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HU Professor Wayne Dawkins to speak on voting-rights activist Andrew Cooper
There’s an old saying that behind every great man, you’ll find a great woman. The reverse might be said in the case of Shirley Chisholm who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 12th District of New York (Brooklyn) for close...
Tags: Voting, Hampton University, Elections, U.S. House of Representatives
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Michelle Obama talks black obesity, breast-feeding and $31 million
Top of the TicketFull text as Democratic first lady says today's children, especially blacks, may be the first generation to live shorter lives than their parents.... -
Church hosts Tuesday debate over Fair Districts amendment
The Religion WorldThe Word of God Church will host a debate over Fair Districts Amendments 5 & 6, on Tuesday from 6 p.m.-8 p.m., at 1733 Mercy Dr., Orlando. State Sen. Gary Siplin will be arguing against the amendments, State Rep. Geraldine Thompson will a... -
Geraldine Ferraro and the 'dark backward and abysm' of political time
Opinion L.A.About Geraldine Ferraro, who died over the weekend. There had been a rather unpleasant patch there in early 2008 after Ferraro, a supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, told the Daily Breeze that "If Obama was a white man, he would...... -
Race is sensitive subtext in Obama's campaign
Tribune staff reportersThe expected launch of Barack Obama's presidential campaign is still days away, but his quest to become the nation's first black commander in chief already is forcing a delicate examination of how candidates talk about race. That conversation took an...Tags: Richard J. Daley, Philosophy, Carol Moseley Braun, Barack Obama, Christianity
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Iowa caucus-goers are also neighbors, friends
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFred Adams, a retired Drake University history professor, wandered across the street from his house for a neighborhood party the Sunday before Christmas -- 5-8 p.m., food and drinks -- where he spotted Tammy Gentry. "I saw my opportunity," Adams said...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Barack Obama, Elections, Illinois, University of Iowa
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Trinity United Church of Christ celebrates Obama win
Tribune reporterAt Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's South Side, where President-elect Barack Obama embraced Christianity, the pastor and congregation rejoiced Sunday and shouted, "Yes, we did!" Hundreds of worshipers packed into the sanctuary for a joyous...Tags: Trinity United Church of Christ, African Americans, Barack Obama, Elections, Social Sciences
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Obama, pro and con
A quantum leap in racial progress, but not the end By any measure, this is a monumental day in our nation's history. African Americans are rightly proud. The brutal facts of black existence -- slavery, segregation and the stunting of social and political...Tags: Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, Elections, Civil Rights, Jesse Jackson
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Palin: wrong woman, wrong message
Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to...Tags: Barack Obama, Justice System, Rush Limbaugh, Joe Biden, Iraq
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Is America ready for a real black president?
South Florida Sun-SentinelSOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL OP-ED ONLINE Is America Ready for a Real Black President? By Norm Vance Are you ready for a peanut butter and hamburger sandwich? Not sure? Yet someone in Bluffton, Indiana insists it was a favorite of her father and herself....Tags: Jackie Robinson, College Football, Ralph Nader, Barack Obama, Henry Wallace
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28 days in the integration nation
For the white male power structure that sabotaged the Susan B. Anthony dollar, kept Chief Jay Strongbow out of the highest echelons of professional wrestling and posited a "White Christmas" as the last word in holiday cheer, it must have seemed like a...Tags: City Capital Corporation, Barack Obama, Black History, Peter O'Toole, Louis Farrakhan
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Race, post race
More than half a century ago, Langston Hughes captured the debilitating divide in the destinies of white and black children in his poem "Children's Rhymes": "By what sends / the white kids / I ain't sent: / I know I can't / be PresidentBy what sends / the...Tags: NASCAR, Barack Obama, Racism, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr.
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