Today I submitted the necessary petition signatures to qualify for the ballot for U.S. Congress in Michigan's new 13th Congressional District. I am th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 04.05.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Congressional Black Caucus unveiled a resolution on Wednesday that honors the life of Trayvon Martin and calls for the repeal of "St...
Jarid Manos | Posted 04.30.2012
Why are we allowing the stereotype to persist that people of color don't care about the "environment?" Studies have long shown strong black support not only for pollution prevention but nature protection and global ecological issues.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 02.16.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Congressional Black Caucus will honor Whitney Houston with a resolution that will be sent to Houston's family in time for the late s...
Michael Shank | Posted 01.16.2012
The fact that companies are paying no taxes when America's working families are still struggling to winter what Fed Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke continues to recognize as a failed or failing recovery is a prime example of what is exacerbating income inequality in America.
louisianaweekly.com | Posted 01.10.2012
Blacks will have more money to spend on goods and services, according to a recent report. The State of the African-American Consumer Report found t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 01.03.2012
After a long, somewhat contentious summer, in which the Congressional Black Caucus seemed to fall out of love with President Barack Obama over the bla...
Posted 12.26.2011
Artur Davis, a former congressperson from Alabama who ran for governor last fall, is raising eyebrows for an editorial he wrote supporting the voter I...
HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 12.12.2011
Among the many battles being waged in Washington, D.C., these days -- including such contentious matters as President Barack Obama's jobs bill, the C...
Michael Shank | Posted 12.11.2011
Reduce income inequality and you reduce the rates of every kind of social malaise that are draining our federal, state and local budgets and services. Eradicate both and you have a certain moneymaker for America.
Rep. Steny Hoyer | Posted 11.29.2011
Taken together, President Obama's American Jobs Act, the Congressional Black Caucus' For the People Jobs Initiative and House Democrats' Make it in America plan provide Congress with real solutions that will begin putting people back to work now.
HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 11.27.2011
Over the weekend, President Barack Obama's speech before a gathering of the Congressional Black Caucus, in which he called on supporters to "put on yo...
AP | Posted 11.26.2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Maxine Waters says she's not sure who President Barack Obama was talking to when he told black Americans to quit complaining a...
AP | MARK S. SMITH | Posted 11.24.2011
WASHINGTON — In a fiery summons to an important voting bloc, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and "...
Brent Budowsky | Posted 11.15.2011
Obama is the John Barrymore of American politics. "No-drama Obama" is really "Big-drama Obama." Ronald Reagan was an actor who governed like a president. Barack Obama is a president who governs like an actor.
AP | By ERRIN HAINES and SUZANNE GAMBOA | Posted 11.10.2011
ATLANTA -- President Barack Obama's jobs pitch is already playing well with blacks, who had grown plenty irked with him over what they perceived as hi...
Katie Halper | Posted 11.01.2011
I doubt that any members of the Congressional Black Caucus got any sleep last night. I'm sure they were tossing and turning, sick with worry and regret, trembling in fear over Allen West's threat to leave the caucus.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.01.2011
Obama's trademark caution, conciliation, and firm emphasis on bipartisanship will fly squarely in the face of the demand by the Congressional Black Caucus, labor, and liberals for a bold approach on jobs.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 10.31.2011
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) said Wednesday he is considering leaving the Congressional Black Caucus after one of its leaders said Tea Party...
Posted 10.31.2011
Allen West, a Republican congressman from Florida and a champion of Tea Party groups, said he was mulling quitting the Congressional Black Caucus afte...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 10.30.2011
WASHINGTON -- A leading voice in the Congressional Black Caucus told supporters last week that Tea Party-affiliated lawmakers are devastating the blac...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.19.2011
The Congressional Black Caucus will hector Obama to do more on jobs and poverty for blacks. But in 2012 they will be in full throttle on the circuit campaigning for the president. They have no choice.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.02.2011
Despite the danger signs in the criticisms and disappointment of many blacks, Obama is the only thing that stands between the GOP and their total economic and political ruin.
HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 10.02.2011
At a June Senate hearing on high student debt levels at for-profit colleges, civil rights advocate Wade Henderson pointedly criticized what he called ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 09.25.2011
Amidst new research showing historic disparity in wealth between whites and minorities, President Obama is facing plummeting approval over his jobs ag...
Sen. Bert Johnson | Posted 04.30.2012