Obama Campaign Reinvents Itself as a Nonprofit
Organizing for Action will push the president's agenda and train new leaders.
By Joyce Jones
President Obama's hugely successful second-term bid, which took technology and grassroots outreach to c ...
Posted Saturday, January 19th 2013 at 1:27AM
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Boycott results in a new Black-owned gas station in Dallas community
DALLAS (FinalCall.com) - If you were anywhere near South Dallas about a year ago you would be familiar with the term “Don’t Stop, Don’t Shop.”
It related to spending hard-earned B ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 10:35PM
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this brief timeline describes an American history of oppression, persecution, and discrimination in regards to voting rights. In all of these cases those affected were not passive victims — rather they fought back with whatever means they had.
Sim ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 9:34PM
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Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) said that the National Rifle Association (NRA) opposed President Barack Obama's gun control plans because the group “still cannot get over” the fact that the president is “black.”
Following a Capitol Hill press conference on W ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 9:13PM
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The Battleground
The “War on Drugs” is a War on Black People!
Forty years after President Richard M. Nixon declared a “War on Drugs” under the guise of halting trafficking in drugs in the United States,the evidence is clear: The War on Drug ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 8:00PM
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Many people think that Malcolm X promoted violence and this was not the case. More than anything, he was a proponent of self-defense. Negatively he has been portrayed as violent and racist. Since he did not preach non-violence, he was often seen as M ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 4:15PM
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Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted Friday on charges that he used his office for personal gain, accepting payoffs, free trips and gratuities from contractors while the city was struggling to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katr ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 3:47PM
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Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 2:15PM
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http://tv.msnbc.com/shows/the-ed-show/
A dangerous side of the gun debate rears its ugly head as the righties go off the rails.
Tonight at 8pET on “The Ed Show,” Ed Schultz breaks down the rabid reaction to the president with Karen Finney, MSNBC ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 10:55PM
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While in a discussion about Hawaii's social and financial problems, Bill O'Reilly utters a sentence so ignorant and rude that practically any newsroom on the planet would have reprimanded him. Fortunately for O'Reilly, he was on Fox News. In addition ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 10:42PM
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Democratic Representative Keith Ellison and five others are sponsoring the Full Faith and Credit Act. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari).
By Nation DC intern Anna Simonton
As the country barrels towards a possible default on its debt, members of the ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 10:38PM
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History flashback: remember when Southern states tried to nullify laws during the civil war and during desegregation in the 1950's?
Well now Kentucky Senator Rand Paul wants to nullify Pres. Obama's executive orders.
And he's not the only one: ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 10:28PM
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Muhammad Ali... at 71, he's still the greatest.
That's what Rev says. Watch his touching birthday tribute from tonight's show: http://nbcnews.to/VNkZ8t ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 10:25PM
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The GOP's negativity ratings are at some of their highest.
All that crazy talk about "nullification" probably isn't helping: http://on.msnbc.com/S9ndhv
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Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 10:22PM
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Looks like the GOP leadership's preparing to cave on that big plan to refuse to raise the debt ceiling unless they got those big time spending cuts they want.
What a shocker, they finally just might have realized that shutting down the government ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 7:39PM
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One of the most overlooked aspects of Martin Luther King’s legacy is his work around economic justice and poverty. Though the landmark rally in 1963 during which King delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech is now widely known as “The March on Washingt ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 1:18AM
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NRA is Repugnant and Cowardly
We wrote this morning about a new NRA ad / Web site targeting the Obama children in an effort to list-build and fundraise off of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre. More on that below.
The White House has now respo ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 12:00AM
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