So, has presidential candidate Barack Obama been "talking down to black people" as civil rights icon Jesse Jackson uttered into a "hot mic" on the Fox News Channel? Judging by the enthusiastic response Obama received when he spoke last week before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the answer is no. ...more

July 20, 2008

Dozens of residents talk about life in Tampa before and during the civil rights era in fragile recordings to be released online. ...more

January 28, 2008

Not Your Father's Democratic Party In his letter of Dec. 12, Dallas Dunlap included a list of significant achievements by the Democratic Party. Also of significance was the fact that the most recent of these dates to over 40 years ago. The reason is simple: That was around the time that Mr. Dunlap's party lost its course. The party of Roosevelt, Truman and JFK began its death spiral in the 1970s. ...more

December 14, 2007