By The Admin on September 12, 2009
FOXNews.com
- A group of black newspaper publishers on Friday charged Republican Rep. Joe Wilson with racism for yelling, “You lie,” at President Obama during his nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress.
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has canceled a planned January conference in South Carolina, where Wilson is a representative, and joined [...]
Posted in Media
By The Admin on September 12, 2009
Chris Levister, Black Voice News
- William Alexander was all ears at his mother’s home in Riverside during President Barack Obama’s back-to-school message to kids Tuesday. The Oakland elementary school teacher who was in the area attending a conference knows the importance of encouraging children to stay in school. In 2004 he became the first in [...]
Posted in Education
By The Admin on September 12, 2009
Kari Lydersen, In These Times
- It is fitting that Chicagoan Naomi Davis named her organization Blacks In Green, or BIG, because the attorney, entrepreneur and activist certainly thinks big.
Davis, whose grandparents were Mississippi sharecroppers, founded BIG on Earth Day in 2007 with a host of goals, including linking African Americans up with “green jobs” and [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, Race
By The Admin on September 12, 2009
CASH MICHAELS, The Wilmington Journal
The new chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party has been touring the state, railing against Gov. Perdue’s ”broken” promises of no new taxes, alleging that Pres. Obama address to students is actually a cover to save his falling poll numbers, and urging Republicans across the state that now is the [...]
Posted in Party Politics
By The Admin on September 12, 2009
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
- Forget censuring Congressman Joe “You Lie” Wilson. The Democrats should give him a merit plaque. His two blasphemous words were a dream-come-true for the Democrats. Rivers of cash instantly flowed into the Democratic National Committee coffers. It quickly made his almost sure-to-be beaten Democratic opponent, Rob Miller, a serious competitor.
“You Lie” Wilson [...]
Posted in Congress, Party Politics, Policy & Issues
