David L Horne

Back to square nine in California
David L. Horne, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Dec 13 2012

Practical Politics

In this slow meander to California’s winter, with the bustle and boom of the last election season behind us, the business of governing California now takes a bolder stance. Within that context, African Americans in the California State Legislature have again achieved their highest number—nine—for the second time. This increases by one last year’s number, with two state senators (out of 40) and seven Assembly members (out of 80). They are all a part of the heavily Democratic Party-dominated status of the current state Legislature.

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Challenging the 1965 Voting Rights Act
David L. Horne, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Dec 6 2012

Practical Politics

Even though the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s and the 1960s has regularly been called the “moral movement for the soul of America,” and other such lofty names, essentially the movement was about getting the federal and state governments to enforce the laws that protected citizens from abuse by government, or the passage of new legislation in the absence of such effective protection. The movement was about law and law enforcement.

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Whither the Black agenda
David L. Horne, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Nov 29 2012

Practical Politics

OK, for those who read last week’s article and who stopped me in Albertson’s, or on campus, to ask when we were going to get something going on, in the aftermath of the MLK Day 2013 celebration.

Around Jan. 20, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., the Council of Black Political Organizations (COBPO), KJLH’s Frontpage and, most likely, Our Weekly newspaper, will co-sponsor a California Town Hall on a Black American agenda.

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Whither a Black Agenda?
David L. Horne, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Nov 22 2012

Practical Politics

Last week, in the aftermath of the re-election of President Obama, and a very good Election Day for Democrats, a questioner on radio station KJLH’s “Front Page” community talk show asked when we were going to call for a town hall meeting to discuss creating a Black political agenda. The question was related to the common belief that many other groups, including Latinos, the LGBT community, Jews and Asian Americans, were clearly readying themselves to advocate and push their interests to the Obama administration and to other representatives.

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Life’s lessons learned and unlearned
David L. Horne, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Nov 15 2012

Practical Politics

“Hard heads make soft behinds,” my mother always told me. Translation: Lessons ignored or not learned well the first time would be revisited upon me, usually in more painful ways. This homily seems to fit the recently cold-cocked Republican Party.

If the constant tone and arrogance of many of the national spokespeople for the party can be taken as a true barometer of what the party hierarchy learned from the shellacking they just received then it seems “soft behinds” indeed are in the offing.

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Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.

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