Sort of good news on the new billionaire front and I say only "sort of" because I'm still not on the list. Thanks Rikyrah. Two Africans Make Billionaire List - Black Voices Blogs - For the first time ever, black Africans have made it onto the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest billionaires. While one hails from South Africa, the other rules his enterprise in Nigeria.This exclusive club includes Warren Buffett, the world's richest man, who has a fortune estimated at $62 billion. He's banked $10 billion more since last year. Aliko Dangote and Patrice Motsepe have wealth of $3.3 billion and $2.4 billion respectively, and represent some of the richest black people in the world. -----------------------------------
An interesting story on Black Jews in Chi-Town. Black Rabbi Reaches Out to Mainstream of His Faith - New York Times. His congregation on the Far Southwest Side of Chicago is predominantly black, and while services include prayers and biblical passages in Hebrew, the worshipers sometimes break into song, swaying back and forth like a gospel choir. As the first African-American member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis and of numerous mainstream Jewish organizations, Rabbi Funnye (pronounced fun-AY) is on a mission to bridge racial and religious divisions by encouraging Chicago’s wider Jewish community to embrace his followers — the more than 200 members of Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation.
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Not everyone is happy with W's choice to run the Federal Civil Rights Division. What a surprise.
A Poor Choice on Civil Rights - New York Times. President Bush has made yet another ill-considered nomination to the Justice Department, this time selecting Grace Chung Becker to be assistant attorney general for the civil rights division. It is a critically important job, responsible for protecting the rights of racial and religious minorities, the disabled and other groups. The division has been improperly politicized in recent years, and it has worked to undermine the very rights it is supposed to protect. 
