Politics

The president has been talking some new talk. He should keep it up, and even step it up. Obama rode in on his vaunted oratorical abilities, but the kind of ability we fell in love with him for is no longer of any use. The calls for unity, the echoes of Martin Luther King Jr.,…

In his jobs speech earlier this month, President Barack Obama spoke eloquently of a time when Americans felt that hard work invariably paid off. We “believed in a country where everyone gets a fair shake and does their fair share.” I’m not convinced that most black Americans ever really felt that way. Many of us…

Zachary A. Goldfarb of the Washington Post reports that President Obama will announce a proposal on Monday to tame the nation’s rocketing federal debt, calling for $1.5 trillion in new revenue as part of a plan to find more than $3 trillion in budget savings over a decade, senior administration officials said. The proposal draws a sharp…

Civil rights leaders and associates of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had mixed reactions to the disparaging comments that former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy made about King. Kennedy’s comments are published in a new book entitled Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life With John F. Kennedy. The book is based on interviews she had…

Unemployment is at 9.1 percent, unemployment among black and Latino Americans is even higher (at 16.7 percent and 11.3 percent respectively) and job creation has risen to the top of the government’s agenda. So what are many top Republicans saying about the struggles of millions of Americans who can’t find work? That it’s their own…

Who says miracles don’t happen? One occurred at the Republican presidential debate earlier this week. To wit: making Texas Gov. Rick Perry — the coyote-shootin’, secession-talkin’, George Wallace-channelin’, global-climate-change denyin’, extremist loudmouth — look less loony than some of his opponents. If that doesn’t qualify as a miracle, what would? I mean, Perry is the…

The Huffington Post is reporting that Herman Cain’s 2012 Campaign for the GOP presidential nomination is being met by controversy. Former Iowa Straw Poll coordinator Kevin Hall has alleged that he left Cain’s campaign after concerns were raised about the sexual orientation of Scott Toomey, the treasurer of Cain’s political action committee. Toomey also served…

Your Black World founder Dr. Boyce Watkins writes in a blog entry that until now, Tavis Smiley’s actions have defined him as a leading critic of President Barack Obama and, until recently, a textbook haterologist, which is not a good move. In a recent interview, Tavis Smiley took issue with being described as a critic…