July 12, 2024 A group of over 1,300 influential Black women leaders sent the following letter to Democratic Party leadership: Dear Democratic Party Leadership, We, the undersigned black women leaders and allies, are writing to share our deep concern and dismay at the lack of unity being displayed by some of our elected democrats and […]
Race Card Romney – By Lucius Gantt
The Gantt Report -If President Barack Obama wants to win his 2012 reelection effort he should start fighting for it! By now, everybody knows the President got his clock cleaned by a modern day Uncle Remus dipped in flour. Romney told more fairy tales and fables than Aesop and Hans Christian Anderson during the first […]
Cost of Freedom Project Launches Voter Education Campaign to Help Voters Get Ready for Election Day
Philadelphia, PA – August 6, 2012 marks the 47th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In his remarks, President Lyndon B. Johnson said, “This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless.” Forty-seven years later, states have enacted new legal barriers that could make it […]
Ohio Unity Coalition Kicks-Off Voter Empowerment Tour with Hi-Tech Mobile Voter Registration Unit Traveling the State
Multi-city “Stand Your Ground” tour aims to prepare voters in Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus,Youngstown, Akron, Cleveland, Lorain and Toledo Ohio A coalition of faith, labor, civil and voter rights groups along with community activists launched the Stand Your Ground… Vote, 2012 Ohio Voter Empowerment Tour in Cincinnati this past weekend dispatching a mobile voter registration unit […]
Micro-Targeting the Heartland – Analyzing Ohio’s Voters and Making Final Four Predictions
by Kirk Clay – I have to admit, I love it when the March Madness season comes around. There is something about completing bracket sheets for both the Women’s and Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournaments and developing a strategy for my favorite teams to go all the way. The best part is identifying all of the […]
AG Holder says US election systems must be free of discrimination, attempts at political gain
By Associated Press — Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Tuesday to fully enforce civil rights protections in next year’s elections amid a flurry of activity by states to redraw political boundaries and impose requirements that could reduce voting by minorities who enthusiastically supported Barack Obama in the 2008 election. … Currently, the Justice Department is […]
Obama’s big bet on blacks is key to 2012 victory
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson (The Grio.com) – The one thing that sets off the loudest bells and whistles at the White House is any hint of a diminution in the bedrock support of black voters for President Obama’s re-election bid in 2012. The dreaded faint tingling happened when Gallup recently released a poll that showed […]
Blacks and the Economics of Voting
By Raynard Jackson – How long will the Black community continue to allow the Obama administration and the Democratic Party to insult them and then blame it on Obama not wanting to be perceived as a “Black” president? Let me give an example. You have invested in a business project, Obama Inc. There were 4 […]