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How Obama's Civil Rights Policies Are Benefiting Blacks
This is Part 5 of The Agenda: What Obama Has Done for You, a series of articles looking at President Barack Obama’s record on issues that affect blacks. The history of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is a long one, and it’s inextricably linked to the suffering of African Americans. Founded in…
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Obama Let's His Rigid Patness Show
If you think it would be tremendously exciting to interview President Obama, you should know that things tend to be quite dry once you get past the thrill of meeting the most powerful man on Earth. With less than a week until the tremendously critical midterm elections, Obama is not taking any chances by speaking…
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How Obama's Educational Policies Benefit Blacks
This is Part 4 of The Agenda: What Obama Has Done for You, a series of articles looking at President Barack Obama’s record on issues that affect blacks. There is perhaps no issue more important to the black community’s success than education. Few things — health care included — can practically guarantee a life filled…
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How Obama's Economic Policies Benefit Blacks
This is Part 3 of The Agenda: What Obama Has Done for You, a series of articles looking at President Barack Obama’s record on issues that affect blacks. Come Nov. 2, most polling says Americans will be entering voting booths with two things on their minds: fruitless job searches and the subsequent lightness of their…
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Valerie Jarrett Makes Another Plea for Black Voters
The White House’s last-minute push for black voters continued today, with senior advisor to the president Valerie Jarrett taking questions from black media during a conference call scheduled by the DNC. Jarrett’s opening statement, like much of the Q&A that followed, covered ground that’s been covered a lot in the past few several weeks: Though…
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How Obama's Green Policies Benefit Blacks
This is Part 2 of The Agenda: What Obama Has Done for You, a series of articles looking at President Barack Obama’s record on issues that affect blacks. As African-American environmental-justice proponents Van Jones and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins will tell you, environmental sustainability and climate change are, in addition to their general importance, also tremendously relevant…
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The Agenda
In September a New York Times/CBS News poll found that fewer than one in 10 Americans had heard about the Obama administration’s hallmark tax cuts. Though the cuts had decreased income taxes up to $400 a year for individuals and $800 for married couples, virtually nobody knew about them, least of all members of the…
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NYT Reporter: Tea Party Finds Palin 'Amusing'
Good news for Americans worried about a Sarah Palin presidency come 2012—or worse, a Palin-Beck ticket: New York Times reporter Kate Zernike, author of Boiling Mad:Inside Tea Party America, says that her reporting doesn’t bear out concerns that the controversial ex-governor of Alaska could hold the highest office in the land, even with so-called “Tea…
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What Health Care Reform Means for African Americans
This is Part 1 of The Agenda: What Obama Has Done for You, a series of articles looking at President Barack Obama’s record on issues that affect blacks. On March 23 of this year, after months of heated conservative backlash at town halls and Tea Party rallies nationwide, President Obama signed into law HR 3590,…
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NAACP Releases Report on Troubling Tea Party Ties
The NAACP and the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights (IREHR) today fired the second official salvo in the battle between civil rights groups and the Tea Party movement. In a report released this morning, “Tea Party Nationalism,” IREHR researchers Devin Burghart and Leonard Zeskind detail the origins of the Tea Party and…
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