Black Politics on the Web

Health reform, access are not necessarily linked

The Admin — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:39:07 +0000

Insurance coverage from the health reform law may not bring access to health care for Tennesseeans newly insured under the law, especially minorities and especially in the Memphis area, according to a new study from BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Nearly 600,000 Tennesseans are expected to get health insurance when or if the Affordable Care Act [...]

Election 2012: Why Ethnicity is Destiny for the GOP

The Admin — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:34:14 +0000

Last week, the Census Bureau made nationwide headlines when it announced that for the first time since Native Americans were the dominant race, minorities make up more than 50 percent of births in the U.S. It defines a minority as anyone who is not single-race white and is not Hispanic. The change results from the [...]

Former top Calif. football prospect exonerated

The Admin — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:17:26 +0000

First he cried. Then Brian Banks — exonerated of a rape conviction that cost him five years in prison — walked outside the courthouse and seized the moment of freedom he had dreamed of for so long. “This is the first step in reinventing my life,” he said after a judge issued his ruling Thursday, [...]

African Americans Should Ignore The Recent Prostate Cancer Test Recommendation

The Admin — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:56:09 +0000

Thomas A. Farrington, PHEN President & Founder - I was in Atlanta, Georgia the past few days attending the American Urological Association’s (AUA) Annual Conference. While there we heard from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) that it had ignored the voices of prostate cancer specialist, patients and patient advocacy organizations and that [...]

Groups call on Ga. governor to diversify bench

The Admin — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:52:44 +0000

A coalition of civil rights and attorney groups says African-American judges are being replaced by white appointees in one of Georgia’s most heavily populated black counties and called Thursday for Georgia’s governor to fill vacancies with judges who reflect their communities’ diversity. The coalition, led by the Rev. Joseph Lowery, said black representation on the [...]

Romney campaign begins quiet push for African American voters

The Admin — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:47:57 +0000

Mitt Romney’s campaign team has been quietly laying plans for an outreach effort to President Obama’s most loyal supporters — black voters — not just to chip away at the huge Democratic margins but also as a way to reassure independent swing voters that Romney can be inclusive and tolerant in his thinking and approach. [...]

Black lawmakers oppose Christie NJ court pick

The Admin — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:20:16 +0000

A group of black state legislators announced its opposition to Gov. Chris Christie’s choice of a gay, black Republican for the Supreme Court on Thursday, mounting evidence that Democrats were ready to reject the second of the governor’s high court picks. The New Jersey Legislative Black Caucus told The Associated Press that attorney Bruce Harris’s [...]

Racism evident in plans for Urban Beach Week

The Admin — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:18:26 +0000

There can be little doubt that racism is the driving factor behind the attitude of Miami Beach officials towards the thousands of young African Americans who make the annual trip to the city to celebrate Memorial Day. The central force behind the city’s approach to this “problem” has always been alarm over the presence of [...]

Black technological innovators are banking on a bright future

The Admin — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:15:51 +0000

Despite the possible criminal fallout from taking Facebook public, and on paper making himself $19.1 billion in the process, you have to hand it to tech visionary Mark Zuckerberg — in a ruthless, Machiavellian kind of way — it’s quite an achievement to go from an idea in a college dorm room to a billion [...]

Controversial painting of South African president reopens racial divide

The Admin — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:07:07 +0000

A white man’s painting of a black president, genitals exposed, slashed open an ugly racial divide in South Africa this week, leading to death threats against the artist, calls for the boycott of a newspaper, vandalism of the artwork and the temporary closure of a gallery. The issue grew more heated Thursday, when President Jacob [...]