By The Admin on July 28, 2010
Congress is significantly reducing sentencing differences between crack and powder cocaine convictions that over the past several decades have subjected a disproportionate number of blacks to long prison terms.
House passage of what is called the “fair sentencing act” would send it to President Barack Obama for his signature.
Currently, a person convicted of crack cocaine possession [...]
Posted in Congress
By The Admin on July 28, 2010
Washington Post
- The head of the Virginia Conference of the NAACP lashed out at Sen. James Webb (D-Va.) Monday, three days after Webb stirred controversy with an op-ed piece suggesting most government diversity programs should be abolished because they “marginalized” white Americans.
In a Wall Street Journal column published Friday, titled “Diversity and the Myth of [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on July 28, 2010
CBS News
- For a few hours last week, Eric Holder could breathe a sigh of relief. Finally, it wasn’t the attorney general but another African American government official whom right-wingers were smearing with allegations of reverse racism.
But Andrew Breitbart and other conservative troublemakers’ efforts to turn Shirley Sherrod into Angela Davis proved so ludicrously unfair [...]
Posted in Federal Government, Media | Tagged Eric Holder, Justice Department
By The Admin on July 28, 2010
House Democratic leaders who promised to “drain the swamp” of corrupt Washington are doing a delicate rhetorical dance around one of their own, 20-term Rep. Charlie Rangel, as he faces a public trial on ethical misdeeds during a high-stakes midterm election.
They can’t pressure the former Ways and Means chairman to strike a deal or resign [...]
Posted in Congress | Tagged Charles Rangel, Congressional Black Caucus, ethics, Steny Hoyer
