Chances for Everybody, in Time, in Latest Debate
August 20, 2007
Jeff Zeleny, New York Times
In this presidential election season, there have been debates piled upon debates, a string of opportunities for candidates to be sized up alongside one another. Seldom has an audience been as important, though, as when the Democrats strode onto stage here on Sunday.
The gathering was broadcast on national television, a special edition of the ABC News program “This Week,” but the forum was viewed by the campaigns as appealing to a smaller, though much more politically important, audience: Iowa Democrats in the hall and others the campaigns believed were watching in large numbers on television.
Shooting helped propel civil rights movement into national spotlight
August 19, 2007
Chris Joyner, The Clarion Ledger
Fewer than two dozen people heard the gunshot that struck Jimmie Lee Jackson in the stomach the night of Feb. 18, 1965, but Jackson’s death eight days later set in motion a series of events that lifted the civil rights movement to a more prominent place on the national stage.
Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the trilogy America in the King Years, said grief and anger over the shooting led civil rights leaders to organize the first march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery. That march ended when police confronted marchers with clubs and tear gas on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on March 7, 1965.
Black celebs are major players
August 17, 2007
TINA DAUNT, Los Angeles Times
Hollywood’s biggest and richest fundraisers of this election cycle are being hosted by some of the entertainment industry’s most respected and influential African Americans, a potent symbol of how much has changed in recent years.
Leonard Pitts: Spare me your need for proof
August 12, 2007
You wanted to read my Michael Vick column? Sorry, that’s not going to happen.
Let me be clear: If Vick sponsored dog fights and brutally killed canines who did not perform, as he is alleged to have done, he’s a despicable man. It wouldn’t break my heart to see him caged up with a rabid dog while wearing a raw sirloin strapped to his tender parts.
Problem is, that’s pretty much all I have to say on the subject and there’s no way to get 615 words — about the length of a column — out of that.
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