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Monday’s Grapevine
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- The San Francisco Chronicle wonders whether Barack Obama, who triumphed in the South during the primaries, will win any confederate states at all during the general election in the fall.
- Crucial in some areas are the votes and money of the small but influential group of Black Republicans. US News discusses the dilemma they face in deciding their attitudes towards the first African-American candidate of a major party.
- A similar choice looms for Black pastors, especially the more conservative among them. The Philadelphia Inquirer points out: “If they support Sen. Barack Obama based on his faith positions, they lose credibility and violate their biblical principles. On the other hand, if they embrace Sen. John McCain, they abandon the historic candidacy of Obama without really gaining moral high ground.”
- Swimming, not a sport with which African-Americans have traditionally been associated has seen some barriers break down recently. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution profiles Cullen Jones, an Olympic hopeful, and the only African American currently on the U.S. national swim team.
- The Los Angeles Daily News investigates the possibility that hospitals in the Los Angeles metropolitan area are implicitly discriminating against minority mothers by screening more of them for drug use.
- BeyondChron reports on the “State of Black San Francisco” conference, which concluded “a combination of violence, economics and lack of Black leadership has contributed to a situation that could soon turn San Francisco into a city with only a handful of very rich and very poor African Americans.”
- The News-Journal from Delaware discusses the new African-American Empowerment Fund of Delaware, which they believe might have a chance where other such initiatives have failed.
- The Detroit Free Press reviews the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History’s exhibition entitled “Celebration and Vision: The Hewitt Collection of African American Art”, on till August 30. They’ve also put some examples online, saying these are “pictures that grow out of a specific cultural experience but give rise to universal feelings, a cornerstone trait of African-American art.”
- Oakland’s past is spotlighted by the local public library in “Visions Toward Tomorrow: The African American Community in Oakland 1890-1900,” including images and interactive art, reports the Bay Area News Service.
- Horace Selden, who is a park ranger in Boston, who taught courses on the history of racism for 25 years at Boston College, leads regular free tours through the Boston African American National Historic Site. His newest tour, called ‘”Freedom’s Trial”, ‘will focus on the quest for equality in Boston’s 19th-century African American community.’ The Boston Globe profiles him.
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[...] Invisible blog directs our attention to this SF Chronicle article exploring Obama’s chances in the south in November: “I think we’re going to see the largest African American turnout in the history of the country this fall,” said Merle Black, a leading scholar of Southern politics at Emory University and author with his twin brother, Earl, of “Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics.” African Americans typically vote 90 percent Democratic, and Obama could push that to 95 percent, Black said. Jump Here [...]