By The Admin on May 27, 2009
Barbara Howard, Newsmax
- For over a decade now, many minds — both great and small — have pondered over what would make a reasonable black person join the Republican Party.
Especially since it is the Democratic Party that has spawned almost 9,600 black elected officials since 1970, according to a study published by David A. Bositis [...]
Posted in Party Politics
By The Admin on May 27, 2009
O.J. Simpson, the former football star acquitted of killing his ex-wife after a sensational trial, asked the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday to throw out his armed robbery and kidnapping conviction.
Simpson, who was sentenced to up to 33 years in prison in December, said in his appeal that he was denied a fair trial through [...]
Posted in Featured, Outside of the Political Realm
By The Admin on May 27, 2009
Jonathan Lintner, Bleacher Report
- Miami-Dade’s NAACP announced that it would boycott NASCAR if the United States’ top stock car series wouldn’t comply and ban the Confederate flag from the racetrack, saying it’s an “offensive symbol.”
This is the same NASCAR that stopped engines last Monday amid threatening skies in order to honor fallen and current military [...]
Posted in Outside of the Political Realm
By The Admin on May 27, 2009
Aisha Brown and Dedrick Muhammad
- The black love affair with President Barack Obama is stronger than with any figure in the post-civil rights era. According to a recent “New York Times” poll, President Obama enjoys a 96 percent approval rating among African Americans. As an African American myself, I too feel pride and joy in [...]
Posted in Race, White House
By The Admin on May 27, 2009
Samuel B. Hoff, Delaware Online
- In an ostensibly racially desegregated nation in which the president is an African American, it may seem as if the need for historically black colleges and universities has dissipated or that their value is somehow lessened.
Yet HBCUs continue to furnish many benefits to those who attend them and to the [...]
Posted in Education
