Politics

The shade that one Black Lives Matter activist threw President Barack Obama Thursday while declining an invitation to a White House Black History Month event only seemed surprising to those not paying attention. During both of Obama’s terms, and even before, a visible minority of black activists—some prominent, some not, and from different age groups—have…

The Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns are trying everything in their power to show that they’re friends of the African-American community. Beyond obvious cultural pandering like dabbing and Nae Nae-ing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the Democratic candidates have spoken about and offered more policies specifically targeted at the black community than almost any…

Barack Obama has been lying to us. Not about whether he’s a liberal or a conservative, or something trivial like his golf handicap. Obama has been lying to America about what kind of president he is. After the 2014 midterms, Obama finally acknowledged that the Republicans would rather see the entire country go to hell in…

In recent years we’ve commemorated the English and Spanish heritage of our nation’s founding. In 2007 we marked the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Va., by English colonists. In 2015 we celebrated the 450th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine, Fla. Both the English and Spanish commemorations included activities sponsored by federal…

Antonin Scalia, the hard-core conservative U.S. Supreme Court justice who said, among other things, that blacks might want to attend “slower” schools because they may do better there, died Saturday morning, just hours before the Republican presidential candidates pledged at a debate that if they got to be president, they would put somebody on the…

With the Democratic primary headed to South Carolina and Nevada Feb. 20, now’s the time when you can put some money on the market. Iowa, followed by New Hampshire, offered a juicy appetizer. Yet both were as white and middle-class as a row of picket fences in a Hallmark Channel movie. Bernie Sanders’ once mythical,…

As the race for the Democratic nomination gets tighter, the serious gaps between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and the black Democratic voters they seek become more and more apparent. The Clinton name in the black community has retroactively sunk faster than the names Tavis Smiley, Bill Cosby and Stacey Dash combined. Her…

The New Hampshire primary results Tuesday both complicated and simplified the Republican race. Donald Trump won with a resounding 35 percent, winning his first state, followed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich at a surprising 16 percent. Rounding out the rest of the ballot was an essential three-way tie for the third-best loser, with Texas Sen. Ted…

Hillary Clinton loves black people. And black people love Hillary—or so it seems. Black politicians have lined up in droves to endorse her, eager to prove their loyalty to the Clintons in hopes that their faithfulness will be remembered and rewarded. Black pastors are opening their church doors, and the Clintons are making themselves comfortably…