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“No one should be judging and assuming that because I’m black, I have to speak in that hip-hop way. That’s something I prefer not to do. This newsflash comes to us from Evin Cosby. (Because everyone gets to choose how they speak.) The Cosby scion, who’s trying really hard to make news about her new Read More

John Adams called the vice presidency “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.” Cactus Jack Garner, one of FDR’s vice presidents, once said the post “wasn’t worth a bucket of warm spit.” (Although he ain’t really say “spit.”) That was all pre-Cheney, of course. I’m still not Read More

We just found out that we’re finalists for “Best Political/News Blog” in the 2008 Black Weblog Awards! We have to buy dinner for all of you who voted for us*, but it ain’t over yet! There’s still voting to be done, so go here and vote for us. Voting closes on the Aug. 31 (unless Read More

Annoyed by the MSM’s choice of Official Black Spokeperson position — it was always Jesse or Al — T. Coates decided the post should be filled democratically. (The winner, in case you were wondering, was Lando CalrissianBilly Dee Williams.) Now, it’s white folks turn: Who will speak for them? Morgan Freeman? Don Draper? Princess Leia? Read More

A pro-Obama Christian group questioned McCain’s virtue by bringing up the fact that he ditched his first wife after a debilitating car accident. The McCain camp, naturally, got huffy: “These smears on John McCain’s character and faith expose the utter hypocrisy of Barack Obama’s claim to represent a new kind of politics. It’s disgraceful.” He Read More

At Too Sense, One Drop explains his distaste for gangsta rap: The problem is, a lot of the time these kids don’t know any actual black people. They have no way of knowing what is truth and what is fantasy. Gangsta rap plays into all of the old stereotypes about blacks: that they’re violent, over-sexed, Read More

The moderators for the presidential debates were announced last week by the Commission on Presidential Debates, and, surprise, surprise, the moderators are three aged white men: Jim Lehrer, Tom Brokaw, and Bob Schieffer. Gwen Ifill, who moderated the VP debate in ’04, has been tapped to moderate it again this year. NPR’s Michel Martin took Read More

hilzoy”s take: In general, if you had only Penn’s memos to go by, you’d assume that Clinton was obviously superior to Obama in every way, and that all the campaign really needed to do to win was to display her virtues and his faults while avoiding any obvious pitfalls. Even if that were true, I Read More

Last month, a federal jury in Ohio ordered the town of Zanesville to pay about $11 million in damages for failing to provide water to each of 67 plaintiff for nearly 47 years. Those people all lived in Coal Run Road, a mostly black neighborhood sits outside the city limits. Like a lot of people Read More
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