By The Admin on May 27, 2009
Frederick Meade, African-American News & Issues
- In recent times, much discussion has spawned regarding President Barack Obama’s general performance throughout his first few months in office. Not only have the President’s acts been measured within this context, but also his works as they relate to the addressing of the concerns of the African [...]
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By The Admin on May 27, 2009
Tim Padgett, Time
- Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court is a historic milestone for Latinos, but it resonates well beyond Hispanic pride. It is perhaps the most potent symbol yet of a 21st-century rapprochement between the nation’s two largest minorities, Latino-Americans and African-Americans, who in the 20th century could be as violently [...]
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By The Admin on May 27, 2009
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
- Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan and the conservative judicial hit team wasted no time in branding Judge Sonia Sotomoyor a combination activist judge and closet bigot who will lord her gender and ethnicity over white males, and savage them in her decisions and rulings on the Supreme Court. They wave Sotomoyor’s narrow and [...]
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By The Admin on May 27, 2009
Roland Burris isn’t hiding after a judge allowed the release of a transcript in which the senator offers to “personally do something” for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s campaign fund.
He reiterated Wednesday that he never participated in a pay-to-play scheme for his appointment to the Senate seat previously held by Barack Obama.
“Did I try to buy the [...]
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By The Admin on May 27, 2009
Following are statements from the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation’S (NCBCP) Black Women’s Roundtable on President Obama’s announcement of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
From Melanie L. Campbell, NCBCP executive director and CEO and Black Womens Roundtable convener:
“On behalf of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and Black Women’s Roundtable, I [...]
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