Rebecca Sinderbrand sends in this dispatch from Washington: Hillary Clinton received a polite reception at the Congressional Black Caucus's Annual Legislative Conference – with most members in attendance applauding and joining in the obligatory standing ovation – but she didn't quite capture the crowd; a few grim-faced members of the audience pointedly refused to rise Read More
Asked whether he had finally killed off the notion that he had trouble connecting with black voters, Barack Obama looked around him and laughed.
“It was never alive,” he said.
Mr. Obama had just delivered an impassioned keynote address at the historic Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma, Ala., and he was surrounded by hundreds Read More
I talked yesterday with U.S. Representative and civil rights icon John Lewis, whose political support has been the prize in a very public tug-of-war between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Assessing their performances in Selma this weekend, Lewis said that both candidates convinced him of their civil rights chops, but, for the moment, neither Read More
“Jo Jo’s Jacket,” the breezy third cut of Stephen Malkmus’ self-titled solo debut, commences with a recorded excerpt of an interview with the late Yul Brynner. “In a funny way, the shaving of my head has been a liberation from a lot of stupid vanities, really,” the actor intones. “It has simplified everything for me. Read More
