By The Admin on July 25, 2011
Los Angeles Times
- Many of L.A.’s black leaders gathered in Exposition Park one recent drizzly morning to sound a warning.
Hard-won political gains were under attack, they said, in the once-in-a-decade redrawing of California’s voting districts. There were references to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and exhortations to “let your voice be heard.” The [...]
Posted in California
By The Admin on July 24, 2011
Washington Post
- Mel Reid slipped on a pair of wool pants and tucked in his striped blouse, suspenders snapped on tight. Later, he buttoned up a wool navy blue coat and attached a scabbard around his waist.
His rifle, a replica 1859 Enfield, never left his side as he stood at attention next to 11 other [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
By The Admin on July 24, 2011
Jobs, education, health, housing — the issues driving the NAACP these days look much like the concerns of most Americans, and that’s by design.
As the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People kicks off its 102nd convention this weekend in downtown Los Angeles, the venerable civil rights organization’s policy agenda shows how it has [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues
By The Admin on July 24, 2011
Greg Thrasher
- For the Black community whenever there is a discussion about prisons and inmates the media and politicians always plaster the airwaves with statistics about the rates of incarceration about Black inmates in our prison system. There is always an underlying theme that Black people are more criminally inclined than others and at any [...]
Posted in BPOTW Guest Submissions, Policy & Issues
By The Admin on July 24, 2011
The Daily Caller
- President Barack Obama will likely lose his re-election bid without a high turnout in African-American communities, but that turnout is being threatened by the economic pain suffered in urban communities during Obama’s administration.
This critical issue helps explain Obama’s meeting Thursday with two leading organizers in the African-American community, Marc Morial of the [...]
Posted in 2012 Elections
