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“Here I am, signed, sealed, delivered.”
That’s what the giddy crowds at Barack Obama’s campaign rallies hear when he walks off the stage, the booming sound of Stevie Wonder singing about the promise of a sure thing.
The curious part is that Obama keeps saying just the opposite: Not one thing is sealed.
“We can’t afford to slow [...]
Palo Alto’s police chief has instructed officers to question African Americans in the city following a spate of recent street robberies.
Chief Lynne Johnson spoke to residents about the crime surge Thursday at City Hall.
She says she issued the instructions because several suspects in the robberies are African American and police lack detailed descriptions.
Johnson says she [...]
As black voters head to the polls in record numbers this election season, health care is a top issue influencing their votes for President of the United States. With this in mind, Black Health Magazine released today a Presidential Report Card that scores the health plans of Republican candidate Senator John McCain and Democratic candidate [...]
Despite Barack Obama’s message of change and hope, fears persist in the black community about what his election as president could mean for the legacy of racism in America.
Namely, that it might mean nothing at all.
“America is still one of the most segregated countries by race and by class in the industrialized world,” said Dedrick [...]
Judge Damon Keith, Detroit News
- I write this in support of Proposition 2 because my wife, who passed away a year and a half ago, was a physician interested in embryonic stem cell research. To further that research, our family has set up a scholarship fund in the name of Dr. Rachel Boone Keith at [...]
