-Americans into the United States.
Bridget "Biddy" Mason, born a slave in Mississippi in 1818, achieved financial success that enabled her to support her extended family for generations despite the fact that she was illiterate. In a landmark case she sued her master for their freedom, saved her earnings, invested in real estate, and became a well-known philanthropist in Los Angeles, California.
Although born in Mississippi, Mason was owned by slaveholders in Georgia and South Carolina before she was returned to Mississippi. Her last owner, Robert Marion Smith, a Mississippi Mormon convert, followed the call of church leaders to settle in the West. Mason and her children joined other slaves on Smith's religious pilgrimage to establish a new Mormon community in what would become Salt Lake City, Utah. At the time Utah was still part of Mexico.
Tricia Martineau Wagner, African American Women of the Old West (Guilford, Connecticut: TwoDot, an imprint of The Globe Pequot Press, 2007); Quintard Taylor, In Search of the Racial Frontier African Americans in the American West 1528-1990 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998; Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1995); Jessie Carney Smith, (editor). Epic Lives One Hundred Black Women Who Made a Difference (Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1993).
Marco McMillian was known primarily as the first openly-gay African American male to seek mayoral office as a Democrat in his hometown of Clarksdale, Mississippi. On February 26, 2013, McMillian was found dead the age of 34, having been beaten, dragged, and burned.
Little is known about his family history. McMillian was born to Patricia Unger in Clarksdale in 1979. He graduated from Clarksdale High School in 1997 and went on to graduate magna cum laude from the W.E.B. DuBois Honors College at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi. McMillian also earned a graduate degree from Saint Mary's University in Minnesota in the area of philanthropy and development.
While living in Washington, D.C., McMillian served as an international executive director of the historically black Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. where he was responsible for securing the first federal contract to raise the awareness of the adverse impact of HIV/AIDS on communities of color. He also served as executive assistant to the President of Alabama A&M University and as assistant to the vice president at Jackson State University.
James Meredith, Three Years in Mississippi (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966); http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/meredith_james/.
Born on October 2, 1939 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, George Robert Reed is a former American College football and Canadian Football League (CFL) player. Reed is considered one of the premier fullbacks to play in the CFL. Reed played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders for 13 seasons, from 1963 until his retirement in June of 1975.
Reed, whose family moved to Renton, Washington, played football at Washington State University both as fullback and linebacker between 1959 and 1963. After his graduation in 1963 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education, he came to Canada to play professional football with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Regina, Saskatchewan. As a professional football player George Reed amassed numerous awards such as the Schenley Award for the Most Outstanding Player and set records including most rushing yards (16,116) for all of professional football. His jersey, # 34, is permanently retired in the Canadian Hall of Fame and Museum in Hamilton, Ontario.
Marion Barry Jr., a civil rights activist and later three term mayor of Washington D.C., was born on March 6, 1936, in Itta Bena, Mississippi. His parents, Marion Barry and Mattie Barry, were sharecroppers; the family lived in relative poverty. When Marion was eight years old, his mother took the family to live in Memphis, Tennessee.
Barry graduated from high school in Memphis and then in 1958 earned his bachelor's degree at Le Moyne College, a small black college in the city. He received a master's degree in organic chemistry from Le Moyne College in Nashville in 1960. Barry then completed three years of a doctoral program in chemistry at the University of Tennessee.
Jonetta Rose Barras, The Last of the Black Emperor: The Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in the New Age of Black Leaders (Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998); Councilmember Ward 8, http://www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us/BARRY/about/default.htm; The Washington Post, "Marion Barry: The Making of a Mayor," http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/library/dc/barry/barry.htm. "Marion Berry 4-Time Mayor of D.C., dies at 78," The Washington Post, Nov 23, 2014.
BlackPast.org is an independent non-profit corporation 501(c)(3). It has no affiliation with the University of Washington. BlackPast.org is supported in part by a grant from Humanities Washington, a state-wide non-profit organization supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the state of Washington, and contributions from individuals and foundations.


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Republica Names Rosanna Fiske Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer
One of the nation's most influential marketing and communications leaders joins burgeoning agency.
Sep 05, 2012, 11:36 ET from Republica
MIAMI, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Republica, a cross-cultural advertising, digital and communications agency, announced today that Rosanna Fiske has joined the company as executive vice president and chief strategy officer. The newly created position will focus on enhancing client strategy alignment among the agency's disciplines by integrating advertising, digital and communications initiatives as well as by leveraging cross-market approaches. She will oversee research and planning; account management; communications, content creation and engagement; and digital and media.
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With nearly 25 years of experience in marketing and communications, Fiske most recently served as the director of the master's program in Global Strategic Communications at Florida International University (FIU) in addition to being professor in the Advertising and Public Relations department.
"Through sustained growth in the past five years, Republica continues to expand in scope and reach, and we are delighted to welcome Rosanna to our firm as part of that expansion," said Jorge A. Plasencia, chairman and CEO. "With a wealth of experience in multinational agency, corporate environments and academia, Rosanna brings a depth of expertise and understanding in integrated advertising and communications that is unrivaled."
Fiske, who began her career as a journalist in New York, has held senior communications counsel, marketing, and management positions in both agency and corporate settings. Before joining academia, Fiske was partner and senior counsel at Communique Group/Rise Strategies, an integrated marketing communications firm serving international corporate brands, overseeing work completed in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Latin America. Previously, Fiske was vice president at Ketchum, where she was responsible for the global account management of consumer-marketing clients.
"Adding Rosanna to our leadership team strengthens our agency in many ways," said Luis Casamayor, president and chief creative officer. "Communications is in her DNA, and combined with her knowledge of technology, nurturing spirit, and relentless energy, she is a natural fit for the vision that Jorge and I have for Republica's future."
Throughout her career, Fiske has led multi-disciplinary account teams for a number of industry leaders including Charles Schwab & Co., American Airlines, MCI, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Telefonica, and Wells Fargo.
She has received a number of honors and awards including being named one of the "Top 100 Influentials in the Nation" by Hispanic Business Magazine. An accredited professional in public relations, she also recently served as the first Latina to lead the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) as chairwoman and CEO.
"After many years of wearing different hats in leadership in the marketing, advertising and communications profession, I found a great cultural fit in Republica," said Fiske. "Not afraid to take risks with innovative and cross-cultural know-how for a total market approach, Republica is one of the leading, digitally focused agencies, prepared and positioned for where our industry is headed."
Fiske received bachelor's and master's degrees in Journalism and Mass Communication and Integrated Marketing Communications, respectively, from the University of Florida and Florida International University. She serves on the board of directors of the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies, the National Education Association HIN, and the Public Relations Society of America.
About Republica (@RepublicaWorld)
Founded in 2006, Republica is one of the nation's fastest growing, cross-cultural marketing, digital and communications companies providing advertising, branding, promotions, interactive and communications services. Earlier this year, Republica was honored with four Telly awards, 17 Addy awards, a PRSA Silver Anvil and an Anvil Award of Excellence, reflecting its leading work for some of the world's most reputable brands. The company is based in Miami with satellite offices in Orlando, New York, Cleveland, and Puerto Rico. For more information, visit www.republica.net or Facebook.com/RepublicaWorld.
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440. The press reported quite widely that it
was announced on the Friday, the afternoon of the Friday, was
that an official Civil Service announcement?
(Sir Richard Wilson) You are taking me into territory
I cannot answer. We are talking about Friday when the resignations
were announced. It was done, I think, by Mr Byers, was it not?
441. Yes.
(Sir Richard Wilson) I think it was done by Mr Byers,
442. Are you quite clear how that was handled
at that time?
(Sir Richard Wilson) There was a negotiation that
went on. This is handled within the Department and I am not going
to get into detailed analysis of what went on inside the Department,
if you will forgive me. You have had Sir Richard Mottram before
you and he is, I think, the man you should be addressing those
questions to.
443. I want to take us back to the touchy subject
of the Civil Service Act. You have used some very carefully chosen
words today. All we have been able to get out of you is a date
for when you are going to make a speech making the case you said.
(Sir Richard Wilson) Yes.
444. That is quite a contrast from the last
time you were here. The impression I gained from you then was
that the case was made, it was overwhelming that in some ways
you saw this as the culmination of your career, the Act ought
to be in place by the time of your retirement. When the Chair
has pressed you for dates on the consultation paper, a Bill, possible
legislative timescale, we have not got anywhere near an answer
or an indication of what the timescale might be. This Act is fundamental
to putting right the kind of problems we have been talking about
today and making sure they do not happen again. Is it not likely
to be the case that when you are gone we will be told that this
is such an important event that we need to take account of the
views of your successor and take a fresh look at this and we will
back to square one? The Civil Service Act is dead in the water
at the moment. You are not able to tell us that but is that not
the case?
(Sir Richard Wilson) No, it is not at all. There are
a number of things I must try and correct on that. First, I hope
I did not say anything which implied such a personal role in relation
to the Act. This is a Government policy. I am merely the head
of the Civil Service at this time. I have said in my own view
it is a good idea and I am doing what I can to try and develop
the case for it because I think I am peculiarly in a positionit
is an unusual situationto do that. Also I think I said
last time that legislation and the timescale is a matter for the
Government and I could not commit it. That is the absolutely orthodox
position, I cannot change it and I do not think you expect me
to change it at all. You also question the timetable. I must say
do you really think the last few weeks have been the right time
to try and launch something in a non partisan atmosphere? I think
a certain amount of cooling off is not that foolish. All I would
say to you is I am sorry if you feel it has been slow but I am
saying to you that I have in mind to develop the case for it in
a little more detail in a couple of weeks' time and that is all
I am saying to you really.
445. I have one or two confusing matters and
I am going to be darting around all over the place. Could we go
back to the beginning when we were talking about the appointment
of your successor.
(Sir Richard Wilson) Yes?
446. I had the impression, maybe you need to
correct me, that the panel that you have set up and the feelers
that are going out, it is more of a case of do not contact us
if we do not contact you. Are there obvious public ways in which
people can say to the panel "I would like to be considered"
rather than being approached? It did not seem to me quite the
way to do it.
(Sir Richard Wilson) I have said to all the Heads
of Departments do they wish to be considered? That seems to me
to be appropriate. We are being a great deal more open in the
process than we have ever been ever before. I think we should
get credit for that. I think also as the head of a professionwhich
is what part of this job is aboutthe field is one in which
you have a fairly good idea of who the main contenders are. I
do not feel that the process is flawed in the way you suggest.
447. I just feel there might be a rank outsider
who is not getting a look in.
(Sir Richard Wilson) Well, if you have a name, Mrs
Brooke, I will be very happy to chat afterwards.
Annette Brooke: No. I do not dabble in patronage
so I will not be doing that. I just felt it was not totally open
and as we are talking about openness, the new Civil Service Act,
it seems a good start to advertise this job in a more open way.
There might be somebody working overseas who does not actually
know this is happening.
448. We had Dame Helena Shovelton in front of
us this morning, she is a splendid woman, just been sacked from
two jobs.
(Sir Richard Wilson) I am not sure I am going to follow
449. I will pass on that but I just wished to
express that thought, particularly if we need to make sure it
is not necessarily a male who has the job I would suggest on that
matter. Can we just go back to the numbers of special advisers
too because you have agreed with Sir Richard that a cap is appropriate.
Sir Richard last week said "I favour a cap but there are
also issues about how they are distributed". I think from
our previous witnesses it was suggested that perhaps it had been
a little bit misleading to talk about 80 special advisers in the
context of 3,000 civil servants when in fact they are concentrated
and indeed we are talking about three, were three, I should say,
in the Department of Transport in fact. So they are concentrated,
are they not? I think one of our previous witnesses was suggesting
that we need to be much more upfront about this if we are talking
about the significance of special advisers and their impact. It
was how they were used and how concentrated they were within sections
and within functions. Would you agree with that?
(Sir Richard Wilson) Yes. The effectiveness of a special
adviser, just like the effectiveness of an official, depends entirely
on their relationship with the Minister and what power the Minister
allows them to have. If that is the proposition you are making,
that is correct.
450. Right. It was suggested it was easy to
make out they were rather insignificant when they are given as
a straight percentage figure but you actually need a concentration
factor alongside and I think that is possibly quite important.
With the Civil Service Act, and I really am picking up all over
the place here, I think again in previous evidence and in our
discussions here it has been suggested can you actually put something
like the legislation when you have got an underlying problem?
If you have got the problem, lack of trust, lack of confidence,
of which there is plenty of evidence, is this enough, is there
not a lot more to be done?
(Sir Richard Wilson) Yes. I am getting slightly worried
in this discussion. I do not want to over claim for legislation.
I would have in mind, as I said before, that the Government should
be thinking in terms of a short, relatively brief Act, that, as
it were, builds on, codifies, consolidates a lot of work we have
done already, puts it on the record and provides a firm reference
point so that we can move on what is a very large change of programme.
I think, also, there are other things that we should be thinking
about in the light of recent events. You can do quite a lot in
terms of laying down regulation and boundaries, what you cannot
do is determine behaviour. I think there is quite a lot we ought
to now be addressing about induction for special advisers, induction
training, and we have now in the light of recent events asked
the Centre for Management and Policy Studies to lay on new training
courses for new special advisers so we can be sure that they have
some assistance, some welcome, some support in understanding the
system that they are moving into. FDA have made a number of rather
useful suggestions, Jonathan Baume, for instance, about personal
job descriptions which I think we ought to be thinking about.
I have talked about grievance procedures where I think something
more accessible could be used. I think, also, we could be doing
more to promulgate the codes of behaviour that we have got. I
am not sure that everyone knows that we have got the Special Advisers
Code or that we have done everything we should to draw attention
to it. I think there are things that we ought to be doing more
actively to help people understand the system that they have moved
451. I am sure I could pursue that quite a bit
more but we will be hearing more about that because it is going
to be a cultural change. Again, picking up on cultural change,
we are talking about changes for special advisers and clearly
the pace of change at the moment is very great, programming, modernisation
(Sir Richard Wilson) Huge.
452.focus on delivery. Do you consider,
in fact, that civil servants need additional support and help
through this change? We have got some very upset employees in
many of our public services because of the pace of change and
rapid announcements without full consultation. Perhaps civil servants
are feeling that they are not getting enough consideration in
all of this. Would you say that might be the case?
(Sir Richard Wilson) I do not think I can accept the
criticism that you are implying. What I do think is in any organisation
going through change you need to support the staff. I think that
is what leadership is about. I have been engaged, particularly
when I was Permanent Secretary at the Home Office, in a very big
change programme. All experience of running large organisations
is that when you are going through big change morale dips and
people take some time to climb out of it. There is a very strong
case for concentrating on communications, for explaining to people
what is going on, what you are doing to support them, what is
going to be required of them and where it will lead to. I think
that is one of the main reasons why we have made leadership such
an important part of our reform programme. You have to manage
staff and lead them through the kind of turmoil that they are
going through at the moment. It is very important.
Annette Brooke: Thank you for that. I am very
conscious of the time so I will pass back to the Chairman.
Chairman: I promised you we were not going to
keep you because you have got to go to Scotland I know. Sydney,
have you anything to ask?
Sir Sydney Chapman: No, just to apologise, Sir
Richard. I only joined this Committee last week and I had an inescapable
lunch time engagement.
453. Is that your question? Could I bring us
back to the big picture which I think underlies a lot of this,
I do not think we have quite got inside that yet. Could I just
go back to our set text and perhaps add another one in. I am struck
when Lord Armstrong saysthis is pretty meaty and powerful
stuff, no mincing words here". . . those who are in
charge of our public administration should recognise the extent
to which what they have done and are doing puts the principles
of good administration and, in particular, the maintenance of
a non-political, professional career civil service, at risk, and
act accordingly before it is too late". Then I have got Robin
Mountfield, again a very distinguished recently retired Permanent
Secretary who talks about "At the heart of government, the
position of special advisers is becoming more powerful and potentially
dangerous, particularly in Number 10 . . ." and interestingly
did not talk about Departments here, he talks about Number 10
". . . the Cabinet Office and the Treasury". He goes
on to say ". . . The effect is not so much interference in
civil servants' impartiality, as the virtual marginalisation of
orthodox civil service advice. No one now envisages a civil service
monopoly of advice, but the present danger is the reverseits
effective exclusion". So you have got these very powerful
voices from the Civil Service side saying there is something really
serious going on here and you have got significant political voices
saying there is something really wrong with the Civil Service.
We had a leading Cabinet Minister a week or two ago who said "I
think there are too many civil servants who believe that politicians
are a kind of sub species". Here are politicians who regard
civil servants as people who cannot deliver, they do not do policy
for us any more, they cannot deliver and you in turn think the
politicians do not understand the old traditions and all the rest
of it. So the whole thing is blowing up, is it not?
(Sir Richard Wilson) I do not think the whole thing
is blowing up, no. I think there is big change going through the
system. I think when you have big change going through the system
you do get the kind of things you are describing. My own observation
is the relations between Ministers and their permanent secretaries
and special advisers across most of Government is strong and good
and working well. I think that the challenge that the Government
has taken on in delivery of these high quality public services
requires different things in the Civil Service from what we have
been asked to do in the past. I do not think some of my predecessors
would have seen themselves in the kind of role that I and my colleagues
see ourselves in. I think the role of the centre of Government
is also different and it is seen differently conceptually from
the role of the centre of Government in the past. Those are perfectly
proper things but they are quite big. Robin Mountfield and Robert
Armstrong must answer for themselves but I think what they are
signalling is the way Government works is developing and changing.
My own view is that is something which should take place and is
taking place in the open rather than, as it were, behind closed
Chairman: Thank you very much for that. I suspect
over the next few months, this period before your departure, there
will be active conversation on all fronts about these matters
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Or is it just me? I thought it was one of the most innovative shows I've ever seen.
With nearly every fibre of my being...
I know there weren't very many episodes, but are there reruns out there anywhere?
It is rerun on Comedy Central - that's where I caught it for the first time. Really was a great show, if a bit uneven at times. You can really see a lot of it in the witty banter of the West Wing (which for those who don't know, was created and is written mostly by the same guy who did Sports Night).
I watched it the first season or two and really enjoyed it. I quit watching the second or third season. The formerly clever and snappy writing seemed to have become just people repeating themselves, snappily; it was like a half-hour of:
Person 1: "Hello"
Person 2: "Hello?"
Person 1: "Hello!"
Person 2: "Hello??"
Person 1: "Hello!!!"
Person 2: "Oh, Hello."
Of course, other friends disagreed with me, so I might be alone on that one
Fortunately, Aaron Sorkin has since brought us "West Wing", which I think outstrips most other shows for both drama and humor, and is the perfection of the dialogue he aimed for on Sports Night.
Uhh, I didn't think Sports Night was on that long.
Yeah, just watched the series finale again on Comedy Central last week. "Anybody who can't make money off of Sports Night should get out of the money-making business."
It was on for two seasons -- 45 episodes. The quality did dip a bit in the middle, but it finished well.
I loved the show. I don't have pay cable and *I* wish Showtime had picked it up...
I know I'm in the vast minority, but to me 'West Wing' isn't half the show that 'Sports Night' was.
I'd LOVE unedited DVDs of SN.
I loved sports night. I thought the writing was top notch and the acting was great. I also thought the person playing the Natalie character was a babe. She's one of those girl next door type that just has something about her that I liked
I am still having a hard time believing that the guy playing Dan Rydell is/was going out with Jennifer Connelly.
I loved the show when it was on, never missed an episode. I thought was kind of cool when Jeremy was going out with the porn actress, played by Paula Marshall.
I didn't realize SN was only on two seasons. It seemed longer than that. Well, I guess I watched the first season, but didn't care for the second.
I appreciated how they wrote into the show Robert Gouliet's (sp?) real-life stroke. I think that was a brave thing to do, from a TV-making viewpoint, and allowed a good actor to carry on. It also brought in a breath of "real-life" into the realm of "everyone's super beautiful and super buff" TV sitcom.
And yes, "Natalie" was smokin'
Are they still showing this on Comedy Central? I religeously watched the back-to-back Thursday night showings... which they've since replaced with (shudder) "The Man Show" and "Martin Short In a Fat Suit."
Just wanted to add that both my wife and I loved the show. It was one of the best things on.
I think the Comedy Central reruns still come on in the morning (10:30 a.m., I think); at least, they were on the week of Thanksgiving, when I was home from work on vacation.
I wish they'd found a way to cut the inappropriate laugh track from the first-season episodes, but as it is it makes for an interesting history in how they slowly moved it out over a full season.
I'm happy to have The West Wing, but I do miss my SportsNight. Has anyone else picked up on the reworkings of SN plots on WW? For example, the storyline where Jeremy obsessed about the yachting accident to deal with his father's affair was lifted almost exactly for Rob Lowe's character on WW (his obsession was with a fifty-year-old espionage case). I don't think it's a bad thing, mind you; it's just a fun game to see what themes Sorkin hits again and again.
And the episode where Natalie kept throwing water on Dan to surprise him out of writer's block was one of the funniest things I've seen on TV.


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Matthes: I like the Suzuki's overall look for many bikes in the pits but just like when they were on Yamaha's, the JGR bike is too busy with sponsors IMO. Yeah, yeah they pay the team and JGR is probably killing it but for this column's purpose, I don't care. Number font is a bit weird also right JT? Phil's bike had black forks on for some reason and I don't like that either. Makes a bike look heavy.
JT: While it may not be my favorite look of 2017, I do think it is much better than what I saw at Lille in November. More sponsors=more stickers so this is a tough nut to crack. I am with you on the font but I like that the riders have their own unique look. This font just happens to not be my cup of tea.
Matthes: Now THIS, I like! Switch out the fork color on JGR's bike and we might have the best looking bike in the pits. Well, maybe add a touch of blue but the old school "S" and blank swingarm is cool. I bet the RCH guys would love a bike with sponsors like JGR on it but because they don't have that, I like their bike! What about gold rims on a Suzuki JT?
JT: I must admit that less is more when it comes to this look. It's probably tough on the budget and I am sure they would trade their look for more money, BUT, their bikes do look great. I agree, the gold forks are awesome and I love the blue tubes and how it matches the header pipe coloration.
Matthes: Barn Pros needs to drop that blue rear chain guide they got going on in the back. I'm not a fan of the way Yamaha's look in general so they're in tough for me to be pumped on this look. I'm ok with blue hubs and black rims though.
JT: I think there's a bit too much going on here. With the orange of the Home Depot, maybe they could have made that the theme? Adding the red on top of the blue, then having to spike the orange? It just gets a bit messy for my taste.The graphics aren't too bad, I would just like to see the colors carry one theme.
Matthes: New team sponsor for the ex-BTO Sports guys and they do a nice job with locating the RM ATV/MC logo although the way BTO logo was it fit so nice on the shroud there. I like the color of the WP forks and contrasting grip tape is sweet. I do like the look of a colored frame on KTM's/Husky's. What about an orange seat? Wouldn't that be sweet JT?
JT: This bike underwent some heavy improvements after the MEC. I really like the use of the horizontal area near the fuel tank. Great sponsorship love there. The FMF can stickers look great and I love the orange/black consistency throughout. I am biased but I have hated my own bikes' look in the past so I have more insight than most for this team. NO, I DO NOT THINK THE ORANGE SEAT WOULD LOOK GOOD.
Matthes: Yeah, the TLD guys kill it. It's as good as it can look with having sponsor logos on it. The Adidas stripes on the seat are a nice touch. It's rare to see a team bike have silver rims nowadays.
JT: I am a huge fan of orange and blue so of course I love this. I would like the blue's to match a bit more in their tone but otherwise, they nailed it. I am confused, Matthes... Did you think these bikes have silver rims or were you more commenting on bikes nowadays in general?
Matthes: No these are not silver. My eyes are fine...I was just commenting that a huge contratian move now would be to leave silver rims on your race bike.
Matthes: No, no, no, no. Hanny was going for the Road Warrior look here with his Husky. And it didn't work. NASA can probably see his numbers from space. Not good.
JT: I am on the other side with this. I happen to like it. He matched his gear and bike really nicely. He stood out on the track and while his riding may not have been what he wanted, his look was clean. The matte swingarm is badass.
Matthes: New Kawi 250F means a new look for Pro Circuit. And they did a nice job with what has to be kind of traditional for them with Monster on-board. Black and green is a strong motif. Is it just me or is the Monster claw bigger than it's ever been before?
JT: I like the look overall. I am not a big fan of the blue, black, red, green, yellow, etc though. The bike is very exotic looking and I like exotic. Or is that erotic? Whatever, both is fine.
Matthes: Star bikes don't look a whole lot different from last years and I don't know what it is but I like bikes that have disc covers on them. It's like it hides something mysterious or something. Carbon makes the cover even sicker.
JT: Very clean. I don't love the POW! of the FMF sticker on the shroud so much simply because it stands out too much. That's great for FMF of course but throws off the feng shui of the bike. Can't believe I just said that.
Matthes: The BUD Racing bikes brought back the flo-green from back in the day! Red hubs? Are we ok with red hubs JT?
JT: Flo-green is always good. The red hubs actually work here because they stuck with the red hits throughout. The only thing I don't like are the fork stickers. Wow those stickers are bad. It literally makes me think that the suspension doesn't work well because the stickers are so bad. That's not fair to BUD Racing but it's just what pops into my head.
Matthes: Thanks to Lissimore for shooting Tommy Hahn's bike for me by the way. Anyways, yeah not a fan of Yamaha's and that way they look but I do like the old school dark gold on the KYB forks. That's the OG fork cover and still the best IMO.
JT: Overall, I like this bike. Using the ice blue hits was a nice touch. I don't love the number plate font or look too much but the graphics are clean and professional. Cycle Trader can be read clearly and it still looks cool... that's tough to do.
Matthes: The Kawi 450's look pretty good this year, not a lot different from last year's. Just some more weirdo lines and stuff about the numberplate to me. Green stickers on the rims are a nice touch...it's like saying 'Hey, we're black rims but wait...maybe not!"
JT: I am a huge fan of this look. The bike just screams MEAN MOFO. I like the consistency of green, black, and gold without overdoing it. This is one awesome looking bike.
Matthes: A big improvement over their last few years, the MCR guys went with a colored sprocket and I like that. I'm not mad at this bike at all. Number font fine also.
JT: The bike is simplistic in its look which isn't a bad thing. I don't love it but I don't hate it. Something about the number plates need a bit more IMO but I can live with this look.
Matthes: I think the only thing the GEICO guys did was put a red seat on their bike but I like it! Oh hi there black rims! GEICO, like BTO last year, just fits on that space on the shroud perfect. Single digits are always cool cause you can make them bigger.
JT: Either this bike or Eli's bike get my vote as best in show. Having a single digit definitely helps but the contrast of bright color (red or green) on the black is just hard for me to overlook. The red seat really makes this bike pop and most importantly, they matched the red tone. That's crucial. Kudos, boys.


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