tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10420784236509669302012-01-17T09:34:58.514-08:00The Village Report. Making black America better.W. Eric Croomeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03247104697761035645noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1042078423650966930.post-37800485704696459852011-11-30T11:06:00.000-08:002011-11-30T11:09:21.860-08:00

In the past three weeks our Dallas/Fort Worth community has been rocked by a trilogy of murder, deviant parenting and the loss of a promising young life. First we watched in agony as a young mother egged her middle-school age daughter into fisticuffs with another young lady; we reacted in horror at the news that a nineteen-year old young man had been pushed to his death in front of a train

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No Glory Without a Story: How to Move Past the Hurt, Guilt and Mistakes of Your PastA critically-acclaimed anthology of writers who share the power of the pen to relate how they overcame some incredible odds to claim their God-given, brand-new future! Whatever challenge you are going through, you will be inspired by these valiant men and women of God who's only reason for participating in this

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W. Eric Croomes Presents Hello my friend! I am excited to announce the publication of the critically-acclaimed book, No Story Without a Story, How to Move Forward in Victory after the Hurt, Guilt and Mistakes of Your Past, to be released June 10, 2011 (M&M Consulting)! This is a book that is edited by Dr. Mia Y. Merritt and compiled by twenty authors whose sole mission is to help readers move

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Changed men make for changed lives, changed families, changed communities. But where does that type of profound change come from? How does a man change from being negative to positive, from being weak and docile to strong and courageous, from engaging in self-destructive behavior to harnessing his authentic power as a valiant man of God? As we witness St. Paul on a dusty Damascus road, we see

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On Tuesday, January 20, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, the nation’s first African American president, called the nation to “a new era of responsibility.” It is a noble call to all Americans to help make our country better. Yet it is a call that resonates in the black community like a trumpet. For, now that the pageantry has ended, the revelry has tempered, and the shadow of something the

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We’ve all heard of her; she’s been crooned, immortalized and hyped since the beginning of the 1990’s as the strong, self-sufficient black woman. She’s appeared in film, literature and theater as the saving grace of the black family and the antidote to black male patriarchy. In the process, she’s become the star of African American post-modern folklore; there aren’t too many black families that

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I had never imagined one day I’d find myself smack in the middle of a domestic dispute with the mother of my youngest son. But here I am, with a relationship turned sour in the rear-view mirror, a precocious young boy seemingly caught in the middle. I’m searching for ways to redirect the constant exchange of insults and innuendos, the defamation being traded between us. I have always regarded

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The line between public and private in the Internet age became blurrier last week following the case of Abraham Biggs, the 19-year-old Floridian who committed suicide by overdosing on prescription medication as a populated chat room watched him via his live webcam. The voyeuristic nature of Biggs's death is disturbing, but it draws attention to the equally disturbing rate of suicide among young

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Now that the coronation of Barack Obama is reaching full speed and the political honeymoon is preparing to launch, it may be helpful to gather around the crystal ball and try to figure what may happen during his tour of duty. To begin with, let’s not assume the fact of Obama’s skin color will remain insignificant. Although Mr. Obama won the election with a cross-section of white and Hispanic

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When did it become fashionable to equate black pride with black self-destruction? What is the difference between black on black crime and defaming one’s family? These were just a couple of imponderables going through my head as I interviewed Rev. James David Manning on Friday, October 31. Rev. Manning, by the way, is the Harlem preacher whose videotaped sermon circulating the web includes some

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I don’t tend to agree with everything that former NBA player Charles Barkley says, but he had it right several years ago when he emphatically declared: “I am not a role model!” Leaving aside the implied wish not to be looked up to by millions of young black kids across America, his words still ring true. Our black youth tend to look to sports, cinema and music as paradigms for material success

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