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...
DALLAS – Historically underutilized businesses – those owned by women and minorities – will have the opportunity to register with the State of Texas at a free HUB vendor procurement seminar and expo at the University of North Texas Dallas Campus from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Nov. 14. The...
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....
For a decade beginning in 1992, the Bishop Five Plus One’s yearly revival drew spirited choirs and what radio host Willis Johnson called “soul-saving” sermons to Dallas. The idea was to bring together six excellent ministers, five of whom graduated from historically black Bishop College, for a spiritual fundraiser. The...
