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Obama's 2012 Chances and Democratic Demographic Dreaming

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Real Clear Politics - By Sean Trende - Nov. 30 (Opinion) - The latest report from Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin of the progressive Center for American Progress contains a thoughtful examination of President Obama's re-election chances. There's an awful lot packed into the 60 pages of text, but the basic thrust is

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Michele Bachmann signs anti-gay pact that says times were better for black kids during slavery

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Andrew Malcom - Jul. 08 (Opinion) - "Slavery had a disastrous impact on African American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African American baby born after the election of the USA's first African American president."

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Gil Scott-Heron, Poet And Musician, Has Died

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Daoud Tyler-Ameen - May. 28 (News) - The influential poet and musician is often credited with being one of the progenitors of hip-hop, and is best known for the spoken-word piece "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised."

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Census Bureau briefing

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Michael Martinez, David Ariosto - Mar. 24 (News Report) - The growing Hispanic population in the United States has reached a new milestone, topping 50 million, or 16.3% of the nation, officially solidifying its position as the country's second-largest group, U.S. Census Bureau officials said Thursday. "Overall, we've learned that our nation's population has become more racially and ethnically diverse over the past 10 years," Nicholas A. Jones, chief of the bureau's racial statistics branch, told reporters.

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Black populations fall in major cities - USATODAY.com

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Haya El Nasser - Mar. 22 (News) - The black population is declining in a growing number of major cities more evidence that African Americans' settlement pattern is changing.

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Report says too many whites, men leading military

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Pauline Jelinek - Mar. 08 (Poll) - The U.S. military is too white and too male at the top and needs to change recruiting and promotion policies and lift its ban on women in combat, an independent report for Congress said Monday.

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For Lila Rose, Planned Parenthood video 'sting' is about revolution

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Patrik Jonsson - Feb. 04 (News Analysis) - "Real social revolutions are basically media revolutions ... and this is a media revolution," says Brian Anse Patrick, author of "Rise of the Anti-Media" and a communications professor at the University of Toledo in Ohio. "There's a battle going on between orthodoxies. What was unthinkable or not discussed – well, here we are, we're talking about it."

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Kerry Kennedy: Tucson, King and Kennedy

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Kerry Kennedy - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - "What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice towards those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black..."

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Maine governor says NAACP can “kiss my butt”

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By CNN Political Unit - Jan. 14 (News) - Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage is keeping up his reputation for blunt language, telling an unhappy NAACP chapter that they can "kiss my butt."

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Leonard Pitts Jr.: When it comes to history, African Americans can learn from Jews - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Sacramento Bee - Jan. 05 (Opinion) -

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Farai Chideya: What everyone is missing about NPR's WilliamsGate

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:50:09 -0700

Huffington Post - By Farai Chideya - Oct. 23 (Opinion) - The White House reached out to National Public Radio over the weekend, offering analyst Juan Williams a presidential interview to mark yesterday's 50th anniversary of school desegregation in Little Rock. But NPR turned down the interview, and Williams's

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Dr. Laura, Sarah Palin, and the fight over free speech

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Ken Paulson - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - In the wake of Dr. Laura Schlessinger"s decision to end her radio show after repeatedly using a racial epithet, she"s spent quite a bit of time talking about freedom of speech. "I want to regain my First Amendment rights," Schlessinger said, contending that special-interest groups were limiting her freedom to express herself.Sarah Palin jumped in and tweeted, "Dr.Laura: don?t retreat ... reload!

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Same-sex marriage is about equality, not religion

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By O. C. Allen - Aug. 15 (Opinion) - I am a product of the "The Black Church." It shaped me into who I am today: a Christian pastor aware of God's amazing grace and love. When I announced I was gay, the church limited that grace and love. Although I had no doubt that God loved me, I discovered that God's love and the church's love can be two different things. To be Christian is to be inclusive of people who love one another. This is why I support same-sex marriage.

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Do blacks feel betrayed by Obama's silence on race?

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

thegrio.com - By Boyce Watkins - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - President Obama has become a racial enigma. When it comes to the black/white divide in America, Obama is believed to be everything from Clarence Thomas to Malcolm X, depending on whom you ask. The right-wing identifies Obama as a radical black man who hates white people, and the progressive black community sees Obama as yet another political sellout fresh off Harvard Yard. The "great" Bill Cosby once said, "I don't know the recipe for success. But the recipe for failure is trying to please everybody." Therefore, in Cosby's world, every high ranking black political figure, including Obama, is destined for certain failure. Whether Obama will go down as a failure or success as president has yet to be determined. I personally believe that his greatest achievement occurred when he was sworn in as the first black president in American history. Like any good marriage, things can sometimes head straight downhill after the honeymoon.

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Last Straw for Detroit Residents

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Jun. 06 (News Report) - One woman's journey from diehard to defector in her troubled Detroit neighborhood illustrates the city's precarious state today. As a result of plummeting property values and high crime, Detroit - which has shed roughly 1 million residents since the 1950s - is now losing the African- American professionals who had stayed steadfastly, almost defiantly, loyal.

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Detroit's Black Flight

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Alex P. Kellogg - Jun. 05 (Special Report) - The city—which has shed roughly 1 million residents since the 1950s—is now losing the African-American professionals who had stayed steadfastly, almost defiantly, loyal.

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Framing the Alabama Democratic Primary Results

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

theamericanscene.com - By Noah Millman - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - You have two candidates running in a Democratic gubernatorial primary in Alabama. One runs clearly to the right of the other. The more left-wing candidate wins, handily. You have two candidates running in a Democratic gubernatorial primary in Alabama.

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Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Shaila Dewan - Jun. 02 (News Report) - The practice of excluding minorities from Southern juries remains widespread and largely unchecked.

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Segregated clubs in Kentucky raise issues for private business, civil rights law

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Krissah Thompson - Jun. 02 (News Report) - The push to integrate Kentucky's private social clubs, whose members clung to old notions of Southern white privilege for decades after the end of Jim Crow, began in the early 1990s with a lone, quiet protest: At lunchtime on days when the weather was nice, a black preacher and civil rights activist named Louis Coleman would put up a folding card table in front of one of the many unofficially restricted clubs here; set it with a tablecloth, china and candles; and dine on buns and lemonade.

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Andrew Young decries infighting at SCLC group

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jun. 01 (News) - Civil rights icon Andrew Young says he has little use for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where he once worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Today, infighting and allegations of financial mismanagement are threatening to undermine the social justice group King co-founded in 1957. Young says the fight is not over a movement, but an organization. He says "If anybody is doing anything that is a movement, or the possibility of a movement, I would be glad to support it. But I'm not interested in organizations. None of them. Except the NAACP," the oldest U.S. civil rights group, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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The New Poor: Blacks in Memphis Lose Decades of Gains

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Powell - May. 31 (Special Report) - The combination of growing foreclosures and rising unemployment have destroyed black wealth and income and erased two decades of slow progress.

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Wake Up, Tavis Smiley

Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Stanley Crouch - May. 01 (Opinion) - With a trailblazing African-American in the White House, why does the PBS host insist on bringing lunatics together to talk about race? There seem to be just as many loons and hustlers among Obama’s chosen ethnic group as among the fatmouthed Republicans who have sold out to the Tea Baggers. One of the best examples of this problem was witnessed last month in the Tavis Smiley rhetorical circus called "We Count! The Black Agenda Is the American Agenda," which was shown on C-SPAN and presented as a serious discussion in the spirit of Smiley’s “State of the Black Union.” With attempted gravity, Smiley once described his symposiums as exercises devoted to “critical thinking.” Not quite. No unsentimental attempt was made in any way profound enough to meet the demands of our time. Had it been, invited panelists like Louis Farrakhan and various hoodoo women no better prepared with insight than astrologers would not have been there to give the lie to the whole convoluted business. Overall, the Smiley forums presented by Smiley always had more than a whiff of minstrel show draped in militant posturing. This is accomplished by turning over the U of a coonskin smile so that it registers as a nearly constant frown. Everyone is seen as a militant. As Martin Luther King once observed, Negroes spent time listening to Malcolm X because they enjoyed hearing someone black give the white man hell. Yet they knew better than to take seriously what he was proposing—like rejecting their Christian identities, their diets, and the music and dance that had helped defined the aesthetics of American fun.

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A drift back into segregation

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Stephanie McCrummen - Apr. 20 (News Report) - School system practices across nation contribute to a present-day version that is no less insidious.

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Welcome to Confederate History Month

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Frank Rich - Apr. 18 (Opinion) - Obama opposition increasingly comes wrapped in the racial code that Gov. Robert McDonnell revived in endorsing Confederate History Month.

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Miss. county schools ordered to comply with desegregation order

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Spencer S. Hsu - Apr. 14 (News Report) - A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county's only majority-white school, the U.S. Justice Department announced.

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