Black Politicians

Statewide Races a Challenge for Black Politicians?

Pamela Gentry | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics


Pamela Gentry

As recent as 2006, three African-Americans ran for high-profile statewide office on the Republican ticket and all were defeated by considerable margins.

Obama: 2008; Stokes: 1967

Kenneth McGee | Posted 07.22.2008 | Home


Kenneth McGee

In 1967 Carl Stokes was elected the first black Mayor of a major American city. He ran before and lost. The astonishing difference, for me, between then and now, is the huge support among white people for Obama

The African American Patriotism Quandary

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 07.05.2008 | Home


Leonce Gaiter

America is asking black politicians to prove that they will not use African-America's brutal and humiliating historical experience to guide their behavior.