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Drama, My Mama, & Barack Obama

Dr. Firpo W. Carr (Columnist)October 30, 2008

No one could have predicted that paths grown cold would cross, or that one degree of separation would make for an odd connection. About a week ago, Hofstra University in Hempstead , New York , was the site of the last of three debates between Barack Obama and John McCain. Just a few years ago, I was invited to the same university (twice actually due to a mix-up) to lecture on my book Germany’s Black Holocaust: 1890-1945. They treated me like a king, sending a limo to pick me up at the airport, and, of course, putting me up in

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Democrats Officially Nominate Barack Obama; Clinton joins in Acclamation

DAVID ESPO, AP CorrespondentAugust 27, 2008

DENVER (AP) — Barack Obama, standing where no black has ever stood before, swept to the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday as thousands of national convention delegates cheered his improbable triumph. Former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton asked the convention delegates to make it unanimous, the culmination of a painstaking agreement worked out between the two camps to present a unified front. Obama was across town as the delegates he won in the primaries of winter and spring sealed his victory. Aides left open the possibility that he would briefly visit the Pepsi Center to thank his supporters, a routine event

Dr. Firpo W. Carr

Jesse Jacksonâ€™s Not Exactly â€œNutsâ€ About Barack Obama

Dr. Firpo W. Carr (Columnist)July 17, 2008

Last week, fellow Sentinel columnist Jesse Jackson intimated that, although having little or no experience as a surgeon, it was his firm desire to perform a gonadectomy on Senator Barack Obama. Were he indeed qualified to perform such a delicate surgical procedure, it’s isn’t at all difficult to fathom that Mrs. Obama would be none too pleased with the prospect. In plain English, regarding the Presidential candidate, Jackson told a fellow interviewee on Fox News the following: “I want to cut his nuts off.” Jackson’ ambitious medical aspirations aside, I personally think the low tonal nature of Senator Obama’s voice

Larry Aubry

Barack Obama: Audacious and Accomodating

Larry Aubry (Columnist)June 12, 2008

Euphoria abounds and is well deserved. But people must keep in mind that Barack Obama’s presidential priorities and commitments really won’t be known unless and until he becomes President. Thereafter, Blacks must hold him accountable for addressing their concerns in discernible ways. The exuberance over Obama’s nomination (indeed, his campaign), is reminiscent of Black leaders’ unbridled embrace of newly appointed Los Angeles School Superintendent Admiral David Brewer some eighteen-months ago. His qualifications for the position, unlike Obama’s, still aren’t apparent. Thus far, Brewer’s leadership and grasp of the education and political landscape is inadequate. (Newly hired Dr. Ramon Cortines may

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Danny Bakewell Jr. Runs for Delegate Seat to Support Barack Obama Campaign

Sentinel Staff WriterApril 10, 2008

Danny Bakewell Jr. aims to represent the community this weekend by becoming a National Democratic Convention Delegate representing the 33rd Congressional district. Please show your support by voting Sunday, April 13, 2008 for a candidate in the community who supports Barack Obama and the change he believes in. For a printable version of this flyer, click here .

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Barack Obama Shows America What it Means to be Presidential

Kenneth Miller ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORMarch 20, 2008

In what many called his make-or-break moment the Senator stood strong on race, faith and friendship Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama stood at the podium with American flags as his backdrop, looked America straight in the eye and delivered one of the most stirring speeches since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech on Tuesday March 18. Eloquent, often stern and several times drawing ovations from the small crowd, Senator Obama addressed statements of his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., and challenged Americans of all ethnic groups to understand, embrace and move beyond their racial

Dr. Maulana Karenga

Transcending Race with Barack Obama: Red-Necking with Arkansas Bill

Dr. Maulana Karenga (Columnist)January 31, 2008

Just when the established-order media had declared the maturing of White America beyond race, and Tiger Woods had graciously forgiven a White woman acquaintance for an on-TV joke about lynching him; and just when one of us at Harvard had argued for allowing Whites to call us “N’s” in a book-length exercise in acute and disabling denial; and when some of our other intellectuals, were imagining and hoping out loud for the White transcendence of race in real time, the Clintons’ campaign has rudely reminded us “They’re not ready yet.” But whatever the Clintons do, and it is widely believed

Opinion

When I Look at Barack Obama

Eric L. Wattree Sr. (Columnist)January 31, 2008

When I look at Barack Obama, I not only wonder why every Black person in America isn’t supporting him, but why they aren’t jumping up and down with glee at the opportunity. I’ve had many people tell me—both Black and White—that I’m just supporting Obama because he’s Black. True, I am supporting Obama because he’s Black, but not ONLY because he’s Black. I’m supporting Barack Obama because in spite of being blessed with Black skin, and all the disadvantages that entails, this brother has managed to rise head and shoulders above the very best this society has to offer. That

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Barack Obama the Man Who Can be President

Christine SabathiaJanuary 10, 2008

It has been over four decades since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed allowing for Blacks to freely participate in the political process, but not until now has America witnessed a phenomenon of the likes of Barack Obama. “I would hope that it would happen, but I never thought it would happen in my lifetime,” said 77-year old Lillian Mobley. Mobley is a long time Los Angeles community activist who has championed the causes of the poor Blacks for most of her life. “He’s got what it takes to become president of the United States—his whole demeanor, character,

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