Archive for the 'African-Americans' Category
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Now, who in the heck could have formed that impression?
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Debate No-Shows Worry GOP Leaders
Candidates Are Urged to Attend Forums Sponsored by Minorities
By Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 19, 2007; A01
Key Republican leaders are encouraging the party’s presidential candidates to rethink their decision to skip presidential debates focusing on issues important to minorities, […]
Posted in Republicans, John S. McCain III, African-Americans, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Voting, Fred Thompson |
Friday, September 14th, 2007
seems to have received more publicity, air searches and help from use of GoogleEarth after he went missing while scouting for locations.
The Black grandmother may have been buying gas
at a station south of Cleveland.
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Internet aiding hunt for US adventurer Steve Fossett
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Steve Fossett poses next to his aircraft after landing at the National […]
Posted in News Media, Wealth, African-Americans, Crime |
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
American gestapo
July 28, 2007 - 4:02am.
Abuse of power by National Park Service police
By DOUG THOMPSON
The last place you expect to run into a federal government goon squad is the Blue Ridge Parkway, the scenic highway that runs through Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee.
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For the last two years, the Park Service has brought in its “CIT” […]
Posted in Bill of Rights, administration, Neo-Romanovs, African-Americans, Police |
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Representative Cynthia McKinney’s run-in ignited a firestorm fed by the sulfur-breathing talking heads of cable news.
Could there be a difference between white and black anger?????
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Former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney Sues Newspaper for Libel
Published: July 30, 2007 11:10 AM ET
NEW YORK Former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney has filed a lawsuit against The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, claiming the […]
Posted in Society, Cong-HOUSE, African-Americans, Cynthia McKinney, Police |
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
PBS
7.27.07
Voter Caging
Was there a White House plot to illegally suppress votes in 2004?
Is there a similar plan for the upcoming elections?
This week NOW examines documents and evidence that points to a Republican Party plan designed to keep Democrats from voting, allegedly by targeting people based on their race and ethnicity with key battleground states like […]
Posted in Bill of Rights, Constitution, Ohio, Florida, 2004 Election, Rove, Gonzalez, African-Americans, Crime, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Harriet Miers, Department of Justice, Anthropology, Voting, Sara Taylor, NAACP |
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
The Long Run
In a Volatile City, a Stern Line on Race and Politics
By MICHAEL POWELL
Published: July 22, 2007
Those were grim days for race relations in New York City, the early 1990s. There were nearly 2,000 murders each year, blacks and whites died in high-profile racial killings, and a riot held a divided Brooklyn neighborhood in […]
Posted in New York, African-Americans, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Rudy Giuliani |
Friday, June 29th, 2007
By the times of touble at Little Rock’s Central High School,
he was nine-years of age.
Could it have been the future
Supreme Court Justice?
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New York Times
June 29, 2007
Editorial
Resegregation Now
The Supreme Court ruled 53 years ago in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated education is inherently unequal, and it ordered the nation’s schools to integrate. Yesterday, the […]
Posted in Supreme Court, African-Americans, Racial Matters, Arkansas, KANSAS |
Friday, June 15th, 2007
After watching some 1950’s documentary on the Holocaust, I said to my Dad that I could understand an individual like Hitler, but where did he find all his henchmen. My Father replied that those people are always out there. They simply wait for the right person to use their uniquely sociopathic skills.
It certainly works for […]
Posted in administration, Rove, African-Americans, Arkansas, Voting, Tim Griffin |
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
From Clinton, Hip-Hop Hypocrisy
By Colbert I. King
Saturday, April 21, 2007; A17
Put me in the camp of those who implore Sen. Hillary Clinton to give it back — “it” being the reported $800,000 that’s sitting in her presidential campaign coffers thanks to a fundraiser hosted in her honor March 31 in the Pinecrest, Fla., home of […]
Posted in Music, African-Americans, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Imus |
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Excerpted from BBC Interview…
‘House slaves’
Harry Belafonte at 80 still has a righteous, burning anger. After all, close friends of his have been killed for their beliefs. But has nothing changed, I asked him?
“A lot has changed. I can sit here in New York and talk with you, people of two different races, which when I […]
Posted in administration, Society, Condoleezza Rice, Politics, African-Americans, Harry Belafonte |
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Questions Over 2004 Minority Voter Suppression?
Tim Griffin — a “37-year-old protege” of Karl Rove and the former research director of the Republican National Committee — has become the poster boy for the Bush administration’s politicization of the office of U.S. attorney.
On Feb. 15, Griffin suddenly announced that he had “made the decision not to let […]
Posted in administration, Rove, 2000 Election, African-Americans |
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
“Sorry, Barak. Your family may have owned slaves. We’re gonna hafta run ya in.”
Sun exclusive
A new twist to an intriguing family history
Census records, genealogical research show forebears of Obama’s mother had slaves
By David Nitkin and Harry Merritt
Sun Reporters
Originally published March 2, 2007
WASHINGTON // Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s father was from […]
Posted in Society, African-Americans, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Barack Obama |
