Showing videos filed under: Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou

• Why Prop 8 Won

  November 11, 2008

  As the United States elected its first African-American president it also passed ballot initiatives in a number of states that ban gay marriage and limit the ability of gay couples to adopt children. According to Richard Kim, Associate Editor of The Nation Magazine, the no on 8 Campaign failed for three reasons.

  • Adoption
  • Alexander Robinson
  • california
  • gay marriage
  • Jewelle Gomez
  • National Black Justice Coalition
  • prop 8
  • Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
  • Richard Kim
  • The Nation Magazine

• Obama's Cabinet, Why Prop 8 Won, and a Tribute to Miriam Makeba

  November 10, 2008

  Barack Obama’s selection of Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff has many wondering what all the talk of change and charting a new course was all about. Emanuel, who as Chief of Staff arranges the president’s schedule and has a great deal of control over who has access and who does not, has butted heads with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party on everything from the 50 state strategy and

  • Alexander Robinson
  • Alexis McGill
  • barack obama
  • Cabinet
  • Christine Cegelis
  • Dan Gerstein
  • David Bender
  • Gloria Feldt
  • grittv
  • Jewelle Gomez
  • laura flanders
  • National Black Justice Coalition
  • Politically Direct
  • prop 8
  • Rahm Emanuel
  • Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
  • Richard Kim
  • The Nation Magazine
  • The War on Choice

• A Vote of Fear or Hope?

  November 4, 2008

  With the campaign entering its final day, and despite Barack Obama's comfortable lead, the fear factor still looms large. Last week the New York Times ran an article about Black voters in North Carolina who assumed that their votes would not be counted. In addition, the climate of fear stoked by the McCain campaign and its surrogates has added a raw edge to the campaign's final day.

  • Air America
  • Chris Kromm
  • grittv
  • Institute for Southern Studies
  • laura flanders
  • Lionel
  • Movement Vision Lab
  • Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
  • Sally Kohn

• Fear vs. Hope, Tweet Your Vote, and How the Election Could be Stolen

  November 3, 2008

  With the campaign entering its final day, and despite Barack Obama's comfortable lead, the fear factor still looms large. A recent ad titled CRISIS released by a Republican 527 blends fears of another 9/11, the financial crisis, and images of Barack Obama and a van of terrorists. Obama has stayed closer to the reality-based world, releasing an ad that highlights Dick Cheney's endorsement of John McCain.

  • Chris Kromm
  • Deanna Zandt
  • Election Fraud
  • grittv
  • Institute for Southern Studies
  • laura flanders
  • Lionel
  • Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of De
  • Ludovic Blain
  • Mark Crispin Miller
  • Movement Vision Lab
  • Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
  • Sally Kohn
  • Stop Dog Whistle Racism