The name of Detroit’s embattled mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, is seldom mentioned without the sobriquet “hip hop mayor.” Kilpatrick coined the phrase on the campaign trail, swept into office on a wave of support from young voters. He has continued to evoke it ever since—as have his critics, who now appear to far outnumber any remaining […]
There are few issues more pressing, at this crucial moment in our nation’s history, than whether Manny Ramirez will cut his hair. The future Hall of Fame slugger was traded from the Boston Red Sox to the Los Angeles Dodgers two weeks ago. Thus far, he has failed to make good on a promise to […]
“Since March, when I was accused of being racist for a statement I made about the influence of blacks on Obama’s historic campaign, people have been stopping me to express a common sentiment: If you’re white you can’t open your mouth without being accused of being racist. They see Obama’s playing the race card throughout […]
Zimbabwe’s opposition party said Thursday that four of its activists were killed in a firebombing near Harare amid growing concerns that President Robert Mugabe will use a violent crackdown to steal an upcoming runoff election.
I’ve spent most of the last 70 years in Charlotte and North Carolina politics and I have never seen this kind of excitement for a primary. Truthfully, it reminds me so very much of the excitement of our movement in the 1960s.
Newark, NJ Mayor Corey Booker is interviewed by North Star Report’s Walter Fields.
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