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*Najee Ali (above) of Project Islamic HOPE and a coalition of black leaders on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 will call on Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor to impose a fair sentence for Dr. Conrad Murray (below) and want to ensure that the defendant be treated equally by the justice system. “We don’t support any so [...]
*I really don’t care whether or not Marilyn Davenport resigns from the Orange County Central Committee for emailing a picture of President Barack Obama’s face on the body of a baby chimpanzee. I’m not a Republican, I’m not planning on joining the Republican Party anytime soon, and to be quite honest neither are the majority [...]
*On the eve of a crucial vote in Congress on health care legislation, thousands of African-Americans gathered in Chicago to urge President Barack Obama to pay more attention to blacks. The gathering and panel discussion was organized by television and radio host Tavis Smiley and will be televised on C-SPAN. Among those taking part were [...]
*President Barack Obama on Thursday faced pressure to help create jobs in African-American communities and deliver an immigration overhaul even as he tried to push healthcare reform across the finish line. Back-to-back White House meetings with representatives from the black and Hispanic communities were evidence of the long list of priorities that challenge Obama and [...]
*Influential black leaders in New York City said Thursday night that they believe Gov. David Paterson should stay in office amid allegations he and his staff interfered in a domestic violence case involving a top governor’s aide. Meeting in a Harlem soul food restaurant that is the center of power for black politics in New [...]
*As we reported earlier this week, Tavis Smiley is calling out “Black Leaders” who he says are giving President Obama a pass on the so-called “Black Agenda.” Needless to say, one of those “Black Leaders,” Al Sharpton, is not too thrilled and when Tavis called in to the Rev’s radio show, let’s just say, inspite [...]
*”Tavis said it right: if Black America’s recognized leaders are unwilling to push President Obama on these issues now, how can they expect to hold the moral authority to question any other president henceforth about issue directly pertaining to Black America? The answer would be that they couldn’t. Thus, we either need to change the [...]
*Some noted Black leaders recently have suggested publicly that President Obama does not need to focus on Black issues. In response to mounting evidence showing African Americans are disproportionately lagging behind on all economic indicators despite assertions of a so-called “post-racial” era, Tavis Smiley said Tuesday he will moderate a national conversation examining whether in [...]
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