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Racism Rears Its Ugly Head As First Black Cabinet Minister Takes Office In Italy

Racism Rears Its Ugly Head As First Black Cabinet Minister Takes Office In Italy

Italy, has long had problems with racial integration between its immigrant classes and hoped to resolve some of those issues when they appointed Cecile Kyenge as the first black…

Clarence Thomas: Obama Gets a Pass Because He Says What Elites ‘Expect From a Black Person’

Clarence Thomas: Obama Gets a Pass Because He Says What Elites ‘Expect From a Black Person’

Appearing on C-Span in an April 9th interview, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made a few criticisms of President Obama. When questioned about President Obama, Thomas said he always knew…

Candidate Says Allegedly Racist Mayor Saved Black Male Lives

Candidate Says Allegedly Racist Mayor Saved Black Male Lives

Repub. mayoral candidate Joe Lhota The words uttered from the Republican mayoral candidate for NYC may have cost him an opportunity to acquire the African-American vote. Joe Lhota, a…

Parents: Your 15-Year-Old Can Purchase the Plan B Emergency Contraceptive

Parents: Your 15-Year-Old Can Purchase the Plan B Emergency Contraceptive

. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made some alterations to the restrictions for the Plan B emergency contraceptive pill. Starting next Monday, it will be available for…

Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison Gets Into Heated Debate With GOP Rep. Over Profiling

Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison Gets Into Heated Debate With GOP Rep. Over Profiling

On Sunday’s episode of Meet the Press, Congressman Peter King (R-NY) argued in favor of profiling Muslims in the name of anti-terrorism. King said although most Muslims are “outstanding…

Democrats Slam Obama For Siding With Republicans on Social Security and Medicare Reform

Democrats Slam Obama For Siding With Republicans on Social Security and Medicare Reform

by Yvette Carnell According to the Washington insiders who spoke with POLITICO, Congressional Democrats are more upset with President Obama’s budget proposal than Republicans. In fact, many Democrats have expressed…

President Obama Mocks MSNBC, Fox, and CNN at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

President Obama Mocks MSNBC, Fox, and CNN at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

If you thought President Obama was going to play media favorites at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, you were certainly proven wrong when he took the stage on Saturday.  Obama…

NAACP President Ben Jealous Offers Republicans a Plan to Win Black Votes

NAACP President Ben Jealous Offers Republicans a Plan to Win Black Votes

NAACP head Ben Jealous says it’s possible for Republicans to win black votes, but they’re going about it all wrong. In a CNN editorial published on Wednesday,  Jealous used…

Obama Decides Not to Deliver Keynote Address at Planned Parenthood Gala

Obama Decides Not to Deliver Keynote Address at Planned Parenthood Gala

President Obama has decided not to deliver the keynote address at Planned Parenthood’s annual gala on Thursday. White House press secretary Jay Carney broke the news during his press…

Conservative Group Replaces Face of Black Woman With White Woman on Political Flyer

Conservative Group Replaces Face of Black Woman With White Woman on Political Flyer

A conservative Colorado group distributing political mailers photoshopped the images so that the face of a brown skinned woman was replaced with that of a white woman. The flyer is…