By The Admin on September 21, 2011
The Republican National Committee raised about $8.2 million in August, far outpacing its Democratic rival in a typically slow fundraising month.
The Democratic National Committee reported that it raised $5.4 million last month, including $1.4 million for the Obama Victory Fund, a joint fundraising account by the DNC and Obama’s campaign.
The DNC finished the month with [...]
Posted in Party Politics
By The Admin on September 21, 2011
The country’s second-largest Indian tribe came to an agreement on Tuesday that could reinstate some 2,800 African Americans to the Cherokee Nation, just four days before an election for its principal chief.
The ousted group, known as the “Cherokee Freedmen,” are descendants of slaves once owned by wealthy Indians.
“We’ve agreed to everything,” Freedmen attorney Jonathan Velie [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on September 21, 2011
The nation’s capital has all but lost its black majority, and African-American leaders are wondering what that will do to blacks’ political power.
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who represents the District of Columbia in Congress, will speak about the implications of the 2010 Census results at a forum Wednesday. The Census showed that blacks made up [...]
Posted in National Politics, Race
By The Admin on September 21, 2011
Racial and ethnic congregations are bucking a trend toward decreasing vitality in American congregations, according to a new study published by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research. The study, “A Decade of Change in American Congregations: 2000-2010,” was presented along with the latest Baylor Religion Survey at the Religion Newswriters Assocation annual conference in Durham, [...]
Posted in Featured, Race
By The Admin on September 21, 2011
African-American academics Roland Fryer and Tiya Miles have been named 2011 recipients of MacArthur Fellowships.
The fellowships, also known as ”genius grants,” were awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and reward individuals in a wide variety of disciplines who have shown “extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked [...]
Posted in Education
