President Obama delivered a State of the Union address that will surely resonate in my mind; and hopefully others for a very long time. It was a speech of vision, providing a reason for hope, and it was also an issuance of a call to action. That’s about all a President can do; on top [...]
Washington, DC – Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable Public Policy Network issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address: “Last night President Obama eloquently delivered a State of the Union Address that provided [...]
Washington, DC – President Obama’s vision for “An American Built To Last,” as described in tonight’s State of the Union address, stands firmly upon National Urban League policy proposals for job growth, education and economic empowerment, Marc H. Morial, National Urban League President and CEO, said tonight. The President’s focus on the importance of job [...]
Sacramento, CA – It was in the iconic 1967 song “Cold Sweat” that the late great James Brown notably called out, “Give the drummer some! Give the drummer some!” acknowledging the drumbeat, steadily in the background, as an instrumental force centering our musical universe. Well James Brown would be proud as veteran video producer/director Gerald [...]
(To Be Equal #3) – Last week, I attended the New York premiere of a new George Lucas film about the heroic exploits of the all-black fighter pilot squadron that helped America defeat the Nazi’s in World War II. I am not in the business of promoting new movies. But, there are several reasons that [...]
(by Trymaine Lee, BlackVoices/Huffington Post) – The Obama campaign has hired a longtime NAACP operative to head its African American voter outreach going into the 2012 presidential election. Stefanie Brown, the national field director for the NAACP, will join team Obama’s Operation Vote in February. The program is geared toward outreach to key Democratic constituency [...]
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The unemployment rate is falling for the third month in a row, and in December about 200,000 private sector jobs were created. The monthly unemployment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that unemployment has declined by six tenths of a percentage point since August. Already, some economists are saying we can expect another [...]
On the eve of its GOP primary, South Carolina’s deep racial divide has been brought into focus by Republican rhetoric that many feel is intent on dividing the poor by race… For others it is the hostile treatment of Barack Obama by the Republican party in Congress, which some critics see as beyond the usual [...]
The barbeque smoke permeated the Black community air on Martin Luther King’s birth date in 2012. Some people golfed, some were boating and many people participated in symbolic marches where they locked arms on one side with closet Klansmen and on the other side with neo-Nazis and walked a couple of blocks singing “We Shall [...]
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