Politics
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Could Alabama Elect a Black Governor?
Last Saturday in Linn Park in downtown Birmingham, a 41-year-old Congressman who went to Harvard and then graduated from Harvard Law School, announced that he was running for governor of Alabama in 2010. There were red, white and blue signs with his name on them and a diverse crowd of about 500 cheered on the…
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Cool, Refreshing Legislation for Philip Morris
Indulge me in a thought experiment. Pretend that drinking something called “lethalcoffee” has been found to cause cancer. There are five or six kinds of gross-flavored lethalcoffees that hardly anyone drinks, like chocolate, cherry, banana, and vanilla. But there’s one flavor, mint, that 30 percent of all lethalcoffee drinkers are hooked on. And there’s one…
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Obama to Ramp Up Stimulus Spending
President Obama announced today that he’ll crank the stimulus amp up to eleven in the next three months, creating or saving 600,000 jobs in the process. National parks, youth summer jobs, schools and police department are just some of the beneficiaries of this increase in spending. POLITICO reports that though President Obama is pleased with…
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Video: Jews in Israel Not Exactly Thrilled with Obama
This video from Livesteez might get your Irish up. Some strong language ensues which you may hear clearly if you’re not busy shaking your head. We understand passionate jingoism, but we expected a chosen people to exhibit better vocabularies.
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Speaking the Language: Obama's Greeting at Cairo Sends Message
The use of Aabic greetings are no longer the purview of Black men in bow ties who terrify (white) people. While speaking in Cairo Thursday, President Obama opened his speech with the greeting “Assalamu alaykum”—meaning “peace of Allah be unto you”—and blogger Amy Alexander feels the move was a pivotal moment in our relations with…
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Video: American Sphinx? Obama Sees Self in Hieroglyph
We’ve known for a little while that the president’s G was out of this world, but out of this century? While studying pyramid walls, President Obama saw a hieroglyph that had a striking resemblance to the man himself, ears and all. Is Obama the American Sphynx? The CBC and Alpha Phi Alpha sure hope not.…
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The American Sphinx
This week, President Obama delivered his long promised speech on outreach to the Muslim world. And then he turned into a tourist. Is this guy cool or what? Write your own captions in the comment space.
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First Lady Replaces Chief of Staff
The First Lady has replaced her chief of staff Jackie Norris with White House attorney Susan Sher. Obama met Norris during the Iowa caucuses—Norris having been in charge of arranging many of President Obama’s visits in the state—and got to know her in the course of their travels. The WASHINGTON POST is reporting that though…
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Journalist Thinks California Gays Need to Chill Out
Jasmyne Cannick of the LA. WATTS TIMES pretty much takes the white gay community in California to the woodshed in her latest piece titled “A White Gays Guide to Dealing with Black People.” Cannick, a lesbian herself, pretty much says the gay community needs to fall back while California deals with other issues—unemployment, health care,…
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No Hold(er)s Barred: AG Eric Holder Sits Down with Essence
Cynthia Gordy of ESSENCE sat down with Attorney General Eric Holder for an interview as the media-reluctant lawyer-in-chief discussed a few hot topics of the day. Regarding the criminal justice system and Black America’s expectation of a Black President and Attorney General, Holder recognized the need to manage expectations while remaining committed to making “substantive…