The near-meltdown of Fukushima, the upheavals in the Middle East, the BP oil rig explosion, and the looming reality of global warming have reminded the president and all U.S. citizens that nothing has more impact on our lives than the supply of and demand for energy. Its procurement dominates our economy and foreign policy more … Continue reading
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HBCU Politics™ Profile – Texas Southern University’s Barbara Jordan
“Ms. Everything” – Barbara Jordan. Texas Southern University Alum served as a Texas state representative in both house and senate, U.S. congresswoman, Tuskegee Institute faculty, and only African American to serve as governor of Texas (albeit for only a day). Continue reading
HBCU Politics™ Political Book Feature – Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds
GLOBAL TRENDS 2030 is intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and vast geopolitical changes characterizing the world today and possible global trajectories over the next 15 years. The world of 2030 will be radically transformed from our world today. By 2030, no country—whether the US, China, or any other large country—will be a hegemonic … Continue reading
HBCU Politics™ Political Book Feature – King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Before Barack Obama, Colin Powell, and Martin Luther King, Jr., there was Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. — the most celebrated and controversial black politician of his generation. An astute businessman known as “Mr. Civil Rights,” he represented Harlem for twenty-four years in the House of Representatives. He was a man of the cloth and a … Continue reading
HBCU Politics™ Histolitics: Kwame Nkrumah’s 1961 I Speak Of Freedom
By Kwame Nkrumah (President of Ghana 1951-66) For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyedby the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to “civilise”Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent ofvast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the Africanpeople. All … Continue reading
The Savior Complex – African America’s Addiction To Leaders And Not Leadership
By William A. Foster, IV A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. – Leo Tzu We’ve all heard or debated this question at some point in time or another. Who do you consider the African American leader … Continue reading
US Senators By HBCU State Directory – 113th Congress
BREAKDOWN: 46 Senators 22 Democrats & 24 Republicans 8 states are split Republican/Democrat 8 states are all Republican 7 states are all Democrats The three classes of the Senate were then specified by Article I, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution: Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall … Continue reading
HBCU Politics™ Histolitics: Compromise of 1787
The Three-Fifths Compromise is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States of America Constitution: Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, … Continue reading
President Obama’s 2013 State of the Union Speech – Full Text
Remarks of U.S. President Barack Obama — As Prepared for Delivery Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he said, “to report the State of the … Continue reading
Presidential Margin of Victory Per HBCU State
Washington D.C. 84.2% New York 26.6% Maryland 25.1% Massachusetts 23.1% California 20.9% Delaware 18.6% Illinois 16.2% Michigan 9.5% Pennsylvania 5.1% Virginia 3.1% Ohio 1.9% Florida 0.9% North Carolina 2.2% Georgia 8.0% Missouri 9.6% South Carolina 10.6% Mississippi 12.0% Texas 15.8% Louisiana 17.3% Tennessee 20.5% Alabama 22.2% Kentucky 22.7% Arkansas 23.7% Oklahoma 33.5% *Red denotes margin … Continue reading
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