AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
National Association of Black Journalists
Spike Lee's 'If God Is Willing:' New Orleans After Katrina -- and After BP
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyWhen Spike Lee was a grad student living in New York, he'd call his grandmother, Zimmie Lee Shelton, every night. Shelton, the granddaughter of a slave and a graduate of Spelman College, helped put young Spike through Morehouse College and New York University Film School. Every night, their ritual check-in would end the same way. Lee would say, "Talk to you tomorrow," and his grandmother would reply, "Spikey, if God is willing and the creek don't rise." That familiar refrain about what one can control versus what one can't serves as the title (and central motif) of Lee's follow-up to his ...
Michael Steele Cancels Talk to Journalists Because of Food Poisoning
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailySAN DIEGO -- The advance team for Michael Steele told the National Association of Black Journalists on Friday that the Republican National Committee chairman was canceling a scheduled afternoon appearance because of food poisoning, NABJ has announced. "While traveling out West the Chairman came down with a bad case of food poisoning," the RNC statement said. "He is disappointed to miss the opportunity to take part in this valuable dialogue and looks forward to engaging with NABJ in the very near future." Steele did not visit a hospital, but consulted a doctor, an RNC spokesman told CNN. ...
Are Black People Really Homophobic?
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyThere always has to be someone to blame. So when California's Proposition 8 – the state constitutional ban on gay marriage – was approved by voters on Nov. 4, the story line was set: African-Americans, who had registered and turned out in record numbers for Barack Obama, delivered crucial, even deciding votes for Prop. 8. Initial reports cited exit polls with seven of 10 black voters backing the initiative. Cue the back-and-forth name-calling. In comments and on blogs, some of the measure's opponents called blacks who voted "yes" bigots. Blacks didn't appreciate being singled out, ...
EPA Chief Lisa Jackson Links Civil Rights and Environmental Justice
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyTAMPA, Fla. -- OK, the unemployment rate for July fell to 9.4 percent, down from 9.5 percent in June, according to reports from the Labor Department on Friday. While it's the first decrease since early 2008, 247,000 jobs were still lost nationwide in July. At the same time, the course of the economy is still in question, and the debate over the health care package is causing rifts all over America. So how does the leader of the Environmental Protection Agency get people to focus on the environment? By showing how all these issues are related. ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- GSA Bash Organizer Steps Down
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics