By Lee A. Daniels
President Obama showed again in delivering his State of The Union message that, contrary to the tinny blasts emanating from the Right and despite an economy stacked against him, he’s ready to reprise the star-turn as formidable campaigner that won him the White House in 2008.

This week, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed a motion seeking to intervene in a lawsuit on behalf of the Florida State Conference of the NAACP and African-American voters to prevent the State of Florida from implementing discriminatory voting laws.

By Lee A. Daniels
One might think that the gathering of the leaders of nearly a score of black women’s political and civic organizations in Washington last week to discuss the midterm elections would be a cause for celebration.

All agreed that, despite the good news embedded the midterm election results, the word “challenging” is a significantly understated description of the political environment black Americans now face.

By George E. Curry Of the tsunami of mistakes made by the media in interpreting the midterm election results, the one that rises to the top is the assertion that Democrats lost more than 60 House seats in part because the African-American portion of the electorate declined from 13 percent in 2008 to 10 percent [...]

By Lee A. Daniels
If, by one definition, politics is the art of compromise, many of those running for office in this election aren’t politicians.

By Lee A. Daniels
If it’s national-election time, it must be time for the media to again acknowledge the importance of the black vote.

And, sure enough, with the mid-terms just a fortnight away, the idiotic pronouncements that blacks just reflexively vote Democratic have been largely banished for the moment from the news and opinion columns as the nuts and bolts consideration of the playing-out of the political game take precedence.

By George E. Curry
True to expectations, Artur Davis’ quest to become the first black governor of Alabama made history.

But, contrary to expectations, Davis’ stunning defeat provides a sharp – yes, historic – example not only of the cost of political arrogance, but also the underscoring for all candidates, and the national Democratic Party establishment, the sophistication and power of the black electorate.