October 2011 Archive

Hispanic GOP leaders do little to improve image
By José Armas Contributing Writer ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Special to New America Media from the Hispanic Link News Service) — Republicans created the Hispanic Leadership Network last year in an attempt to re-capture ...
Iraq quagmire ends
By Marc H. Morial President/ CEO, National Urban League Last week, President Obama announced that the remaining 39,000 U.S. service men and women in Iraq will be back on U.S. soil by ...
Is New Orleans education reform about New Orleans?
By Dr. Andre M. Perry Contributing California Irvine cash advance Columnist New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg contributed $100,000 to the Alliance for Better Classrooms, which is the political action committee organized ...
Many Black voters refused to cast ballot for GOP contenders
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer The question of whether African-American voters would play the kingmakers in statewide elections – deciding the victor in contests between two white Republicans – was settled ...
Media treats Obama much worse than GOP challengers
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist News media coverage of President Obama is much more negative than stories about each of his Republican challengers, netting him almost four negative stories for every ...
More and more women are beating the odds and are survivors of breast cancer
By Kelly Parker Contributing Writer Over the years, the notion of breast cancer as a death sentence has become a thing of the past. Just ask Darlene Clark, who was given a ...
Most Black Americans sitting out ‘Occupy’
By Chris Levister Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from the Black Voice News) — When Ray Leeds saw a crowd gathering in front of the California Museum of Photography, in Riverside’s ...
New NAACP program targets childhood obesity
By Ben Wrobel Contributing Writer WASHINGTON (Special to the NNPA from the Atlanta Voice) — With a few steps to the left and a few steps to the right, U.S. Surgeon ...
Political experts tell what Obama must do to win re-election
By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — With eight Republican candidates determined to replace President Obama in the White House and the key issue — the economy — still looming, at ...
Race still mattered in the 2008 election
By Alexis Karteron Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from thedefendersonline.com) — There has been widespread speculation about President-Elect Ba­rack Obama’s campaign and election heralding a “post-racial” Ame­rica. In conversations across ...

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