This is an Extra edition of Blackinformant.com podcast. This show features exclusively my conversation with the District Attorney for Perry County in Alabama, Mr. Michael Jackson. I have been following voter fraud cases over at my home site (blackinformant.com). Click on any of the links below to catch up.

At What Point Do We Stop Pulling The Sled?

A Lesson In Politics

News That’s Never Included In My E-Mail

Still no noise from the voting rights echo chamber

Fraud? Embezzlement? Fuhgetaboutit

Cracking the ACORN

The Continuous Ghost Story That Apparently Has Lost its Ability to Scare

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On this edition of Blackinformant.com Podcast, I will have a conversation with producer and director of the film “What Black Men Think”. Also we will get a chance to hear the poetic artistry of spoken word artist Real Insight.

About Janks Morton

JANKS MORTON is the founder of iYAGO ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, LLC, a multimedia production company. He states “the company came into existence to reflect both the consciousness and the unconsciousness soul of Black America. He has also established GIVE US FREE PRODUCTIONS, INC., a commercial production company which produces independent documentary, motion pictures and videos for distribution. He also serves as Executive Vice President of JYNXDACAT PRODUCTIONS a music production company. JANKS MORTON has been in the entertainment industry for more than 20 years

In delivering his first feature length documentary, WHAT BLACK MEN THINK, JANKS MORTON took on the role as producer, director, cameraman, lighting, editing, mixing, entrepreneur, graphic artist, actor, inspirational speaker and more.

Link to the What Black Men Think website Link to purchase the film

Other special guest

Real Insight [link to website]

Some of the music heard on the show provided by The Fuzion Project [link to myspace page]

Other Show Notes

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If you are an independent performing artist and would like to have either your music or spoken word featured on the show, again send an e-mail via the CONTACT link.

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This is the page where you will find direct links to all of Blackinformant.com podcasts and show notes. The current three shows I have uploaded were shows produced back in 2007. I am currently putting the finishing touches on a much more rebust podcast that is set to debut the last week of this month THIS MONDAY (8/25/08)!!!! As for this page, I will be customizing it over the next few days. In the meantime, swing over to Blackinformant.com for all the latest in cultural, political and social commentary as it relates to the Black community.

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Interview with mortgage lending industry expert Christopher Cruise. Blackinformant.com Podcast

Christopher Cruise, a residential mortgage loan originator (RMLO) since 1988, is a former Senior National Corporate Trainer and Curriculum Developer for one of the nation’s largest mortgage loan originator licensing-training companies. He now trains prospective and new residential mortgage loan originators around the country for www.loanofficerschool.com and www.lenderbootcamp.com

He began his mortgage loan career in Maine, continued that successful career in North Carolina, and now lives in Washington, DC - his base as he travels the country conducting training. He has trained LOs at the nation’s largest mortgage lenders, including Ameriquest, Countrywide/Full Spectrum, DiTech, GMAC, LendingTree, New Century, and PHH.

Chris has taught new and veteran originators how to pass licensing exams in such states as Illinois, North Carolina, and Utah.

Chris teaches both two-day and five-day bootcamps for prospective and new loan originators at mortgage companies and community colleges throughout the country, and he teaches state mortgage examiners around the country for the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators (www.aarmr.org). He is also on the national faculty of the nation’s largest trainer of housing counselors - the Neighborhood Reinvestment Coalition/Neighborworks (www.nw.org).

Chris owned a mortgage brokerage for ten years in North Carolina and taught housing counselors there, as well, and for eight years he taught an 8-week-long homebuying course - which he designed - at community colleges in Greensboro and Winston-Salem.

He is one of the country’s most credentialed and experienced RMLOs and one of the nation’s most-experienced homebuyer educators and loan originator trainers.

He writes frequently for mortgage industry publications and is an invited speaker at industry seminars. He has studied, taught, and written about credit scoring for more than a decade. He has written extensively for mortgage trade publications such as Origination News, The Mortgage Press, and Internet Originator, and contributes regularly to www.BankRate.com

Chris has just completed writing training manuals for loan originators on the subjects of Appraisals and Surveys, Credit Scoring, The History of Mortgage Lending, Reverse Mortgage Loans, and Real Estate-related Insurances.

Chris is a member of the National and Maryland Associations of Mortgage Brokers. (Bio taken from his Amazon.com page)

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Interview with Vanderbilt University professor and author Carol Swain. Blackinformant.com Podcast

Carol M. Swain (B.A., Roanoke College, 1983; M.A., Virginia Polytechnic & State Univ., 1984; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989; MSL, Yale, 2000; member of Phi Beta Kappa).

Before joining Vanderbilt in 1999, Professor Swain was a tenured associate professor of politics and public policy at Princeton University.

Her highly acclaimed book, Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress was named one of the seven outstanding academic books of 1994 by Library Choice Journal, received the 1994 Woodrow Wilson prize for the best book published in the U.S. on government, politics or international affairs, the Hardeman Prize for best scholarly work on Congress during 1994-1995, and was the co-winner of the Key Award for the best book published on southern politics.

Black Faces, Black Interests has received three U.S. Supreme Court citations.

Her more recent books are Debating Immigration (ed.), The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration, and Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism (co-authored with Russ Nieli).

Professor Swain’s work on representation and race relations has earned her national and international accolades.  The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration was nominated by Cambridge University Press for the Pulitizer Prize Competition.

She has appeared on numerous radio and television shows including C-Span’s Washington Journal, PBS’s News Hour with Jim Lehrer, ABC News, Fox News Live, CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, CNN’s Showbiz Tonight, CNN’s Paula Zahn, CNBC, Tavis Smiley Show, and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, Here and Now, and The Connection. (Bio taken from her website)

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