I find it a supreme irony that the most powerful black man in America cannot speak to the issues of the most powerless people in the country.
Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 07.20.2011
As African Americans continue to bear the brunt of socio-economic hardship, there are some who similarly have unviable expectations of our first Black president.
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Prominent African-American leaders pressed President Barack Obama on Wednesday to pursue an economic agenda that includes targeted ...
John Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011
The election of Obama as president is something of a "careful what you wish for" situation for one of America's oldest civil rights organizations.
The Daily Beast | Posted 05.25.2011
"I've been able to see our nation get better," the Rev. Jesse Jackson muses, in joyful anticipation of Barack Obama's impending presidential victory. ...
NY Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Forty-seven years after he last looked out from behind the bars of a South Carolina jail cell, locked away for leading a march against segregation in ...
Janet Langhart Cohen | Posted 10.04.2011