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*The president has been consistently criticized for one reason or another. In some instances, his service has been weighed against his blackness. He has had Tavis Smiley and Cornel West on his back since he took the seat in the Oval Office. ”You’re not doing enough for the black community.” Well, the president on one [...]
*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 [...]
*The demand for First Lady Michelle Obama has quadrupled since her amazing speech at the Democratic National Convention. Because her husband, President Barack Obama, is a little busy right now, a democratic source confirmed to The Root that she will step in to perform the keynote address at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Phoenix Awards [...]
Compton, CA. — Rep. Laura Richardson (D-California) kicked off her campaign for re-election on Saturday, September 8 in Carson, Calif. Currently representing the 37th Congressional District, the Congresswoman is now running in the newly created 44th district. A district that includes the cities of Carson, Compton, South Gate, Lynwood, and the communities of Watts, Wilmington, San [...]
*There may have been a headline-making hiccup over the placement of God in the Democratic Party platform, but the delegates were taken to church whether they wanted to or not at their convention Wednesday when Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, went off-script and whipped the crowd into a frenzy. [SUBSCRIBE [...]
*Rep. Donald Payne, the first African American elected to represent New Jersey in Congress, died today after a battle with colon cancer, The New Jersey Star-Ledger reports. He was 77. The 12-term member of the House had announced in February that he was undergoing treatment for colon cancer and would continue to represent his district. [...]
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 [...]
*After GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain responded to Morgan Freeman’s comments about the Tea Party, another black Tea Party affiliate took upon himself to take care of Samuel L. Jackson’s similar statements. Rep. Allen West, one of two Black Republicans in the House of Representatives, got on the actor about similar comments about the Tea [...]
*During an appearance on Fox News Tuesday night, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain predicted he would win a third of the black vote at a time when President Obama is struggling with his base. “The African-American vote, I am confident, based upon black people that run into, black people that used to call my radio [...]
*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 [...]
*(Via thegrio) — President Barack Obama’s jobs pitch is already playing well with blacks, who had grown plenty irked with him over what they perceived as his indifference to their needs. A day after Obama laid out before Congress his plan to kick-start job growth, many blacks hoped it would translate into reduced misery for [...]
*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 [...]
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