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Alice Walker reads from Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
Alice Walker, the author of The Color Purple and activist, participated in a panel celebrating the 75th anniversary of the publication on Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. At the event sponsored by the The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR, Walker, actress Ruby Dee…
Stewart: ‘Mr. President, we can hear you capitulating to the Russians’
On Wednesday night’s edition of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart played back the now-infamous “hot mic” incident from President Obama’s trip to South Korea for a nuclear summit earlier this week. While Republicans were quick to attack the president for what they perceived as electoral hubris, Stewart sees another…
Maddow: People hate Obamacare, but love its provisions
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said Wednesday night that although polls have found that most Americans have an unfavorable view of Obama’s health care reform, they overwhelming approve of the actual provisions of the law. “So, you ask people if they want the health care law and they say, ‘no, it’s…
Jimmy Kimmel: Herman Cain ‘one crazy hairstyle away from being Don King’
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday jokingly compared former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain to eccentric boxing promoter Don King. Kimmel played a clip of Cain speaking about bumblebees at a tea party rally. “If you measure the aerodynamic perimeters of the bumblebee, that little flat body and…
Rep. Bobby Rush: A hoodie doesn’t make you a hoodlum
After being cut off on House floor for defiantly wearing a hooded sweatshirt, Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) appeared on CNN to discuss how the shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin hit close to home. “Trayvon Martin lies dead, partially because he was a black man wearing a hoodie in a…
Ohio lawmaker decries ‘hypocrisy’ of ‘vicious’ attacks on women’s health
In a video uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday, Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner (D) blasted Republicans across the country for pushing legislation aimed at reducing a woman’s access to an abortion. “Are you sick of hearing about lawmakers trying to protect women’s reproductive and sexual health?” she said. “Do you…
In House speech, Rep. Gwen Moore recounts being raped
Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) on Wednesday recalled her own experiences of being sexually abused during a speech in favor the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. “Violence against women is as American as apple pie,” she said on the House floor. “I know, not only as a legislator, but…
KKK member arrested for ‘menacing’ black man with gun at Ohio march
A member of the Ku Klux Klan was arrested in Mount Victory, Ohio over the weekend after he allegedly pulled a gun and threatened to shoot a black man during a march. Kevin Allan Gibbs, 22, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor aggravated menacing, a first-degree misdemeanor, according to the…
Lou Dobbs accuses Obama of encouraging Treyvon Martin controversy
A solicitation published this week to micro-blogging service Twitter by the Obama campaign, promoting Obama 2012 sweatshirts and other apparel, was seemingly too much for two Obama critics to endure without comment. Appearing on Fox Business last night, former CNN pundit Lou Dobbs accused President Barack Obama of creating and…
Tucker Carlson calls black lawmakers ‘professional race-baiters’
Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson says that “professional race-baiters” like some African-American lawmakers and President Barack Obama are making a mistake by injecting race into the death of Trayvon Martin. Fox News host Martha MacCallum played clips of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) speaking out…
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