From Jack & Jill Politics: The Republican Party has two African Americans vying to be one of the party’s leading voices during an Obama administration. Michael Steele, the former Maryland lieutenant gov, is also in the mix. Can you say "slave catcher"?
As the battle between two marginalized communities rages on, Andrew Sullivan highlights an interview with a prominent African-American lesbian activist who claims to have been dismissed by gay activists before Prop 8's passage. She was told the black vote "didn't matter," and outreach was unnecessary.
According to TV Weekly, shows such as Access Hollywood, will treat the Obamas like a Hollywood family. Other show like Entertainment Tonight and The Insider are also expected to give the Obamas the Hollywood treatment.
<dl class="wp-caption alignnone"> <dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a href="http://cdn.newsone.com/files/2008/11/kareem_wright_21.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-46271" title="kareem_wright_21" src="http://cdn.newsone.com/files/2008/11/kareem_wright_21-300x382.jpg" alt="<br />" width="300" height="382" /></a></dt> </dl>In an interview with Sirius Radio's Mark Thompson, Reverend Wright, criticized the media scapegoating he went through during the election.
NFL Hall of Fame running back and social activist, Jim Brown recently spoke to MSNBC about his views on the reccent presidential election, racism, Muhammed Ali and his own foundation Amer-I-Can. Brown has long been an activist in the fields of racism, sports, gang violence and poverty. Watch The Interview After The Jump
A number of news reports are saying that Barack Obama willl appoint Desiree Rogers as Social Secretary for the White House.
With the economy in crisis, President-elect Barack Obama called on the new Congress to act quickly in passing a costly stimulus package to create jobs as a follow-up to the hundreds of billions of dollars the Bush administration has committed to rescue financial markets.
President George W. Bush got a second bloc of world leaders to endorse comprehensive action to remedy the global financial crisis. But his successor, Barack Obama, is already setting the coming economic agenda.
Last week, Congress departed from Washington after refusing to bail out the Big Three auto manufacturers. This week, all eyes are on Obama. What will his policy be toward Detroit — meaning the huge auto industry that provides a living for hundreds of thousands of Americans; and, also, the troubled Black metropolis that has always […]
Obama senior adviser David Axelrod warned U.S. automakers, seeking billions in government help to stave off collapse, to devise a plan to retool and restructure. Otherwise, he said, “there is very little taxpayers can do to help them.”
From Bankole Thompson at the Michigan Chronicle: “It’s 3 a.m. and Detroit is calling, not because there is a security emergency, but because there is an economic emergency. It is imperative that Washington picks up the phone.”
