By The Admin on April 29, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama’s approval rating stood at 65 percent as he completed his first 100 days in office, a poll released Wednesday indicated.
Gallup Poll Daily tracking for the week of April 20-26 found Obama’s approval rating was high among nearly all major demographic categories of Americans, while a majority of Republicans and self-described “conservatives” [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on April 29, 2009
As the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today in the voting rights case Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder, the Project 21 black leadership network is joining with other organizations to ask that this outdated portion of the Voting Rights Act be found unconstitutional.
“The racist boogeyman of the past is just that [...]
Posted in Federal Government, Race
By The Admin on April 29, 2009
Daryl C. Hannah, Diversity Inc.
- Will the Supreme Court make it easier to discriminate against Black voters? That’s the question some politicians, mostly in the South, are asking as the high court, on its last day in term, hears arguments challenging the necessity of the Voting Rights Act.
On President Barack Obama’s official 100th day in [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on April 29, 2009
Congress’ decision to extend a key provision of the Voting Rights Act for 25 years is at the core of a case being argued before the Supreme Court.
The justices are hearing the final arguments of their term Wednesday in a dispute from Texas. At issue is a requirement that all or parts of 16 states [...]
Posted in Federal Government
By The Admin on April 29, 2009
Georgia’s Agriculture Department now has a brochure explaining a mural depicting slaves picking cotton, ginning it and taking bags to an overseer for weighing.
The mural is one of a series of eight commissioned in 1956 and painted by George Beattie, an Atlanta artist, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The four in the lobby show agricultural scenes from [...]
Posted in Georgia, Race, State & Local News
