Category: African-American

Is the DNC Chair Race Becoming A Disgrace?

The pro-Perez folks keep dredging up Ellison’s history with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, even though Ellison long ago severed ties with Farrakhan: In a lengthy letter to the Conservative movement’s rabbinical arm, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison said he regretted past positions that have unsettled Jews as he seeks the chairmanship of the Democratic Party Ellison, beginning his three-page letter to the Rabbinical Assembly with a quote from Pirkei Avot, Jewish ethical teachings – “The one who learns, learns from everyone” – expressed regrets, as he has several times since launching his bid to lead the DNC, for his association years ago with the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam.

The Democrats’ Fight Against School Choice Is Immoral

There’s something perverse about an ideology that views the disposing of an unborn child in the third trimester of pregnancy as an indisputable right but the desire of parents to choose a school for their kids as zealotry. Watching President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for education secretary, Betsy DeVos, answer an array of frivolous questions this week was just another reminder of how irrational liberalism has become.

A Generation of Young Baracks

“Obviously, the first African-American president – we were very, very excited around that time,” said Conrad Tillard, adding, “we couldn’t think of a better name.” Barack Chad Joseph Tillard, now 7, and a second-grader at St. Luke’s School in Manhattan, was born three months after Inauguration Day in 2009.

Poll: Young Americans fear they will be worse off post-Trump

In this Nov. 8, 2016 file photo, a woman weeps as election results are reported during Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s election night rally in the Jacob Javits Center glass enclosed lobby in New York. As Donald Trump approaches his inauguration as president, young Americans have a deeply pessimistic view about his incoming administration, with young blacks, Latinos and Asian Americans particularly concerned about what’s to come in the next four years.

Poll: Young Americans fear they will be worse off post-Trump

As Donald Trump approaches his inauguration, young Americans have a deeply pessimistic view about his incoming administration, with young blacks, Latinos and Asian Americans particularly concerned about what’s to come in the next four years. That’s according to a new GenForward poll of Americans aged 18 to 30, which found that the country’s young adults are more likely to expect they’ll be worse off at the end of Trump’s first term than better off.

MLK en francais

My to-do list today included tracking down eighteenth-century primary sources in French for some of my ambitious Francophone students. So, obviously, I decided to see what if anything French press had on Martin Luther King .

On King day, Trump meets with Martin Luther King III

Donald Trump will mark the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday by meeting with the son of the civil rights icon. On King day, Trump meets with Martin Luther King III Donald Trump will mark the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday by meeting with the son of the civil rights icon.

Report: Trump to visit African American museum in DC

After a public feud with a black civil rights figure, President-elect Trump will likely visit the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to celebrate Martin Luther King Day, according to a report Saturday. The Saturday evening report from ABC News , citing senior transition sources, follows a pair of Trump’s tweets reacting to comments made by Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a well-known leader from the civil rights movement, suggesting Russia’s interference with the election sullied Trump’s Electoral College win over Democrat Hillary Clinton .

When and where the newest Black Heritage series stamp will be issued

A new nondenominated commemorative forever stamp honoring civil rights advocate Dorothy Height will be issued Feb. 1 at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The stamp, which is the 40th issue in the United States Postal Service’s Black Heritage commemorative series, will be offered in a pane of 20, offset printed by USPS contractor Ashton Potter USA Ltd., of Williamsville, N.Y. The Black Heritage series began in 1978 with a 13A stamp honoring abolitionist Harriet Tubman . One new stamp in the series is issued each year.

Obama speech marks unofficial countdown for black Americans

Carlos took a moment to reflect on how, eight years earlier, she had worked as an organizer in Atlanta to get Barack Obama elected president, marking her start in politics. The wife and mother only briefly considered her choice: Should she drop everything to see the president one last time? As Obama said goodbye and thanked supporters on Tuesday night in his adopted hometown of Chicago, the occasion marked the unofficial countdown to the end of his historic presidency.

Obama speech marks unofficial countdown for black Americans

Carlos took a moment to reflect on how, eight years earlier, she had worked as an organizer in Atlanta to get Barack Obama elected president, marking her start in politics. The wife and mother only briefly considered her choice: Should she drop everything to see the president one last time? As Obama said goodbye and thanked supporters on Tuesday night in his adopted hometown of Chicago, the occasion marked the unofficial countdown to the end of his historic presidency.

Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History

With all the memes wishing a good riddance to 2016, and John Oliver’s epic send-off to this annus horribilis, it may seem small comfort that this was a year that might be remembered as one of the most important in a long time in my corner of the scholarly universe: for works that illuminate race and religion in America, and for books reinterpreting African American religious history for a new, more disillusioned generation. If you surmise this could be self-serving, very well, it is.