By The Admin on October 25, 2010
An Alabama state senator has recorded phone calls saying that blacks risk “going back to the cotton fields of Jim Crow days” unless Democrats Ron Sparks and Jim Folsom are elected.
The robocalls were placed by state Sen. Hank Sanders, a Selma Democrat who made the calls for the Alabama New South Coalition.
Democrats likely need a [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, Alabama, Race
By The Admin on October 25, 2010
NPR
- A century before the civil rights protests in Selma and Birmingham, a 27-year-old African-American named Octavius Catto led the fight to desegregate Philadelphia’s horse-drawn streetcars.
He did it in 1866 with the help of other prominent activists, including Lucretia Mott and Frederick Douglass. Catto raised all-black regiments to fight in the Civil War; he pushed [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on October 25, 2010
CNN
- A squabble at a small Georgia town’s council meeting — in which a white councilman told his black counterpart that he should be working in a cotton field — has caught the attention of the NAACP.
The exchange took place in a recent Warner Robins City Council meeting, said Larry Holmes, president of the NAACP [...]
Posted in Georgia, Race
By The Admin on October 25, 2010
Edward James
- The 2008 Presidential campaign was very special for me. In my very first time voting I had the opportunity to cast my ballot for the first Black presidential nominee of a major political party. Like many young and enthusiastic Americans who were eager to change the social, political, and economic landscape of this [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, Media
By The Admin on October 25, 2010
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas can and should be impeached. The case and the grounds for impeachment proceedings against him are virtually iron-clad. The evidence is compelling that Thomas perjured himself in his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee during his court confirmation hearings in 1991. The evidence is equally compelling that [...]
Posted in Congress, Federal Government
