MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - Kendrick Meek received the endorsement today of the Alliance for Retired Americans in Orlando. In their endorsement, the Alliance highlighted Kendrick's fight for health care reform that puts seniors and middle class Floridians ...
Posted Monday, June 7th 2010 at 3:48PM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - PolitiFact reviews confirm that Charlie Crist really is really inconsistent.
Crist recently received two full flop ratings, one for claiming that he'd probably give Republican contributions back (http://www.politifact.com/flo ...
Posted Monday, June 7th 2010 at 3:41PM
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Greetings Everyone!
We are officially back for our hiatus as we allowed time for our staff to finish this past semester. We are pleased to be back with daily features of Black Scholars - we actually missed being immersed in the great work conducte ...
Posted Sunday, June 6th 2010 at 11:11AM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. Ronald Walters, Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. Dr. Ronald Walters is one of the most articulate and internationally renowned experts on issues of African Ameri ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 2:29PM
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Dear Friend,
Charlie Crist likes to think of himself as a newly-minted No Party Affiliation candidate, but he can't run away from his Republican past.
Just Wednesday, Jim Greer, the man Governor Crist handpicked to run the Republican Party of F ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 11:13AM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - U.S. Democratic Senate candidate Kendrick Meek made national news this week as Time Magazine, NPR, Politico and the White House commented on Kendrick Meek's strong position in the race:
Time Magazine joined Kendrick on the tr ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 11:04AM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - Kendrick Meek, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, today issued a statement following reports that the jobless rate fell to 9.7%:
"Today's news makes me cautiously optimistic that we're turning the page from recession to re ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 10:55AM
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127406040
One of the most closely watched elections this fall will be for the open Senate seat in Florida. Up to now, most of the attention has been on the Republican side, where the momentum of ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 10:45AM
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http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1994060,00.html
It's only June, but Florida's three-way U.S. Senate contest is already shaping up as a race to remember. It will have Republican Marco Rubio, the young and formerly unsung conservati ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 10:22AM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. Ronald Mallett. He is the 79th African-American to get a PhD in Physics, is a Physics Professor at the University of Connecticut, and is a Time Travel Researcher. http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/0 ...
Posted Thursday, June 3rd 2010 at 4:04PM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - The affidavit released after the arrest of Governor Crist's handpicked Republican party chairman Jim Greer raises some serious questions about the governor's interaction with Greer and the RPOF under his leadership.
"While th ...
Posted Thursday, June 3rd 2010 at 2:47PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features Eleanor Holmes Norton, Congresswoman and Civit Rights Activist - http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/06/eleanor-holmes-norton-congresswoman-civil-rights-activist/ ...
Posted Wednesday, June 2nd 2010 at 1:48PM
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