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On his first visit to the United States, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin chose to make his first speech not to Jewish leaders, but to Black Christian leaders in Brooklyn's Christian Community Church. None of the previous nine Israeli presidents has ever addressed non-Catholic Christians inside a church outside of Israel. This unprecedented gesture was poorly covered by the media.

With the in-your-face display of greed and arrogance of the so-called pastors on the reality show Preachers of L.A., I began to wonder: when will black Christians wake up and say enough is enough?  Although there are some white pastors of mega-churches who have a net worth of almost triple their congregants as well, I want to focus on the plight of the black saints who sit under the ministry of black pastors (and some white pastors) Sunday after Sunday and continue to live paycheck to paycheck.After some years of attending mega-churches pastored by both black and white men and...

All I can say is that if this got out to black Christians in swing states, Obama can kiss this election good-bye.

Once upon a time, I wrote a newspaper column while onsite at a Democratic National Convention. I opined that, “It really doesn’t matter who the Democrats nominate as their party standard-bearer – Bill Clinton, David Duke or a loaf of bread – black voters will blindly support him (or it).” Indeed, blacks have gone overwhelming Democrat since the 1932 presidential election, when Franklin Roosevelt captured 71 percent of the black vote. Given that history, most political observers expect the same outcome when black voters go to the polls this upcoming November. Especially since one of their own is running for...

"A leading minister of Black conservative Christians is launching a voter registration and education drive encouraging Black Christians to vote on Nov. 7. They want Black Christians to vote for candidates who support Christian values and not on the basis of party. "Bishop Harry Jackson, chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition and senior pastor of the Hope Christian Church, said that he sees the Black vote in Maryland as the swing vote in next month's elections. As a result, he launched the "Maryland Values Voter Initiative" on Oct. 18. ".. Jackson said. "We need to look to leaders who...