The date was March 24, 2004, and Bush was the speaker at annual black-tie dinner of Radio and Television Correspondents Association.. Mitchell called Bush's performance and its reception, one of the most episodes in the recent history of American media, and presidency, today... ..…
Many other black women feel the same way: Dr. Alveda King, Catherine Davis, Day Gardner, Star Parker, Dr. Freda Bush, Connie Eller, Zina Hackworth, Kay Coles James or the late Dr. ..…
Republican President Ronald Reagan created White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities back in 1981. Bush moved the initiative from White House to Department of Education. ..…
Bush as the first black Secret Service agent to head a vice presidential protective detail. ..…
Bush. In 2000, 90 percent of black voters voted for Al Gore, as did 63 percent of Latinx voters, according to Colorlines. ..…
After eight years of war “on terror” in the Middle East and war on public health and the natural world by Bush, Americans elected the first black American president, Barack Obama. ..…
Wars, however, are never quite as black-and-white as Mr. Bush would have us believe, and this also applies to World War II. ..…
In this November 2004 photo, black voters cast ballots in the Bush-Kerry presidential race. Looking forward to the 2020 presidential race, reports have black voters focused on ousting Donald Trump rather than making any other statement involving race or gender with their votes. ..…
.,” CIA counterterrorism chief Cofer Black warned days later. Bush did not meet with his cabinet heads again to discuss terrorism until Sept. 4. . ..…
But it would be surprising if the People’s Republic didn’t show a commensurate decline in the number and percentage of black crime victims. . Now, if you’re really determined to find racists behind every bush, you could point to the fact that the number of white crime victims fell even..…
Bush in 1991 when Thurgood Marshall, liberal and the first black Supreme Court - Thomas was the second - retired... ..…
Bush administrations to actively encourage black home ownership (with disastrous consequences when the 2007 real estate bust drove millions of sub-prime borrowers into foreclosure). ..…
This seemed a far cry from the reaction of the Bush administration to Hurricane Katrina, where tens of thousands of the city’s poor, mostly Black, residents were left stranded and without help as Bush sent troops and Blackwater paramilitaries to police the city. The lack of a..…
IT's no surprise to readers of this magazine that, in election race in. ..…
Bush was committed to UNCF's mission to increase the number of African American college graduates and to preserve Historically Black Colleges and Universities ... ..…
Rolling Stone dates Bush’s involvement in the Contra war to 1982, when he reportedly conspired with CIA chief William Casey in an operation they code-named “Black Eagle.” Working under Bush, Donald Gregg managed finances and operations for the Contras, according to Rolling Stone. ..…
Bush administrations. But there was only one black Cabinet secretary during Obama’s first term, and the same is true so far in Donald Trump’s administration. . ... The highest level of black representation in a presidential Cabinet occurred during Bill Clinton’s first term,..…
Gregory Bush, 51, pleaded not guilty on Monday in U.S. District Court. ... The charges fall under state and federal hate crimes because Bush had initially stopped at the First Baptist Church, which is predominantly Black, near the Kroger in Jeffersontown in suburban Louisville. ..…
The average Black unemployment under President Bush was 10 percent. The average under President Obama after six years is 14 percent. Black unemployment, “has always been double” [that of Whites] but it hasn’t always been 14 percent. ..…
Bush was president when I first started covering national politics. He had come into office with barely any support from black voters. ... Trump, according to the 2016 exit polls, lost to Hillary Clinton among black voters by 81 percentage points, worse than Bush did in..…
George Bush using Willie Horton ad, was example on how white supremacists use one Black person wrote Tariq Nasheed, strategist based California, on Twitter.. ... In contrast, Raynard Jackson, Black Republican, wrote of relationship with Bush and his advisors. ..…
When the black hearse arrived bearing the body of former President Bush, I rushed down the hallway in the Capitol to a window just above and to the side of the main ceremonial entrance to the Rotunda. . ..…
A notorious television ad called “Weekend Passes,” released by a political action committee with ties to the Bush campaign, made clear to viewers that Horton was black and his victim was white. . As Bush campaign director Lee Atwater bragged, “By the time we’re finished,..…
Horton is black, and many accused the Bush campaign of race-baiting. . ..…
Much speculation has centered on Trump decision to release the report on Black Friday, when few Americans were paying attention to the news... The Bush administration just tried not to release the in 2001, said Kassie Siegel, the law institute director for Center of Biological Diversity,..…
Bush used to push an anti-black narrative during his campaign. NBC, Facebook, and even Fox News Channel pulled Trump’s anti-immigrant ad, but not before it aired widely on multiple shows including MSNBC’s Morning Joe. ..…
Jones might fit the category, as could Larry Thompson, a former Bush Justice Department official who is black. ..…
Charles Black, a senior adviser to the Bush campaign, noted the 'huge gap' between Mr. ... Black said, should have no trouble deciding between the two candidates. . ..…
In eight years of office, out of a total of 83 appellate appointments, Ronald Reagan found only one black whom he deemed worthy of appointment, Lawrence W. ... As Judge Reinhardt has said: 'In President Bush's view, Clarence Thomas is apparently all there is out there. ..…
During the Bush administration, not only did the economic gains of Black America during the 1990s go into reverse, but the racial symbolism of the Bush administration was downright regressive. . From his theft of the 2000 election at the expense of Black voters in Florida,..…
These elite troops are highly trained killers, who in 2004 received a rare unit citation from the US Bush administration for their “black ops” activities in Afghanistan. ..…
Bush began by discussing the murder of nine black people in a Charleston, S.C., church on Wednesday by an avowed white supremacist. ... In response to a reporter’s question about whether Bush believes the attack was racially motivated, a Bush spokesman tweeted, “Of course.” ...…
The important thing is that 153 more black students -- double the number -- enrolled at Florida law schools last fall than in 1999, when Bush took office.. especially criminal, large portion of the defendants are black, unfortunately, you do not see the number of black attorneys..…
He has a Bush- Cheney bumper sticker on his black Corvette convertible. ..…
Joseph Borges, a deputy Republican Bridgeport registrar, is another black Bush supporter. ... Bush's term hasn't helped. Black unemployment has increased, almost doubling the rate for whites. ..…
University of Michigan rates undergraduate applicants on 150-point scale, with being black, Hispanic or American Indian earning 20 points. In narrowly tailored brief, Bush administration argued that this fails the constitutional test of protection for all, and ignores race-neutral..…
Jeb Bush named a Panhandle trial judge to the state Supreme Court on Monday to replace retiring Justice Leander Shaw, who was the second black jurist to serve on the high court. . ... Justice Peggy Ann Quince, who with Shaw's departure will become the court's only black justice, was..…
Preliminary figures show this year's freshman class is about indicating that Bush's One Florida plan to abolish race-based university admissions has not drained away black and Hispanic freshmen.. ..…
While not finding the school out of compliance for it, the ABA warned that FSU had better show it still can attract significant numbers of black and Hispanic students under Gov. Jeb Bush's One Florida plan. That plan abolishes racial preferences in law-school admissions starting this fall. ...…
Taking page from his own campaign, Bush went to mostly black in Washington to assert that his education proposals took the neediest students into account... ..…
Bush, does not think the penalty is applied more frequently to black defendants.. Still, aware of the political implications of appearing insensitive to black concerns, Bush signed Thursday creating task force to study the issue before the session begins March. ..…
There's nothing wrong with President Bush using the last days of his administration to travel to Black Sea to sign new arms-reductions treaty with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. ..…