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Voters Face A Taxing Problem

By Raynard Jackson – With a lame duck session of Congress convening next week, everyone is talking about whether the Bush tax cuts should be extended or allowed to expire at the end of this year. Republicans argue that if the cuts are allowed to expire, that amounts to a tax increase.& ontinue the cuts […]

Obama and Mayweather

By Lucius Gantt – Our beloved President Barack Obama is a champion that is like another champion. Both Obama and boxer Floyd Mayweather appear as if they are scared to fight! Mayweather has refused to fight Manny Pacquiao and the President seems unwilling to battle with Congressional Republicans. Lord, I hope Obama didn’t blow his […]

How Many in Black America really are Unemployed?

By Charles “Chaz” Hobbs – While reminiscing about my undergraduate era as an Economics major (We all try to remember, back in the day!), I happened to be perusing the U.S. Department of Labor’s – Bureau of Labor Statistics – Monthly Employment Report in regards to the “Unemployment Rate”. As I conjured up those fond […]

Vandarray Gets Crunk For Christ

Releases Gospel CD & Launches Gulf Coast Tour Atlanta, GA – Just returning from a stellar performance for Bobby Jones Gospel, JacksO Records (www.jacksorecords.com) recording artist, Vandarray (Vandarray Jackson-Derico), put on an electrifying mini-concert for enthusiastic friends, fans, and entertainment executives gathered at the Hilton Hotel in Atlanta to celebrate the release of her much […]

Spelman Students Win AT&T Mobile Challenge with ‘HBCU Buddy’ Mobile Application

AT&T* is pleased to announce that Jonecia Keels and Jazmine Miller of Spelman College, a historically black liberal arts college for women, have won the 2010 AT&T Big Mobile on Campus Challenge(SM) with their next generation e-learning mobile application, HBCU Buddy. HBCU Buddy is a mobile application created to educate and inform users, including both […]

Don’t Believe the Hype! Black Folks Voted on November 2, 2010

By Melanie L. Campbell – I would like to take this opportunity to thank all voters for taking the time to exercise their right to vote in the November 2nd mid-term Election. On Election Day, the NCBCP managed the Black Women’s Roundtable Power the Sister Vote National Command Center, in partnership with the A. Philip […]

The Republican’s Historic Night

Raynard Jackson – With all the pundits giving their views on Tuesday night’s election results, I found very little insightful analysis of what really happened. So, if you want the traditional election analysis, then go on the internet and read all the conventional analysis. I want to deal with the election results from a different […]

A Demographic of Black Vote is Non-Existent

By Chaz Hobbs – As a Black Man I have always been highly reticent about the, “First Tuesday, after the First Monday in November.” This is the ever present day that we are, quote on quote, “Supposed to exercise one of our Constitutional rights.” Sadly, this day bears no semblance to any of us being […]

The Democratic Disaster

By Lucius Gantt – Let us pray for The Democratic Party. They got the hell beat out of them in the 2010 elections! But it didn’t have to be that way. Democratic leaders were told time and time again how they could win races in 2010 but they ignored all of the advice but the […]