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The Root's Talented Ten: Michael Blake
Michael Blake Age: 26 Hometown: The Bronx, N.Y. Campaign Positions: Deputy Political Director, Constituency Outreach Director Campaign Turf: Iowa, South Carolina, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan New Washington Gig: Deputy Associate Director for Intergovernmental Affairs; Office of Public Liaison Mike Blake is the kind of guy who, no matter what the emergency, speaks slowly…
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The Root's Talented Ten: Elizabeth Wilkins
Elizabeth Wilkins Age: 25 Hometown: Washington, D.C. Campaign Positions: Field Organizer, Field Director—Michigan Campaign Turf: Chicago, South Carolina, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan New Washington Gig: Policy assistant, Domestic Policy Council Elizabeth Wilkins’ yearning for government service is probably genetic. Roy Wilkins, the 1960s head of the NAACP, is her great-uncle, and her father Roger, now…
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The Root's Talented Ten: Joshua DuBois
Joshua DuBois Age: 26 Hometown: Nashville, Tenn. Campaign Position: Director of Religious Affairs Campaign Turf: Chicago New Washington Gig: Executive Director, White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Throughout campaign 2008, detractors accused Obama of harboring a messiah complex. If Hollywood ever adapts the jeers into a feature film, Josh DuBois would play John…
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Washington’s New Black Pack
Read the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion on WASHINGTON’s NEW BLACK PACK with The Root’s Dayo Olopade. ***** Barack Obama’s historic presidential victory has marked a significant expansion of responsibilities and visibility for people of color working in politics. From the Justice Department to the United Nations to the new Office of Urban Policy, Obama has empowered…
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The Root's Talented Ten: Alexander Lofton
Alex Lofton Age: 24 Hometown: Seattle, Wa. Campaign Positions: Border State Director, Regional Field Director, Field Director—Georgia Campaign Turf: South Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ohio New Washington Gig: Southeast Regional Director, Organizing for America Long after the confetti had been cleared from election-night parties, Alex Lofton was still at work. Or “redeployed,” as he likes…
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Sunday Brunch: The Week in Review
MONDAY WP: AIG Discloses Use of Bailout Funds; You Didn’t Get Any, But an Incompetent Did Times of London: Thousands of Girls Mutilated in Britain WSJ: Having Little Interest in Being Opposed, Chavez Sends Navy to Venezuela’s Seaport to Make This Clear AP: Imus Has Prostate Cancer; Rev. Al Sharpton to Protest This in Some…
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Iraq Let America Be America Again
I spent the afternoon that the war in Iraq started in a mosque in Paris. When the news of the invasion broke, my group, taking tea in the café within the compound, fled. We had already tried to shed our American accents—tensions had been running high for the previous months, as a Metro bioterror scare…
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What Happens in Kabul…
I was in a taxi, about a mile from the World Trade Center, when the first plane hit on September 11. I remember the streets of New York being filled with smoke, and people wandering around dazed, like something out of a doomsday movie. I remember the free-floating fear, and thinking, “We are at war.”…
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Freedom Usually Isn't Free–But What About Iraq?
I’m one of those Rep. Charlie Rangel has complained about from the outset: I haven’t had to sacrifice much for George Bush’s war. I’m an East Coast, college-educated, yuppie, liberal gay. My friends don’t join the armed forces. The last family member to do so fought in Korea. Sure, I’ve marched, I’ve declaimed, I’ve voted…