Elections
The Shallow Obama Birth Certificate Challenge
Last Saturday, Black Voices' blogger Carmen Dixon posed the question, "How Many Incidents Equal a ...
Essence Does Double Obama Tribute
How do you choose which magazine to buy? Essence is slick. They think you might just buy both. The ...
Obama's Grandmother Dies On Eve of Election
Just hours before Election Day, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama announced that his ...
Gentrification "Spreads the Wealth" Into Your Neighborhood
In a political season where the phrase "spread the wealth" has become increasingly popular among the ...
Gentrification: Is It Good or Bad for Us?
In general, gentrification is good for the black community but if you add the description ...
Hastening the Straight Talk Express
Throughout the campaign, we have heard about how Senator John McCain performs during town hall ...
Barack Obama: Pictures Speak 1000 Words
By Felicia Pride While publications like The New Yorker have been trying to capture Barack Obama's ...
The Faith of Barack Obama
By Felicia Pride Are Barack Obama's religious beliefs important? The author of the forthcoming ...
The View, Michelle Obama, and Another Dap
Appearing on The View Wednesday, Michelle Obama said Sen. Hillary Clinton is right that sexism ...
Old BET Boss Gives His 2 Cents, Again
The Democratic presidential nomination battle is stuck on race. Former BET chairman Bob Johnson, a ...
Obama's Super Saturday Stirs the Clinton Camp
The good times rolled for Barack Obama this weekend. Powered by black voters, Obama won the ...
Obama's Super Tuesday Hype
So much for a "dream ticket." Barack Obama's allusion to Hillary Clinton's political baggage during ...
Obama Changes the Game (Maybe)
It is said that "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen." The ...
Super Tuesday: Eve of Deconstruction
On Super Duper Tuesday, Americans will go to the polls in more than 20 states. When the votes are ...
Jackson in Essence: Almost Retrospective
Turns out the weekend before Super Bowl Sunday was Sen. Barack Obama's gridiron as he swept to an ...
Obama's Nation, Obama's State, Welcome to South Carolina
On the eve of the first southern Democratic presidential primary, the contest for the black vote ...
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