Black

Page: 1 2

Burris, Race, Religion, And The Senate

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mormon, Burris, Impeachment, Blaggy, Representative Rush, Lord Has Ordained, Obama, Reconstruction, Race, Republican, Blagojevich, Politics, Revels, Bobby Rush, Senate Seat, Wallace, Reed Smoot, Religious Bigotry, Rush, Racism, Qualifications, Black, Faubus, Mississippi, Plantation, Reid, Illinois, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Appointment, Smoot, Garrett Davis, Roland Burris, Kentucky, Democrat, Appointee, Senate Appointment, Barack Obama, Yellow Dog, The Lord, Racial Politics, Hiram Revels, Religion, Chris Weigant, African American, Appointer, Harry Reid, Plantation Politics, Utah, Obama Senate Seat, Senate, Bull Connor, Politics News

"I am now the junior senator from the state of Illinois. . . . Friends, we're going to have to have some powerful prayer. . . . They can't deny what t...

Read Post

Ken Blackwell, If Barack Obama is a Magic Negro, Then What Type of Negro Do They Think You Are?

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics

As an African American Republican, one of the irritations I have is with other Black Republicans who are apologists for racist actions and statements made by white Republican leaders.

Read Post

Guest Column: Why Obama's Election Should Be Considered Historic

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Chicago, Obama, Racial, CotyJarret, Race, LewDan, Barack Obama, President, Election, Personal History, Politics, History, Eisenstein, Historic First, Racial Legacy, Chris Weigant, African American, Racism, Black, Llewellyn Daniel, Historic, Politics News

For only the third time in this column's two-and-a-half year history (see note below), I am turning over my soapbox to a guest columnist. As with bot...

Read Post

Lindsay Lohan Calls Obama "Colored" (Video)

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.11.2008 | Style

Read More: Access Hollywood, Black, Lindsay Lohan, Race, Colored, African American, Barack Obama, Celebrities Talk Politics, Style News

Even if it were a generational issue, Lindsay is definitely not in the same demographic as my grandmother. Though they do share a strange penchant for leggings and muumuus.

Read Post

Barack and the Prize

Doon Baqi | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Election 2008 Coverage, Slavery, Racism, Roland Martin, Black, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Tom Cruise, Politics News

Let's make this an American celebration, and not a black or white one. Let us remember that the other half of "united we stand" is "divided we fall."

Read Post

A New Faith Coalition

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Evangelical, Progressive, Abortion Reduction, Culture War, Gay Marriage, 2008 Election, Religious Right, Evangelicals, Black, Evangelical, White Evangelicals, Pro-Life, Barack Obama, Consistent Ethic of Life, President Obama, Obama Election Day, HuffPost Election Analysis, Election Day, Sarah Palin, HuffPost Election Reaction, Obama Presidency, Obama President, Election Analysis, John McCain, Obama Wins, Election Day 2008, Election Results, Joe Biden, Election, Religion, Presidential Results, Election Reaction, Presidential Election, Politics News

Further polling results will help to answer the critical question of why religious voters cast their ballots the way they did. But three factors are likely key to understanding the religious shift.

Read Post

Be Not Afraid

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Fear, Politics, Campaign, 2008 Election, Black, Election, America, Barack Obama, Conservative, Hope, Vote, Liberal, Liberals, Change, Religious Right, Conservatives, Politics News

Some of the worst fear-mongering has sadly come from leaders of the Religious Right who are worried about losing their control over the votes of the evangelical and Catholic communities.

Read Post

Political Tourists and Out-of-State Obama Activists in Indiana

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Indiana Early Voting, Indiana Ohio, Obama Volunteers, Indiana Ground Report, Midwest Obama, Indiana Obama, Swing State Midwest, Indiana, Door to Door, Two Party, Chicago, White, Mccain, Obama, Kirstin Sears, Schrimpff's, One Party, Winnie Godfrey, Senator, 2008, Latino, Get Out the Vote, Ohio, Black, Universal Health Care, Gotv, Wardell Goodman, Illinois, Mikhail Heaven. Kenneth Paton, Canvass, HR 676, Texas, Mito Kakijama, Biden, Election, New York, Japan, Spring Street, Mccain-Palin, U.S. Political Tourists, David Waters, Independents, Undecideds, Louisville, Early Voting, Will Wooten, Paula Neff, Galveston, Jill Herren, Brent, Jeffersonville, Jamaica, Home News

Red and blue state Obama supporters are putting their weight on the see-saw state of Indiana, crossing state lines to help. Political tourists from ot...

Read Post

OTB Writers Respond to Anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab Slurs

Off The Bus | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home

From smear email campaigns and hectoring rally audiences to hateful YouTubes and candidate equivocations, slurs against Muslims and Arabs have become ...

Read Post

Race and the Race

Justin Frank | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Race, Palin, Obama, Mccain, Election, Black, Barack Obama, Biden, African-American, Debate, Politics News

I think voters also have inner fears that they might not even recognize until they find themselves inside the polling booth.

Read Post

Barack Obama is the President -- Why are Black People Still So Mad?

Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1984, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Police, Political Drama, Satire, Violence, Police Brutality, Obama, Black, Justice, San Francisco, African Americans, Civil Rights, Election, Cops, Politics News

A calm day. A sunny, day, for San Francisco - which means really foggy with what will ultimately be an unfulfilled promise of sun later. A nice day, w...

Read Post

Jamie-Lynn Sigler Predicts A Lot Of Purple For Fall

AP | ERIN CARLSON | Posted 09.05.2008 | Style

Read More: Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Fashion, Fashion Week, Fashion Week 2008, New York Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week 2008, Black, Trends, Fashion Trends, Bcbg, Max Azria, Purple, Style News

NEW YORK — Many stylish women worship the color black, but not Jamie-Lynn Sigler. The 27-year-old actress, also known as Meadow from "The Sopra...

Read Whole Story

Vote for Obama Because He's Black

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics

Here's the thing - people are going to vote against Obama because he's black. This is the country we live in. And I know, he's only half black, yadda...

Read Post

Inside Hollywood Jokes Kill Tropic Thunder

Sergio Mims | Posted 08.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Tropic Thunder Comedy, Black, Entertainment, Movies, Blackface, Tropic Thunder, Tropic Thunder Review, Tom Cruise, Entertainment News

Hollywood is a place so insular and self-centered that it's convinced that everyone else on the planet is as enraptured as they are about themselves and the going-ons behind the scenes.

Read Post

Standing Up To Low Down Local Anti-Obama Racism

Zachary Pickens | Posted 07.29.2008 | Home

Read More: Affirmative Action, Apollo Braun, Obama Is My Slave, Racism, White, Black, Campaign, Doron Braunshtein, Barack Obama, Home News

I went to the shop with the offending t-shirts and asked the designer: "Is there is no responsibility attached to the free speech?" I said I thought his shirt was disgusting and that he should be ashamed of himself.

Read Post

Sixty Years After Desegregation, Ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1948, Dewey Defeats Truman, Executive Order 9981, Homosexual, Civil Rights, Sexual Orientation, Harry Truman, Racial, Campaign, Race, 1948 Election, 9981, Dadt, Military, 2008, 2008 Campaign, Integration, Black, Democratic Convention, Dixiecrat, 2008 Elections, Gay, 08, 2008 Election, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Army, 08 Campaign, Morale, African American, Segregation, Don't Ask Don't Tell, 2008 Presidential Race, Desegregation, Elaine Donnelly, Politics News

Being gay should be no more of a barrier to serving the United States military than being black now is. My guess is that sixty years from now, people will wonder what took us so long.

Read Post

Blinkered By Blackness

Andrea King Collier | Posted 07.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Senator McCain, Unity Convention Mccain, Mccain, Obama Black, Obama Muslim, Obama, Black, Obama Christian, McCain Obama, Asian and Native American Journalists Convention, Unity Convention Chicago, Barack Obama, Senator Obama, Obama Unity Convention, Obama Race, Hispanic, Home News

In fact, the question of race has cheated us out of learning more about Obama, about what he would do if he actually became president. We know he's black. Now we need to know more.

Read Post

Don Imus Remix

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Don Imus What Color Is He, Black, Adam Pacman Jones, Race, African American, Media News

Read Post

Oh I Get It, The Left Just Doesn't Want to Win This Year

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Islam, John McCain, Pragmatism, Ralph Nader Presidential Candidacy, Nancy Pelosi, Don Imus, White, Fisa, Harry Reid, Obama, Black, Muslim, Politics News

Obama's a pragmatist, not a messiah. He has to win in order to make the changes I want. What merit is there in attacking him for his stance on FISA, now?

Read Post

Barack Obama: "Black" Or "Biracial"?

BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 06.16.2008 | Home

Read More: America, African, Political Language, White, Media Coverage, Obama, Media, Campaign, Race, African American, Culture, Politics, Barack, United States, Black, Biracial, Society, American, News, Home News

There is discussion now taking place between mostly white editors and producers in newsrooms on how to identify Senator Barack Obama now that he is the Democratic nominee.

Read Post

What A Long, Strange Primary Trip It's Been

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Caucus, Puerto Rico, Democratic, Primary Schedule, Campaign, Delegate, South Dakota, Comeback Kid, African-American, Picks, Pledged Delegates, Primaries, Montana, Mike Huckabee, 2008, Pick, Superdelegates, John Edwards, Super Tuesday, 2008 Campaign, Black, Delegates, John McCain, Primary, Mitt Romney, Democrat, 2008 Elections, 08, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Contest, 08 Campaign, Vote, 2008 Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

Rather than a Vince Lombardi halftime pep talk about giving 110% in the second half, I'd like to review where we've been so far. This will be my final "picks" article for 2008.

Read Post

Why Do We Stick With Her?

Hilary Rosen | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Delegates, Women, Clinton, Clinton Campaign, African Americans, Obama, Black, Huffington Post, Race, Gender, Women Voters, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Politics News

The personal answer for me is that I am loyal. But I want to focus on trying to translate for my friends, just what it is about this campaign that keeps the enthusiasm of her supporters.

Read Post

Who's that Boxer in the Picture? (Hillary Clinton Rents a Negro*)

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Boxer, Clinton, Primary, Rent, Damali Ayo, West Virginia, Fighter, White, Black, Negro, Pennsylvania, Race, Politics News

You might assume that the people standing behind the mic at a primary victory speech are local supporters. So who's the black man with the boxing gloves at two of Clinton's victory speeches?

Read Post

August 28th -- A Good Date For Historic Speeches

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Speech, Civil Rights, 8/28, Free at Last, Keynote Nomination, Campaign, Speeches, King, Lincoln Memorial, Democratic Convention, History, Four Score and Seven Years Ago, 2008, August 28, Abraham Lincoln, Jr., 2008 Campaign, Black, Two Score and Five, Historic, Gettysburg Address, Democratic Nominee, Lincoln, August 28th, Mlk, 2008 Elections, 08, Acceptance Speech, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Election, 08 Election, Acceptance, Four Score, Elections, 2008 Convention, 08 Campaign, Martin Luther King, African American, Score, Convention, 2008 Presidential Race, I Have a Dream, Hillary Clinton, Nominee, 2008 Democratic Convention, Keynote Address, Gettysburg, Brian Laws, Politics News

August 28th will be the final day of the Democratic National Convention. Unless Hillary Clinton soon acquires the ability to perform miracles, the nominee giving the acceptance speech is going to be Barack Obama.

Read Post

The O'Hillary Interview

Julia Gorin | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hiv, Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Black, Aids, Bill O'Reilly, Interview, Wright, Fnc, Politics News

Asked by Bill O'Reilly's last week how she feels when she hears people like Rev. Wright say the ugly things he does about America and seeing people st...

Read Post

Page: 1 2