Video below of Tavis Smiley sitting down to do a live interview with HHR’s Shirley Hussar.  In this HHR exclusive interview Tavis Smiley tells why his is not a Republican, Yet feels Frederick Douglass(Republican), author of the most influential African American text of his era, rose through the ranks of the antislavery movement in the [...]

By Richard Ivory  Is Ryan Fraizer the GOP’s counter to Barack Obama? He is a young 31-year- city council member from Aurora, Colorado and he wants to be a Senator . According to the Libertarian leaning blog Rossputin.com   Ryan’s an interesting candidate, and I’m sure most Republicans and Independents (and hopefully a few Democrats as well) will find [...]

By Raynard Jackson Last Friday, I received the shocking news of the sudden death of my good friend, Wayman Tisdale. Tisdale played basketball for 3 years at Oklahoma University and 12 years in the N.B.A. (Indiana, Sacramento, and Phoenix). Upon retiring from basketball, he went on to have a critically acclaimed music career as a [...]

Whats up HHR readers wanted to let you all know about a new artist thats about to rock the charts. Her name is Melanie Fiona and the album is called The Bridge. It crosses the barriers between ethnicities, genres, age groups, and genders. It can’t be defined as just one thing. It’s got a soul [...]

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 [...]

  On April 16 to the 19th HHR Blog was invited to cover and attend the annual convention of the Log Cabin Republican Convention( This post was delayed due to a coffee spill on the handwritten material our apologies). By Richard Ivory The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) held there convention in beautiful Washington, DC. to [...]

By Richard Ivory A wave of excitement rippled across the faces in attendance at a recent meeting of the DC Young Republicans. They had gathered from all over the District of Columbia to unanimously endorse their National Committeewoman, Rachel Hoff, as she announced plans to seek the Chairmanship of the Young Republican National Federation. Speaker [...]

By Cleo Brown Angela Severiano, who also performs using the name Angela S, is an accomplished songwriter, performer, and political activist currently living in New York City, New York.  Her star is rising.  Born in Minneapolis, which is where the majority of Angela’s family still lives, she moved to Orlando, Florida when she was only [...]

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

This interview was done by HHR contributor Brandon Andrews who works on Capitol Hill his major in college was international relations. The top link is a link to the interview he did yesterday and the bottom is a link to the site that shows the overall program. I personally think he did an amazing job [...]