By The Admin on September 14, 2009
ROBBIE BROWN, New York Times
- A Congressional race in Tennessee has become freighted with racial overtones almost a year before the election, with a prominent black politician saying the white incumbent cannot properly represent black voters.
The black candidate, former Mayor Willie W. Herenton of Memphis, has argued that Tennessee needs a black voice in its [...]
Posted in State & Local News
By The Admin on September 14, 2009
BARBARA EHRENREICH and DEDRICK MUHAMMAD, New York Times
- What do you get when you combine the worst economic downturn since the Depression with the first black president? A surge of white racial resentment, loosely disguised as a populist revolt. An article on the Fox News Web site has put forth the theory that health reform [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, Race
By The Admin on September 14, 2009
Paul Scott
- “If I’m not who you say I am then you are not who you think you are.”
James Baldwin
I want to extend my sincerest apology to the Right Wing Republicans; the Tea Party people , the Birthers, etc. For the last year, I have been calling you “narrow minded bigots who are just hatin’ [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on September 14, 2009
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
- Packs of taxpayer marchers shuffled down Pennsylvania Avenue proudly waving signs. “The Long Legged Mack Daddy,” “Where’s the Birth Certificate,” Mississippi Freedom Riders,” “Whoa Boys Take it from Here” (Obama waving to black and Islamic militants). Many defiantly waved Confederate flags and the Texas state flag (separatist movement emblem).
Meanwhile, South Carolina senator [...]
Posted in National Politics, Race
By The Admin on September 12, 2009
James Morning
- Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in men, striking approximately 200,000 men each year.
African-American men are at the highest risk.
Every year, over 27,000 men die of the disease, making it second only to lung cancer as the deadliest cancer in men. Caught early, prostate cancer can be treated, usually successfully. [...]
Posted in Featured, Health
