Philly NAACP

Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the US elected its first black president, an Associated Press poll finds, as a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice toward blacks whether they recognize those feelings or not.

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It was 1864 and President Lincoln was in a tense reelection battle. His opponent George McClellan was running an unscrupulous campaign. It was the middle of the civil war and Lincoln’s memorable statement “don’t swap horses in the middle of the stream” seemed a reasonable ask and he was reelected.

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Pennsylvania courts are notoriously unjust places. Unlike appellate judicial decisions coming out of New Jersey, California and New York, our higher courts are among the least quoted and least respected (by other judges) in the nation.

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Last year in New York City, police stopped and interrogated black men and boys between the ages 14 and 24 a total of 168,126 times. The total population of black men and boys aged 14 through 24 in New York City is 158,406. 

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There were at least a dozen contests pitting long-term incumbents against young upstarts or all-out battles to fill vacant seats left by State Representatives who had exited early to seek other elective offices. Only in the 182nd District where Brian Sims apparently has beaten veteran legislator Babette Josephs, 71…

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“We are encouraged that the nationwide campaign by civil rights advocates has forced ALEC to rethink its voter suppression and criminal protection work, but we know that for so many Americans, the damage has already been done,” said Benjamin Todd Jealous.

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Celebrated trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was in town last week performing “The Ballad of the American Arts” at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts for the opening of Jazz Appreciation Month.

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A slain Florida teenager and the neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed him exchanged words before the teen punched him in the nose and began banging the man’s head on the ground, according to the watch captain’s account of the confrontation that led to the shooting.

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With each passing day, there seems to be a new set of developments in the Trayvon Martin shooting case. Here are the latest: A video of George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch captain who shot Trayvon shows that there were no discernable bruises on him when he was first brought into the Sanford PD.

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The father of 28-year-old George Zimmerman is speaking out in his son’s defense. Robert Zimmerman of Lake Mary, Fla., wrote a letter last week to The Orlando Sentinel calling the depiction of his son in the media “cruel and misleading.”

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