Politics

Race and the Fight Against Obamacare

by Judy on Jun 28, 2012 • No Comments • Affordable Care Act, health care, Obamacare, President Obama, racism, Supreme Court

Featured on The Huffington Post: With resistance to President Obama’s health care law culminating with the Supreme Court deciding the fate of the most important social policy since enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the failure to win popular →

Health Care Showdown: How Did We Get Here?

by Judy on Mar 29, 2012 • No Comments • Affordable Care Act, conservatives, health care, health reform, Individual Mandate, obama, Obamacare, President Obama, Supreme Court

Cross-posted on The Huffington Post and Politic365 Passing the Affordable Care Act was no easy feat. The legislative and political battle over health reform was sharply drawn along ideological lines. After months of political wrangling and Tea Party protests that →

Netroots Panel On Black Voter Turnout Sparks Debate

by Judy on Jun 21, 2011 • No Comments • 2012 campaign, black voters, liberals, Netroots, obama, progressives

With Obama-bashing at fever pitch in certain circles, some reactions to our Netroots Nation panel demonstrate that disappointment in the president can overshadow meaningful attempts to reach out to voters. →

PBS.org: Whitewashing American History

by Judy on Feb 9, 2011 • No Comments • American history, black history, civil rights, Michele Bachmann, post-racial

It was two years ago at a Black History Month celebration that Attorney General Eric Holder observed that we live in a "nation of cowards" unwilling to have an honest conversation about race. Holder's remarks sparked a firestorm of criticism →

America’s Forgotten Class —Do the Poor Matter?

by Judy on Jan 30, 2011 • No Comments • class warfare, conservatives, cornel west, economy, middle class, poor, poverty, public discourse, tavis smiley, working class

So often in our public discourse the plight of the poor is subsumed within the needs of the middle class (i.e., “a rising tide lifts all boats”) or all together ignored. While this familiar narrative unfolded during Tavis Smiley’s America’s →

Obama Schools Nation on Technology and Changing Economy

by Judy on Jan 27, 2011 • No Comments • economy, globalization, innovation, President Obama, SOTU, State of the Union, technology

During his State of the Union address President Obama placed special emphasis on technology as an underlying force driving change in our economy. Before laying out his vision of a new era of American innovation, Obama noted that “thirty years →

Live Blogging From America’s Next Chapter

by Judy on Jan 13, 2011 • No Comments •

Last week I posted an interview with PBS’ Tavis Smiley about his America’s Next Chapter forum airing live on CSPAN right now. I am one of a handful of “official” America’s Next Chapter bloggers who are helping to moderate the →

Exclusive: Interview with PBS’ Tavis Smiley On Media Diversity and Jan 13 America’s Next Chapter Forum

by Judy on Jan 6, 2011 • 1 Comment • diversity, media, obama, people of color, politics, tavis smiley

The lack of diversity in the media has long been a source of frustration for media watchers. Turn on network or cable television and its clear that the value of racial, ethnic and gender diversity continues to be ignored by →

Will Young, Disenchanted Voters Show Up for Midterms?

by Judy on Oct 22, 2010 • No Comments • congress, democrats, elections, midterms, obama, youth

In an increasingly unpredictable midterm election cycle, young voter turnout could make a difference in highly contested races around the country. With President Obama on the campaign trail and new efforts to reach targeted demographic groups including millennials, there is →

The Right’s ‘Post-Racial’ War on Civil Rights

by Judy on Jul 30, 2010 • No Comments • Andrew Brietbart, civil rights, NAACP, obama, post-racial, Sexism, Shirley Sherrod, Tea Party

In the wake of the election of President Obama, the mainstream media posited the false notion that America was now in a 'post-racial' era in which the civil rights battles of the past were no longer relevant. →