Zora Neale Hurston embodied Republican sentiments concerning race-relations and African-American People. Infuriating many people including Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Richard Wright because of her “right-wing” and ultraconservative perspective, by the time of her death, at the age of sixty-nine, Hurston had become an obscure writer dying in a welfare home for the aged.

Pearl Bailey was considered The Ambassador of Love by many people with-in The Republican Party as well as around the world. Pearl Bailey was born in the same home town, of Newport News, Virginia, and in the same birth year as the legendary jazz singer, named Ella Fitzgerald, on March 29th, 1918. Bailey eventually served as a United Nations’ Goodwill Ambassador under several Republican Presidential Administrations.

Eldridge Cleaver endorsed Ronald Reagan for President in both 1980 and in 1984. He also ran for office as a Republican against Ron Dellums in 1984, and against Alan Cranston in 1986.

In 1888, at the Republican National Convention, Douglass also received one vote as President of The United States making him the first African-American to receive any vote at all as President of the United States in the United States. And, in 1892, he was appointed Commissioner to The Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition by The Haitian Government. Frederick Douglass was also referred to as “the founder of The American Civil Rights Movement.”

A staunch Republican and friend of President Dwight Eisenhower, Howard was also a committed feminist whose clinics offered safe abortions in the period before Roe v. Wade. But those who knew T.R.M. Howard (who died in 1976, at age 68) still speak about his energy, charisma and commitment. ‘The man was dynamic,’ recalled Mamie Till-Mobley. ‘I just thought he was the greatest in the world.’”

HHR blog just got news that RNC Chairman Michael Steele is visiting Howard University the nations premire black univeristy (founded by Republicans) The College Republican Chapter is having a Town Hall meeting next Tuesday with Chairman Steele on its campus in Washington,DC. According to HHR sources he will be coming for an open dialogue with the students not only at Howard but the DC community at large. It will be September 1st, 2009 at 6:30pm in the West Ballroom in the Armour J. Blackburn Student Center which is the Student Center on Howard Universities Main campus in Washington DC.

by TJ Thompson
 Our nation has an epidemic of failing public schools.  This is not confined to urban schools either.  My alma mater,  Shelbyville High School, in Shelbyville, Indiana was profiled in a Time Magazine article titled “Dropout Nation”, as well as on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’.  You can read that article here: http://bit.ly/S0QVx and the Oprah segment here http://bit.ly/IbcoT. Shelbyville is a small town of roughly 18,000 people - about 30 miles Southeast of Indianapolis. 
In a town with over 95% of the population White, 1 of every 3 kids will not graduate High School.  One in Three!!!  This contradicts every major stereotype portrayed on …

By 1868, John Langston had organized the law department at Howard University becoming its first department dean. He also served, for a period of time, as the acting President of The University. By 1888, after having served as consul-general to Haiti; and after having become The President of Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in 1885, John Mercer Langston was once again catapulted into The National Spotlight when he won a seat in The United States House of Representatives. His victory was contested for eighteen months because he was the first African-American elected to Congress from Virginia. Eventually, however, he was able to take his seat.

By Cleo E. Brown
Hallie Quinn Brown, who was an Educator, Lecturer, Civil Rights Activist, and a Human Rights Activist , worked against and beat the odds all of her life. Born on March 10th, 1848 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania she was the fifth of six children born to her parents named Frances Jane Scoggins and Thomas Arthur Brown.
Both Frances Scoggins and Thomas Brown had been former slaves, yet were free at the time of Hallie’s birth. Thomas Brown, who was born in Frederick County, Maryland, bought his freedom on his twenty-fourth birthday. He also purchased the freedom of his family consisting …

 By Lenny McAllister
Americans supporting President Obama have constantly compared his moxy, poise, and organization favorably to President Bush. They have called him a champion of the people while calling Bush, among other things, a war criminal. They have tossed Obama softball questions and rosy compliments while hurling insults and throwing shoes at Bush. 
Many of these supporters came from the college campuses of America’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), institutions struggling to keep economic buoyancy and social relevancy at a time when Black men are going to jail at dangerous rates and Black children are dying at tragic rates. …

REASON MAGAZINE - On May 6, 2009, concerned parents, students, and others gathered in Washington, D.C.’s Freedom Plaza. They came to voice support for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, a school-voucher program authorized by Congress in 2004 (as the seat of the federal government, the District is overseen by Congress). The program gives 1,700 students up to $7,500 to attend whatever school their parents choose.
The program is wildly popular with parents and children—there are four applicants for every available slot—and a recent Department of Education study found that participants do significantly better than their public school peers.
Yet working with …

By Richard Ivory
If you are a Republican or person who supports free markets there are tons of scholarships out there for you. Below are groups that offer paid internships and scholarships. So if you are a college student or you plan to attend Grad school check out the great programs sponsored by The Intercollegiate Studies Institute & the Institute for Humane Studies. Here you will find tons of internships, scholarships to help you while pursing higher education.
Want to fly to LA and work on a feature film? Dig into a freedom-oriented, social-issue documentary? Help produce an upcoming television comedy? On …

 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 at its New York City, New York location but also in Venice, Italy; Bilbao,Spain; Berlin, Germany; and Abu Dhabi.
The New York Site of The Guggenheim is characterized by the architectural design of its building which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright beginning in 1943, and supplemented …

1. Start a Roth IRA for retirement.
This is the best deal for young professionals. It is a retirement account that you essentially put cash into (i.e. you’ve already paid tax on it). This is great because it means the money grows tax-free and you also don’t have to pay tax when you take it out (unless you take it out early). It is nice to have your own account that you will always be putting money into, even if you are changing jobs. I went for a whole year without a 401(k), but I kept pumping money into my Roth …

From the 2008 election cycle you would never know that the most important issue today is the dismal state of our public education system. I feel comfortable making such a strong proclamation because none of John McCain’s or Barack Obama’s promise of “change” can last or transform when 30% of our young people perpetually fail to complete high school each year. More troubling is that over 50% of African American males are part of this group. We also ignore that a significant number of kids move through the system without learning to read. No economic policy matters if children cannot …