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Posted by Michael | Mar 30, 2012 | African Americans, Media, RAce Relations |
I highly recommend this short essay, “Trayvon Martin, White America and the Return of Dred Scott,” written by Tim Wise places the recent killing of Trayvon Martin in an historical perspective. “The active and putrescent...
Read MorePosted by Michael | Mar 30, 2012 | African Americans, Elections, Politics |
In this morning’s Daily News, columnist Juan Gonzalez offers his threat assessment of the potential Rangel-Espaillat election tangle. State Sen. Adriano Espaillat will announce next week that he is challenging U.S. Rep....
Read MorePosted by Michael | Mar 29, 2012 | African Americans, Crime, Media, Politics |
POLITICO Arena: Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) plans to send House Speaker John Boehner a letter requesting that the House chamber’s dress code be more strictly enforced after Rep. Bobby Rush...
Read MorePosted by Michael | Mar 29, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Haile Rivera, a Dominican residing in the West Bronx best known for winning dinner with then presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama in 2008 has written to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver urging him to appoint another Latino as...
Read MorePosted by Michael | Mar 28, 2012 | African Americans, Elections |
Joyce Johnson issued the following statement today: “I’m running for Congress again in 2012 because I continue to believe what I did then: that a brighter future is possible for all of us when we work together and have strong,...
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