(Washington Post) — Political surveys of Americans from the 1970s to the 2000s find that blacks are less strongly liberal than they used to be. Fewer blacks today favor increasing government spending on welfare assistance programs. A national survey of African Americans conducted in 1996 found that about 60 percent of blacks favored welfare reform, […]
(TheLoop21) — Though the politics of this year were fairly predictable (the party of the incumbent president loses Congressional seats? Shocking!), the political personalities of this year were anything but. From an admitted madam running for governor, to a wrestling mogul trying to bodyslam her way into the U.S. Senate, 2010 may just go down […]
You wouldn't know that many of the Wikileaks cables delve deeply into issues which impact the continent of Africa and other brown and black countries.
(NPR) — In politics, the firing of Shirley Sherrod, the rise of the Tea Party and a wave of Black Republicans took center stage. Outside the beltway, many African Americans questioned the term “post-racial.” Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor for The Atlantic, talks about what changed for black people in 2010. Read More…
(Politics365) — A new compensation study released by the U.S. House of Representatives Chief Administrative Officer shows a distressing, but expected picture of failing minority recruitment on Capitol Hill – much lower than the previous year. In its annual 2010 House Compensation Study, the Chief Administrative Officer of the House reports that minority recruitment on […]
There are a lot of controversial moments, works, and speeches in African-American history; not just significant and progressive works but controversial ones that introduced a radical idea to the African-American framework, incited action and/or changed the way some interpreted the plight of Blacks in the diaspora. This list does not include the “I Have A […]
The original Black Panther Party operated within the context of neo-Marxist principles to “protect” African-American neighborhoods from rampant racist practices. The new is more similar to the Nation of Islam.
Progress hasn't clearly been made.
Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter and Adrian Fenty have been accused of not being black enough. Are they taking the black vote for granted or just embracing a universal approach?
(The Root) — Mayor Adrian Fenty’s loss in Washington, D.C., last week was a crying shame. Black wiser heads muse about how the system prevents black people from voting “their interests” — Harvard Law’s Lani Guinier comes to mind — and yet black D.C. residents kicked out a mayor who, along with schools chief Michelle Rhee, […]
During the civil rights movement, not snitching was part of an overall strategy, but the aversion to snitching later became an element of the African-American collective code of conduct.