african-americans

The turnout to today’s Tea Party was indisputably high — likely in the hundreds tens of thousands (though organizers claimed it reached 1.5 million). But racially diverse it was not. And according to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), that’s the fault of the event’s timing and the media coverage.
“If anyone does a fair analysis of the [...]

Maybe I’ve just not been reading it, but this Martin Luther King Jr. Day seems to lack the phoned-in “King wanted black people to shut up and get over slavery already” columns that usually pepper conservative media. The Republican National Committee, for example, only said that it “strongly believes in the dream [King] so eloquently [...]

At our sister site, The Michigan Messenger, Eartha Jane Melzer has an eye-opening piece about what could be the Republican Party’s plans to target its latest swing-state voter suppression efforts at those who have lost their homes to foreclosure.
The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Mich., a key swing county in a [...]