![]() "Minorities" Aren't Created Equal
• The first day of the World Series = a triumphant day for humanity and racial justice in the country and the world? Wow. I guess you have to love baseball to feel that. [BG] • The price of a promotion: the first black person to serve as clerk of the House of Representative, Lorraine Miller, was going to get a gala thrown in her honor, but it was canned because House ethics rules banned her from raising funds for it. [WP] • Maya Angelou will be featured in the Poetry for Young People series, which has previously only included two women and one black (Langston Hughes). [CBS] • His dad might not think Obama's black enough, but Jesse Jackson Jr. is enough of a fan to cut radio ads for the presidential candidate. [BS] |
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Anaheim, California
With his basketball season over, Kobe Bryant spent some quality time with his wife Vanessa and oldest daughter, Natalia, at the premiere of the third installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, a movie sure to knock Shrek off of its box office pedestal as soon as it opens in theaters. Check out more pictures of the happy family and other movie-goers, a group that randomly includes Mark "Hanging With Mr. Cooper" Curry, below. |