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How is it that we can contemplate a U.S. Senate without African-American representation when African-Americans are 13 percent of our nation’s population?
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An all-white Senate?
There have only been six African-Americans in the United States Senate in history, and two – Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce – served Mississippi during Reconstruction as appointed Senators.
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Connecting the dots: Appreciating Rev. Jackson
Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. has been an advocate since his high school freshman days when he, among the Greenville Eight, protested segregated library practices.
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A jobless recovery is no recovery
Our economy generated about 431,000 jobs last month. Good news? Only if you don’t count the fact that more than 400,000 of the jobs were temporary jobs connected to collecting data for the Census.
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Financial reform devil in the details
Now is the time for consumer advocates and others to counter the aggressive lobbying that will be done by banks and the auto industry to minimize the effects of financial reform legislation.
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Supreme Court angst speaks to need for planning ahead
I was among the many who were disappointed that President Barack Obama did not nominate an African-American woman to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
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Mo’Nique’s Oscar – victory and setback
It rankles (me) that an image of the fat, black, slovenly welfare cheat is lifted up even at a time when public assistance rolls have been drastically cut, despite our economy.
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A statue for Fannie Lou Hamer
As African-American History Month draws to a close, it is interesting to ponder the many ways we have (and have not) commemorated the month that evolved from Dr. Carter G. Woodson’s 1926 inception of Negro History Week.
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The meaning of the jobs meeting
After indicating that he is the President of “all” Americans, I wondered whether President Obama would ever meet with African-American leaders.
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From ‘Free Frank’ to ‘Billionaire Bob’ and beyond
Why, the email asks, do we still have Black History Month?
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