Walter Cronkite, News Legend, 1916-2009

New York, NY - Today we lost another great Icon, Walter Cronkite was the face of CBS Evening News. I believe we can give the title to him as the first official Anchorman that America believed and trusted(Dan Rather if read this blog your right up there their with him, man). This was back when television went off the air at midnight(yes, young people we didn't always have 24 hour news coverage).

Walter Cronkite reported some of the most pivotal events in America, such the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the Apollo 11 landing on the moon and the Vietnam War. It was President Lyndon B. Johnson that once said "If I have lost Walter Cronkite, I have lost America". No newscaster, reporter, broadcaster was ever held in that high regard.

Good Old Friend, thank you for always being true and always being you. God Bless You.

Photo Credit: Reuters

Check out some YouTube footage of Walter Cronkite.

President Obama Speech to the NAACP's 100th Anniversary

New York, NY- The NAACP stands for the National Association of Colored People. President Obama speaks to members, friends and many others at the 100th Anniversary of the NAACP. He mentions the Niagara Movement, W.E.B. De Bois, the freedom fighters, and so many others. Our first African-American President deliverers a powerful, yet thoughtful speech that touches on not only African Americans, Latinos Americans, Native Americans and others while also acknowledging White Americans as well. He boldly stated that we must be the Change we want to see. If it was not for those who came before him he would not be the 44th President of the United States today.

He gives shouts out to Lebron James, a basketball player and Lil Wayne, a rapper(for those who don't know who they are) awesome for our President to be in the know, about what young people are into in today's times. He goes on to say yes you can become rappers, and basketball players, but don't forget to become scientists, mathematicians, teachers, and even President of the United States, and how far we have come and yet how far we have to go.

He spoke about his recent trip to the Motherland, Ghana, where Africans were sold into slavery and how important is was to have his whole family there to bear witness the door of no return.

President Obama said "We need a new set of goals, and a new mindset in this country, in order to move forward!

Amen!

Photo Credit: AP

Confirmation Hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor

The case remains that the Conservatives Republicans Senators who continue to ask the same question of Judge Sonia Sotomayor will she base her court rulings based off race. This is suppose to be the last day of questioning for Judge Sotomayor, but apparently it will not be. There are five other "Republicans Senators" who need to ask their burning questions. More Later.