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How (and Why) Ted Kennedy Might Have 'Compromised' on Healthcare Reform

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rightwing, Public Plan, Healthcare Reform, Black President, Federalism, Health Insurance, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Promote the states as the final arbiters of whether to adopt the public plan, and instantly, it is not Barack Obama but 50 state governors and legislatures who wield the power.

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Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on 24

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media

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Ronald B. Robinson

The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.

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Rupert Murdoch and Fox Use 24 to Portray Black Men as Terrorists

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

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Ronald B. Robinson

Can somebody spell the words, "advertisers" and "boycott," and then can the congregation give me a resounding, amen?

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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Lauri Lyons

The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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Have We Overcome?

Lara M. Gardner | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Religion, 2008 Election, Bigotry, Homosexuality, Proposition 8, Black President, President Obama, Civil Rights, First Black President, 2008 Presidential Election, Election Reaction, America Racism, 2008 Presidential Race, America Bigotry, Prop 8, President Elect Obama, Politics News
Lara M. Gardner

In spite of Obama's election, what America has not given up and seems loathe to give up, regardless how far backward we move socially, morally, and legally, is religion.

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Jesse Jackson Explains His Tears For Obama

Posted 12.06.2008 | Chicago

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Standing with more than 200,000 Obama supporters in Grant Park Tuesday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson cried as learned that Barack Obama would become America...

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Obama at Election Night Rally: "Out of Many, We Are One"

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 12.06.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Barack Obama Acceptance Speech, Hutchinson Field Rally, Barack Obama, Grant Park Rally, Black President, Obama Grant Park, Obama Victory Speech, Grant Park, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

The first Black President of the United States strode out onto the stage in front of a hushed press and an alternately roaring and quietly awestruck crowd it hit me that it was for real - all the believers actually succeeded in believing this Presidency into being.

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My First Racist Letter Arrived Today

Eric Deggans | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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Eric Deggans

Gotta be honest, I expected this way before now. And it's probably a measure of how scared some racists are that America is on the verge of electing its first black president.

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