What's up folks! I don't know if you guys had heard about a campaign called "Actually..." where celebs call shenanigans on some of the B.S. that's been coming out of the Romney campaign. Well, Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead and I came up with the idea + it was produced by the folks who brought you The Great Schlep and Wake the EFF Up! Its been ( Read more... )

This video comes from Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead's new project Actually.org, a collaboration between the American Bridge PAC and the Jewish Council for Education and Research.

Watch as Rosie plays the world's smallest violin for poor, white Mitt:

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below the cut, the first video made by Actually.org featuring some of our favorite people (Jay ( Read more... )

I recently joined The Root and launched a blog + column called "Elongated Thoughts" Please swing by and check it out and share it! (I gotta make sure there's traffic or there wont be a blog + column  for long! ;-) )  But today I weighed in on RNC's night 1 headliner Chris Christie. I call shananigens...

(The Root) -- With the first night of the ( Read more... )

I had no intentions of dropping another This Week in Blackness so quickly. I was going to post an essay i dropped on The Root about media & politicians but I'll hold off on that to address Romney, the GOP and the question of Blacks in the Grand Old Party. And thanks again for the support folks. About 4 years ago you guys started posting TWIB on _p ( Read more... )

Greetings folks! I've been totally slacking on my sharing with _p but I'm going to attempt to rectify that. First up is the return of This Week in Blackness proper.  Back for the 2012 Election, TWIB! kicks things off talking voter suppression. When states across the country change laws and rules for voting what could possibly be there motivation? ( Read more... )

What's going on Folks. It's been a while since I've posted because I suck at remember to post things. But I wanted to share this new project I just finished with the amazing activist and rapper Jasiri X. A few weeks ago I pitched him the idea of taking a Notorious B.I.G. song (10 Crack Commandments) and flipping it to talk about the issue of Stop ( Read more... )

Hey ontd_political

It's been a while--I know. Last week I had the opportunity to cover the #SELMA2012 march (video dispatches found here). I found this interesting because many people I spoke to was unaware of the historic retread of the Selma to Montgomery march of 1965. Outside of a small select group of media outlets the march went largely ignored by ( Read more... )

Why Forbes' Column Crossed the LineMiddle-class white guy writes about what he would do if he were a poor black kid. Craziness ensues ( Read more... )

Newt’s War on Poor Children
By CHARLES M. BLOW

Newt Gingrich has reached a new low, and that is hard for him to do.

Nearly two weeks after claiming that child labor laws are "truly stupid" and implying that poor children should be put to work as janitors in their schools, he now claims that poor children don’t understand work unless they’re doing ( Read more... )

Dear OWS: Welcome to Our World
Police brutality experienced by the movement is nothing new in the black community.


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