When people ask me if I’m going to the Obama Inauguration, I usually tell that the next time I go to D.C. will most likely be for the dedication of the Martin Luther King Memorial. As a member of Alpha Phi Alpha this is a project that is near...
The Black Blogosphere has taken issue with Tavis Smiley’s State of the Black Union 2009 symposium blog contest. The issue was brought to our attention by (who else) our fellow Texan Gina McCauley at What About Our Daughters. In her original post titled Black Bloggers Second Class Citizens Gina is...
Last week the Dallas Morning News printed the story of the fatal shooting of a Dallas woman on her way to work. Wyshina Harris was gunned down in her car while driving through South Dallas. You can read the DMN report of the incident here. Crime Stoppers is offering a...
Eric Holder, former deputy Attorney General in the Clinton Administration, is considered a top candidate to become America’s first African-American Attorney General. According to numberous reports, members of President Barack-Obama’s transition team have spoken with Senate Republicans about their feelings on the matter. Holder, along with Caroline Kennedy, were part...
This is Part 3 in a week long series titled African-Americans in the Obama Administration: A Look Ahead. Today’s post focuses on Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree. In its November Issue, the American Bar Association Journal listed Charles Ogletree as a potential Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division...
This is Part 2 in a week long series titled African-Americans in the Obama Administration: A Look Ahead. Today’s post focuses on Chicago business executive John Rogers. In 2000, a broke Barack Obama ran for Congress against former Black Panther Bobby Rush and lost. He was now even broker....
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] I hope everyone will take a moment to listen to an interview that I did on KLIF 570 with Jeff Bolton on the morning after the election. I got a number of text messages from friends and family who say they enjoyed the...
This is Part 1 in a week long series titled African-Americans in the Obama Administration: A Look Ahead. Today’s post focuses on Chicago political heavyweight and business executive Valerie Jarrett. Last spring, Newsweek gave us the first look at the relationship between Valerie Jarrett and the Obama family. In 1991,...
“Did you notice how few black folks there were?” That’s what I asked my wife when she, my son and I visited the Barack Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago last summer. It was obvious from the moment we stepped off the elevator, even though the young brother who gave us...
One person I’ve been following throughout the election is Susan Rice. I caught up with her briefly at the DNC Convention in the bowels of the Pepsi Center but she didn’t have a whole lot to say. Rice was one of Obama’s Senior Foreign Policy advisers during the presidential campaign....
