Un presidente afronorteamericano en 2008. ¿Qué le parece esta idea? Solo hace unos meses muchos norteamericanos, si no la mayoría hubieron descartado hasta la posibilidad.

Of US presidents, influential progressive historian William Appleman Williams is reputed to have said, “it is not by rhetoric alone, but by their ability to recognize and resolve the central problems of their times that one should judge presidents.”

A Black president in 2008? Just months ago, many if not most would have scoffed at the prospect. Yet as summer blossoms, so too is the candidacy of Illinois Senator Barack Obama.

The Iraq war, health care, the Big Three auto negotiations, immigrant rights, racism, equality and the 2008 elections were the main topics considered in the meeting.

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In this print edition...

• Anatomy of an Incident: New Bedford Immigration Raid on Workers Rights, by José A. Soler
• Darfur, Oil, and the China Card, by Joe Sims
• Ball and Cheney: How the Vice President is Dragging Down the Administration, by Lawrence Albright
• La lucha de los trabajadores migrantes mejicanos en EEUU, por Luis Lázaro Tijerina

US Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) became the sixth and seventh total cosponsors of US Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) bill to impeach Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney.

"We might as well spit on the graves of Dr. King and Mrs. King if we allow the right of the citizens to assemble to be curtailed!" Rev. Timothy MacDonald, of the First Iconium Baptist Church, said, as about 50 protesters gathered in front of Atlanta City Hall

Personally I don’t think Sen. Sam Brownback from Kansas has much of a chance of getting the GOP presidential nomination in 2008. But you never know. Who would have thought someone of such a low caliber as George Bush would have gotten it in 2000?

If a news station supports an anti-democratic coup against a democratically elected president, does that station have the right to broadcast ultra-right propaganda over public airwaves?

It's becoming clear to me now that Senator Barack Obama wasn't really chosen by White America, otherwise – as previously I stated – he wouldn't need Secret Service protection.

Impeachment is serious, and the Congress Members who actually do it should treat it as such. And so, in many ways, should we.

Former US Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), a 2008 Presidential Candidate, spoke at this year’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, an annual function of the Democratic Party of Georgia.

It took 13 colonies to throw out the last King George. Thirteen state Democratic parties have now passed resolutions demanding impeachment, nine of them since Nancy Pelosi ordered the Democratic Party away from impeachment.

Another day, another impeachable offense. If this one were on a television show we'd all flip it off in disgust as too unlikely.

The news that Rev. Jerry Falwell died yesterday at the age of 73 will doubtless be followed by any number of encomiums to this television evangelist who founded an organization he called the "Moral Majority," and who mounted a largely successful public relations campaign to make ultra-right politics synonymous with his brand of Christian faith.

Congresswoman and House Judiciary Committee Member Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) has spoken up in support of impeaching President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

You know you've arrived as a presidential candidate when the US Secret Service is offering their services. They're purpose in this regard is to make sure someone else doesn't arrive; your killer.

May 8 marked the 34th anniversary of New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws. On this day Jim Jones the hip hop superstar released his new rap single and video titled "Lockdown, USA," a powerful song calling for real reform of the laws.

Six of nine non-police witnesses have recanted or changed their testimony over time since 1996 in a Georgia Death Row case, where Troy Anthony Davis of Savannah currently faces execution, but restrictive laws may prevent altered testimony to be considered in court.

In the wake of the first candidates' debate among the Democratic contenders for the White House (4/26/07), many media outlets and commentators seemed annoyed that the so-called "second-tier" candidates are even bothering to run.