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(Washington Post) — Political surveys of Americans from the 1970s to the 2000s find that blacks are less strongly liberal than they used to be. Fewer blacks today favor increasing government spending on welfare assistance programs. A national survey of African Americans conducted in 1996 found that about 60 percent of blacks favored welfare reform, […]
(TheLoop21) — Though the politics of this year were fairly predictable (the party of the incumbent president loses Congressional seats? Shocking!), the political personalities of this year were anything but. From an admitted madam running for governor, to a wrestling mogul trying to bodyslam her way into the U.S. Senate, 2010 may just go down […]
(NPR) — In politics, the firing of Shirley Sherrod, the rise of the Tea Party and a wave of Black Republicans took center stage. Outside the beltway, many African Americans questioned the term “post-racial.” Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor for The Atlantic, talks about what changed for black people in 2010. Read More…
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The original Black Panther Party operated within the context of neo-Marxist principles to “protect” African-American neighborhoods from rampant racist practices. The new is more similar to the Nation of Islam.
(Daily Beast) — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s new memoir is a fascinating look into her childhood and reveals a much misunderstood woman, says bestselling author Stephen Carter. Midway through Condoleezza Rice’s briskly written new memoir, Extraordinary, Ordinary People, comes a scene that captures the central contradiction of her life, and of her career. […]
Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter and Adrian Fenty have been accused of not being black enough. Are they taking the black vote for granted or just embracing a universal approach?
(The Root) — The Rev. Al Sharpton unleashed a formal assault on Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. today, accusing it of dredging up old tax debts for his civil rights organization in retaliation for holding his Reclaim the Dream rally the same day as Fox News TV host Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor event, which took place […]
People are poor for different reasons, and until we begin to parse the wheat from the chaff, we’ll never be able to devise a comprehensive approach to poverty.
Obama's long awaited, and long overdue hit back at the GOP in his Milwaukee speech wet the appetite for more tough talk against his sworn enemies.