Politics

From CNN: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday called the U.S. president inexperienced, compared him unfavorably to President George W. Bush and suggested he apologize for “interfering in Iran’s affairs.” “Do you think that this kind of behavior is going to solve any of your problems? It will only make people think you are someone…

Yes, it’s sad to think of the impact of Mark Sanford’s confessed extramarital affair on his family, but it’s also not hard to picture this staunchly conservative dude holed up in a Buenos Aires pied-á-terre with an Argentine hottie breathing heavily on a kitchen counter while the governor pleads in her ear: “Don’t tap out,…

Barack Obama has a 96% approval rating among Black Americans. The approval rating for race relations is a sight lower than that. According to a CNN/Essence magazine poll, 55% of African Americans surveyed feel racial discrimination is a serious problem. During the 2008 election, that figure was at 38%. From CNN: The poll was conducted…

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the monumental achievements of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency, was designed to not only eliminate voting barriers for African Americans, but also to monitor attempts to restrict their access to the ballot box. The act is perhaps the most important civil rights legislation of the 20th century,…

This is a recent development in the on-going unrest in Iran. The information available right now is vague, but, according to CNN, it appears security forces in Iran have broken out clubs and firearms against election protesters in Tehran. Many updates are being received via Twitter: From @BreakingNews: – “You should stop this, you should…

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Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson is spilling some of the president’s beans regarding his African policies in the future. In Washington Monday, Carson told the African American Unity Caucus that Obama’s African policy would focus on four key issues. According to Voice of America, those issues are: 1.Promoting and strengthening democratic…

The First Family calls on Americans to lend a hand. Do you agree that “a summer of service initiative” helps to kickstart an economic recovery?

Who’s your daddy? Barack Obama, that’s who. We haven’t seen black family role modeling like this since the Huxtables. Actually, Cliff and Clair couldn’t touch the Obamas—they didn’t have Bo. Still, the president’s not content with his own nuclear family bliss. He really, really wants you to have a great dad, too. But the problem…

From the mouth of Rev. Wiley Drake, a minister in the Southern Baptist church, regarding the president: “If he does not turn to God and does not turn his life around, I am asking God to enforce imprecatory prayers that are throughout the Scripture that would cause him death.” According to the Baltimore Afro American,…