D. R. Tucker Freelance writer; operator, The Urban Right blog huffingtonpost.com Republicans in Massachusetts often say that Deval Patrick’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign served as a template for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign two years later. What they won’t tell you is that the conservative template of attacking Obama with unrelenting invective was also created here in [...]
theRoot.com By: Edward Wyckoff Williams Posted: January 25, 2012 at 12:59 AM The GOP candidates don’t see their racial rhetoric as offensive. You got a problem with that? Colorblind racism is the new normal in American conservative political thought. Well after the election of the nation’s first African-American president, in 2012 Republican candidates are using [...]
Trymaine Lee huffingtonpost.com The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, the super-conservative African American Republican who has campaigned vigorously against Kwanzaa (“The Racist Holiday From Hell” he has called it), the Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr. and President Barack Obama, said he has a simple solution to black America’s employment woes: hard labor. “One of the things that I would [...]
by Akiba Solomon Dec 23, 2011 11:00 PM EST thedailybeast.com Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner and Rush Limbaugh make asses of themselves when they trash talk about Michelle Obama’s appearance instead of frankly addressing the issues she raises about nutrition and health care. By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about how Jim Sensenbrenner, the quadruple-chinned Republican congressman [...]
Listen to the story… by DEBBIE ELLIOTT npr.com December 24, 2011 Part of a series With the 2012 presidential election on the horizon, NPR’s Debbie Elliott heads to Camden, S.C., to hear from the close-knit Gaither-James family. Like other African-Americans — considered the political base for President Obama — they’re concerned about the economy and today’s [...]
Webmaster: The interviewer here is Briana McCarthy my niece. Uploaded by Nluvwgod on Dec 28, 2011 An interview with Pastor Corey Brooks of Nu Beginnings Church of Chicago. In order to bring attention to the violence, Brooks has camped out on the roof of an abandoned motel. Brooks will not come down until he raises the money to [...]
by TAUNYA ENGLISH, WHYY npr.com The evidence of America’s obesity epidemic is all around us. But the problem is particularly acute among African-American women. About half of African-American women in the U.S. are obese, compared to 30 percent of white women. Black women not only carry more weight, but they start piling on extra pounds [...]
A child’s taunt reminds one parent how difficult it is to teach your kids about race. By: Claudine Gay Posted: December 16, 2011 at 12:40 AM The other day, when I was bringing my son to preschool, a classmate greeted him at the door by shouting, “You’re African! You’re from Africa!” My son and I were [...]
Middle-class white guy writes about what he would do if he were a poor black kid. Craziness ensues. By: Elon James White | Posted: December 14, 2011 at 12:52 AM OK, folks. How come no one told me that it’s Slander Poor Black Kids Month? Was there a memo that went out? No one could send me a Facebook [...]
The biophysics major and rugby champ is the only African American to snag the coveted honor for 2012. By: F. Finley McRae | Posted: December 15, 2011 at 4:41 PM African Americans dismayed by the paucity of their own chosen for the prestigious Rhodes scholarships each year were not encouraged when most of the class of 2012 was announced in [...]
The Bottom Line: What future entrepreneurs will look like, Georgetown’s biz-school dean and more. By: Frank McCoy | December 6, 2011 at 12:04 AM The writers and editors of Businessinsider.com must be sure that most of their readers don’t read Black Enterprise or know any black entrepreneurs (paging Michael Arrington), a conclusion that is also probably true, to [...]
by NPR STAFF December 8, 2011 npr.com The Civil War ended slavery in America. So why, asks author Ta-Nehisi Coates, do African-Americans, who benefited most from the conflict, take so little interest in it? Coates, a confessed Civil War obsessive, wrote about that question in his recent article, “Why Do So Few Blacks Study the [...]
One day the GOP will get a legitimate black conservative voice. That day hasn’t come. By: David Swerdlick | Posted: December 4, 2011 theroot.com This past Saturday afternoon in Atlanta, the once jocular and front-running, now defiant and rapidly crumbling, GOP presidential contender Herman Cain announced that he’s indefinitely “suspending” his bid for the White House — and [...]
by ALLISON AUBREY npr.com The Partnership for a Healthier America is a Washington-based group and has Washington’s most prestigious woman as its honorary chair: first lady Michelle Obama. But this coalition to fight childhood obesity is focused on what needs to happen outside this town, namely in the private sector, to halt the epidemic. And [...]
(AP) LOUISVILLE, Kentucky – A tiny all-white church in the rural South has voted to ban interracial couples from joining its flock, pitting members against each other in an argument over race. Members at the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church in Kentucky voted Sunday on the resolution, which says the church “does not condone interracial [...]
View Slide Show… (CNN) – Daniel Cardwell’s obsession consumed three decades of his life and $250,000 of his money, he estimates. His energy has been devoted to answering one basic question: “Who am I?” Cardwell was a “brown baby” – one of thousands of children born to African-American GIs and white German women in the years after [...]
Trymaine Lee huffingtonpost.com The Secret Service agents arrived at Shiloh Baptist Church on a reconnaissance mission just a few days before Easter Sunday. They swept through the sanctuary, eyeing every pew from the pulpit to the balcony. Not a Bible or hymnal was left unturned. Church leaders took a vow of secrecy. Even the most [...]
The hate that ended his presidency is eerily familiar. nytimes.com Thanksgiving week is a milestone for Barack Obama, but not one that many are likely to commemorate. The president who seemed poised to inherit John F. Kennedy’s mantle—in the eyes of Kennedy’s last surviving child and brother as well as many optimistic onlookers (me included) [...]
cnn.com So where are the geeks? Watch “Black in America: The New Promised Land – Silicon Valley” at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET November 19 on CNN. Growing up in Dothan, Alabama, Makario Lewis knew there weren’t many people like him. He was a black nerd and it confused a lot of people around [...]
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