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The Lions’ Fords Aren’t the Worst?

Originally posted by Nadir at LastChocolateCity.com

William Clay Ford and Bill Ford, Jr. weren’€™t named the worst NFL team owners in Sports Illustrated’€™s ranking this year, but that’s probably because the list seems more based on writer Michael Silver’€™s mood than on the owners’ record and lack of productivity. The pair did drop from #22 last year to #29 this year, which is a little closer to reality. Continue reading

The Lions’ Fords Aren’t the Worst?

Originally posted by Nadir at LastChocolateCity.com

William Clay Ford and Bill Ford, Jr. weren’€™t named the worst NFL team owners in Sports Illustrated’€™s ranking this year, but that’s probably because the list seems more based on writer Michael Silver’€™s mood than on the owners’ record and lack of productivity. The pair did drop from #22 last year to #29 this year, which is a little closer to reality. Continue reading

Bill Clinton, Barry Sanders and the Future of the NAACP

Originally posted by Nadir at LastChocolateCity.com

Billed as the biggest sit down dinner in the world, the 52nd Annual NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner attracted 10,000 to Detroit’€™s Cobo Hall on April 29. Dinner itself was unremarkable. (Reports confirm that each entree – cajun beef, some unidentified fish or a mushroom pasta – was equally mediocre.)

What was most important about this dinner though was the guest list. The governor, both of Michigan’€™s US senators, several congress members, the mayor and other public officials, business and union leaders, entrepreneurs and preachers all joined grassroots activists to honor and support the nation’€™s oldest and largest civil rights organization.

During the three and a half hour event, Lifetime Achievement awards were given to Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, attorney and politician Joel Ferguson and former NAACP head Ernest Lofton. But the main attraction was the keynote address from the man described by several of the night’€™s speakers as “€œour president”€, William Jefferson Clinton. Continue reading

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