Secretary Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both took part in a presidential forum last night. My commentaries have focused so much on Donald Trump lately, I’ve decided to give you a break and discuss Secretary Clinton this time. The secretary took questions first. And what do you think was the first question? If you […]

For weeks now the focus of the election –which by the way is just two months away-, has been black voters. Donald Trump has been the more vociferous of the two major candidates. Over the weekend you may have seen Trump in Detroit making more appeals to the black community. He even spoke at a […]

  There are a couple of things to talk about this morning with this election. One of them is probably really important but NO ONE is talking about it. Why – because Donald Trump stole the thunder and once again shaped and controlled the media narrative. He completely overshadowed Hillary Clinton’s speech at the American […]

  In his quest to gain black voters, Donald Trump appears to have listened to many of his critics – that he needs to speak directly to the people he’s trying to reach instead of majority white audiences.   Trump’s campaign released a statement stating he’s starting his outreach in Detroit to speak to the […]

  Donald Trump is still out on the campaign trail saying he’s the candidate for black and Hispanic people. Last night he took his case to the people of Mississippi. “The Democratic Party has failed and betrayed the African-American community. Democratic crime policies, education policies, and economic policies have produced only more crime, more broken […]

For a week now I have been discussing with you on this program, Donald Trump’s outreach to black America. Well, he got a lot of criticism for the way he framed it, but that didn’t stop Trump for doubling down in Akron, Ohio on Monday night by saying some urban, black neighborhoods are more dangerous […]

Last time we talked about reports that Donald Trump’s campaign would encourage him to make a serious play for African Americans. Well that play is underway now. It started with a speech on Tuesday night in Wisconsin, the site of recent unrest after the shooting death of an armed black man by police. Trump told […]

Let me give you the poll numbers first. According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll that was taken just a week ago, Donald Trump polled at getting only one percent of the black vote. One reason I wanted to start with the poll on African American Trump support is to point out that if […]

The Justice Department delivered a scathing report on the Baltimore Police Department. Yes, the same department that arrested Freddie Gray who ended shortly thereafter. The Justice Department states that there were systemic problems that plague the police department. Much like the Ferguson findings, the DOJ report alleges that for more than a decade the police […]

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CNN anchor Don Lemon is usually on the receiving end of social media snark because of comments he makes about race. But on Tuesday night, he was the one delivering sharp commentary while interviewing a supporter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who intimated that “Second Amendment people” might be able to stop Hillary Clinton if she […]