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Author Archives: Zerlina Maxwell

President Barack Obama (L) looks on as former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting on September 25, 2012 in New York City. Timed to coincide with the United Nations General Assembly, CGI brings together heads of state, CEOs, philanthropists and others to help find solutions to the world's major problems. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Does anyone take impeachment seriously anymore?

OPINION - If House Republicans actually file articles of impeachment against the first African-American president, they can kiss the black vote goodbye, forever...
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YANGON, MYANMAR - NOVEMBER 19: US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton wave as they arrive at Yangon International airport during his historical first visit to the country on November 19, 2012 in Yangon, Myanmar. Obama is the first US President to visit Myanmar while on a four-day tour of Southeast Asia that also includes Thailand and Cambodia. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Media, GOP feed second term 'scandal' season

OPINION - May has so far been a whirlwind for the Obama administration, first with the never ending Benghazi non-scandal and most recently with the Associated Press and IRS stories that threaten to give any high strung cable talking head an asthma attack...
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Governor Deval Patrick, of Massachusetts, applauds after the singing of the National Anthem during a pre-game ceremony in honor of the bombings of Marathon Monday before a game at Fenway Park on April 20, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)

Is Deval Patrick America's governor?

OPINION - If the bombings of the Boston Marathon and subsequent manhunt serves as the moment America saw a single leader step up and pass this crucial test of true leadership, it’s Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick...
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris attends TheWrap's 'Power of Leadership' brunch at Scarpetta on December 13, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for TheWrap)

Obama's Kamala Harris 'best looking' comment crossed the line

OPINION - President Obama is a feminist ally which is why it’s important to call this remark out, with love, in order to bring awareness to the issue of sexism in politics...
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Senator Malcolm Smith attends European School Of Economics Foundation Vision And Reality Awards on December 5, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for European School of Economics Foundation)

Malcolm Smith mess the latest setback to black NYC Democrats

OPINION - At a moment when any credible chance to become the next David Dinkins, looks to have come and gone, the city's black political class requires a reboot...
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Representative David Scott(D-GA) walks out after the vote on the 2nd part of the U.S. House of Representatives vote to hold Attorny General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress on June 28, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The House was scheduled for the contempt vote after Holder was accused for not submitting some of the documents in the Fast and Furious program, a federal law enforcement operation that allowed guns to circulate across the border between the U.S. and Mexico, to a House panel investigating it. (Photo by Kris Connor/Getty Images)

3 Black Caucus members still oppose marriage equality

OPINION - As up-and-coming black politicians with their eyes on CBC membership, look at the wave of public opinion, they will see opportunity...
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Ma'Lik Richmond covers his eyes and cries as his attorney Walter Madison, standing, asks the court for leniency after Richmond and co-defendant Trent Mays, lower left, were found delinquent on rape and other charges after their trial in juvenile court in Steubenville, Ohio, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Mays and Richmond were accused of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl in August 2012. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, Pool)

Lessons learned from the Steubenville rape case

OPINION - Perhaps young women may now begin to analyze past sexual experiences that should have been classified as rape, but weren’t because the young woman blamed herself as society had conditioned her to do...
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'Today Show' coverage of the Steubenville, Ohio rape case

Steubenville: Acquaintance rape is not a myth

OPINION - The idea that the young girl caused her own rape because of her choices lets Mays and Richmond duck the responsibility to explain their actions...
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg exits after delivering the annual State of the City address at the Barclays Center on February 14, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Bloomberg cited positive statistics including a record 52 million visitors to the city and a record low 419 homicides in 2012 while calling for a ban on styrofoam in the city. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Bloomberg spends big bucks on race to replace Jesse Jackson Jr.

theGRIO REPORT - Mayor Bloomberg has been a passionate voice for stricter gun laws for years and especially in the wake of the mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado and Newtown, Connecticut...
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Rep. Steve King (R-IA) speaks during a Tea Party Town Hall meeting February 8, 2011 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The town hall meeting was held by the Tea Party Express and Tea Party HD to address issues Tea Party members were concerned over. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Steve King candidacy in Iowa: A blessing in disguise for Obama?

OPINION - Steve King is the poster boy for over the top, racially tinged rhetoric in his attacks on President Barack Obama...
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