White House correspondent April Ryan talks with Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chair, about the CBC’s fight over lack of diversity in the immigration bill and how the Boston Bombing is framing the issue.
At the top of our agenda this week: Attorney General Eric Holder on his pledge to preserve our right to vote, the Reverend Al Sharpton on what President Obama needs to do for African-Americans in his second term. In our “Washington Watch” roundtable, Rahiel Tesfamariam, editorial director of UrbanCusp.com; political analyst and columnist for Ebony.com [...]
by Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com In the age of rapidly shortening attention spans and the mass media hopping from one story to the next, it is fairly remarkable that the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, one year ago Tuesday, continues to resonate in the consciousness of many Americans. Most of this is because of [...]
Source: George E. Curry / NNPA / Politic365 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) says President Obama of consistently disrespects the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the Black Press, and graduates of historically Black colleges, key groups that were critical to his re-election in November. Speaking Friday at the mid-winter convention of the National [...]
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s (CBCF) 42nd Annual Phoenix Awards Dinner. September 22, 2012
This week’s segment of Washington Watch’s What’s The Ask features Ryan Mack, activist and president of Optimum Capital Management; Janaye Ingram, D.C. bureau chief of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network; Rev. Jamal Bryant, pastor at Empowerment Temple AME Church in Baltimore, Maryland and David Johns IMPACT director and former senior senate staffer. What [...]
Source: Sam Stein / The Huffington Post TAMPA, Fla. — Fourteen members of the Congressional Black Caucus penned a letter to their former colleague Artur Davis on Tuesday morning, accusing him of political opportunism and calling some of his recent policy proclamations “unconscionable.” The letter is timed for the day that Davis, a former Democratic [...]
Source: Jordy Yager / The Hill Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) plan to stage a walkout during Thursday’s vote on whether to place Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. The CBC is scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. on Thursday to discuss the details of the walkout and is planning to [...]
Source: The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder and other legal experts strategized with black religious leaders on Wednesday (May 30) about new restrictive state voting laws that could affect their congregants by reducing early voting and requiring identification. “I would argue that of all the freedoms we have today, none is more [...]
As the daughter of civil rights pioneer Hosea Williams and Georgia state representative Juanita Williams, Elisabeth Omilami is no stranger to the power of an organized movement. She continues the legacy of her father by heading up Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless in Atlanta. She spoke this year at the Congressional Black Caucus conference, [...]
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