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<p>BATON ROUGE - Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal is actively wooing endorsements of black political organizations, hoping to chip away at the Democratic Party's strongest base.</p> <p>This past week, Democratic candidate Kathleen Blanco went around the state for press conferences with U.S. Rep. Bill Jefferson, D-New Orleans, Louisiana's ranking black politician, and local white and black Democratic elected officials.</p>

In an op-ed I recently wrote regarding the Kobe Bryant affair, I issued a clarion call to black leadership to begin holding black athletes and entertainers accountable for the destructive role models they set for the youth in our community. One of the points the op-ed makes is that the ongoing deterioration of values in mainstream popular American culture gives reason for an even greater sense of urgency among blacks to care for our own. The current dispute regarding display of a Ten Commandments monument in an Alabama courthouse supports my case. It says something about the moral state of...

Black churches asked to donate Black leaders start drive to give colleges $11 million By John Railey JOURNAL REPORTER Wednesday, October 15, 2003 Local black leaders have started a landmark drive to get black churches statewide to give $11 million to North Carolina's 11 historically black colleges and universities over the next five years. 'There can be no greater connection in the African-American community than through the black church,' said the Rev. Carlton Eversley of Dellabrook Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem. Eversley will serve as the unpaid director for N.C. Black Churches for N.C. Black Colleges and Universities. The nonprofit agency,...

Editor's note: Each week, WorldNetDaily White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asks the tough questions no one else will ask. And each week, WorldNetDaily brings you the transcripts of those dialogues with the president and his spokesman. If you'd like to suggest a question for the White House, submit it to WorldNetDaily's exclusive interactive forum MR. PRESIDENT! By Les Kinsolving © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about President Bush's reticence to meet with representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or the NAACP. Reporter April Ryan of the Urban...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Deonne Beron (615)902-2244 / dber@juno.com BLACK LEADERS SET TO HIJACK 2004 PRESIDENTIAL VOTEAuthor warns that Jackson, Sharpton, and others seek to control 2004 vote with “civil rights” rhetoric(LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA)September 16, 2003—With the 2004 presidential campaign once again in the public consciousness, one black leader is stepping out to warn against those like Jesse Jackson and Democratic party presidential contender Al Sharpton who are seeking to co-opt the black vote. By using civil rights as a rallying cry, warns the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Jackson, Sharpton and others in the black establishment are actually seeking to...

Truth-telling 'Scam' hot off the press Jesse Peterson's work exposes fraudulent 'black leaders' While increasing numbers of Americans have come to regard Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and other establishment "black leaders" as con artists, gaining money and power by promoting racial tension and class warfare, never before has a book ripped the "scam" wide open like the latest offering from WND Books. This is a book people like Jackson and Sharpton will try to discredit and suppress at all costs. In "Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America," which has just been released, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson – a...

<p>Imam Wallace Deen Mohammed, the black Muslim spiritual leader who led his followers to a more orthodox form of Islam, resigned over the weekend as head of the American Society of Muslims (ASM).</p> <p>Mr. Mohammed, the son of former Nation of Islam icon Elijah Muhammad, said Sunday during the group's annual convention in Chicago that he was stepping down to work on improving the negative image of Islam in the United States.</p>

And our thanks to Townhall.com for bringing it to our attention today. Someone who calls himself "ransom" has a blog on the Internet. Last week he took some friends on a tour of D.C. and happened by the Lincoln Memorial just as some speakers were recognizing the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. Here are some of ransom's thoughts after that encounter:"I don't disagree that many black Americans remain oppressed, but I would argue that their oppressors are activist leaders within their own community. Some of them perpetuate victimization by ridiculing young black students who...

Just once, I'd like to see black civil rights activists take to the streets to protest schools that miseducate black children. Just once, I'd like to see so-called black leaders up in arms about popular culture's casual acceptance of mediocrity (and worse) in black students. But that's not the typical story line of black protest in matters related to education. The plot, ever so predictable, usually goes like this: A black teacher or principal is fired. Black activists call a press conference to denounce the alleged racism of white school officials. Or, school officials propose that new teachers be required...

Desperate times make black leaders more desperate This just in: The black "leadership" has spoken and war is not the answer. Though some 70 percent of Americans support the impending war against Iraq, you won't find a corresponding pro-American outcry from the black community. And it's no wonder: The reason that most blacks don't support the war is that most of their leaders are against it. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the Congressional Black Caucus and a cornucopia of embittered black church leaders and a slew of civil-rights degenerates have come out vocally and vengefully against the war. Let us go...

<p>Between 1918 and 1922, Detroit Urban League workers passed out more than 20,000 brochures crammed with "helpful hints" for blacks just arriving here from the rural South.</p> <p>"Don't sit in front of your house or around Belle Isle or public places with your shoes off," read one "helpful hint." "Don't wear overalls on Sunday."</p>

David Paterson's election yesterday as leader of the state Senate Democrats is historic not only because he will be the first African-American to lead a party caucus in Albany, but because it may signal the emergence of a new generation of black leaders from under the shadow of Harlem's fading political old guard. It's about time. Look what happened in this month's elections to the old guard's leading lights: State Controller Carl McCall was trounced by Gov. Pataki. Denny Farrell, the longtime Harlem assemblyman and the state party chairman, couldn't get McCall elected with 2 million more registered Democrats than...