By The Admin on May 31, 2010
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
- On his Friday May 28 show, Real Time HBO host Bill Maher demanded that President Obama act like a black president and pack a gun when he meets with the BP CEOs. Now Maher should take his own advice and act like a responsible commentator and apologize for his own politically demeaning [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on May 30, 2010
JAMES H. BURNETT III, Miami Herald
- As the NAACP gathered in Hollywood, Fla., over the weekend for its sixth annual Leadership 500 Summit, its president Benjamin Todd Jealous said the 101-year-old civil rights organization is moving in a new direction to draw younger members and to go beyond black issues.
Leadership 500, NAACP’s official “young adult” [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues
By The Admin on May 30, 2010
JIM DAVENPORT, The Item
- Only two of the six Democrat and Republican governor hopefuls say they would consider moving the Confederate flag that flies in front of the South Carolina Statehouse.
The flag has been in place since 2000 after a deal was brokered to move it from the Statehouse dome and the House and Senate [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, South Carolina, State & Local News
By The Admin on May 30, 2010
Posted in Video News
By The Admin on May 30, 2010
A well-funded black congressman has a shot at becoming the first African-American to win the Democratic nomination for governor of Alabama, even without the backing of the state’s traditional civil rights organizations.
But a victory for Rep. Artur Davis in Tuesday’s primary may be a short-lived milestone.
In a state that has gone Republican in five of [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, Alabama, State & Local News
