IMF cancels $268 million Haiti debt

IMF cancels $268 million Haiti debt

By The Admin on July 24, 2010

The IMF says it has canceled Haiti’s $268 million debt and will lend the earthquake-devastated country another $60 million to help it with reconstruction plans.
The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday the decision is part of a plan for long-term reconstruction after the Jan. 12 magnitude-7 quake, which killed as many as 300,000 people.
The three-year loan [...]

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Obama, Clinton pledge US support for AIDS fight

Obama, Clinton pledge US support for AIDS fight

By The Admin on July 23, 2010

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have pledged the support of the United States in the global fight against AIDS.
Speaking Friday via prerecorded video at the close of an international conference dedicated to the disease, the two said they were committed to building upon progress and taking the lead in ensuring [...]

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Va senator calls for ending diversity programs

Va senator calls for ending diversity programs

By The Admin on July 23, 2010

Virginia Sen. Jim Webb called for ending government-run diversity programs in a newspaper column Friday, saying they have disadvantaged struggling whites and hurt the cause of racial harmony.
Webb wrote an op-ed column in Friday’s Wall Street Journal that said a “plethora of government-enforced diversity policies have marginalized many white workers. The time has come to [...]

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Biden says tea party not a racist movement

Biden says tea party not a racist movement

By The Admin on July 19, 2010

The tea party is not a racist group, says Vice President Joe Biden, though he believes that some of those involved in the movement have expressed racist views.
“Very conservative, very different views on government and a whole lot of things,” Biden said during an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “But it is not [...]

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Revs. Sharpton, Jackson downplay tea party issue

Revs. Sharpton, Jackson downplay tea party issue

By The Admin on July 14, 2010

The Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are trying to steer attention away from an NAACP resolution condemning racism within the tea party movement.
Jackson deflected the issue Wednesday during the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Sharpton suggested people should be asking if the tea party is “trying to [...]

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Essence Magazine defends choice of white fashion director

By The Admin on July 28, 2010

CNN
- The editor of Essence Magazine defended Wednesday her recent hiring of a white fashion director — a first for the 40-year-old publication that celebrates black women.
The hiring of Elliana Placas first sparked outrage when a former Essence employee posted a note on her Facebook page decrying the decision.
“It’s with a heavy heart I’ve learned [...]

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Calls for Rangel to quit could escalate if no deal

By The Admin on July 28, 2010

The calls from fellow Democrats for New York Rep. Charles Rangel to resign could quickly turn from a trickle to a flood unless he can quickly negotiate a plea bargain to prevent a congressional trial on allegations of ethical misconduct.
With elections nearing, fellow Democrats don’t relish the spectacle of that trial.
Thursday is a deadline of [...]

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Congress moves on gap in cocaine sentences

By The Admin on July 28, 2010

Congress is significantly reducing sentencing differences between crack and powder cocaine convictions that over the past several decades have subjected a disproportionate number of blacks to long prison terms.
House passage of what is called the “fair sentencing act” would send it to President Barack Obama for his signature.
Currently, a person convicted of crack cocaine possession [...]

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Virginia NAACP head slams Webb for affirmative action column

By The Admin on July 28, 2010

Washington Post
- The head of the Virginia Conference of the NAACP lashed out at Sen. James Webb (D-Va.) Monday, three days after Webb stirred controversy with an op-ed piece suggesting most government diversity programs should be abolished because they “marginalized” white Americans.
In a Wall Street Journal column published Friday, titled “Diversity and the Myth of [...]

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Eric Holder’s New Job: Racial Piñata

By The Admin on July 28, 2010

CBS News
- For a few hours last week, Eric Holder could breathe a sigh of relief. Finally, it wasn’t the attorney general but another African American government official whom right-wingers were smearing with allegations of reverse racism.
But Andrew Breitbart and other conservative troublemakers’ efforts to turn Shirley Sherrod into Angela Davis proved so ludicrously unfair [...]

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Warnings for Rangel between the lines

By The Admin on July 28, 2010

House Democratic leaders who promised to “drain the swamp” of corrupt Washington are doing a delicate rhetorical dance around one of their own, 20-term Rep. Charlie Rangel, as he faces a public trial on ethical misdeeds during a high-stakes midterm election.
They can’t pressure the former Ways and Means chairman to strike a deal or resign [...]

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Fmr. Secy of State Plays With Queen of Soul (Video)

By The Admin on July 28, 2010

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Obama Feels the Heat for Meek

By The Admin on July 28, 2010

Sunshine State News
- After the Shirley Sherrod debacle, President Barack Obama doesn’t need to pick another fight with his African-American base. But Florida’s Democratic Senate primary poses a new no-win situation.
Black lawmakers are urging — even threatening — the White House to elevate its support of Kendrick Meek, an African-American congressman locked in a tight [...]

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Meg Whitman Snubs African Americans and Black Media

By The Admin on July 28, 2010

BeyondChron
- Hope you were able to TiVo that campaign ad Meg Whitman ran during the primary with her endorsement from former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Because if Whitman continues her strategy of avoiding African Americans, that may be probably the only time you’ll see the former EBay CEO around many other African Americans between [...]

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Queen of Soul and Condoleeza Rice make music at Philly concert for charity

By The Admin on July 28, 2010

Condoleezza Rice is no stranger to the whims of royalty. So when the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin, decided the two should get together to play a song or two for charity, it was decreed.
The former U.S. secretary of state and Franklin took the stage Tuesday evening at Philadelphia’s Mann Music Center in a [...]

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