Congressional Leverage
The 10 Black members of the powerful House Finance Committee are still being applauded by Black Press and other Black leaders this week for boldly boycotting a committee meeting in order to force a $4 billion allocation to benefit the Black community.
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Put Workers Back To Work
In what is being portrayed as a direct rebuke of the White House's lack of response to the deepening unemployment meltdown, Rep. Maxine Waters D-California, ranking CBC member on the powerful Financial Services Committee killed a scheduled November 19 vote on President Barack Obama’s financial regulation reform bill.
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Campaign Gains Momentum
Having garnered national attention, Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is taking to another dimension his fight against young Black men saggin’ their pants. And he’s got Big Mama in his corner. During a press conference at City Hall last month, Caraway re-revealed the “Pull ‘em Up!” campaign he launched last year, but with the extension of “Keep It a Secret,” also conveying a message to young urban girls.
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Obama's 'Trickle' Program
Barack Obama sent a disturbing message to Black America last week: If you’re looking for the president to address the special needs of African Americans, you should start looking elsewhere. Taking a page from Ronald Reagan’s failed trickle-down economic theory, President Obama made it clear that he has a double standard – one for Blacks and one for other powerful interest groups.
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Too Many In College?
I had the privilege of participating in a conversation on NPR about college attendance. Sparked by a conversation in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a group of “experts” were opining that too many people are going to college. Too many? Conservative and racially biased Charles Murray thinks that too few high school students have the cognition to successfully navigate college attendance.
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