by Yanick Rice Lamb | Jun 24, 2014 | Notes From Nini |
Lots of people are debating whether LeBron James should explore his options and possibly leave the Miami Heat. Absolutely yes, sports analysts say, claiming that anyone at the top of his or her game in any field should test the waters. In one scenario, LeBron would stay put, free up some money to lure Carmelo Anthony from New York to Miami and collect the multiple rings that had been expected. In another, he would return to the Cleveland Cavaliers to lead a stronger, faster, younger team than the one he left with key backup from Kevin Love of the Minnesota Timberwolves. LeBron would bring home a title, and all would be forgiven in Cleveland. (He still gets mad love from our hometown, Akron, Ohio, where signs along the city limits boast that LeBrown is a native son.) So will this be “The Decision, Part 2?” Stay...
by Yanick Rice Lamb | Jun 24, 2014 | Notes From Nini |
A man I’m profiling for a story on caregiving just lost his mother an hour ago. Listening to his experiences and sensing his emotions over the last two weeks have reminded me of losing my mother on Easter. It’s been like reliving it all over again. I even had a meltdown after one of our phone conversations, but I’d never let him hear my own sense of loss. When I met his mother in March, I thought she seemed healthier than my mom physically, but just as unhealthy mentally from dementia. She suffered from Lewy body dementia; my mother had vascular dementia. A lot has changed in three months. We didn’t see this...
by Yanick Rice Lamb | Jun 21, 2014 | Notes From Nini |
Bill Cathcart was among the honorees at a Negro League Baseball tribute before today’s Bowie Baysox game. Cathcart was a pitcher for the Joe Black National League All-Stars, which played the last of the Negro League teams in the Northeast during the late 50s. Black, who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, was the first African-American pitcher to win a World Series game. I had the pleasure of meeting Cathcart, father of Christopher Cathcart, president of the OneDiaspora Group and an alumnus of Howard University. It’s clear that the apple didn’t fall far from the...
by Yanick Rice Lamb | Jun 19, 2014 | Notes From Nini |
If you thought O.J. Simpson killed his ex-wife, you had to be prepared for intense debates at home or the barbershop back in the day. But a new CNN poll indicates that some African Americans now believe that O.J. did it. Fifty-three percent of African Americans surveyed say that the charges are true, according to a new poll by CNN/ORC International. That’s a reversal from 1994, when only 24 percent thought the charges were true, but 60 percent believed Simpson was innocent. The former NFL star was later acquitted. CNN released the findings to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The results were based on land-line and cell phone calls to 1,549 white respondents and 143 black respondents in a two-part survey. Sampling errors were plus or minus 8 percentage points for black respondents. TRIAL OF THE CENTURY: Prosecutor Christopher Darden tries to convince the court that all evidence in the death of Nicole Brown Simpson points to her ex-husband, O.J. Simpson. (CNN...
by Yanick Rice Lamb | Jun 17, 2014 | Notes From Nini |
A little homework, common knowledge and respect might have saved Delta from international shame. In a tweet ridiculed around the world, the airline saluted the United States’ 2-1 win over Ghana in the World Cup with the scores superimposed over images of the Statue of Liberty — and a giraffe of all things. The global gaffe recalls stereotypes associating Africa with Tarzan and monkeys. It also feeds into criticism that Americans are too xenophobic and ignorant to care or learn about other cultures. Delta apologized on Twitter and on its website: “Last night, we posted a congratulatory message on Twitter and Facebook to the U.S. Soccer team on its win in a World Cup game. The message used an image of a giraffe to represent Ghana. The image was both inaccurate and inappropriate.” We’re sorry for our choice of photo in our previous tweet. Best of luck to all teams. — Delta (@Delta) June 17,...
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