I turned on C-SPAN today and caught part of an outstanding conference on the state of Black America, hosted by Tavis Smiley. I just wanted to recommend it to anyone who might have missed it. You can download it from cspan.org. The first part (morning session) is on African-American health and access to health care; the second part (afternoon session) is on politics, and aims to create a new "Contract for Black America", or "Covenant for Black America", that lays out a specific political agenda for African-Americans. Lots of good speakers on the panels -- check it out!