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GOP Image Toxic Among Hispanic Voters
On the eve of President Obama’s push for immigration reform in his State of the Union address, the Hill columnist Juan Williams takes a look at the current state of play inside the GOP on the Hispanic vote. There’s a hidden hand driving the reform proposals that will arrive before the Senate Judiciary Committee the…
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Love Under Pressure in Lesbian Matrimony
(The Root) — With all the fuss over what’s keeping black women and black men from jumping the broom, black married couples have been lost in the fray. Yes, of course they exist! In fact, the vast majority of black women and men do indeed get married. Many of us are putting our own spin…
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Rahm Emanuel Picks Replacement for Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Wife on Chicago City Council
Natashia L. Holmes, from Melbourne, Fla., is indeed a fresh face in Chicago politics, Mary Mitchell writes in her Chicago Sun-Times column, saying that the replacement for embattled Alderman Sandi Jackson represents a much needed departure from the way political power is too often passed down. The 37-year-old Holmes is a transplant from Melbourne, Fla.…
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Berry Gordy Talks 1st Time With Diana Ross
(The Root) — When Berry Gordy began Motown Records in Detroit in 1959, few people thought he would be successful, he now says. But decades after ruling the Billboard charts and cementing his place in popular culture with films like Lady Sings the Blues, Gordy is on the cusp of conquering a new stage, Broadway.…
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Black Leaders Score Obama's Speech
(The Root) — In his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama proposed raising the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour and guaranteeing that preschool is provided to every child in America. He emphasized the right to vote without long lines, and the right to earn a decent living. He urged Congress to…
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American Voters and the Drone War
American Prospect blogger Jamelle Bouie checks in on a survey that shows Americans are fine with drone strikes abroad but express ambivalence about killing other U.S. citizens. It’s a near certainty that President Obama will continue his drone war, including targeted strikes against American citizens. Why? Because, at the moment, there’s not much of a…
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Transcript of Obama's State of the Union Address
Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery State of the Union Address Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Washington, DC As Prepared for Delivery – Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power…
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Did Dorner Upstage Obama?
(The Root) — It’s the never-ending debate that many minorities have privately with each other, but dread having with anyone else: How much does the bad behavior of someone from our community reflect on the rest of us? Never before has the discomfort of this dichotomy been on display more than when an African-American fugitive…
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Obama: Hadiya's Parents Deserve a Vote
(The Root) — In his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama made an emotional appeal to Congress to vote on proposed measures to reduce gun violence, invoking the victims of the Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., shootings, Gabby Giffords and 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, who was gunned down in a Chicago park just a…
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7 Things We'd Love to See Mrs. Obama Do Now
(The Root) — First lady Michelle Obama has already started off her husband’s first term with a bang — literally. Her husband even joked that her new hairstyle, featuring freshly cut bangs, upstaged him during inauguration week. But now that the president has begun to lay out his agenda for his new term, the question many…
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