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Why the President wins if the Democrats lose

Why the President wins if the Democrats lose
Few things are ever certain politics. But this one seems like it might qualify: the Democratic Party will suffer a colossal defeat in the fast-approaching midterm congressional elections. Perhaps even a defeat as devastating as the 1994 and 1946 midterm elections, when House Democrats lost over 50 seats. There...
September 29th, 2010 | Politics, US | Read More

President Obama’s report card

President Obama’s report card
On Friday September 17, The Washington Post reported that “Black Scholars [were] to debate how to hold Obama ‘accountable.’ I was fortunate enough to be one of several Shirley Chisholm Presidential Accountability Commissioners to engage in this dialogue at the 40th Legislative Annual Congressional...
September 29th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, US | Read More

Glenn Beck’s Attempt to Bastardize Dr. King’s Dream

Glenn Beck’s Attempt to Bastardize Dr. King’s Dream
Rewriting history is one of the many offenses that political conservatives are constantly accusing liberals of committing.  But no one is guiltier of this transgression than conservatives themselves, who have a particular fondness for rewriting the history of the civil rights movement, especially their...
August 27th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Glenn Beck, US | Read More

America’s forgotten founders

America’s forgotten founders
No one can deny the starring role that James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and other leading lights played in America’s constitutional founding. They launched history’s greatest project in democracy and will forever be remembered for setting alight the path to liberty. So...
August 24th, 2010 | Featured, US | Read More

Mosque madness

Mosque madness
Two American Islamic organizations proposed to build a mosque and community center several blocks from ‘ground zero,’ where the World Trade Center’s twin towers were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.[1] This proposal has divided the city that suffered the attack, and now the...
August 20th, 2010 | US | Read More

“Government-run” no longer defines the Indian health system

“Government-run” no longer defines the Indian health system
A single phrase is often used to define the Indian health system: “Government-run.” Add those two words to any discussion about health care or reform and most people reach an immediate conclusion about the merits of the agency. Now it is time for the phrase to disappear because it no longer accurately...
August 17th, 2010 | American Indians, Health, Politics, US | Read More

Noam Chomsky on Israel

Noam Chomsky on Israel
Internationally recognized as one of America’s most critically-engaged public intellectuals today, Noam Chomsky spoke with me about Israel and its interplay with the United States. Listen or read entire interview. Listen to the interview. Photo by: AP
August 16th, 2010 | Featured, US, World | Read More

A third party: The choice for the African-American masses

A third party: The choice for the African-American masses
In the many months since the 2008 presidential election, an increasing number of those within the African-American community have begun to question whether the electing of the United States first African-American President, Barack Obama, has functioned to yield any significant results in regard...
August 16th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Politics, US | Read More

You cut, I choose: Imagining a brighter racial future

You cut, I choose: Imagining a brighter racial future
Remember when some people said that Barack Obama’s election meant we had gone post-racial? It really hasn’t turned out that way. In the last 20 months, we’ve heard the Attorney General of the United States say we’re a “nation of cowards” about race. We’ve seen a movement of people...
July 29th, 2010 | Featured, Talk About Race, US, Visions 2042 | Read More

Racial aspects of economy are significant for White House to address

Racial aspects of economy are significant for White House to address
After an intense and shameful week of poorly dealing with ex-USDA worker Shirley Sherrod and issues of race, the country is left trying to make sense of where we are and why issues of race seem so hard and intractable.  There have been many editorials and stories – many of them very thoughtful. ...
July 28th, 2010 | Economics, Featured, Shirley Sherrod, US | Read More

Backslide in America’s “National conversation on race”

Backslide in America’s “National conversation on race”
Last week, the so-called national conversation on race was dominated by voices that would roll back the Civil Rights Movement.  First, there were loud calls for an end to the basic religious freedoms of Muslim Americans.  Then, a firestorm surrounded false charges of “reverse racism” involving Shirley...
July 27th, 2010 | Featured, Politics, Talk About Race, US | Read More

Shirley Sherrod for president

Shirley Sherrod for president
Exactly one year ago, I published a book entitled, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton.  My publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, has decided to re-print in paperback and they’d like me to change the title to “…from Kennedy to Obama” and add a chapter about the President. I’ve been blogging...
July 26th, 2010 | Featured, Shirley Sherrod, US, Women | Read More

USDA’s Shirley Sherrod, consumer rudeness, and the conundrum of blacks in power

USDA’s Shirley Sherrod, consumer rudeness, and the conundrum of blacks in power
By Dr. Ibram H. Rogers The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently forced its Georgia director of rural development, Shirley Sherrod to resign for her supposed racism. On Monday, a conservative blogger published a two-minute, 38-second video clip of a March 27 NAACP banquet. In the video, Sherrod apparently...
July 23rd, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Shirley Sherrod, US | Read More

Closing the educational gap

Closing the educational gap
Latino families have the highest workplace participation rates in the country. In most recent years, they have worked more hours per week than other Americans. Their median family income is higher than that of Black families, but only because they tend to have more adults working in each household. The...
July 8th, 2010 | Education, Featured, Immigration, Organizing Latino Immigrants for Social Justice, Politics, Racial Equity, Talk About Race, US | Read More
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