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Last year during Black History Month I spoke before a group of mostly Black executives in a Detroit church about the role of the media in economic transformation, community activism and helping Black businesses grow. This was before anyone could realize that a recession would greet the assumption
to power of the first Black president of the world’s leading superpower...

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» REFORMED & READY?

By Bankole Thompson | Published 08/5/2009 | Main News | Unrated

Last week I found myself defending and explaining a string of endorsements the Michigan Chronicle made for the Aug. 4 primary...

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» LIMBO: HOW LOW CAN SOME POLITICIANS GO?

By Bankole Thompson | Published 07/29/2009 | Main News | Unrated

Detroit Councilwoman Martha Reeves. Photo- Monica Morgan

At best it is insulting, and at worst it represents the lowest form of political education I have seen as a political journalist. That Detroit City Council member Martha Reeves would be carrying campaign literature asking voters to re-elect her and the Vandellas – her Motown signing group – back to the City Council is insane...

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» REAL LIFE 101 SECURES FUTURE FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED BLACK MALES

By Bankole Thompson | Published 07/26/2009 | Main News | Unrated

Scholarship recipients attend the June 6 awards ceremony where they each received a laptop computer. – Rogers Foster photos

Often the image portrayed of Black men in the media as a mass group of people deeply soaked in crime, violence and drugs is nothing short of a deliberate effort to destroy the reputation of all Black men...

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» GATES' RITE OF PASSAGE, VOWS TO CHAMPION PLIGHT OF BLACK MEN

By Bankole Thompson | Published 07/22/2009 | Main News | Unrated

Henry Louis Gates

One of the nation's pre-eminent Black scholars, Henry Louis Gates Jr., last week had a taste of the criminal justice system that critics say is vehemently biased against people of color, especially Black men in America...

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» MOMENT OF TRUTH

By Bankole Thompson | Published 07/20/2009 | Main News | Unrated

President Barack Obama speaks on education and he economy at Macomb County Community College in Warren on Tuesday, July 14, during his first visit to the Wolverine state since winning the historic November 2008 presidential election. Photo- Monica Morgan

Like it or not, President Barack Obama does not mince his words. Perhaps that is why even some of the people who do not agree with him appreciate and respect his candor and approach to issues...

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» RALLY ON VIOLENCE ISSUES CHARGE TO CITY LEADERS

By Bankole Thompson | Published 07/8/2009 | Main News | Unrated

About a hundred Detroiters converged in front of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in downtown Detroit on July 6 to protest the recent wave of killings and shootings that have many looking over their shoulders while on the streets...

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» DETROIT, IT'S TIME TO TALK

By Bankole Thompson | Published 07/8/2009 | Main News | Unrated

There is a problem in Detroit. It is not someone else's problem. It is our own problem.

We have to own up to and deal with it if we long for a city that is going to be progressive and a safe haven for families already living here and those looking to relocate, as well as businesses.

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» LEGEND OF ALL LEGENDS

By Bankole Thompson | Published 07/3/2009 | Main News | Unrated

Thousands of fans at the vigil that took place
on Sunday, June 28, at the Motown Historical
Museum. Photo- Andre Smith

In 2006 I attended the National Black People’s Unity Convention in Gary, Indiana. This gathering of the nation’s civil rights groups and Black activists provided a deep historical context for Gary’s role in America’s second birth-the Civil Rights Era.

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» WHAT DOES SHEILA COCKREL KNOW?

By Bankole Thompson | Published 06/25/2009 | Main News | Unrated

In this exclusive interview with Michigan Chronicle senior editor Bankole Thompson, Detroit City Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel opens up about the mounting federal probe of corruption in city hall, the investigation that made her visit the offices of the FBI. She denies any rumors that she took bribes. She also denied that she cut a deal with the Feds in exchange for not seeking re-election. She indicated that she could be called to testify should
any of the cases make it to federal court. She also said Monica Conyers
should not resign unless she has been indicted.

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