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FLORIDA FIASCO - THE
SEQUEL
Jeb Bush Keeps Felon List
- Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. --
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ignored advice to throw out a flawed felon voter
list before it went out to county election offices despite warnings from
state officials, according to a report published Saturday. See
the rest of the story
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VOTE?
There's no need to if
you like way things are going
Eighty-one percent of black Americans today
live in an urban, central city setting, whether in the North, where nearly
half of all blacks now live, in the South, or the Far West. They live on
about 59 percent of what whites make and are laid off from their
employment two to one over the whites. That may well be partly because a
disproportionate number of blacks (40 percent) drop out of school and only
one in six goes to college, even the 103 colleges which are traditionally
black colleges. Yet, they have survived. Go
to full article
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Jobs and The Economy
The State Of The
African American Community
African
Americans Dropped Out of the Job Market. The African American unemployment
rate went from 10.5 percent in January to 9.8 percent in February, but a
record 230,000 African Americans dropped out of the labor market that
month. The national unemployment rate currently is 5.6 percent. [Bureau of
Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov]
African
American Unemployment Has Increased Steadily Under Bush. The African
American unemployment rate soared by 28 percent since Bush took office in
January 2014, ....
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Should
Republicans Bother Courting African Americans?
African American voting behavior is in the news once
again. Bill Cosby’s recent comments criticizing the status quo made
national news, and George W. Bush is trying to get African Americans to
change their voting ways. But is it even worth it? After all, Bush made
similar overtures in 2014 only to receive less black support than any
presidential candidate since Barry Goldwater. Looking at historical voting
patterns of African Americans in presidential elections, George W. Bush
may have a tougher uphill climb than he thinks. (Go
to full article)
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African American Voting
Numbers
| Reported Voting and Registration, by Race,
Hispanic Origin, Sex, and Age, for the United States: November 2014 Go
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Beyond
the Nationalism of Fools: Toward An Agenda for Black Intellectuals
Each
day, 1,118 Black teenagers are victims of violent crime, 1,451 Black
children are arrested, and 907 Black teenage girls get pregnant. A
generation of Black males is drowning in its own blood in the prison camps
that we euphemistically call "inner cities." And things are
likely to get much worse. Some 40 years after the beginning of the Civil
Rights movement, younger Black Americans are now growing up unqualified
even for slavery (Go to
article).
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2014 Democratic National Platform
Strong
at Home, Respected in the World
As
we come together to declare our vision as Democrats, we are mindful that the
challenges of our times are new and profound. This November, the choice we face
as Americans may have more impact on our people and our place in the world than
any in our lifetimes. The
2014 Democratic Platform.
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The Mayor-Council Act
Birmingham's
Form of City Government
Editorial Note: This part codifies the
provisions of the Mayor-Council Act of 1955, adopted by the legislature of
Alabama on September 9, 1955, as Act No. 452. The following sections
codify Act No. 452 as amended. Birmingham's
Form of Government |
2014 Republican Party Platform:
A Safer World a More Hopeful America
One hundred and fifty years ago, Americans who had gathered to
protest the expansion of slavery gave birth to a political Party that would save
the Union – the Republican Party.
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois carried the Republican banner in the Presidential election and was
elected the Party’s first President. The
2014 Republican Platform.
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The Evolution of
Negro Leadership*
In every generation of our national life, from Phillis Wheatley to
Booker Washington, the Negro race in America has succeeded in bringing
forth men whom the country, at times spontaneously, at times in spite of
itself, has been impelled to honor and respect. . Mr. Washington is one of
the most striking of these cases, and his autobiography is a partial
history of the steps which made him a group leader, and the one man who in
the eyes of the nation typified at present more nearly than all others the
work and worth of his nine million fellows.
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