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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – In this banking center walloped by the Great Recession, where unemployment just hit a 20-year high and as many as one in three black people are out of work, blacks could easily be frustrated with President Barack Obama's insistence that a rising economic tide for all will lift African-American boats. Yet despite surging discontent among some black advocates over Obama's refusal to specifically target rising black unemployment, it's hard to find average black folks here who disagree with the president's approach. "He has been addressing the black agenda as far as health care, education, all that," said...

The Richmond Voice Endorses Senator Allen’s Reelection ARLINGTON, VA – The Richmond Voice, Central Virginia’s largest African-American newspaper, endorsed Senator George Allen’s reelection campaign this morning. The following is the text: The Richmond Voice Endorsement This has been an election year in which Black folks have had to listen to allegations about which U.S. Senate candidate is a racist, who said the n-word, and so forth. It is sad that when they talk about Black people, it¹s only in the context of these trivialities and not about the issues that affect the everyday lives of Black people. There are myriad...

With less than 48 hours before the election, Carl McCall again criticized the national Democratic Party yesterday for not doing enough to help him oust Gov. Pataki. McCall - who trails by a wide margin in his effort to become the state's first black governor - said during a live radio interview that he was disappointed with the Democratic Party's efforts. Asked specifically whether national Democratic leaders have left minority supporters in the lurch, McCall said: "Let's get down to the bottom of it: I think that I'm not happy with what the party's done for me." Last month, Rep....

The political spillover of Middle East issues into U.S. politics is threatening the political livelihoods of some members of the Congressional Black Caucus and straining relations between black and Jewish Democrats. This is a significant political development because blacks and Jews have been traditional political allies and both have been strong pillars of support for the Democratic Party. What's more, Jews were among the strongest supporters of the civil rights movement and remain prominent in the struggle for racial justice. The most recent example was the defeat of U.S. Rep. Earl Hilliard, a five-term black congressman from Alabama's 7th District....