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This is a Day of Mourning
My favorite month of the year ended yesterday, and I’m kinda sad. I love, love, LOVE October – always have, always will. If you’re a regular reader, you know fall is my favorite season, a time when I experience a sort of energy overdrive. You also know I’ve created a nickname for this time of…
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Are Black Women America's Happiest Voters?
By Michelle Ebanks As we head into the homestretch of the midterm election on Nov. 2, examination of the crucial role of black voters to the fate of many leaders was unavoidable. After all, as The New York Times recently indicated, “The black turnout percentage in the [2008 general election] exceeded white turnout by a…
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Roberto Alomar's Wife Accuses Him of Knowingly Exposing Her to HIV
According to BV Sports, former Major League Baseball player Roberto Alomar and his wife, Maria, are battling in a divorce court. Maria claims that her husband knew he was HIV positive and had unprotected sex with her anyway. According to the New York Post, Alomar, who is considered by many to be one of the…
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Russell Simmons Urges African-American Community to Vote
Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jams Records and hip-hop’s most visible ambassador and political activist, urged young people not to be “blindsided” by Republican machinations and to vote Democratic in the Nov. 2 midterm election. Simmons insisted that the Republican Party is a threat to our 14th Amendment rights. “We just need to vote. That’s…
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Geraldo Rivera to Roberto de Posada: 'You're a Punk'
Geraldo Rivera must have had a flashback to his days of civil rights activism, because he went slap off on Roberto de Posada, the man behind the infamous “Don’t Vote” ads targeting Latinos in Las Vegas. On Geraldo at Large, Rivera jumped on Posada from the beginning of the interview, not really allowing him to…
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Poll: Democrats Split Over Handing Obama 2012 Nomination
According to the Associated Press-Knowledge Networks Poll, Democratic voters are closely divided over whether President Barack Obama should be challenged within the party for a second term in 2012. Really. That assessment carries over into the nation at large, which is similarly divided over whether Obama should be a one-term president. A real Democratic challenge…
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The Root Cities: Sweet Home Chicago
In Dreams From My Father, President Barack Obama writes eloquently about why he chose to make Chicago his adult home. The city has traditionally been the political and economic capital of black America, while New York’s Harlem has held the mantle as its cultural capital. More black U.S. senators have come from Chicago than anywhere…
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The Root Cities: Chicago's Political Power Brokers
The annals of black Chicago politics read like a political thriller, full of intrigue, backroom deals and untimely deaths. The mayoral race has been a pivotal factor in determining who holds political power in black Chicago since the 1987 death of Harold Washington, the city’s first black mayor. At that point, African-American politics became splintered…
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The Root Cities: Chicago Then and Now
The Second City, the City of Broad Shoulders and the City That Works was Frank Sinatra’s “kind of town.” It is also my hometown. I came here with my mother when I was about 6 months old. Like countless thousands of others from the deep South in the late 1940s and early 1950s, we took…
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No Help for Obama From Hip-Hop This Time
Barack Obama needed hip-hop in 2008, and, well, today not much has changed. Historically, a candidate who relies on the youth vote ends up on the losing side. But two years ago, Obama’s youth-oriented campaign proved triumphant. In fact, Obama did what many thought would be political suicide: He made it a priority to connect…