May 19, 2013

EUR Analysis: The Demise of Black Leadership in Chicago

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*By winning Tuesday’s race for mayor in Chicago, President Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel delivered a major blow to the prestige of Black political leadership in the Windy City. Emanuel captured 55 percent of the vote trouncing the candidate of the Black political establishment former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun who managed to [...]




Braun Apologizes for Calling Mayoral Rival a Crack Head

Chicago mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun speaks during a debate at WGN-TV January 27, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.

*Chicago News Cooperative is reporting that Carol Moseley Braun apologized Tuesday for accusing rival mayoral candidate Patricia Van Pelt-Watkins of being “strung out on crack.” “Patricia Watkins said she does not expect an apology from me. She is wrong,” Braun said, reading from a statement in a news conference at a West Side church. Flanked [...]




Chicago Mayoral Update (Video): Moseley Braun Calls Rival a Crack Head!

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*Politics are simply off the chain these days. Chicago mayoral candidate and former US Senator Carol Moseley Braun called her opponent, Patricia Van-Pelt Watkins a crack head (!) at a private forum held at a church. Actually she called her a crack addict and yes we said it went down at a church. That church, [...]