Word: african-american
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...even more remarkable is that in all of the commentary about Obama that has appeared in the papers and blogs this week, his racial identity has received very little attention. Here is an intelligent, charismatic man with bipartisan support who has a legitimate shot at becoming the first African-American nominee for president on a major party ticket, and no one wants to talk about his ethnicity. Why is that...
...Michigan, it's Ward Connerly and Jennifer Gratz versus the state's entire political establishment - and Gratz and Connerly may actually win. Connerly, an African-American businessman famous for being the force behind affirmative action bans that passed in California and Washington in the late 1990s, is now pushing his favorite cause in Michigan. A group he helped found called the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative is backing an initiative on the state's ballot in November that would ban both racial and gender preferences in state government hiring and college admissions. Gratz, who after being denied admission to the University...
...after? So maybe with the screeching birds and elderly hauntings, maybe it’s best to visit Mt. Auburn with a friend. Less scary, but still interesting, is the memorial for Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, one of the first official African-American regiments to fight in the Civil War (as depicted in the film “Glory”). Shaw is actually buried in a mass grave near where he was killed at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, but his engraved stone depicts a Classical sparring-match of sorts. Other, simpler...
...appeared onscreen in crutches for “African American Lives,” a four-hour PBS documentary in which he and other famous African Americans uncovered their ancestral roots,“By mid-November, I should get my leg back,” said Gates, who trudges around the Square with crutches and a metal frame on his leg, for which he wears specially tailored wide leg pants.These days, he also travels with a camera crew which is filming a PBS sequel to “African American Lives.” In “Oprah?...
...blatant that Corker condemned it and asked WHIN radio in Gallatin, Tennessee, to stop airing it. In the first 24 seconds, the one-minute ad attacking Ford and his father, and paid for by Tennesseans for Truth, uses the word "black" six times and accuses Ford of favoring African-American issues above others. "His daddy handed him his seat in Congress and his seat in the Congressional Black Caucus, an all-black group of congressmen who represent the interests of black people above all others," the narrator says. Station manager Jack Williams says he pulled the spot hours before Corker...