March 2010
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White House Court Brief Backs Race-Based Admissions
JESS BRAVIN, Wall Street Journal – The Obama administration has asked a federal appeals court to uphold a race-conscious admissions system at the University of Texas at Austin, aiming to stymie a lawsuit that conservatives hope will spur the Supreme Court to limit affirmative action at public colleges. The Texas case tests a 2003 Supreme [...]
In U.S. plan for Haiti, rebuilding government is key
Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post – An internal Obama administration assessment concludes that the U.S. government has provided $4 billion in aid to Haiti since 1990 but “struggled to demonstrate lasting impact,” according to a summary of the review, which has not been publicly released. On Wednesday, at an international donor conference, Secretary of State [...]
Swift Boat vet offers Crist a race-tinged endorsement
Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.), falling behind in the polls to Florida’s conservative former House Speaker Marco Rubio in the Florida Senate GOP primary race, may have just received an endorsement he could have done without. Medal of Honor-winning war hero Col. Bud Day — a Fort Walton Beach, Fla., resident who spent years as a [...]
A Black Agenda some choose not to see
Angela Glover Blackwell, Policylink CEO Cross-posted at Race-Talk – I have to admit I was a bit perplexed when I was a panelist recently at Tavis Smiley’s “We Count: The Black Agenda is the American Agenda” forum in Chicago, which focused heavily on what President Barack Obama has not done for the black community, rather [...]
What black agenda?
Greg Jones, National Director – Blacks4Barack – Recently, a major riff occurred on national radio between Rev. Al Sharpton and Tavis Smiley after Tavis basically accused The Rev. of not enticing The President to address The Black Agenda while in a meeting at The White House recently. They argued back and forth on-air for nearly [...]
