While everyone else was paying attention to Nikki Haley and Meg Whitman in Tuesday’s primaries, an African American named Alvin Greene ran over former four-term state lawmaker Vic Rawl to win South Carolina’s Democratic Senate primary. An unemployed 32-year-old veteran who paid $10,400 to register as a candidate and then bought not even a single…

Last week, President Barack Obama wrote a letter to members of Congress telling them he was designating five foreign men—one Guinean, two Afghanis, one Mexican and one Mozambican—kingpins. Under America’s “Kingpin Act,” these individuals are now subject to sanctions by the U.S. government. So what’s a kingpin, and why is America meddling in places like…

This was supposed to be ”the year of the black Republican.” Google the phrase and you’ll get more than 20,000 results, most of them ending with a question mark. Prompted largely by a May 10 New York Times article, ”Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in GOP Races,” media outlets pounced on the Great African-American Republican…

Doctors, activists and several key members of the Obama administration convened at the White House Wednesday to address AIDS and its relationship to African-American men. Called the “White House Meeting on Black Men and HIV,” the event, an effort of both the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) and the Office of Public Engagement, brought…

As oil continues to spew forth from the site of the Deepwater Horizon explosion 40 miles off America’s coastline, an increasing number of pundits and politicians are questioning President Barack Obama’s decision-making in the wake of the spill. BP’s recent “top kill” plan to stop the leak effectively sunk, and some have taken to calling…

A hotly debated aspect of the landmark health care reform backed by President Barack Obama related to handling unwanted pregnancies, though the focus then was on whether federal funds would be used to terminate them. Meanwhile, a key provision of the bill went largely unnoticed: More than $375 million in grants toward comprehensive sexual education…

Updated May 20, 2010 at 9:10 a.m. Could an NAACP boycott of Texas be in the offing? NAACP President Ben Jealous said Tuesday that “all options are on the table” if sweeping conservative changes to the state’s educational curriculum are enacted this week. Jealous testified before the Texas State Board of Education on Wednesday in the hopes…

They were armed to the teeth. They were mad. They gathered at public buildings, guns tucked into their waistlines, demanding limited governmental authority and the right to self-determination. They believed the Democratic White House to be an untrustworthy, imperialistic power, one that “robbed” them under spurious circumstances. They were wary of the “Zionist media,” and…

At last week’s immigration march on Washington, tens of thousands of immigrants and activists rallied around the Capitol Building, calling for legislation that would afford legal status to the millions of illegal immigrants living and working within the United States. While official crowd estimates for such events are notoriously unreliable, the New York Times noted…

In October 2008, amidst claims that one of its subsidiaries was knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, North Carolina poultry producer House of Raeford Farms initiated a systematic conversion of its workforce. Following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid that nabbed 300 undocumented workers at a Columbia Farms processing plant in Columbia, S.C., a spooked House of…