That's from L.A. Parker's Trentonian column "T.O. didn't, but African Americans do"
Here's the data hook in Carla Marinucci's San Francisco Chronicle article "Schwarzenegger tries to woo black vote away from Angelides": "Mark DiCamillo, director of the statewide Field Poll, said African Americans in California make up 6 percent of the state's voters, and they are 80 percent Democratic and 6 percent Republican, the rest being independents or decline-to-state voters. Schwarzenegger, in the most recent Field Poll, had the support of 23 percent of the black vote, DiCamillo said. 'Given that only 6 percent of African Americans are Republican here, he is doing quite well,' he said."
(I live in Oakland; today, as I type this, Angelides will visit three churches in town before stopping by a restaurant about four or five city blocks from me.)
Speaking of Oakland, you could read Jason Witmer's North Gate News article "Black Entrepreneurs Adjust to Oakland's Shifting Demographics" before or after you read (with letters) David Downs' East Bay Express article "Hipster Invasion."
Karamaji Rukumba's Toledo Blade article "Black professional men drawn to Rio's sex trade" spotlights University of Michigan doctoral student Jewel Woods' study on professional black men and the Rio sex trade (10 common questions; 70KB in PDF format)
Backstage's "Speaking out" lets six actors of color (including Chandra Wilson of "Grey's Anatomy" and John Cho of "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle") break down how they "role" (and how they don't).
I'm not pairing Cameron W. Barr's Washington Post article "Blacks Increasing Political Presence in Diversifying County," about the place where two other black bloggers and I grew up, and Andrew A. Green's Baltimore Sun article Will blacks show up for Democrats?" (where "[ ... b]lacks make up about 29 percent of Maryland's population, according to the U.S. Census - the fifth-highest proportion in the country. A recent Sun poll shows that African-American voters still overwhelmingly support Democrats, although Ehrlich and Steele have made inroads. The poll showed that O'Malley is leading Ehrlich among black voters, 71 percent to 16 percent. The margin for Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin against Steele is smaller, 65 percent to 24 percent. Ehrlich and O'Malley are white, though the mayor's running mate, Del. Anthony G. Brown, is black. [..]") for any reason at all.
Also good? Kevin D. Thompson's Palm Beach Post article "Rock carries torch for African-American comedies," Waveney Ann Moore's St. Petersburg Times article "Lean on me, sister" and Sam Roberts' New York Times article "Black Incomes Surpass Whites in Queens"
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