Can Raffi Williams win the minority vote for Republicans?

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Raffi Williams has a tough job ahead of him. He’s just been named deputy press secretary at the Republican National Committee, tasked with taking the party’s message to young and African-American voters and black media. His appointment is in line with the GOP effort to attract rather than alienate minorities and improve its showing in future elections.

It’s all part of the plan outlined in an “autopsy” of the party’s weaknesses, presented recently by RNC chair Reince Priebus.

It won’t be easy, but then, Williams is more prepared than most 24-year-olds for the challenges of Beltway-based politics. He grew up debating issues with his father, Fox News analyst Juan Williams, over dinner.

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Apr082013

Roger Ebert: Passionate critic, half of a great love story

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His long and loving tribute to the woman who ended his bachelorhood showed how much his passion for film extended to the partner he credited with completing his life.

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A state religion? What’s next, North Carolina, secession?

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As a North Carolina resident also proud to be a United States citizen, I’m starting to worry.

Since Republicans swept the North Carolina state government, from the statehouse to the House and Senate, the tilt right has been unmistakable. But the latest move out of Raleigh has even a lot of die-hard conservatives shaking their heads. Two representatives from Rowan County have filed legislation that would give North Carolina, its counties and towns  the right to establish an official religion.

You know you’ve stepped over religious and constitutional boundaries when evangelist Franklin Graham thinks you’ve gone too far.

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Activist Angela Davis Reaches a New Generation

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In film and onstage, from the perspective of more than 50 years of activism, Angela Davis offers lessons from an organizer.

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Keeping It Positive: Technology and Art are Joining Forces in the Queen City

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CHARLOTTE, NC – Events are taking technology, music, and dance, and combining them into one. Exciting details about the Ulysses Festival and the North Carolina Science Festival at Discovery Place.

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Dr. Ben Carson: White liberals are “the most racist people”

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Dr. Ben Carson, an up-and-coming African-American in the Republican Party is being taken to task tonight after making these controversial comments on Mark Levin’s conservative radio show.

Levin: You’re attacked also in many respects because of your race. Because you’re not supposed to think like this and talk like this. A lot of white liberals just don’t like it do they?

Carson: Well you know there the most racist people there are, because they put you in a little category, a little box, you have to think this way. How could you dare come off the plantation?

Carson says white liberals have been attacking him after he criticized gay marriage saying, “No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are. They don’t get to change the definition.”

But are liberals really trying to take down the black conservative, or do they have a point?

Erin Burnett’s OutFront tonight: Mary C. Curtis is a blogger for the Washington Post, and Niger Innis, the chief strategist for Teaparty.net

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Apr032013

Note to Ben Carson: It’s not racism or a ‘plantation’ mentality; it’s just politics

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Compared to politics, separating babies conjoined at the head in a 22-hour-long surgical procedure is nothing. I wonder if Dr. Ben Carson is thinking that right about now.

Carson has had a pretty rough time lately. The pediatric neurosurgeon studied hard and worked his way out of rough circumstances to make a name for himself at the top of his field. Today that name is being pummeled, and all because he opened his mouth.

Carson knows who to blame for the metaphorical beating he’s taking, though. White liberals. “They’re the most racist people there are,” he told radio host Mark Levin on Monday. “Because they put you in a little category, a box: ‘You have to think this way, how could you dare come off the plantation?’”

That was a quick turnaround.

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In ‘Buckwild’ death, another case of a too real ‘reality’ show

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Is it just entertainment? A young cast member’s death again raises questions about the shows that clog network and cable schedules.

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What kind of state is North Carolina? Democrats and GOP make high-stakes bets

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Democrats and Republicans in North Carolina are in an ideological standoff, with future elections in the balance. That explains why Kay Hagan, a Democratic senator facing a tough 2014 reelection race, endorsed same-sex marriage, and Republicans in control of the statehouse made moves to tighten voting restrictions – all in one week.

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A ‘military spouse of the year’ closely watches the Supreme Court

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This week, Ashley Broadway is paying close attention to the Supreme Court as it hears two cases on the politically charged issue of same-sex marriage. For her, it’s about family: her spouse, Army Lt. Col. Heather Mack, their son, two weeks’ shy of 3 years, and two-month-old daughter.

“Regardless of how someone feels about same-sex marriage or their religious convictions, we can’t have second-class citizens, especially people defending our country and our constitution,” she said.

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