Politics

This is Part 5 of The Agenda: What Obama Has Done for You, a series of articles looking at President Barack Obama’s record on issues that affect blacks. The history of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is a long one, and it’s inextricably linked to the suffering of African Americans. Founded in…

It is always a good time to talk about racism and poisonous images pumping through the mass-media pipeline. What is most interesting is the traditional but unpredictable source of the trouble. Whenever critics point at Tea Party posters of Barack Obama as a witch doctor or as a garishly dressed pimp attending a ball at…

This is Part 4 of The Agenda: What Obama Has Done for You, a series of articles looking at President Barack Obama’s record on issues that affect blacks. There is perhaps no issue more important to the black community’s success than education. Few things — health care included — can practically guarantee a life filled…

Florida’s Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, now the “independent” U.S. Senate candidate, trails the official Republican candidate, Marco Rubio, by six points, and political forecasters in the state now predict a Rubio victory. Kendrick Meek, the state’s first black Democratic candidate, is given no chance at all. Every poll since Labor Day has him with no…

This is Part 3 of The Agenda: What Obama Has Done for You, a series of articles looking at President Barack Obama’s record on issues that affect blacks. Come Nov. 2, most polling says Americans will be entering voting booths with two things on their minds: fruitless job searches and the subsequent lightness of their…

Here we go again. Over the weekend, the Tea Party Nation sent out an e-mail to Minnesota voters backing independent Lynne Torgerson over Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison. Who is the Tea Party Nation? The same group that sponsored the Tea Party convention earlier this year, headlined by Sarah Palin. The reason given for backing Torgerson…

By Michael E. Ross Next Tuesday, Rhode Island voters will decide whether to shorten the state’s official name from “State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” to “State of Rhode Island,” out of a desire by some citizens’ groups and state lawmakers to erase from its formal name what they see as a blemish. Unlike…

In true Obama fashion, the president is reaching out to Democratic voters despite being “off the campaign trail” for the next three days. Less than a week before Election Day, President Barack Obama is quietly using the power of his office to reach Democratic voters in a final effort to get supporters to the polls…

AskMen.com has rolled out the results of its fifth annual “Top 49 Most Influential Male” survey, and there were some surprises, like celebrities ranking higher than the president of the United States. Comedian Jon Stewart, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and Kanye West made up the top five. Not only is West in great…

By Jessica Dweck On Election Day, Colorado residents will determine who gets to be a person. They’ll vote on Amendment 62, which defines a person as a human being from the beginning of “biological development.” That’s code for conception. The measure would grant fertilized eggs the right to life, liberty, happiness and due process of…