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Unemployment Predictions Highlight the Need for Investment in Job Training

By | 03.29.10 | 12:38 pm

While the Congressional Black Caucus (among others) pushed unsuccessfully for a major investment in job training to be included in the stimulus package, new data on the long-term prospects for a labor market recovery highlight the ongoing need for the president and Congress to put job More…

GOP Candidate: ‘I Am Not Just Some Articulate, Clean, Well Spoken Negro’

By | 01.11.10 | 9:18 am

I’ve spotlighted retired Lt. Col. Allen West as one of the GOP’s most credible African-American candidates for Congress this year–he lost a 2008 bid in his Florida district by 10 points, but is getting full support from the National Republican Congressional Committee this time. West’s response to the More…

Activists Pin Mortgage Voter Suppression on McCain

By | 09.19.08 | 1:48 pm

A civil rights group is pressing Sen. John McCain to disown the “ugliest attack on voting rights” in “recent history,” referencing a Republican scheme to suppress voters based on foreclosure, which was first reported by our sister site, The Michigan Messenger.