Politics
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Documentary About Mitt Romney Heads to Netflix
Netflix announced Monday that it will be releasing a documentary next year that looks inside Mitt Romney’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. Mitt is set to premiere Jan. 24, after an earlier showing Jan. 17 at the Sundance Film Festival, ABC News reports. “Greg Whiteley’s Mitt provides viewers a surprising level of access into a fascinating…
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Why Did Obama Shake Castro’s Hand? Home Training
Anyone who can somehow remember way back to the olden days—May 1, 2011, to be exact—knows that President Barack Obama is quite capable of delivering a stand-up routine, dressed in black tie and smiling in front of a bunch of journalists, while at the same time a team of Navy SEALs crosses the Afghanistan-Pakistan border—on…
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GOP Event for African-American Outreach Featured Largely White Audience
It seems that the Republican Party’s latest attempt to embrace African Americans is off to a shaky start. The audience at a Detroit event celebrating the opening of an African-American Engagement Office appeared to consist mainly of white people, a video snippet shows. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was in the city last Friday to help…
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Obamas, Royalty Slated to Attend Mandela Memorial on Tuesday
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are scheduled to join tens of thousands of local mourners, dozens of other foreign leaders at the memorial service Tuesday for former South African President Nelson Mandela, the Associated Press reports. South African officials told the AP that the crowd would likely surpass the normal seating capacity of Johannesburg’s…
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6 in 10 Uninsured Blacks Could Qualify for Financial Aid Under Obamacare
About 4.2 million uninsured African Americans may be eligible for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program or tax credits to help with the cost of insurance plans available through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, a new report by the Department of Health and Human Services shows. This could be good news for the black community,…
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Detroit’s City Workers Facing Poverty and Debt
The largest annual salary Donald Smith ever collected while working for the city of Detroit was $28,000. But the lure of a pension and a lack of skills to pursue higher-paying jobs kept him at the city for 29 years, even as he watched the industrial stalwart become a faded remnant of its former self.…
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Obamas, Royalty Slated to Attend Mandela Memorial on Tuesday
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are scheduled to join tens of thousands of local mourners, dozens of other foreign leaders at the memorial service Tuesday for former South African President Nelson Mandela, the Associated Press reports. South African officials told the AP that the crowd would likely surpass the normal seating capacity…
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South Africans and African Americans Bound by Struggle
We often hear about the “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain—rooted in history and personified by the close personal friendship between President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair during the 1990s. But there’s another “special relationship,” one less commented upon but equally noteworthy, between the African-American community and black South Africans.…
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Limbaugh Accuses Media of Making Nelson Mandela’s Death About Obama
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh railed against the White House and the media on Friday, complaining that both were trying to make Nelson Mandela’s death all about President Barack Obama. During the broadcast, Limbaugh knocked Obama for releasing a statement shortly after Mandela’s death was announced Thursday. “I am one of the countless millions who…
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Let’s Remember—Mandela Was a Revolutionary
Watching the world mourn the loss of Nelson Mandela is an experience at turns uplifting and incredibly odd. In the first few hours of coverage after his death at age 95 on Thursday, there were the obligatory references to Mandela having “gone home” after leading his nation to a “unified” and higher state. Here, said…