October 18, 2009 Today is a special day in my life and always will be, so there are a few things that take precedence over everything else I had p...
Keli Goff | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
When I started writing about young Black voters, I found that I had much more in common with some of my subjects than with some of the liberals I had worked with and for.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Republican National Chair Michael Steele sure has a way of ingratiating himself with black voters.
Bil Browning | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
The Young Republicans convention was held in Indianapolis last weekend and their election of a racist, middle-aged woman as President isn't the only c...
Washington Post | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
In a race without a clear front-runner, state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds (Bath), former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe and former st...
Michael Fauntroy | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
The GOP is simply out of touch with the rest of the country and has a very long way to go to regain relevance in American politics.
Washington Independent | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
Byron York engages in a perennial conservative media stunt -- breaking down poll numbers between blacks and whites to make the point that Democrats wo...
Rachel Farris | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
Voter fraud in Texas is not any sort of epidemic. The voter-ID bill is designed to deter thousands of indigent, disabled and elderly voters, who might not have a form of photo identification, from voting.
Kiesha Ramey-Presner | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
I am ecstatic about the election and proud of Obama, but he is everyone's President, not just mine -- and I am entitled to the same rights as everyone else to hold opinion of him.
John Ridley | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
Initially the blame for the passage of Prop 8 came to lie at the feet of blacks. Now comes new evidence that blacks did not vote more disproportionately for Prop 8 than any other ethnic group.
FiveThirtyEight | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
When the House of Representatives convenes tomorrow, it will contain 39 African-American members, not including non-voting delegates in places like th...
Doon Baqi | Posted 01.05.2009 | Media
I find the term racist, when taken in perspective. European Americans, described as "white," are not subject to the same "non-nativity" that the blacks are.
Carl Jeffers | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
For white Americans, the election of Obama does not mean the conversation on race is over, that we are past race as an issue, and that we can now forget about affirmative action.
Terrance Heath | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
It has been a strange couple of weeks. Just last week, I saw something that I never thought I'd see in my lifetime, and felt like I was witnessing it ...
Irene Monroe | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
When society narrowly defines marriage as solely the union between a man and a woman, it ignores the constant changing configuration of today's family units.
Terrance Heath | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics
Ed. Note: I plan on writing something about black voters, the passage of proposition 8 in California, and the discussion that has ensued about whether...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
We are witnessing a tremendous ideological shift among young voters -- one that could reshape our politics for decades to come.
Terrance Heath | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
Ed. Note: I plan on writing something about black voters, the passage of proposition 8 in California, and the discussion that has ensued about whether...
David Paul Appell | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
You'd think if anyone would appreciate that civil rights are civil rights, it's black Americans. And that's what makes the support of some among them of such bigotry particularly appalling.
Whitney Leigh | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
Here in California, we appear to have passed Proposition 8
Diane Tucker | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- How did it feel to be a Black American voting for Barack Obama on Election Day 2008? Outside the polling station at the corner of ...
Jeanine Molloff | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
Long wait times to vote represent a covert 'poll tax.' Many people in low-income neighborhoods in Missouri are hourly wage earners who cannot afford to lose a day's wages.
Posted 12.05.2008 | Chicago
From the Associated Press: Lines of voters stretched down hallways and out doorways Tuesday, as Illinoisans flocked to the polls to cast their ballo...
Phillip Martin | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
In the U.S., the possibility of an African American president does not presuppose the end to color prejudice any more than the election of Mandela meant an end to inequalities in South Africa.
Renita Weems | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Rumors that black people are likely to riot after next week's election is the lowest form of fear-mongering yet by Obama's opponents. The sleaziest o...
Charles Butler | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics