African American Issues

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The Politics of AIDS and Health Care Reform

Johnathon Briggs | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Health Care Reform, Cdc, Obama, Hiv, Chicago, Prevention, Aids, Gay Issues, African-American Issues, Lgbt, Health Care, Chicago News

50 percent of all those living with HIV currently lack needed medical care. The impact of health reform on efforts to control the epidemic could be profound.

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Black Women Find Love, Too

Beth Perry | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Black Women, African-American-Women, Michelle Obama, Relationships, Engagement, African American Women, Single Women, African-American Issues, Love Lives, Media News

Black love is alive and well in my day-to-day life, though I realize that the macro picture isn't as pretty.

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Slavery, Abolition, Rebellion: A Reading List

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living

Read More: African-American Issues, History Books, Pat Buchanan, African American History, Books, Slavery, Reading List, Skip Gates, Sally Hemings, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Living News

All of these books should provide some correctives to the deep misunderstanding -- or desperate ignorance -- of this extremely important chapter in American History.

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Meeting the Maysles: Grey Gardens Comes to Harlem

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 07.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Harlem, Harlem's Maysles Cinema, Albert Maysles, Lesbian, Roman Catholicism, President Obama, Rebekah Maysles, Aristotle-Onassis, Sara Maysles, Gay Rights, Tiger Woods, Judge Sotomayor, Gay Parade, Big Edie Bouvier Beale, Stonewall, African-American Issues, Latinos, Women, Gillian Maysles, Little Edie Bouvier Beale, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Episcopal Church, Grey Gardens, Gay Pride Parade, New York City, Lgbt, Columbia University, Philip Maysles, High Society, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Hotel St Regis, Gay Issues, Jerry Torre, Paper Magazine, Mr. Mickey, Jacqueline Bouvier, Lee Radziwel, New York, New York News

Bred to be lovely and pleasant, to take for granted an ample supply of cash, the women of Grey Gardens were essentially abandoned to languish in a mansion infested with raccoons and cats.

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"Gay, or Straight, Black, or White: Love is Love, Right is Right!" Right?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Civil Liberties, Lesbian, George W. Bush, Gays and Lesbians, Harry-Belafonte, African-American History, Clarence Thomas, Civil Rights, Edna Thomas, Gay Rights, Walter Nagel, Tiger Woods, Racism, Frederick Douglass, African-American Issues, Jasmyne Cannick, Sammy Davis Jr., Phillip Johnson, Pearl Bailey, Olivia Whyndham, Michael Bloomberg, Walter-White, Mildred Loving Interracial Marriage, Lena Horne, Interacial Relationships, Interacial-Sex, Interracial Marriage, Jimmie Daniels, Gays in the Military, Seal, Martin Luther King, Jack Johnson, Homophobia, California Gay Marriage Ban, Bayard Rustin, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Sidney Poitier, Living News

Many activist gays have readily embraced the notion that "Queers" are "today's African Americans," with marriage equality an issue comparable to earlier more bitter struggles for civil rights.

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Black Women and the AIDS Crisis

Martha St Jean | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

According to Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS at the CDC, one in 30 black women will be diagnosed with HIV at some point in her lifetime. That is unacceptable.

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Hannity, The Kiss and Barney Frank, Gay Superstar

Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mgmt, Academy Awards, Ellen Degeneres, Barney Frank, Boy Bands, Anderson Cooper, Rock Hudson, Sean Penn, Clay Aiken, Same-Sex Marriage, Jewish Issues, Jodie Foster, Nba, Glaad, Gene Lichtenstein, Elton John, David Bowie, John Amaechi, Oscars, African-American Issues, Congress, Hollywood, Pete Wentz, Flock of Seagulls, Religion, Sports, George Michael, Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity, Brokeback Mountain, Fox News, Milk, Will Smith, James Franco, Michael Stipe, Gay Issues, Harvey Milk, Entertainment News

It is a measure of Hollywood's insecurity that we are probably months away from it being more acceptable to be a gay soldier than to be a gay actor.

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Holder, Race and Obama's 10% of the White Alabama Vote

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Brooklyn, George W. Bush, Oregon, Colorado, Race, Missouri, Dc, Eric Holder, Rural Issues, Virginia, New Jersey, Oklahoma, John Kerry, Racism, Republican Party, Mississippi, Suffolk County, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Alabama, Massachusetts, Congress, Kendrick Meek, Minnesota, New York, Barack Obama, Education, Mexican-American Issues, South, Michigan, Arkansas, Tennessee, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Senate, New Orleans, Palm Beach, Morris County, Washington, Immigration, Democratic Party, Pittsburgh, Artur Davis, California, Nashville, Jewish Issues, New Hampshire, Ohio, Boca Raton, Long Island, Northeast, Philadelphia, Anthony Weiner, Latino Issues, Florida, John McCain, Appalachia, South Central US, St. Louis, Kamala Harris, Louisiana, Montgomery County, Birmingham, Presidential Election, Kentucky, Texas, Queens, Pennsylvania, New York City, Deep South, Young Voters, Memphis, Governors, Cleveland, Iowa, Georgia, South Carolina, San Francisco, White Voters, Rnc, Michael Steele, Broward, Hip Hop, Duluth, Politics News

The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race

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Blaxploitation, GOP Style

Russ Baker | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Republican National Committee, Colin Powell, Jesse Helms, The New York Times, George W. Bush, The New Republic, Chip Saltsman, Rod Paige, Texas Rangers, Chip Saltsman Magic Negro Song, Barack the Magic Negro, The Washington Post, Bush Administration, Ken Blackwell, George H.W. Bush, United Negro College Fund, Condoleezza Rice, Alphonso Jackson, Bush Texas Rangers, New York Times, Racism, Magic Negro, Washington Post, Bush Legacy, African-Americans, Republican Party, Diversity, African-American Issues, Republicans, Politics News

Tthe GOP is stepping up efforts to stress diversity, but is resorting to a tried-and-true W. tactic: the promotion of compromised, disreputable individuals -- a kind of lemon diversity that only highlights their cynicism and contempt for the public.

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Race in the Obama Age: Still a Long Way to Go

Lola Adesioye | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: BART Shooting, Racism, Race, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Racial Politics, BART Police Shooting, California, Public Transportation, Racial Identity, African-Americans, African-American Issues, Politics News

After Obama's election, many in the media asked if black people can still claim that American society is a racist society if a black man can reach the highest office in the land, and even the world.

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Not a Woman in the Picture

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama's Cabinet, Al Gore, White House, Women's Rights, Sweden, George W. Bush, Sex Trade, Asia, Missouri, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, South Africa, Angola, Kay Hagan, Dan Quayle, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Nancy Pelosi, Racism, Nigeria, Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of the Treasury, African-American Issues, Latin America, Speaker of the House, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Netherlands, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Secretary of Energy, Condolleezza Rice, Secretary of Agriculture, Janet Napolitano, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Claire McCaskill, Secretary of State, Women's Issues, Civil Rights, Arizona, Laura Bush, Gay Rights, Vietnam, Slavery, Sexism, Secretary of Defense, Senate Majority Leader, Vice President, Bill Clinton, Islam, John McCain, Africa, Belgium, Secretary of Transportation, Homeland Security, Attorney General, North Carolina, Colombia, Cia Director, Cambodia, Secretary of Interior, Death Penalty, Gay Issues, Politics News

Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?

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Along Came Caroline. And Andrew. And Beau.

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Caroline Kennedy, Mark Udall, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson Jr, Delaware, Birch Bayh, Mark Pryor, Thomas Dodd, George W. Bush, Connecticut, Chris Dodd, Colorado, Democratic Party, Lisa Murkowski, Andrew Cuomo, Mo Udall, John Quincy Adams, Ken Salazar, Republican Party, African-American Issues, Illinois, Bill Clinton, Frank Murkowski, Evan Bayh, Florida, Alaska, Net Worth, Mario Cuomo, Ted Kaufman, Jesse Jackson, David Pryor, Ted Kennedy, New York, Barack Obama, Beau Biden, John Salazar, Rudy Giuliani, Tom Udall, Secretary of the Interior, John Adams, Harry Reid, George H. W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bennet, Secretary of State, Bill Ritter, Jeb Bush, Senate, Indiana, Crest, Kahlua, Oregon, Politics News

Speculation about Hillary Clinton's successor in the Senate will soon be moot, but the debate about America's political dynasties is hopefully just starting.

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The GOP's White Supremacy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Supreme Court, Mckinsey, George W. Bush, Lyn Westmoreland, Clarence Thomas, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, Redistricting, Virginia, Condoleezza Rice, Mel Martinez, Republican Party, Minneapolis, Agnosticism, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Michael Steele, Colin Powell, Bobby Jindal, Alabama, Congress, Catholicism, Christian Issues, Midwest, Kansas City, JC Watts, Tennessee, Christianity, Senate, New Orleans, Gop, Palm Beach, Kkk, Cuban-American Issues, Maryland, Mel Watt, Arizona, Democratic Party, California, Evangelicals, Ken Blackwell, Jewish Issues, Ahn Cao, Ohio, Latino Issues, Islam, John McCain, Florida, Appalachia, House, Asian-American Issues, White Supremacists, Sanford Bishop, Hispanic Issues, Milwaukee, Deep South, Memphis, Religion, Segregation, Georgia, Southern Issues, Charles Barkley, David Duke, Gay Issues, White Voters, Lousiana, Barack the Magic Negro, Gop White Supremacy, Politics News

Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.

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Mr. Obama Disagrees

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Hate Crimes, Chicago, Incest, Brooklyn, Washington, Ron Kirk, White Supremacy, Same-Sex Marriage, California, Jewish Issues, Bailout, Inauguration, Rick Warren, Ohio, Nation of Islam, African-American Issues, Bill Clinton, Islam, Rape, Campaign Finance, Colombia, Pennsylvania, Pedophilia, Jeremiah Wright, Catholicism, New York, Sister Souljah, Religion, Labor, Cnn, Hilda Solis, Orange County, Aryan Nation, Ethanol, Bestiality, Gay Issues, Rick Warren Invocation, Rick Warren Saddleback Church, Obama Invocation, Barack Obama Rick Warren, Obama Inauguration, Rick Warren Obama Invocation, Invocation, Politics News

Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration is dreadful. His explanation is even worse. He shrinks Warren's statements about gay people down to a "disagreement," as if we're talking about ethanol subsidies.

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GOP: Imploding, Meaningless, and Run by Crazies, But not Dead

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Suburbs, Proposition 8, Latinos, Atlanta, District of Columbia, Chicago, Connecticut, Oregon, Colorado, Missouri, Same-Sex Marriage, Nevada, Virginia, Montana, New Mexico, Margaret Thatcher, West, Walnut Creek, Mississippi, Republican Party, Detroit, African-American Issues, Kansas, North Carolina, Abortion, Election 2008 Coverage, Citigroup, Alaska, Alabama, Congress, Barack Obama, Idaho, New York, Midwest, Bill Clinton, South, Great Britain, Wyoming, David Cameron, Utah, Hawaii, Nebraska, United Kingdom, Washington, Immigration, Iraq, Arizona, Democratic Party, Dallas, Maine, New Hampshire, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Houston, Long Island, New England, Philadelphia, John McCain, Contra Costa, Peggy Noonan, Louisiana, Chris Shays, Hispanic Issues, Asian-Americans, Ross Perot, Georgia, Environment, San Francisco, Gay Issues, English-Only, Calfironia, Politics News

Beyond its regional concentration, the Republican Party's face is from another time. Indeed, nearly half of the Republican caucus is composed of Southern white men.

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The Last Time We Vote For Bigotry

Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gay Marriage, Abortion, Taxes, Mormons, Proposition 8, Louisiana, Christian Right, Affirmative Action, Economy, Immigration, Larry Craig, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, California, Religion, Gay Rights, New Jersey, John Edwards, Christianity, Hillary Clinton, Coretta Scott King, Health Care, African-American Issues, Florida, Congressional Black Caucus, Deval Patrick, Massachusetts, New York, David Patterson, Politics News

The time has come to put our votes and our money where our mouth is and no longer tolerate the malleable bigotry of those who profess to be our friends, but also say we are not quite worthy of the same rights.

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McCain: They Don't Like Him, They Really Don't Like Him

Paul Jenkins | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Colin Powell, Economy, George W. Bush, Lord of the Rings, Presidential Election, Arizona, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Charles Schumer, Foreign Policy, Stem Cell Research, Joe Wurzelbacher, Tiger Woods, New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina, Environment, Financial Crisis, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Will Smith, Bob Schieffer, Sport, African-American Issues, LeBron James, Gail Collins, Gollum, Politics News

The expectations McCain brought to the race were impossibly high to fulfill, thanks to decades of media cheerleading and his ability to believe in his own hype.

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Did Uganda Have a Space Program, or is Robert Kimball a Fool?

Ron Mwangaguhunga | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Civil Rights, African-American Issues, Uganda, Robert Kimball, Nobel Prize Literature, Uganda Space Program, Media News

Was there a Ugandan Space Program? There is no online evidence that I can find, and the whole thing sounds kind of dodgy.

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John McCain: Unfit for the Presidency

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Women's Issues, Financial Bailout, Pakistan, Economy, George W. Bush, Gun Control, Iraq, Religious Right, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, Iran, Mike Huckabee, John Kerry, Katie Couric, Russia, African-American Issues, Abortion, Energy, Bill Clinton, Philadelphia, Alaska, Karl Rove, Presidential Debate, Mitt Romney, Democrats, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani, Earmarks, Fred Thompson, Environment, Taliban, Death Penalty, Afghanistan, Republicans, Steve Schmidt, Politics News

If we agree, as most of us do outside of the far-right abortion-obsessed axis, that Palin is unfit to serve as president, then McCain, the man solely responsible for giving her that opportunity, is unfit too. It's that simple.

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The Dead Core of McCain's Republican Party

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Transportation, Immigration, Iraq, Race, Democratic Party, Sarah Palin, Stem Cell Research, Iran, Military, Phil Gramm, Carly Fiorina, Technology, Republican Party, African-American Issues, Abortion, Halliburton, Science, Free Trade, Hispanic Issues, Texas, Uzbekistan, Pennsylvania, Capitalism, Barack Obama, College, Oil, Health Care, Scranton, Energy, Gay Marriage, Economy, Politics News

Now that it has thoroughly discredited the market economy it was ostensibly pushing, the Republican Party is left with no clear, logical economic agenda.

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Is Barack Obama's Candidacy About Race?

Bill Blanning | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Race and Politics, Race Issues, Race, Barack Obama Race, African-Americans, African-American Issues, Barack Obama, Politics News

The simple fact that an African-American is in line for the presidency serves to affirm for all of us our belief in America's best ideals.

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McCain's Problem with White Voters

Paul Jenkins | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Polls, African-American Voters, North Dakota, Ronald Reagan, Affirmative Action, George W. Bush, Colorado, Immigration, Michael Dukakis, Arizona, West Virgnia, South Dakota, Mark Penn, Democratic Party, Missouri, Echo Boom, Nevada, Virginia, Montana, Cuban-Americans, New Mexico, Latino Voters, John Kerry, New Hampshire, Ohio, Plains, Racism, Mississippi, Republican Party, Northeast, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Bill Clinton, Latino Issues, Alaska, Florida, John McCain, Karl Rove, Appalachia, Presidential Election, Texas, Baby Boom, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Young Voters, Midwest, Wisconsin, Advertising, Michigan, Iowa, Georgia, South Carolina, Hispanic Voters, George H. W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Southern Issues, Dnc, Libertarian Party, Indiana, White Voters, Politics News

It is McCain who needs to score exceptionally well among white voters, better in fact than any other Republican presidential candidate in the past 20 years, including George H. W. Bush.

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Obama Still Does Not Know His Place

Paul Jenkins | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

What angers John McCain and bemuses many traditional observers is how unflappable Barack Obama remains in public, no matter how condescending the attacks.

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Clinton: Not Exactly The Great White Hope

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nebraska, George W. Bush, Colorado, General Election, Media, Electoral College, China, South Dakota, Nevada, Virginia, Ohio, Superdelegates, West, Racism, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Bill Clinton, Islam, Alaska, John McCain, Rural Voters, Presidential Election, Clintons, Texas, Pennsylvania, Democrats, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Idaho, Japan, Midwest, Religion, Urban Issues, Muslims, South, Iowa, San Francisco, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Indiana, White Voters, Politics News

Were Hillary the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have been able to dispatch a presidential neophyte like Barack Obama.

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