By The Admin on January 31, 2009
Kris Broughton, Culture 11
- These days, black seems to go with everything.
To those who get most of their information about African Americans from TV and talk radio, this newest version of us – smart, articulate, attractive, and highly skilled at marshalling resources and attracting political support – must seem like an overnight sensation, a sudden [...]
Posted in National Politics
By The Admin on January 31, 2009
George Scurlock Jr. remembers his grandfather — always clad in a suit and tie — meticulously posing subjects and setting lights to ensure his photographs of Washington’s black community reflected its dignity and ambition.
Addison Scurlock and then two of his sons, including George Scurlock’s father, ran a successful studio from 1911 to 1994. During that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
By The Admin on January 31, 2009
Charles D. Ellison, Huffington Post
- Word bonded, that last week carried enough political theater to fake an Emmy, all politics really all perception. Party-line stimulus vote in the House, from eagerly left-twitched Democrats to jacked-in-a-regional-box Republicans. The meteoric media rise of Rod Blagojevich and his peculiar fall – if that’s what you call a talk [...]
Posted in Party Politics
By The Admin on January 31, 2009
Tracie Powell, CQ Politics
- A black president and a black Republican Party chairman: Things just got a lot more interesting in Washington.
On Friday – after losing two consecutive elections – the Republican elite selected former Maryland lieutenant governor Michael Steele, the GOP’s first African American chairman, to lead them out of the political wilderness.
But is [...]
Posted in Party Politics
By The Admin on January 31, 2009
Steven Gray, TIME
- The selection on Friday of Michael Steele, 50, as the Republican National Committee’s next chairman is remarkable not merely because he is the first African American to head the party of Lincoln. The former Maryland lieutenant governor’s selection is an acknowledgment by the party’s leadership that the GOP must quickly recast itself [...]
Posted in Party Politics
