The Ladner Report

When President Obama delivers his jobs speech on Thursday, will he continue to ignore his base?
I was talking to a friend recently...a 76 year old black man who grew up in South Carolina and has lived in Washington, DC for many years. He is, by my appraisal, an average educated senior citizen; not an intellectual by any means but very informed...

I was talking to a friend recently...a 76 year old black man who grew up in South Carolina and has lived in Washington, DC for many years. He is, by my appraisal, an average educated senior citizen; not an intellectual by any means but very informed...

I was a maid in high school. I cleaned white peoples houses on Saturdays and after school. I cleaned, washed and ironed clothes and waxed the kitchen floor for $3.00 and twenty cents, the latter being for bus fare. I came from a family of nine children...

Donald Trump's racist attacks on President Barack Obama shows that he is the leader of a twenty-first century lynching party.
Donald Trump's racist attacks against President Obama remind me of the racist lynch mobs of my Mississippi youth. Even though his attacks are baseless, millions of Americans will respond to his not so subtle racist phrasing because they are willing to...