From Lawrence Bobo at theroot.com: Barack Obama's success, as Congressman John Lewis put it recently, is another step on the long road toward laying down the "burden of race." But the growing use of the phrase "post-racial America" should worry us all.
Voters’ economic status and religious convictions played a greater role than race and age in determining whether they supported the Nov. 4 ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage in California, a new poll shows.
Since his departure on November 17, the debate is raging for who should replace Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo!. From Peter Chernin to Mark Cuban, the opinions are many. But guess what? There are no African-American candidates!
From JANELLE JOLLEY at theroot.com: My erstwhile African-American-studies-minored self would love nothing more than to publish a dissertation on why <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/11/18/michelles_booty/index.html" target="_blank">this</a></span> piece in Salon, written by Erin Aubry Kaplan of the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, is destructive, superficial and historically unsound. But what would be the point? I would say how dare you continue the objectification of a black woman, but mostly what I want to do is scream in outrage. Click here for the full story.
As many rational political observers noted, the Age of Obama would not mean the abolition of racism in this country. The acts of blatant racism that have otherwise gone unnoticed, have become glaring examples of how far we, as a nation, have yet to travel. Take the following, for example: A young man goes into […]
According to NowPublic.com, when Buck Burnette, a back-up center for the University of Texas football team, realized that Barack Obama would win the 2008 election, he posted this update on his Facebook page: “All the hunters gather up, we have a N$%&er in the White House.”
Whether whites supported Barack Obama or not, they don’t seem to have lied to pollsters about it.
A new study completed just before President-elect Barack Obama’s historic election found that race was not a decisive factor for young voters.
According to FBI spokespeople, death threats against presidents and presidential candidates are routine. Barack Obama is certainly no exception. On the contrary, the Illinois senator was given more FBI protection earlier in the campaign season than any candidate in history because of the consistency of threats against him. Why, then, should a toothless, absurd plot […]
The Isiah Thomas camp continues to deny the claim by Harrison, NY police that it was a “47-year-old man lying on the floor, unconscious from an accidental overdose of prescription sleeping pills” who was rushed via ambulance from the home of the basketball great, and not his 17-year-old daughter, as Thomas’ family has stated. Time […]
Let me go on the record: Adam “Pacman” Jones is a disgrace. Once again, the Dallas Cowboys’ defensive back has been suspended because of his off-field conduct.
Smokey D. Fontaine and Michael Eric Dyson weigh in on TimeWarner’s Summit, Politics 2008: Race and Politics panel, to discuss Barack Obama’s effort to reach black voters.
