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*Politico is reporting that the House Ethics Committee has voted not charge Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters with any violations following a lengthy, contentious probe into whether she improperly aided a minority-owned bank in which her husband owned stock during the 2008 U.S. financial crisis. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The decision clears the way for [...]
*NBA legend-turned-business mogul, Earvin Magic Johnson, is gearing up for the next phase of his expansive business portfolio – running his own network. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Hall of Famer is preparing for the summer launch of Aspire, a 24-hour channel with a focus on what Johnson called positive, uplifting images of [...]
*Fox News commentator Eric Bolling insists he was kidding when saying Thursday that Rep. Maxine Waters should “step away from the crack pipe,” reports Politico.com. “What is going on in California? How’s this? Congresswoman, you saw what happened to Whitney Houston. Step away from the crack pipe, step away from the Xanax, step away from [...]
*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 [...]
*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 [...]
*Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters is back in the headlines after responding to GOP Rep. Allen West’s assessment that she and other black leaders are “overseers” on a “21st-century plantation.” Speaking on Fox News Wednesday night, West called himself a “modern-day Harriet Tubman” trying to lead black voters off the “plantation” — his description of the [...]
*Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California told a Detroit crowd this week that members of her Congressional Black Caucus are hesitant to criticize President Barack Obama because they feel they may lose support from the black community. “We do not put pressure on the president because y’all love the president,” Waters told the boisterous crowd. “You are [...]
*Embattled Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-New York, walked out of his House ethics subcommittee hearing this morning after complaining that he didn’t have enough time to hire a new legal team to respond to corruption allegations. [Watch 2nd clip below.] The subcommittee rejected Rangel’s request to delay the hearing until a new defense team is assembled, [...]
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