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Election Shows Power of Black and Brown Vote
This year’s election cycle has taught us many lessons. Key among them is the clear fact that these United States are becoming more racially diverse and if politicians want to continue to lead, they
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Voters of all political persuasions celebrate on election night
The crowd leapt to its feet at the Millennium Center Tuesday night when Elisabeth Motsinger took to the stage. Motsinger, a Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board member, lost her bid to boot Republican Virginia Foxx
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What really matters in this election
On Nov. 4, 2008, many Americans shared, for the first time, an unbelievable calm, pride, and, yes, hope in our country. For a moment, we dared to believe that a “colored” man born of
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Early voters make their voices heard
The early voting fervor struck East Winston last week, as hundreds of Forsyth County residents flocked to the Mazie Woodruff Center and 14th Street Recreation Center to do their civic duty. As of the
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What you Talking ’bout Willard?
Halfway through the second presidential debate, I remembered the show where Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges played Arnold and Willis Jackson. Little Arnold was always asking, “What you talking ’bout Willis?” My question, exactly,
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Jobs report conspiracy theories
The birther issue – the preposterous idea that President Obama was not born in the United States – was finally put to rest, but that has not prevented conservative conspiracy buffs from seeing a
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Republicans Out of Touch with Reality
I saw this astounding figure that approximately 70 percent of Republicans believe that the poll numbers on the presidential race are biased towards President Obama. In other words, they are asserting that because President
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Dudley president accepts White House invite
Ursula Dudley Oglesby, president of High Point-based Dudley Beauty Corp, LLC, was slated to join other private sector leaders from around the country for a meeting in the West Wing of the White House
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RNC Fails the Diversity Test
If a picture is worth a thousand words, moving pictures are worth a million. The hard numbers confirm that the Republican National Convention, held in Tampa, Fla. the last week in August, was as
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NC delegates sad about venue change
CHARLOTTE–The decision to move President Barack Obama’s Democratic nomination acceptance speech from the massive Bank of America Stadium indoors to the smaller Time Warner Cable Arena has hit the North Carolina delegation especially hard.
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