DENVER - (September 4, 2008) - African-American celebrities ranging from media mogul Oprah Winfrey to Washington, D.C. gospel singer Richard Smallwood turned out for the 45th Democratic National Convention as Sen. Barack Obama accepted his party’s nomination for president, a moment that will be forever engrained in time.
DENVER (August 29, 2008) - Whenever a politician prefaces his or her remarks by calling someone in the opposition party a friend, get prepared for an attack. That’s exactly what Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Joseph Biden did Wednesday night as he talked about his “friend” John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate in waiting.
DENVER (August 28) - During the past year, Calvin Rolark, of Parker, Co., a suburb of Denver, has become very familiar with the city’s homeless. “I was one of those people that would look at homeless people and think, ‘get a job,’” said Rolark, brother of Washington Informer publisher Denise Rolark Barnes.
DENVER (August 27, 2008) - In his speech before the Democratic Convention Wednesday night, former President Bill Clinton immediately squashed any doubts about his unwillingness to support his wife’s former rival. “I am here, first, to support Barack Obama,” Clinton declared. “Last night, Hillary told us in no uncertain terms that she’ll do everything she can to elect Barack. That makes the two of us.”
DENVER (August 27, 2008) - In 1928, a sprinkling of Black alternates were forced to watch the proceedings of the Democratic National Convention in Houston from behind a chicken wire fence. This week – 80 years later -- African Americans have broken through almost every party barrier, including claiming the party’s nomination for president.
DENVER (August 27, 2008) - it seemed like the weight of the entire Democratic Party was on the shoulders of Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday night. There had been a lot of talk about party disunity in the days leading up to the convention and many Democrats were looking to her to help bring the party together and were hoping her words would be the salve that would promote healing.
DENVER (August 27, 2008) - The race between Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama has been as much a clash between personalities as it has been a clash between two social movements, each vying for the ultimate prize.
DENVER (August 26, 2008) - Michelle Obama claimed a double-victory Monday night, painting an endearing portrait of her husband and revealing a softer side of herself, especially as a wife and mother. “And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago -- by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
DENVER (August 26, 2008) – When Jesse Jackson first ran for president in 1984, he not only elevated his profile, but those of African-Americans journalists assigned to cover his campaign.
DENVER (Aug. 24) – Over the past 48 years, King Harris, has seen his neighborhood fade to a ghostly image of itself. Denver’s Five Points, a historically Black neighborhood, had over time lost the people, culture and economic base that had once defined it; turned by gentrification into a mere statistic. “I was part of that change,” says Harris, 68, pastor of Five Points’ Epworth United Methodist Church.
(August 13, 2008) - In what is arguably the most anticipated event of the summer, more than 50,000 Democrats will converge on Denver’s Pepsi Center Aug. 25-28 for the Democratic National Convention.