Politics
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Herman Cain's 'Unconventional' Endorsement
No, he wasn’t singing spirituals again. (This week’s musical highlight from the political scene is compliments of President Obama, who belted out a little of Al Green’s ‘Let’s Stay Together’ at a fundraiser last night.) But former Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain did add a unique twist to his long-awaited (if you hadn’t forgotten about…
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Cain and Scott Won't Acknowledge GOP Racism
This morning I turned on my television to watch Soledad O’Brien’s morning show, Starting Point, on CNN. Former GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain, South Carolina’s Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and CNN/TV One’s Roland Martin were part of a panel discussing the GOP debates in South Carolina. During the discussion, O’Brien asked the panel about their…
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Obama Croons to Harlem Supporters' Delight
Who knew President Obama could sing? He caught a sold-out audience of Democratic supporters off guard last night at the historic Apollo Theater in New York’s Harlem community when he broke out into a bar of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.” Following opening acts by india.arie and Green, President Obama began his remarks by crooning…
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Black Republicans Make Their Choice
With four Republican candidates left in the presidential race, each giving his all in the countdown to the South Carolina primary on Saturday, the GOP electorate is still up for grabs. And despite the persistent “Mitt Romney is inevitable” narrative, for many Republican voters the nominee is anything but a foregone conclusion. The Root spoke…
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Rating Obama: Take Our Poll
Jan. 20 marks the third anniversary of President Barack Obama’s historic inauguration as the nation’s first African-American president. From health care reform to the economy, education and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the president has faced a number of tough decisions since being sworn into office. How’s he doing? How would you grade his…
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Herman Cain, Party Promoter
What is Herman Cain bringing to the Republican Party other than pizza and his brand of pizzazz? Well, the former chairman of Godfather’s Pizza, who pretty much dropped out of the running in the GOP presidential primary because of his womanizing, promises to bring an “unconventional” endorsement when he addresses the Southern Republican Leadership Conference…
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Santorum's Black-Poverty Solution Works
The Republican candidates have offered no end of fodder for those dedicated to stamping out tacky statements on race. We seem to get almost one a week. There was Newt Gingrich hoping that poor brown kids will work after school while white ones in the suburbs lounge around. Absurd, I agree. Similarly dismissible are Ron…
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NAACP Puts Voter ID Laws in Crosshairs
Regardless of the content of their addresses Monday morning at the annual “King Day at the Dome” rally at the State House in Columbia, S.C., the joint appearance of NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks volumes in and of itself. Monday marks the first time Holder will have been…
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Where's the Respect Our First Lady Deserves?
In her Detroit Free Press column, Rochelle Riley writes that people accusing Michelle Obama of being an angry black lady have likely never met one. She describes a litany of battles that would mold an angry woman, and none of them define the first lady. … And the juvenile attacks on the first lady go…