Race Is In Holding Pattern For Now
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 10th, 2008 4:32 am by HL
Race Is In Holding Pattern For Now
The opening round of the general-election campaign between Barack Obama and John McCain has produced memorable images, negative ads, snarling e-mails and pointed exchanges over war, the economy and energy. What it has not done is begin to resolve questions among voters that both candidates must…
Tenn. Defies Cliches on Race and Politics
For Nikki Tinker, Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District hung as sweetly as a plum in the state’s Democratic primary. It has a black majority, is full of churchgoing African American women like herself, and includes the hallowed ground where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a…