Category: National News

President Barack Obama is on the hot seat. He’s finding out that he has to be “executive-in-chief” and “negotiator-in-chief.” With that responsibility, he’s also discovered that he is now a target. He is taking shots from the liberals and conservatives, who do not like what they’re hearing. But the bigger concern here is whether the […]

The Black vote, which helped usher in President Barack Obama into the Oval Office in 2008, is under attack. On July 27, a group of experts, civic participation leaders and think tank observers told a packed room at the NAACP Annual Convention in Los Angeles that serious efforts are underway to offset the Black vote […]

When the 2011 conference of the National Association of Black Journalists concludes on Aug. 7, it will do so with a newly-elected president at the organization’s helm. But questions may remain about the influence of the New York Times on the election’s outcome, given the media heavyweight’s unprecedented endorsement of a presidential contender. Every two […]

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is used to scrutiny. Throughout its 102-year history, the NAACP has faced a firestorm of criticism. Usually, the critique has come from Whites who have felt threatened by the organization’s willingness to combat societal and structural racism. Times have changed. On the third day of […]

Facing a debt crisis in which the nation risks defaulting on its debt obligations – destroying its AAA credit rating, and increasing the federal government’s borrowing costs – President Obama is squared off in a virtual game of “chicken” against Republicans led by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio. And, for now, it appears that […]

“The National Bar Association was founded in 1925,” said J. Robert Carr, the organization’s executive director, “at a time when the dominant national bar, the American Bar Association, did not admit African Americans.” That year, on Aug. 1, in Des Moines, Iowa, 12 Black lawyers, “with a mutual interest in and dedication to justice and […]

NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous evoked biblical characters and said faith is what the nation’s oldest civil rights organization has to have in order to follow through on the mission it started 102 years ago. Jealous, speaking July 25 during the NAACP’s national convention at the Los Convention Center in Los Angeles, received a rousing […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday night criticized a newly minted Republican plan to avert an unprecedented government default and said congressional leaders must produce a compromise that can reach his desk before the Aug. 2 deadline. “The American people may have voted for divided government, but they didn’t vote for a dysfunctional […]

Recent Department of Labor (DOL) statistics show that Blacks are still the group hardest hit by the economic recession—showing a 16.2 percent unemployment rate in June. According to Politic365.com, it is unclear how Blacks will vote in 2012 and if Black joblessness will affect President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. Out of 14.1 million unemployed people, […]

Despite a discrimination settlement and congressional and presidential approval for payment to cover past injustice, Black farmers in the United States are still struggling to get money and respect from government officials. The latest attack is coming from Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and her tea party cohorts who last week blasted the […]

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) July 21 has recently asserted his refusal to apologize for an invective-laced email to a Democratic colleague in Florida’s House delegation triggered by criticism of West’s viewpoint supporting proposed Medicare cuts at a recent debate on the House floor. Such refusal is in spite of a report that suggests that he […]

An iconic figure in African American civil rights history recently met with President Obama in the White House. Ruby Bridges was honored by the president on July 15 and presented the new placement of a landmark portrait depicting her story. Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With” is now being featured near the Oval […]