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October 19th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
To the annoyance of the Romney campaign, members of Washington's reality-based community have a habit of popping up to point out the many deceptions in the campaign's blue-sky promises of low taxes and instant growth. The latest is the Joint Committee on Taxation, an obscure but well-respected Congressional panel — currently evenly divided between the parties — that helps lawmakers calculate the...
October 19th, 2012
Written by Jesse Washington - AP National Writer in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to President Barack Obama.
Are black people supporting Obama mainly because he's black? If race is just one factor in blacks' support of Obama, does that make them racist? Can blacks' support for Obama be...
October 18th, 2012
Written by Jack Elliott Jr. - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi NAACP is asking federal judges to redraw the state House and Senate districts that were approved by the Justice Department last month. The group also wants the judges to set new legislative elections in 2013, two years ahead of the normal schedule.
The state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed its lawsuit Saturday,...
October 18th, 2012
Written by Brian Witte - Associated Press in Education, the Great Equalizer, Latest News with 0 Comments
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gallaudet University's chief diversity officer said Oct. 16, she believes she should be reinstated to her job after university leadership put her on administrative leave for signing a petition to put same-sex marriage on the ballot for voters to decide in November.
Angela McCaskill, speaking publicly for the first time after she was put on leave last week, sharply criticized...
October 18th, 2012
Written by Charles Babington - Associated Press in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney teed up the last three weeks of the presidential election as a question of which man voters can trust to improve the economy.
If the undecided voters who questioned the two men in Tuesday's fast-paced debate are an indication, then the Nov. 6 contest may turn on whether like-minded Americans decide to stick with a disappointing-...
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