Q&A with Secretary of State candidate Damon Dunn

Every Way Woman a new web talk show created by women, for women that focuses on real stories with real solutions, recently had the honor of interviewing Damon Dunn. Dunn is an African-American Republican currently running for California Secretary of State.

“We are honored and feel privileged to be able to add Damon Dunn to our ever-growing roster of special guests,” said Yolando Mitchell Brown, producer and visionary of the show. “Every Way Woman was thrilled to interview Damon and hear about his childhood – how he rose from rags to riches – a true American success story. We are eager to learn more about his political aspirations and future goals.”

Dunn is a graduate of Stanford University, a successful entrepreneur, real estate agent, former NFL football star, local celebrity and presently a Secretary of State hopeful for the upcoming 2010 mid-term elections.

HHR INTERVIEW: Ryan Brumberg | Republican for Congress (NY-14)

HHR Blog had the opportunity to interview GOP candidate Ryan Brumberg a candidate for New York’s 14th Congressional District. A lifelong New Yorker, Ryan grew up just outside the city. He has deep roots on Manhattan’s east side where his family has lived for more than 60 years.

He graduated phi beta kappa from Columbia, with top honors from Stanford Law School, and then returned to New York to join McKinsey & Company where he has worked since 2007. On April 9th, 2010, Ryan resigned from McKinsey to launch his campaign for U.S. Congress.

Connecting M-Learning from Urban America to The World

As education becomes more global one method that has been around for quite some time that has taken root is mobile learning or m-learning. As a subset of distance learning and e-learning it has promised a more immediate and more flexible approach to education. This is popular in places like Sub-Saharan Africa where the telecommunications industry is booming like never before. It is also gaining ground in the developed countries of Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim. Traditionally, we had large, static, and impersonal computers, institutions, and infrastructure in place for e-learning, and now mobile learning gives us learning that can be personal, portable, and flexible.

Once again urban America with urban conservatives must take the lead in making the academic connection between the United States and the Diaspora with technology. In fact, m-learning has brought e-learning to the rural communities of Africa to learners who previously had no access to education let alone technology. M-learning is the gateway to e-learning for most learners in Africa as the rapidly growing wireless infrastructure increasingly fulfills their access needs. Therefore, Africa has gone from a nonexistent e-learning infrastructure to a wireless e-learning infrastructure.

MARVIN ROGERS OP-ED: That Don’t Taste Good: My Response to “Health Care Reform.”

I’ve seen a few comments floating around on the Internet that infer that by disagreeing with the narrowly-partisan Democratic Health Care Reform Act, that by default I must not want uninsured Americans to be covered. I cannot let an untrue assertion of such gravity go un-rebuffed. Many of you know that when I’m not politicking, I’m a bilingual interpreter by trade. I’ve therefore been privileged to be present in the medical rooms with patients and their doctors on many occasions. This has afforded me a vivid and firsthand account of the health care needs of the under-served. I have never met a member of congress, R, D, or I, who oppose people being able to see a doctor when they are sick. The motive behind the opposition to this bill rests in the details of the legislation.

1. An alarming number of members of the House reported that they did not have time to read this legislation that was crafted and pushed at the 11th hour. So how could they know that it does what the President says it’s supposed to do?

SONNIE JOHNSON:It Takes A Hood to Raise A Hood

Once upon a time in a Fairy Tale land called Chicago, there lived a little boy named Tre. Tre lived with his mother in a two bedroom apartment in a run down housing complex. His father was a police officer killed in the line of duty.

Tre loved everything about seeing his father in a uniform. The pride he took in making sure his clothes were clean and pressed made Tre want to do the same. The time he spent talking to the every person he met on the street had opened Tre’s heart and allowed him to open his ears. But nothing compared to what Tre’s father gave him outside of his uniform.

Tre’s father loved Science. He was always in their little garage doing experiments with John, the boy next door. Tre was to small at the time to help with any of the experiments but he loved sitting and watching as his father tried, failed, and tried again. After his father died, John would often come over and continue the experiments.

Scott Names Jennifer Carroll To Ticket

Rick Scott welcomes Jennifer Carroll to GOP ticket for governor of Florida. If elected with Scott, she’ll be the state’s first black lieutenant governor.

JOHN MCWHORTER : Instead Of Marching, Let’s End The War On Drugs

The moderate-conservative commentator in New York City opines that it would have a far more positive impact on Black America than any number of symbolic marches: “The War on Drugs destroys black families. It has become a norm for black children to grow up with their fathers in prison and barely knowing them. Data are unanimous in showing that children, especially poor ones, do better with two parents. We see the young black man in a do-rag pushing a baby carriage as a welcome sight rather than as a norm. That must stop.”

He continues his commentary: “The War on Drugs discourages young black men from seeking legal employment. Because the drugs’ illegality keeps their price high, there are high salaries to be made in selling them — not at first as a low-level runner, but potentially as one rises in the hierarchy. This makes selling drugs a standing alternative to legal employment, especially if one has a poor education. The idea that selling drugs is the only choice available is refuted by the simple fact that immigrants, including black ones, regularly make do — as do plenty of black American men who happen not to ‘go the wrong way.’ Was the man who installed your cable TV a white guy with a degree from Vanderbilt? Did the last security guard you saw have blond hair?”

The Patricia Saiki Story

Patricia F. Saiki was not always a politician. Once she graduated from college and her own children were securely embedded with-in the Hawaiian Educational System, Pat Saiki went to work as a teacher of History in Hawaii public and private schools for twelve years. Next, she worked as a Union Organizer and as a research assistant to Hawaii Senate Republicans. “In the mid 1960’s” Saiki served as a secretary and as the vice chair of the State Republican Party. (Women In Congress, Patricia F. Saiki, p.2) It was not until 1968, however, that Patricia Saiki tossed her hat in the ring eventually winning election to Hawaii’s House of Representatives where she served for six years. According to Women In Congress: “In 1974, Saiki won election to the state senate where she served until 1982.(p.1) Unfortunately, she left the post to run for Lieutenant Governor in 1982.

Although she lost the election, her work in revitalizing The Republican Party in Hawaii was obvious and unparalleled. For not only did she seek and win election for herself, but as the Party Chair she also managed to raise $800,000.00 in two-and-a-half years as well as expanded Party membership by three times the amount it had previously been.

Body-Image Distortion: By Martin Martinez

Today, more than ever we are plagued with distorted images of how we should look and what we expect others to be. I am sure that you have heard this quote ” beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. But whose eyes are we really looking through? ours or society’s? and are we really the beholder? All of us are influenced in one way or another by society or our culture, no one lives in or under a shell. I will say in all assuredness, that adolescents, teens and those in their early to mid-twenties are truly overweight and unhealthy.

A Modern Day “Deep Throat” : A Review of Collapse

In Collapse, Michael Ruppert, who is a former UCLA College Student; a former Los Angeles Police Officer; and a CIA employee, offers his explanation of, in a March 2009 Interview, why The United States’ Economy and, ultimately, The Government “collapsed.” Often interesting but, for the most part, far too willing to offer simplistic explanations of highly complex concepts, Collapse is an extremely confused attack against the misuses and abuses of natural and man-made resources (Oil, Energy, Electricity, Transportation, Food) by the World.

Perhaps, if he had been less pro-Saddam Hussein and anti-Obama, as well as less intent upon passing himself off as a modern day “Deep Throat” who emerges from the shadows, Mr. Ruppert would have been more convincing.

HHR Exclusive Interview : New York City Band - Terminal City Inc.

HHR Blog recently sat down to do an interview with Just-One a member of the New York City band Terminal City. Terminal City was founded in 2009 by NYC emcee Just-One and guitarist/songwriter Derek Kunkel. The clash between Just-One’s edgy flow and Derek’s melodic guitar quickly became the basis around which Terminal City has developed. Today, the band fuses indie rock with hip hop and funk to create a dark intelligent sound that is both danceable and melodic.

CHRIS LADD OP-ED: When Black Meant Republican

It’s easy to forget now, but just a few generations ago African-Americans overwhelmingly identified themselves as Republicans. The story of how the Party of Lincoln lost its black support is long and sad, but understanding what happened will be critical as the Party looks to improve its standing in the black community.

You could start the story in the fall of 1895, when Atlanta put on one in a series of “International Expositions” designed to highlight its progress in recovering from the war. Racial tensions had been growing since Southerners, at the end of Reconstruction, began instituting Jim Crow laws to curtail black civil rights. Those laws were under challenge at the time and there were differences among blacks on the merits of direct resistance.