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June 3, 2011

Mitt Romney's thin record on race

OPINION - The real test for Romney on racial matters will come in the weeks and months ahead when he's…
May 28, 2011

GOP Rep: Obama elected because he's a `black man who was articulate'

Yesterday, GOP Rep. Joe Walsh raged at Jewish Americans for not being sufficiently pro-Israel...
May 19, 2011

Tea Partier claims he's an expert in black history

David Barton, the Republican establishment's favorite amateur historian, claims in tax records reviewed by HuffPost to be something of an…
May 14, 2011

Gingrich on Obama: 'Most successful food stamp president'

MACON, Ga. (AP) - Republican Newt Gingrich told a Georgia audience on Friday evening that the 2012 presidential election is…
May 11, 2011

Gingrich has already lost the minority vote

OPINION - As one reporter said of Newt Gingrich, 'It was the racism that threw me'...
April 28, 2011

State GOP rep: Blacks earn less because they don't work as hard

theGRIO REPORT - Rep. Sally Kern is known for ruffling a few feathers with her politically incorrect statements...
April 26, 2011

NJ election official: Lewis can't run for Senate

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Secretary of State Kim Guadagno ordered Lewis' name to be stricken from the June Democratic primary…
April 26, 2011

How Haley Barbour was hamstrung by civil rights blunders

OPINION - Even if Barbour did not tote a storage locker of personal and political baggage, his candidacy would still…
March 14, 2011

Herman Cain: 'Don't condemn me because first black prez was bad'

Cain said he believes that the country electing Barack Obama as its first African-American president could help his chances if…
February 21, 2011

Miss. Gov. Barbour sees no baggage on race

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Barbour says he denounces the Klan, but doesn't denounce specific people and that's what he…
February 16, 2011

Good grief, Haley Barbour! KKK license plate controversy continues

Haley Barbour just demonstrated that he doesn't know how to address racially sensitive subjects in a way that will resonate…
February 10, 2011

Exclusive: The woman behind ‘Craigslist Congressman’ Chris Lee’s downfall

"Dating in D.C. sucks," she said as we chatted by phone late Wednesday night, mere hours after Lee's resignation...
January 29, 2011

Barbour juggles White House hopes, state’s past

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Now if the 63-year-old could just shake his penchant for airbrushing his state's segregationist past, a…
January 28, 2011

Would Barkley have been a slam dunk in politics?

OPINION - Had Barkley, by no means an angel, chosen to stay the course and run for office, the scrutiny…
January 24, 2011

Bachmann hits campaign trail in Iowa — says national debt is ‘slavery’

Bachmann was born in Iowa, and her family moved to MInnesota when she was young. So is her return to…
January 24, 2011

House leader Cantor says Obama is a US citizen

WASHINGTON (AP) - Appearing Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Cantor refused to call people who question Obama's citizenship "crazy."...
January 13, 2011

Barbour: Time to build civil rights museum in Miss.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Republican, who is considering a 2012 run in what could be a crowded GOP field,…
January 5, 2011

Heroic Media: ‘The most dangerous place for African-American children is the womb’

According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, black women are more than 5 times as likely as white women to have…
January 5, 2011

Black caucus swears in first GOP member in years

WASHINGTON (AP) - A strident conservative, Allen West is the first Republican to join the caucus since Rep. Gary Franks…
December 1, 2010

SC Republican Tim Scott will not join black caucus

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Throughout his campaign, Scott has downplayed his race, saying he has always lived in a world…