





Lifestyle magazine for the local Black community
May 22, 2019 by Las Vegas Black Image Magazine
Filed under Community
BY LOUIE OVERSTREET
My dear friend Ida Gaines and I have developed a five-point plan for a black political agenda. It could potentially bring about an improvement to our current plight: a lack of effectiveness of our political leaders and community.
Regarding number 5: there is no better example of the need for more effective political power than how The Fremont Street Experience lied with impunity and pulled the plug on the Taste and Sounds of Soul event at the last minute — after it had been held at the site for 17 consecutive years.
If you are thinking, since we have the ideas, why don’t we do something about the condition in which we find ourselves? Our answer is that we, like a number of others, have tried to do so for many years — but more help is needed. Besides the crabs in the barrel, bites marks have taken a toll. So there exists a need to spread the bites around to more behinds than just ours.
And an apology: in my March 2019 column, while the identified need was rock-solid, I did “bust” some budget numbers.