Roland Martin talks with BlackAmericaWeb Senior Political Correspondent and co-host of “Keeping it Real with Rev. Al Sharpton”, Michael H. Cottman, about affordable health care and the decline of HBCUs.
October 1 is looming large for President Barack Obama – and the nation. Four days before a potential government shut down, Republicans are holding Obama’s Affordable Care Act hostage. The budget fight between Democrats and Republicans is all about the Affordable Care Act – or “ObamaCare” as Republicans call it. If Congress doesn’t vote to […]
I sat inside a spacious conference room Wednesday listening to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan talk about the epic challenges facing the nation’s 106 historically black colleges. It’s a daunting task. Some black colleges are struggling just to keep the lights on. With some black colleges potentially facing extinction in the near future, it’s unconscionable […]
The racial hatred toward Nina Davuluri — the first contestant of Indian heritage to be crowned Miss America – was swift, relentless, and ugly. “How the f–k does a foreigner win miss America? She is a Arab! #idiots,”’ one man tweeted after Davuluri’s historic moment. “If you’re #MissAmerica you should have to be American,” another […]
With the sudden resignation of NAACP president Ben Jealous, the search is on for a new leader. BlackAmericaWeb.com’s Senior Political Correspondent, Michael H. Cottman, recently weighed in on the issue and suggested a huge change in leadership. In the NAACP’s 104-year history, there has never been a female at the helm as president. If you […]
Eight-year-old Donald Maiden Jr. is lying in a Dallas hospital with a gunshot wound to his face. Donald, who is black, had just celebrated his 8th birthday and was playing tag outside his apartment complex when he was shot last week by Brian Cloniger, a white 46-year-old who had been seen waving a gun earlier […]
President Barack Obama met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus Monday in a critical effort to gain their support for his plan to attack Syria. Obama joined National Security Advisor Susan Rice who was already meeting black lawmakers on Capitol Hill. It’s unclear whether all members of the Congressional Black Caucus are on board […]
President Barack Obama purposefully placed a bronze bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oval Office to remind him of King’s non-violent movement for racial equality and social justice. On Wednesday, 50 years after King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his soul-stirring “I Have a Dream” speech during […]
First Lady Michelle Obama commemorated the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington by inviting a group of predominantly black grade school students to the White House on Tuesday and showing them a documentary that chronicles the life of civil rights activist Whitney Young – who was raised in segregated Kentucky and became head of […]
Vickie Marble, a Republican state senator from Colorado, claims she didn’t mean to offend African Americans when she said black people are living in poverty, in part, because they eat too much fried chicken. “When you look at life expectancy, there are problems in the black race,” Marble said during a meeting of the legislature’s […]
Maybe I’m old-school and too much of a traditionalist, but I prefer my pastor preaching from the pulpit about faith and spiritual uplifting, not pimped-out in gold necklaces, tinted goggles, black leather jackets, and pontificating on reality television. But that’s just me. I’m referring to a minister named Deitrick Haddon – the pimped-out preacher — […]
Cornel so crazy. I’m talking about Cornel West, of course, and his recent anti-President Obama rant. BlackAmericaweb columnist Michael Cottman has more than adequately and excellently covered what West said about Obama, and, just as importantly, why. This column will be about West and the “p” word: precious. Before West’s rant, I thought I knew […]
