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*Judge Greg Mathis will discuss the importance of youth mentorship at the Congressional Black Caucus’ Annual Legislative Conference Issues Forum on Youth Mentoring, to be held in Washington DC on Friday (Sept. 20). [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The former Detroit-area District Court Judge and star of the nationally-syndicated “Judge Mathis” will share his experience [...]
LOS ANGELES, CA – Following a meeting with black broadcasting and media professionals at Clear Channel’s KFI 640 radio station in Los Angeles, where talk-show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou returned to broadcasting after a controversial suspension for referring to the late singer Whitney Houston as a “crack ho,” more information is surfacing on the long [...]
*Seeking to overcome a rocky August recess, the country’s first black president and the Congressional Black Caucus have repaired relations recently as the administration has stepped up outreach to the group and the black community, reports Roll Call. From August to October, Members expressed frustration with the administration, and President Barack Obama, a former caucus [...]
*The Congressional Black Caucus is planning another road trip around the nation, but the goal this time will be to raise awareness about redistricting and new voter laws that could disenfranchise millions of Americans in 2012 and prevent them from casting ballots. The caucus’ jobs fair and town hall meetings made headlines this summer as [...]
*The sound bites and subsequent headlines that some media outlets posted from the President’s recent speech to the Congressional Black Caucus have set off a firestorm of Obama criticism; waging arrogance, insensitivity and a lack of action for the current plight of African Americans in this country and especially in light of the current economic crisis. [...]
*Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., a member of the Congressional Black Caucus who’s been critical this year of President Obama’s response to the high unemployment within the black community, said she found it “curious” that Mr. Obama this weekend told black leaders to “stop complaining.” “I don’t know who he was talking to because we’re certainly [...]
*In a fiery summons to an important voting bloc, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and “put on your marching shoes” to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity. And though he didn’t say it directly, for a second term, too. Obama’s speech to the annual awards dinner [...]
*After the August jobs report came and it showed the economy flatlining (at least for a month) on new jobs, President Obama jobs plan is coming right on time. Lazy @ss Congress is back at work, after a summer of political gamesmanship, and we will now see if all the “big talk” will turn to [...]
*U.S. Rep. Allen West of Florida says he may quit the Congressional Black Caucus for tolerating what he described as race-baiting attacks on the Tea Party, reports Politics365.com. West, in a letter to the chair of caucus, took strong issue with words by U.S. Rep. André Carson, who holds the position of caucus whip. “It [...]
*Rep. Maxine Waters and other black leaders pressed one of President Barack Obama’s top jobs advisers Monday to confirm the White House is focusing on creating jobs in struggling African-American communities — and to say the word “black,” reports Politico. Don Graves, the executive director of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, said at [...]
*Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, the new chairman of the CBC, told the group IMPACT to expect a bruising fight to secure the president a second term. “It’s realistic for our party to understand the enormous challenge we’re going to have, to get him back in the White House in 2012,” Cleaver (in photo) told the group, [...]
*Saturday night President Obama delivered a speech to Congressional Black Caucus members to help rally their constituents and remind them that more work must be done to move the country forward. Obama told the lawmakers that he needed their help to invigorate others to act. “I need everybody here to go back to your neighborhoods [...]
*The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) and the Congressional Black Caucus Spouses will recognize the contributions of author Alice Walker and filmmaker Robert Townsend during tonight’s 14th Annual Celebration of Leadership in the Fine Arts in Washington. The event, to be held from 8 to 10 p.m. at the National Museum of Women in the [...]
*When the Congressional Black Caucus wanted to pay off the mortgage on its foundation’s stately 1930s redbrick headquarters on Embassy Row, it turned to a familiar roster of friends: corporate backers like Wal-Mart, AT&T, General Motors, Coca-Cola and Altria, the nation’s largest tobacco company. Soon enough, in 2008, a jazz band was playing at what [...]
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