Blacks Who Support Clinton : Stay In Race and Win
March 31, 2008
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 cannot mathematically secure the democratic nomination with her pledged delegates and how this will not change even if she wins the majority of races going forward. Her ability to sway the super-delegates as well as other pledged delegates in the states where she has won will be her only route to the head of the ticket.
Well surprise, the exact same scenario also exists for Sen. Barack Obama as well. In fact both candidates are sitting in the same boat heading in the same direction; to Denver .
Pioneering Educational Hip-Hop Program Ready to Expand
March 31, 2008
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 Hop programs in the country being offered as an elective to 7th and 8th grade students.
Elkouby, founder of the Urban Youth Empowerment Foundation, an organization which uses Hip Hop culture as a tool for youth empowerment, created this program to address the educational crisis that affects approximately 50% of inner-city students throughout many major urban centers across the nation.
Affirmative Action Under Attack
March 31, 2008
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 are circulating in Arizona, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Nebraska.
Ward Connerly, head of the American Civil Rights Coalition, is spearheading the November ballot initiatives to end affirmative action policies in public education, hiring, and contracting. He says he has raised “at least $1.5 million for his campaign’s civil rights initiative.”
Minister Sees Salvation of Harlem in Boycott
March 31, 2008
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 ex-convict turned minister named James D. Manning, has been increasingly difficult for some to ignore.
Mr. Manning, 61, has become an annoyance not only to shopkeepers, but to Harlem’s political, cultural and religious leaders as well. His goal is to force businesses to close — including those owned by blacks — causing the neighborhood’s economic rebirth to stall and, therefore, property values to decline. He has also called for a general rent strike.
Obama’s pastor was speaking to his church family, not media
March 31, 2008
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 about oppression and government injustice, using language that some find offensive.
Black pastors wonder what will happen if white people find out that many of them do, indeed, think and talk in church the way Wright does.
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