Category Archives: News from the Soul Brother

10 Rules of E-mail Etiquette

If you are like me you send and receive hundreds of emails each day. This is an excellent high level guide to sending business communication. I would add an 11th rule: spell check and proofread your message before you send … Continue reading

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Wyclef Jean: Haiti Needs Shelter From the Storm

It is true that Haiti has fallen out of the news. That is sad for our media conglomerates to ignore human suffering around the world. With the rainy season ready to start in Haiti, now more than ever since the earthquake we … Continue reading

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Masterminding

This is good advice for all of us. I have always kept my circle extremely small with supportive persons. They are my team. I do maintain a rigorous criteria for entering my circle of friends; my team. I think that … Continue reading

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Artur Davis says he won’t run for office again after loss in Alabama governor’s race

The lack to effectively communicate to the electorate especially to African-Americans, possibly a sense of pretentiousness on his part, and his vote against President Obama’s health care plan all conspired against Artur Davis’ bid to become Alabama’s first African-American governor. … Continue reading

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Wave Power Could Reduce Dependency on Oil

With the ongoing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. I think this article has even more relevance. Let’s permanently fire BP, Exxon, and all the other oil companies! Wave Power Could Reduce Dependency on Oil – US News and … Continue reading

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Social justice for Latino immigrants is social justice for everyone

  I am wholeheartedly against Arizona’s SB 1070. The issue of illegal immigration has been a stewing pot way before President Barack Obama became the head chef. What I find interesting is that the term “illegal immigrant” did not exist until 1918. … Continue reading

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Dr. Cornel West

Some of my thoughts on race and race relations have been formed by the speeches and writings of this man. I had the pleasure of meeting him a year ago at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he was giving … Continue reading

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Waffle House Worker Chases Check Skippers, Clings To Hood Of Car Going Up To 60 MPH

I don’t know about you but, I don’t think it was worth it to do all that. They skip on the bill, they skip. I would just take the next order…. Waffle House Worker Chases Check Skippers, Clings To Hood … Continue reading

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Why Libertarians and Rand Paul are wrong about The Civil Rights Act

This is a well written and eloquent article on Libertarians and Rand Paul’s position on race relations. This article validates the vigilance we all must have about the repealing of any civil rights legislation. Why Libertarians and Rand Paul are … Continue reading

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Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries

Some people wonder if we live in a post-racial country. Here is another nail in the coffin that we do not. It is a given that African-Americans do not excercise our constitutional right to vote en masse. Yet when we … Continue reading

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