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What about black voters?

I'm tired of hearing about working-class white voters in this election. The presidential candidates aren't running for president of middle-class white America; they're running for president of all of America.

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Hard times in the Big Easy

Isaiah Washington

isaiahwashington67x62.jpgI have been walking the streets of New Orleans for four weeks and four days now, and I have found numerous stories of courage and dignity of the people who lived during and after Hurricane Katrina hit here.

 

Isaiah Washington is an actor who is currently in New Orleans to film the new movie Patriots.


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How Right to Be So Wrong: Barack Obama and the Essential Surprise

David Dante Troutt

davidtroutt.jpgNothing has been so underappreciated this campaign season than the relentless force of George Bush's unmitigated failure as a president. 

 

David Dante Troutt's most recent books are The Importance of Being Dangerous and After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina.  He is a professor of law at Rutgers University (Newark).


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What our TV series means for the black community

Quincy LeNear and Deondray Gossett

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Quincy LeNear and Deondray Gossett are the creators of The DL Chronicles, which won a GLAAD Award on Saturday for outstanding television mini-series.


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Who's to blame for those high gas prices?

The Field Negro

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$3.85 a gallon for gas? Are you kidding me? How did this happen? Weren't the Iraqis supposed to be giving up their oil? Didn't we put an oil man in the White House for this very reason? 

 

Wain Bennett is a practicing attorney in Philadelphia who blogs at The Field Negro.

 


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10 Things You'll Miss About Hillary

Lerone D. Wilson

leronewilson2.jpgI guarantee you: even the most vehement Hillary haters will miss her presence as this campaign season marches on. Here are the top things that we'll all miss about Hillary.

 

Lerone D. Wilson is executive editor of Blackline.


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The Unofficial Funeral Program For The Hillary Clinton Campaign

Jasmyne Cannick

jasmynecannick.jpgThe service takes place at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, and guess who's delivering the benediction?

 

Jasmyne Cannick is a critic and commentator based in Los Angeles who can be reached at www.jasmynecannick.com.


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NBC anchor under fire after using F-word on live TV

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Maybe Bill O'Reilly isn't the only TV personality to lose his cool on camera. WNBC host Sue Simmons, who anchors the local evening news in New York City, has become the subject of the news herself after she used the "f-word" on live television Monday night.

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White cop disciplined for stopping black police chief

douglaszeigler.jpgA white police officer in New York has been disciplined for allegedly profiling a black man who was parked in his automobile. The problem for the officer is that the black man he stopped was one of the highest-ranking African Americans in the New York Police Department.

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Top 10 TV Programs Among Blacks

With Syesha Mercado still in the running, American Idol once again topped the list of most watched TV programs among African Americans.

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Finally, a trial

Nine years after the police investigation and six years after he was indicted for engaging in criminal sexual behavior with an underage girl, R&B singer R. Kelly goes on trial today...we think. Jury selection begins in the Chicago trial this morning just as news emerges that the singer may have tried to bribe a key witness in the trial. 

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