March 2008
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Blacks Who Support Clinton : Stay In Race and Win
Herndon L. Davis, Guest Commentary Despite last week’s increasingly louder calls for Senator Hillary Clinton to bow out of the presidential race by media pundits and politicians alike, it is best for America that Mrs. Clinton remain in the race, push forward and win the nomination. Much has been publicly stated of how Senator Clinton [...]
Pioneering Educational Hip-Hop Program Ready to Expand
A unique educational Hip Hop program offered at a public school in Los Angeles is now preparing to expand to other schools and colleges. The Global Awareness through Hip Hop Culture Program, now in its second year, is currently taught by its creator, Sebastien Elkouby, and is one of the only full time educational Hip [...]
Affirmative Action Under Attack
Ann Brown, Black Enterprise Come November, voters in five states may be electing more than a new president; they may be electing to end affirmative action as well. Nearly 129,000 signatures were delivered to Colorado authorities earlier this month in support of a voter initiative to end race-based policies that aim to correct inequities. Petitions [...]
Minister Sees Salvation of Harlem in Boycott
TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, New York Times For the past several months, elegantly dressed men and women have been handing out thousands of postcards to passers-by on the streets of Harlem. It is part of a campaign to boycott neighborhood shops to protest gentrification. While the boycott itself has had little impact, the man behind it, an [...]
Obama’s pastor was speaking to his church family, not media
Sharon Tubbs, St. Petersburg Times This thing with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor, has people black and white thinking — thinking about what each other thinks. As they watch Wright’s fiery pulpit presentations eliciting applause from the pews, white people wonder if black people really do talk in church [...]
