Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced two guilty pleas in connection with a fundraising scheme that concocted a bogus charity, raised and then stole more than $500,000 of donations intended to fight breast cancer.

David Winston pleaded guilty to two felony charges related to the operation of the phony charity, Coalition for Breast Cancer Cures, Inc, and a for-profit fundraising arm, The Resource Center, which funneled donations to pay for extravagant travel, shopping and other personal living expenses. His wife, Mindy Winston, pleaded guilty to one felony charge related to falsifying business records, specifically, a bank account for the sham charity.

In the hoopla surrounding Sunday’s dedication of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. statue on the National Mall in Washington, Harry E. Johnson, Sr., the visionary and fundraising engine behind the project, will finally get his due. Placing Dr. King on the Mall was a project of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, but it was Johnson, a Houston attorney and former president of the fraternity, who made it all happen, raising more than $100 million.

In the excitement of placing a statue of the first African-American on the Mall, there are three stories that readers should be aware of, though few journalists, if any, will cover.

“Fake the funk and your nose will grow.”.  Those words by American poet George Clinton weren’t exactly correct.  We have been faking the funk but our noses aren’t growing.  However, our noses are certainly “wide open”.   Collectively, we have had this big love affair with our current President.  Why all this love?  It is simply because we have proclaimed him Black.  Yes, Black like usm but the fact is he is not Black like us – far from it.  His father was a Black Kenyan, who he hardly knew.  His mother was absolutely white and for the most part she raised him along with her Indonesian husband in Indonesia.  After that he was given to his white grandparents.  These were his formative years and there was no Blackness in any of the aura.