Now that we have bailed out the banks, could it be as Fayetteville, NC conservative talk show host David Taylor suggested that we are letting the auto industry flounder because a car gives you a potential source of equity to borrow against.  By making it so that you can only get money through banks [...]

By Javier E. David  Chrisette Michele, the immensely talented R&B chanteuse with a versatile yet powerhouse voice, has been something of a difficult sell to mainstream audiences. One might argue that this jazz-tinged singer’s career has been hampered by a mercurial music industry that more than often not, tends to rewards oversexed pop-tarts with wafer-thin [...]

By Star And that show’s your stupidity. I’m sorry to be so harsh, but it’s the way it is. We are not a society that values every human life. We are giving and strong, we always want to help the victim. The aggressor is overlooked, maybe punished, but definitely overlooked. At least until it’s time [...]

                  By Cleo Brown Although housing is a basic need of life, Helen, a college- educated mother of five, became homeless in 1993 after she divorced her husband of thirteen years and lost custody of their children.  Compounding Helen’s descent into homelessness was the presence of a debilitating mental illness, which had, at its core, a [...]

This officer made a decision to unholster his weapon, aim it and fire. I will watch and listen with interest to the justifications offered to explain away the murder of a young black man as somehow reasonable. The Republican blog “A Political Season”  opines about the recent shootings involving the police and a young black [...]

 By Cleo Brown The Guggenheim Museum is one of six museums in New York City, New York. The other five museums are The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The MOMA, The Whitney Museum, The Museum of Natural History, and The Transit Museum. The Guggenheim Museum is International in its scope and includes a museum not only [...]

If the Republican Party is going to re-capture the imagination, confidence, and votes of a country that is increasingly more urban, more inclusive, and more ethnic, the presence of Hip Hop Republicans and those like them will be extremely instrumental. It will be the youth movement within the GOP that must change the image that [...]

From Harlem to Atlanta, the site of huge project buildings can be a sore spot for any developing community. The question that many people have concerning these government run facilities is are they empowering people or are they hindering them? Most of these facilities are run by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and exist to [...]

The pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an “awesome God” in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. Dennis [...]

America’s gun culture and its communities are at war – guess whose winning? By John S. Wilson No community is as affected by guns and gun violence than the African-American community. Consider this: Although African-Americans only make up 13% of the US population, in 2005, they accounted for a mind bending 53.4% of the 12,352 [...]

Brandon Brice As a transplant to New York relocating from Detroit, better known as “Motown” or the “Motor City,” I know first hand  effects of job loss, especially when dealing with the auto-industry. Michigan’s once pride and joy, the big three; General Motors, Chrysler and Ford Motor Company recently experienced dramatic job loss increasing unemployment [...]

The evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn’t soon cometh. The Jewish  Republican commentator opines: Simply put: Armband religion is killing the Republican Party. And, the truth — as long as we’re setting ourselves free — [...]

By Steven Powell When Barack Obama won the presidency on November 4, 2008, our party fell into disarray. Obama had won unprecedented victories in Indiana, which had not gone to a Democrat in almost 40 years, as well as the once “Solid South”. Every Republican was forced out of his or her seat in New [...]

HHR BREAKING NEWS-UPDATE We just received this information from the DRAFT STEELE COALITION they are reporting that the signatures for Steele’s nomination are huge and come from all 50 STATES!! They are coming from all over and from various groups. In a show of uniformity Jewish bloggers who know Steele is a strong supporter of [...]

CNN’s Errol Barnett talks via Webcam with two members of HipHopRepublican.com about Obama’s historic presidential win.Embedded video from CNN Video