Historically, Black women hold few elected or appointed offices in the US. That is according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rudgers University. This trend may be changing as some notable elections and nominations have seen Black women and other women of color take positions of leadership in America. This includes the…
The idea of being one another’s keeper, which many Democrats talked about during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia, PA leads me to Cory Booker. The senator from New Jersey received lots of praise after he spoke so eloquently during the event. He is often considered a star in the Democratic Party. He was a…
The Republican (GOP) and Democratic national political conventions were interesting. Of equal interest was the near absence of anything African in them. More broadly—while the conventions illuminated the vast differences between Democrats and Republicans in America, at least with an unusual nominee on the GOP side, they spelled out where both parties would like to take…
The first presidential debate between Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney in the 2012 U.S elections is set for Wednesday, October 3 in Denver, Colorado. As I have heard, for those of us who live and commute to work daily in Denver, we need to be prepared for the traffic nightmare that will…