April 2008
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Clinton, Obama spar over gas tax (Video)
Related PostsVideo: Bill Maher: If First Black President Only Has One Term, People Would See It As A ‘Failure’ Fourth lawsuit filed against Long (video) Fmr. Secy of State Plays With Queen of Soul (Video) Video – Rep. Tancredo’s remarks: Obama is country’s greatest threat Maher jokes about Obama not acting like a “real black” [...]
Blacks wrestle with long-term impact of Obama-Wright rift
Christian Science Monitor – In disowning his former pastor Tuesday, a month after saying he could never do so, Sen. Barack Obama walked a very fine line: He had to renounce a prominent Black preacher who had become a political problem without alienating African-American voters, a bedrock of his support, for whom churches are often [...]
Wright time for Obama to drop out
BONNIE ERBE, Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Sen. Barack Obama’s response to Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s incendiary appearance on Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., is not just a day late and a dollar short: It’s a month-and-a-half late and a few million dollars short. Wright’s self-promoting and racially divisive remarks have served to set [...]
Indiana Black Voters Feeling Ignored
STEVEN GRAY, Time – For weeks, Delores Smith, membership coordinator at the Madame C. J. Walker Theater in Indianapolis, has e-mailed and called Sen. Barack Obama’s representatives, hoping he’ll hold a campaign event at the 937-seat theater. It is, after all, named in honor of one of the nation’s first black millionaires. And its place [...]
Tips for J.C. Watts to Become The Black Ted Turner
Madison J. Gray, Black Voices – Turns out that of all people, conservative Republican former Congressman J.C. Watts is trying his hand at what BET has said loud and clear that they didn’t give a crap about: the news and black people. So enter Watts and his new enterprise the Black Television News Channel, which [...]
