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...
Looks like we picked some good races to watch on election night as 3 of them still haven’t been decided. Check out my thoughts before election night by viewing 8 races that I’ll be watching on Tuesday. Here’s how the 8 that we followed turned out. Michele Bachmann (R) v....
The Obama campaign has quickly shifted into Obama administration mode. The first sign of this is the Change.gov website for the office of the President-Elect. The website asks visitors to “tell us your story and the issues that matter most to you” and “share with us your concerns and hopes.”...
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....
Check me out at the top of the hour on Thursday’s edition of News and Notes. I’ll be discussing President Elect Barack Obama’s historic victory and what it means for America moving forward. The show airs in Dallas at 9:00 PM on 90.1 KERA FM. Click here to listen...
My problems with posting You Tubes continue but please check this links for the joy and excitement from last nights celebration. THE MOMENT THE NEWS CAME DOWN FRED HAMMOND THIS IS THE DAY (RUDY V INTERVIEW) DR FREDERICK D HAYNES INTERVIEW
