Politics

This past Saturday afternoon in Atlanta, the once jocular and front-running, now defiant and rapidly crumbling GOP presidential contender Herman Cain announced that he’s indefinitely “suspending” his bid for the White House — and in the process he killed black Republicanism. That probably wasn’t his plan, but after running a race filled with gaffes and…

In her column at the Daily Beast, Allison Samuels writes that Herman and Gloria Cain’s marriage had its share of problems over the years. She writes that the former GOP presidential front-runner’s attraction to other women was a factor in the trouble. … A close friend of one [of] Cain’s two children explained that Herman…

For quite a long spell in African-American history, each of us has had to bear the burden of the race on our shoulders. Custom and tradition — and intense desire for equality — dictated that we mind our manners and avoid personal acts and activity that would make the entire race look bad. Thus, we…

Former presidential candidate Herman Cain is the master of inexplicable campaign imagery. First there was the bizarre campaign commercial with the close-up of his chief of staff smoking. And we can’t forget the fact that if you flip 9-9-9 upside down, you get the 6-6-6 combination that many believe to be satanic. Now this: The…

Saying that unproven accusations have caused pain to his family, Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain announced that he would suspend his 2012 presidential campaign. With his wife, Gloria, standing by his side, an upbeat Cain made the announcement at the scheduled opening of his Georgia campaign headquarters. The campaign had been hit hard by allegations…

A word from Newt Gingrich, front-runner in the GOP 2012 primaries: Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods, have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works, so they have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day; they have no habit of “I do…

In a blog entry at the Washington Post, columnist Jonathan Capehart says that Herman Cain should have run home to his wife of 43 years immediately after the Ginger White scandal broke instead of appearing on any news show that would have him. Gloria Cain would be well within her right to lash out at…

USA Today is reporting that the U.S. unemployment rate fell last month to its lowest level in more than 2 1/2 years as employers stepped up hiring in response to the slowly improving economy. The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate dropped sharply to 8.6 percent last month from 9 percent in October.…

In 2008 young African Americans set an all-time voter-turnout record. Fifty-eight percent of black 18- to 29-year-olds voted — the highest rate that any ethnic or racial group of young adults has ever achieved. Barack Obama deserved some credit, but young African Americans had posted relatively high turnout rates ever since the 1980s, often matching…