Politics
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No, Hillary Clinton Is Not Pandering When She Says She Carries Hot Sauce in Her Bag
Hillary Clinton has been involved in a number of snafus over the course of the election cycle. Being confronted about her use of the term “superpredators.” An ill-fated dab. Somehow putting Rosa Parks on the back of her ever shifting “H” logo. Hiding her forearm tattoo sleeves under a collection of Steve Harvey pour femme…
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Supreme Court Battle Over Obama’s Immigration Plan Leaves Black Immigrants Anxious
Valerie Gabriel, a Liberian who’s been in the U.S. since 1991, was not among the throngs of people dancing and singing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., Monday. She couldn’t join in the demonstrations in favor of President Barack Obama’s plan to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation and provide…
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‘You’re Fired’: Black Apprentices Urge Voters to Dump Trump
If there is any way to mathematically stop Donald Trump from having the most delegates at the Republican convention, it pretty much has to happen in New York. If the real estate mogul/reality-TV star/erstwhile Republican manages to get over 50 percent of the vote in every New York district, he’ll score almost 80 of the…
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Bernie Sanders Has Lofty Goals, but Can He Execute Them?
What Sen. Bernie Sanders lacks in substance, he makes up for in being personable. Let me explain. The Vermont senator’s political ambitions are idealistic and radical. He has grandiose ideas to revolutionize government. Like all politicians, he has blind spots. His blind spot is he lacks concrete plans to bring his ideas to fruition. This…
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The Battle to Close Wage Gap Between Men and Women
“Lots of people have heard the 79 cents on a dollar that women make on average compared to men,” says Emily Martin of the National Women’s Law Center. But the level of salary loss for a woman starting her career today is staggering. “Nationally, a woman stands to lose about $430,000 over a 40-year career…
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Last Man Standing: Meet the New Head of African-American Outreach for the Republican Party
Telly Lovelace is not stepping into an easy job. Not that it’s ever been easy to work on African-American outreach for the Republican National Committee, but things haven’t been this bad for the Republican Party since Kanye West called out George W. Bush. Likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is anathema to African-American voters, the entire…
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Hillary Clinton’s NAN Speech Sounds Good, but Does Anybody Really Believe Her?
“She know she lying. F—k outta here,” Charles Johnson, 31, whispered as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke inside the Metropolitan Ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in New York City for the National Action Network conference. Wearing a flattering red suit, the former secretary of state was met with a standing ovation from the predominantly…
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President Obama Deserves a Vote on His Supreme Court Nominee
We’ve been with President Barack Obama since the beginning. As three of his senior advisers, we worked closely with the president on a host of important issues—few more important than assisting him with the judicial nominations and confirmations of Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan. Nominations are not taken lightly, and they can’t be,…
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Jackie Robinson: Militant Black Republican
On a Saturday evening in February of 1966, over a thousand mostly white Republican men and women crowded into a Cleveland hotel banquet hall, eager to hear Jackie Robinson’s opening keynote for the annual Ohio Republican Conference. The baseball icon-turned-political activist did not disappoint. “I am not what is known as a good Republican,” Robinson…
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Highs and Lows: The President in the Polls (and Pictures)
Taking on the role of POTUS is no joke. Various jokers are vying for the gig, but don’t get it twisted. Assuming the presidential seat in the United States is not something to be taken lightly. After all, President Barack Obama is the head of state and commander in chief. The big cheese, responsible for…