Politics

President Barack Obama opened up to the ladies of The View about race and pop culture. He said that the controversy over Shirley Sherrod’s firing was made up by the media, and his office overreacted by firing her. President Obama admitted that the drama surrounding the Sherrod incident proves that racial tensions still exist in…

In his address to the National Urban League’s Centennial Conference in Washington, D.C., this morning, President Barack Obama laid out the future of America’s embroiled educational plan while also chastising some of the policies of his predecessor, George W. Bush. Prefacing the meat of his speech by saying, ”I was elected not just to do…

Shirley Sherrod says she will file a lawsuit against conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart for posting a video that wrongly portrayed her as racist. The former U.S. Agriculture employee told a packed session at the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists in San Diego that she would “definitely” take legal action against Breitbart.…

It is very dangerous for an administration to follow too closely to the advice, or marching orders, of ideologues on the right or the left. There is also great danger in responding too quickly to what might be no more than willful lying passed off as fact on a network like Fox News, which takes…

A disturbing magazine cover recently crossed my desk, announcing in big, bold print that Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and the NRA will be hosting a “Restoring Honor” rally in August. It’s being held at the Lincoln Memorial, a place that honors America’s most revered president — the one who saved our union, freed African slaves…

Once upon a time, the ultimate concentration of black political power in Brooklyn lay in Weeksville, a strategically planned village of free black property holders that began in 1838 in what is now Bedford-Stuyvesant. “Weeksville was created to be a political base,” says Jennifer Scott, director of research at the Weeksville Heritage Center. The settlement…

President Obama’s strong support in the Hispanic community may be waning. The Nielsen Company and Stanford University sponsored a survey that shows that President Obama gets “lukewarm ratings” on issues important to Hispanics, which could have a negative impact on his party and him. For a group that supported Obama so heavily in 2008 and…

Here is what I anticipate: Jim Webb, the senior senator from Virginia, will soon be both vilified and lionized in the ”media” for attacking affirmative action as wrong-headed and divisive. And one result is that the intense conversation we’ve endured in recent days about race in the wake of the sacking of Agriculture Department employee…

The NAACP and the National Urban League are among those blasting President Barack Obama’s education-reform plan. Seven education and civil rights groups released a six-point plan for equitable and sustainable national education reform in this country in response to the plan proposed by Education Secretary Arne Duncan. They are calling for an end to Duncan’s…

First lady Michelle Obama will travel to Spain next week for a “private mother-daughter vacation.” While there, she will meet with King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia. The White House did not disclose whether she would be taking both of her daughters on the trip or where in Spain she would vacation. Contrary to published…