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How the GOP can win back blacks
Republicans and the black vote. The thought sends Democrats into hysterical laughter. And Republicans? We’d rather change the subject. But Republicans should stop being afraid and start making the case...
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Supreme Court narrowly approves Voting Rights Act exemption for TX district
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled narrowly in a challenge to the landmark Voting Rights Act, exempting a small Texas governing authority from a key provision of the civil rights law. The...
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theGrio Reflects: The 14th Amendment is adopted
On the 141st anniversary of the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, theGrio reflects with iCue on the revolutionary bill giving blacks full citizenship and the right to vote. After the Civil War, many...
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Young black voters came out for Obama, but may not return
During last year’s presidential campaign, the second-most talked about aspect of Barack Obama’s historic candidacy was the fervor with which he was widely embraced among young people. His popularity...
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Once shunned, Senator Burris is now key player in health care debate
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic Senator, shunned by some members of his own party who were reluctant to even seat him, may now be a key player in the health care debate. For months, Democrats avoided...
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Obama and Dems weak-kneed on health care
After passing their cloture motion to end debate on the health care bill at one am on Monday morning, Senate Democrats are now set to take a final vote at 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve for final passage....
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Katrina wrecks black political base, leaders say
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ black political base is one more victim of Hurricane Katrina. The storm decimated once-thriving black, middle-class neighborhoods, undercutting efforts by black...
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African-Americans question Obama's approach to race
From The New York Times: WASHINGTON — There was no big speech or fancy ceremony when President Obama observed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday last month. Instead, for his first King...
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Why African-Americans have given President Obama a pass
The undeniable fact is that President Obama has gotten a racial pass from blacks. This tormenting fact ignited brief finger pointing between the Reverend Al Sharpton and talk show host Tavis Smiley....
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Rev. Frederick D. Reese remembers 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma (VIDEO)
Selma, Alabama — For Reverend Frederick D. Reese, obtaining the right to vote for African-Americans meant freedom. So he marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL in 1965, along with...
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New poll finds blacks motivated to vote in November
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats facing strong headwinds this election season have at least one reason for optimism. A poll found that the party’s large African-American voting bloc is eager to stay...
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House Dems defend 'deem and pass' health care plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats defended plans to push massive health care legislation through the House without a direct vote and Republicans assailed the strategy Tuesday, as both parties fenced...
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Could 2010 be the year of the black Republican?
It is a truism that the relationship between African-Americans and the modern-day Republican Party has been marked by hostility and contentiousness. This reality is often difficult to reconcile with...
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Conservatives use abortion issue to court African-Americans
Recognizing the importance of the African-American vote in recent presidential and congressional elections, conservatives have reverted to an old tactic in an attempt to court our support. It goes like...
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What we can learn from ACORN's fall
The Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) was an organization that was meant to die. The eulogy could have been written back in 1970, the year the group was founded. By choosing to...
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Meek floods Florida Senate race with signatures
With an attention-grabbing finish to his remarkable year-long petition campaign to join the ballot for Florida’s vacant Senate seat, Rep. Kendrick Meek submitted over 145,000 signatures of support...
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In US Senate race, Florida’s ‘first black governor’ faces history
Gov. Charlie Crist met Wednesday with the legislative black caucus, and the Republican governor got a hero’s welcome from the all-Democratic group, most of whose members endorsed his opponent, Jim...
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Black voters may sway 20 House races in Nov. vote
BOWIE, Md. (AP) — On the corner of Collington Road and Route 301, a bright blue poster screams the Democratic Party’s wishful thinking at passing cars: “We’ve got your back President Obama.” The...
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For some immigrants, voting is a criminal act
From The New York Times The way Joseph E. Joseph tells it, he was just doing his civic duty. On his way home from work one evening in 1992, he came across a group of volunteers in Brooklyn registering...
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GOP strategy: Suppress minorities, win white vote?
It seems like whoever is writing the headlines, and writing the leads is just missing the point. A headline in politico today, read “Obama’s white working class problem,” in The New York Times the...
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