By Julianne Malveaux – The first Friday of every month is the time when we learn what is happening with the prior month’s employment. Many are excited that in a two month period the unemployment rate dropped from 9.8 percent in November to 9.0 percent in January. Good news? Not really. Only 36,000 new jobs […]
Mayor Bing Shoots a 3 Pointer – To Be Equal
By Marc H. Morial – “I learned long ago to let my game do the talking and focus on the bottom line, not the headlines. That’s why tonight I believe we must come together with one voice and one vision to make Detroit a city that works.” Detroit Mayor Dave Bing A few years ago, […]
Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris Combines Toughness, Smarts
By Denise Stewart BlackAmericaWeb.com – Democrat Kamala Harris etched out a paper-thin victory in California’s general election in November, upsetting Republican Steve Cooley in the attorney general’s race and becoming the first woman of color to hold statewide office in her home state. The tough road to the Attorney General’s Office was not the first […]
Obama’s Economic Philosophy by Michael Likosky
In his commentary about President Obama’s State of the Union Address last night, Michael Likosky, does an excellent job of breaking down the US economy pre-Obama and now. American’s need to recognize that the economic crisis did not start with President Obama or with the mortgage meltdown. It didn’t start with President Bush either. I […]
Mother Jailed for Enrolling Her Children in Good Schools
This is absolutely ridiculous. It’s getting harder these days to avoid getting caught up in the criminal justice system. I hope people get how extreme the US has gotten with locking non-violent offenders. Heck, How can putting your children in a better school be criminal? President Obama just spoke about the need for parents to […]
President Obama Gives Moving Speech Memorializing Victims of Arizona Shooting (video)
Bill Daley and Gene Sperling Have Done it Before – To Be Equal #2
By Marc H. Morial – It is now apparent that President Obama was doing a lot more than eating shaved ice and playing golf during his Hawaiian holiday vacation. Almost immediately upon his return to the White House last week, the President announced the appointments of William M. Daley as Chief of Staff and Gene […]
Ruling on Obamacare is “very defective” and “will be overturned”
As you have already heard, a federal judge in Virginia today pronounced the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, delivering the hardest legal blow yet to Obama’s signature domestic achievement and handing Obamacare foes some new material for their ongoing anti-Obamacare dance around the campfire. But on a conference call with reporters just now, a legal expert […]
Federal Judge Rules Health Care Reform Provision Unconstitutional
By Larry O’Dell – Richmond, Va. — A federal judge declared the Obama administration’s health care law unconstitutional Monday, siding with Virginia’s attorney general in a dispute that both sides agree will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson is the first federal judge to strike down the […]