“Eighty-six percent of African Americans are high school completers, the share with a bachelor’s degree or more has more than tripled (from 6.6 percent to 22.2 percent) and roughly one-third of 18-24-year-olds are enrolled in college”, the study finds.
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But the most poignant and dramatic utterance by President Obama during his remarks happened when he energetically stated, “There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter”. “And I say to the African-American communities, and I think it’s resonating, because you see what’s happening with my poll numbers with African-Americans”. In 2011, after black lawmakers began criticizing the president’s lack of attention to the economic problems of the underclass, he told the group, “I expect all of you to march with me and press on”, adding that they should “stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying”. That is the most important civic duty that you have.
“One hundred voting rights cases have been initiated by Attorney Generals (Eric) Holder and (Loretta) Lynch”, Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett told a standing-room-only audience at the Annual Legislative Conference National Town Hall. While we’re not sure where Trump’s African-American tour is headed next, we can be certain it won’t be without the unusual, awkward moments that has followed on every stop thus far.
“Well, it’s, ‘Wow, here we go again”, Trump said on Fox News when asked for his thoughts on the Charlotte situation. De Blasio credited the continued drop in crime in New York City in recent decades to a crime reduction strategy adopted by Bratton called CompStat, which employs statistical strategies to achieve more effective policing.
Speaking Thursday afternoon at a rally in Pittsburgh, Donald Trump suggested that drugs play a large role in the protests seen in response to police shootings.
NNPA members and staff had an opportunity to have a media preview of the new museum.
Some political strategists have wondered why Trump is even bothering with trying to woo African Americans.
Black America is in a state of emergency today as it was at the turn of the century.
The firestorm caused by the younger Trump’s tweet even forced a response from running mate Mike Pence who told NBC News’s Kelly O’Donnell in an interview: “It is remarkable to me to see the level of outrage about a metaphor used by Don Jr, when Hillary Clinton’s calling for a 550% increase in the Syrian refugee program”. We must defeat him in November.
To achieve the goal of “20 Million Black Voters to the Polls”, the NNPA’s Project Black Voter Turnout 2016: 20 Million Black Voters to the Polls will work in coordination with the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) that offers an online link for voter registration. They’re registering voters and getting signed pledge cards from people promising to make it to the polls. Register folks to vote.
The Republican nominee has made a concerted effort to reach out to black voters over the last month, including visiting a predominantly black church in Detroit, and visiting the water plant and a church in the majority-black city of Flint, Michigan.
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Many know that I am conflicted on what President Obama means to this country, and Black people in particular.
