It’s official – Obama is Democratic nominee for president
Senator Barack Obama officially accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in front of 84,000 supporters at Invesco Field in Denver on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. This marks the first time in American history that a Black man has won the presidential nomination of a major political party. Before Obama gave the most important speech thus far of his political career, a well-organized show of top-notch speakers and performers took to the stage.
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DEMOCRATS UNITED
Working to bring the New York delegation further together after a bruising primary season, Democratic elected officials and delegates gathered over breakfast in Denver, Colorado, Monday to show a unified front for the Obama-Biden Democratic presidential ticket. The delegation, representing the true mosaic of New York State, had strong representation of African-Americans, Latinos, Asians and women among the delegates. The event, the first in a weeklong series of convention breakfasts, was standing room only. Delegates, family, friends, and a host of elected officials listened to top elected New York Democrats, headlined by Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer, Harlem’s own Cong. Charles ...
Obama’s Nomination 'A Step Toward' Fulfillment of the Dream
DENVER (NNPA) – America has come a step closer to the fulfillment of Dr. King’s dream in Denver this week with the official coronation and acceptance speech of U. S. Sen. Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee for president, civil rights insiders say.
“Barack Obama's address to the nation is unparalleled in its significance. Coming nearly 50 years after the dramatic impact that both president John Kennedy and Dr. ...
Incidents of HIV Worse than Previously Known
MEXICO CITY (NNPA) - The number of people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is 40 percent higher than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been reporting each year, according to new figures recently released.
According to the CDC, approximately 56,300 new HIV infections occurred in the United States in 2006. The previous estimate had been 40,000 new infections per year.
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Points of personal privilege
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Aug. 18, 2008)— It is not often that Emily, my assistant, Susan and I, struggling to make deadline for the Amsterdam News, have a discussion about the passage of time. ...
Blacks unqualified for the White House
With friends like these, who needs enemies? Throughout this presidential campaign, Sens. Hillary Clinton and Joseph Biden have behaved like attack dogs for Sen. John McCain. They went after Sen. Barack ...
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