By The Admin on July 28, 2010
Sunshine State News
- After the Shirley Sherrod debacle, President Barack Obama doesn’t need to pick another fight with his African-American base. But Florida’s Democratic Senate primary poses a new no-win situation.
Black lawmakers are urging — even threatening — the White House to elevate its support of Kendrick Meek, an African-American congressman locked in a tight [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, Florida | Tagged Barack Obama, Kendrick Meek
By The Admin on July 28, 2010
BeyondChron
- Hope you were able to TiVo that campaign ad Meg Whitman ran during the primary with her endorsement from former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Because if Whitman continues her strategy of avoiding African Americans, that may be probably the only time you’ll see the former EBay CEO around many other African Americans between [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, California, Media | Tagged black media, Meg Whitman
By The Admin on July 28, 2010
Condoleezza Rice is no stranger to the whims of royalty. So when the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin, decided the two should get together to play a song or two for charity, it was decreed.
The former U.S. secretary of state and Franklin took the stage Tuesday evening at Philadelphia’s Mann Music Center in a [...]
Posted in Outside of the Political Realm | Tagged Aretha Franklin, condoleeza rice
By The Admin on July 28, 2010
New York Times
- Way down in the delta, just south of the Belle Chasse Ferry at Beshel’s Marina here, black men with work-worn hands and several generations of fishing in their blood sat around on old milk crates, hoping for a piece of the oil cleanup action that seems to have bypassed their little stretch [...]
Posted in Louisiana | Tagged Hurricane Katrina, oil spill
By The Admin on July 28, 2010
CBS News
- The seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have sent a letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy, the committee chairman, calling for a hearing on potential “widespread politicization and possible corruption” in the Justice Department, The Hill reports.
The call for a hearing is tied to allegations that the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has [...]
Posted in Congress, Federal Government
