Huffington Post:
Mounting a big-budget Broadway musical about an African composer that most Americans have never heard of is a risky proposition, even under the best of circumstances, but the producers of Fela! have made choices that make success seem even less likely. Are posters of a faceless woman in a colorful skirt really the way to se (Read More)
Huffington Post:
By Jesse J. Holland, APWASHINGTON (AP) - Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings.Since becoming the first Hispanic justice, Sotomayor has mam (Read More)
Los Angeles Times - Top News:
Public health director expresses disappointment in the low turnout of African Americans, among the higher-risk groups, at H1N1 vaccine clinics and pushes for greater outreach. Very few African Americans have used Los Angeles County's free (Read More)
National Review Online:
Who is more admirable than people under dictatorship who stick their necks out for freedom and decency? Not many, you will agree. I have taken special note, over the years, of people in Cuba who stick their necks out, and who often suffer horrible consequences for their efforts. Not a few of these people are young. For exam (Read More)
LA Times:
County public health director expresses disappointment in the low turnout by African Americans at free clinics and suggests that greater outreach is needed. Very few African Americans have used Los Angeles County's free H1N1 vaccine clini (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
by Letta Tayler and Chris Albin-Lackey, Human Rights WatchHagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya--For months, 18-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi had dodged the mortar shells that whizz daily through Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of Somalia. The one that finally drove him from Somalia tore though his family's house and ripped a cousin t (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Does California Attorney General candidate Kamala Harris care about reaching out to Asian Americans? Let's start with her campaign website:In December 2003, Kamala Harris was elected as the first woman District Attorney in San Francisco's history, and as the first African American woman in California to hold the office.Bas (Read More)
L.A. Times - National News:
A Gallup survey finds 41% believe relations have gotten better. But 61% believe they will improve in the future, thanks to the election of an African American president. With the election of Barack Obama, the first African American to ser (Read More)
The Age World Headlines:
Decrying Barack Obama as "white power in black face", hundreds of African Americans marched on the White House on Saturday. (Read More)
MSNBC:
From NBC's Domenico MontanaroIf you're looking for the full 2009 exit polls, here they are:2009 New Jersey Exit Poll2009 Virginia Exit PollAnd here's a compilation of some of what we've written over the past few days going inside these numbers.As we wrote in First Thoughts yesterday: The election provided some clear warning (Read More)
National Review Online:
Happy Post-Election Day, y’all. Gonna make a few notes (as usual). I went to vote at my polling place on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. There were just a few voters there -- and this was about lunchtime. Place smelled of urine. There were workers, or hangers-on, talking about politics. Are they supposed to? As always, I (Read More)
LA Times:
Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling and his wife Rochelle deny trying to bar blacks and Latinos from renting at one of their 120 buildings in and around L.A. County. Los Angeles Clippers owner and real estate mogul Donald T. Sterling and hi (Read More)
feeds.latimes.com:
Agreement settles allegations that he discriminated against African Americans, Hispanics and families with children at apartment buildings he owns in Los Angeles.
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National Review Online:
Majesty and importance    Halfway through reading the article on Hillary Clinton’s workday in my Sunday Parade supplement, I suffered a nasty attack of saeva indignatio and had to stop reading.Looking at the thing now, with some soothing medication coursing through my veins, I’m surprised I even made it past the first sect (Read More)