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PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Baltimore. As the American presidential elections heat up as we get closer to September, President Obama clearly leads amongst African Americans in polling, but he needs African Americans to actually go to the polls, not just answer phone calls about how they’re going to vote. [...]

Here’s everything you need to know about the speakers on the third night of the Democratic National Convention   Dick Durbin You know him because: He is a U.S. senator from Illinois and assistant majority leader of the Senate. He would like you to forget: Durbin had to apologize on the Senate floor for remarks he made comparing the techniques [...]

At the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday, President Clinton did a better job of bringing the crowd to its feet than the Charlotte Bobcats have ever done. As they typically do, the President’s speech went on for longer than expected, and he repeatedly went off the teleprompter to re-emphasize his points. One of those points was [...]

Democratic officials are moving President Barack Obama’s convention speech Thursday indoors because of the possibility of severe weather. Obama had planned to accept his party’s nomination in an outdoor football stadium before a crowd of up to 74,000 people. But Obama officials said forecasters have predicted severe thunderstorms Thursday in the 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. hour, raising concerns about [...]

It’s still unclear where the rapper stands on the 2012 presidential race, but a new mixtape may offer some potential clues. Or not, considering she has various rap personas. Either way, Minaj piqued fans’ interest this week with the release of Lil Wayne’s mixtape “Dedication 4,” which features a guest appearance by Minaj and beats by Kanye West. Read more: [...]

Ariell Tillman is a senior at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee and is from St. Louis, Missouri. She is a member of the TSU Social work club, New Direction Gospel Choir, My Sisters Keeper Inc. and Vision College Choir. She is not a political science major; however, she speaks to political issues fluently. We had a transformative dialogue about [...]

Dreams of a vote deferred? The year 1929 saw the stock-market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression, the global economic disaster which remains the only one in history that dwarfs the one in which we now find ourselves. It was also the year of the birth of Martin Luther King Jr., who wouldn’t live to see 40. And [...]

NAACP leaders will go to the United Nation’s Human Rights Council in Geneva next week in hopes of winning support in its fight against voter suppression in the United States, NAACP President Benjamin T. Jealous said on Thursday. The delegation’s goal is to ask the U.N. to investigate multiple incursions into minority voting rights by certain states, Jealous told reporters [...]

The Super Tuesday edition of Washington Watch with Roland Martin was hosted at Howard University on March 6, 2012. Check out the pictures from the event. All photos (except for featured image) courtesy of Anna-Lysa Gayle. To see more, visit her flickr page. And to see more from Anna-Lysa Gayle visit her blog.

Boosted by improved public confidence in his economic stewardship, President Obama for the first time holds a clear edge over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in a hypothetical general-election matchup, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Romney, who notched his second consecutive victory Saturday by easily winning the Nevada caucuses, continues to solidify his position as the front-runner [...]

“I’m a Democrat but I believe in what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed…a government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves and more.”-President Barack Obama President Barack Obama gave his State of the Union Address this past Tuesday. There were many speculations of what he was going to say. The hot button issue was the economy, [...]

  One week can change everything in an election. For Herman Cain, it’s more like half a week. Herman Cain has been accused of sexually harassing by 3 women this week, stemming from incidents that occurred in the 1990s when Cain and the women were working at the National Restaurant Association. The Cain campaign has not denied that there were accusations [...]

For decades our ancestors bled, fought and died in order to ensure our rights as equal citizens. The Ku Klux Klan, than a legal militant terrorist organization, developed as a result of white southerners’ violent opposition to blacks being able to play a part in legislature and voting elections. Hundreds of black people were mobbed, beaten, raped and murdered in order [...]

(July 22, 2011 – Photo by Pool/Getty Images North America) The political buzz on HBCU campuses around the country has been what to make of President Obama’s efforts to create more jobs. This will indefinitely become the most critical issue heading into Election 2012. We all know that the President of the United States has to attend to hundreds of [...]