Author Archives: Zenitha Prince

The ethics trials for U.S. Reps. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., and Maxine Waters, D-Calif., have been set for after the elections on Nov. 15 and Nov. 29, respectively. The announcement, made late last week, prompted the ire of at least one Republican, who said it was motivated by politics. “This is obviously being pushed back to […]

Election Day victories for two Black Republicans raise a rare question in the House of Representatives in the 112th Congress: How will two African American members of the Grand Old Party interact with the Congressional Black Caucus? Fourteen Black Republicans ran for Congress in the Nov. 2 midterm elections but, after all the votes were […]

On Sept. 4, 1957, then-high school sophomore Jefferson Thomas walked a gauntlet of hate – a boiling-angry White mob spewing spit and jeers, taunts and threats of lynching and an impenetrable barricade of armed soldiers blocking his way into Little Rock, Ark.’s Central High School. Inside the school’s walls – breached with the help of […]

Black farmers were again denied a $1.25 billion settlement in a racial bias case against the federal government, when Senate Republicans on August 5 failed to support a unanimous consent on the measure. With Congress now in recess, those farmers have been put on hold again after waiting for more than a decade. “The Black […]

Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a measure that blocks the government from forcing people to buy health insurance and penalizing those who don’t. Proposition C, one of several challenges to the Obama administration’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, was supported by 71.1 percent of voters in the state’s Aug. 3 primary election. The […]

When will the checks arrive? That’s the question to which John Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, has been seeking an answer to for more than a decade. But with a Senate vote slated to take place this week, the Virginia-based farmer said he hopes the government will finally pay its debt. “This […]

WASHINGTON – President Obama defended his education initiative in a speech to the National Urban League conference July 29, days after the League and other civil rights groups sent him a 17-page letter criticizing the program, known as Race to the Top. “ fight for Race to the Top with everything I’ve got, including using […]

The trap – a grainy, 2½-minute clip – was rudimentary by today’s technology standards. It even bore a sign, “Trap Here↓” – posted as it was on the blog site of a man who has publicly declared his intent to destroy the institutional left. And yet, the Obama administration, blindly joined by the NAACP, fell […]