Election 2016

This morning, the call to prayer, the Adhan, woke me just after 4 am as it came from the three crackly loudspeakers at the mosques that surround my house. I have been on an extended stay on the African and 99% Muslim island of Zanzibar for the past couple of months, working with the Zanzibar […]

President Obama reaches his final 100 days in office. He has a lengthy to-do list and every intention to get it all done.

While campaigning in North Carolina on Tuesday, President Obama addressed Trump's sexist comments: "You don’t have to be a husband or a father to hear what we heard just a few days ago and say that’s not right."

After premiering to rave reviews earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, The Birth Of Nation stumbled last weekend at its North American box-office opening. Beleaguered director Nate Parker‘s slave-rebellion drama raked in “$7.1 million from 2,105 theaters, capping weeks of controversy over Parker’s involvement in a 1999 rape trial.” He had hoped to bring in […]

With Donald Trump’s “lewd comments” coming in less than 48 hours before the debate, one would have thought that the so-called populist Republican candidate would have been more contrite. But that’s not Donald Trump’s style. In fact, he brought no less than three of Bill Clinton sexual assault accusers to the debate with him to […]

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump‘s campaign was in crisis mode Friday evening after he was caught on a 2005 tape bragging about “making sexual advances toward a married woman, aggressively kissing and groping other women, and boasting that ‘when you’re a star they let you do it‘” reports The New York Times: The remarkable recording, unearthed […]

After last week’s drubbing by Democratic rival Hillary Clinton at the first presidential debate, and now damning revelations about his taxes, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign hopes to score a win at Tuesday’s vice presidential showdown. Republican vice presidential candidate and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is scheduled to meet Democratic rival Tim Kaine Tuesday at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, […]

The political show that is our 2016 election hit mid-season dramatic heights with the first presidential debate between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.

A Flint, Michigan pastor interrupted Donald Trump's stump speech at her historically Black church. The candidate had agreed to focus on the water crisis and its impact, but veered instead into Hillary bashing.

Retired Republican four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell has little to no respect for his party’s presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to newly released emails hacked from his private account. In comments about Trump in a June 17, 2016, email to Emily Miller, a journalist who once worked under Powell as a deputy press secretary […]

The First Lady is valuable to the Clinton campaign; in juxtaposition to Clinton, Obama continuously soars in popularity and reliability.

South Carolina Pastor Mark Burns and surrogate for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is under fire for inflating his professional and academic accomplishments. During a heated interview with CNN anchor Victor Blackwell, Burns admitted to falsifying some of his professional accomplishments, including earning Bachelor of Science degree from North Greenville University, serving six years in the Army Reserve, and being a […]