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*Black Lives Matters protesters disrupted Bill Clinton’s speech in Philadelphia today – and the former POTUS ended up in a contentious exchange with the activists that lasted for about 10 minutes. Thursday’s protest appears to be about Clinton’s “three-strikes law.” A protester yelled that Clinton “should be charged with crimes against humanity.” “I love protesters,” […]

[…] was supposedly married to America’s first black president is now hoping that it is Black America that buoys her campaign. The problem is that regardless of whether Bill Clinton believes, as he has recently stated, that “we are all mixed-race people…”, he is white and the Clintons were far from good for Black America in […]

[…] that has been reluctant to rally around Clinton, in part, because of racist comments she made about black males in the 1990s and her support of President Bill Clinton’s crime bill. Jay’s support of the presidential candidate comes as a shock for some. In the past, he referenced Clinton on his “Vol. 3… Life and […]

[…] we don’t want any group to take our votes for granted, but giving our vote to Republicans as reward for hating our guts is much worse. “… Bill Clinton seemed to get us. When Toni Morrison dubbed him our first black president, we nodded our heads. We had our boy in the White House. Or […]

* Bill Clinton barely got the words out of his mouth lambasting the Bernie Sanders camp for what he bluntly said were attacks on Hillary that were to sexist and too “profane” to repeat when a Sanders campaign official shot back that the attack was “disappointing.” Sanders for his part took the high road approach, […]

[…] while the foundation has done phenomenal work and improved conditions for legions globally, say that she’ll be completely out of the Clinton Foundation business, and that includes Bill and Chelsea too. There’s little margin of error for Trump and Clinton in the debates. Both have a lot of hard work to do to try […]

[…] up scandals of the past from Whitewater to the Lewinsky scandal. It then cranked out a sneering “poor Hillary” video that touted Hillary’s quip that she and Bill were “dead broke” when they left the White House. It then intimated that she shook down poor cash strapped universities for her alleged outrageous speaking fees. […]

*In an interview published by Bloomberg, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza echoed the sentiments of many who believe Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, just “use black people for votes.” “Early on, would say, ‘Yes, black lives matter,’ but she wouldn’t acknowledge her role in processes that fundamentally showed black lives […]

*Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the impeachment proceedings of former President Bill Clinton, A&E Network will premiere a six-part documentary series “The Impeachment of Bill Clinton” (working title) from Academy Award and Emmy-winning producer Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions and Emmy-winning director Blair Foster. According to the press release, the doc weaves together never-before-seen archival footage with […]

* Bill Clinton opened up a Pandora’s Box with his tirade against Black Lives Matter (“you defend murderers and drug dealers”). The two compelling issues he pulled out of the Box and dumped on the table are one, if or how much, his tirade hurt Hillary’s campaign with some Black voters. Hillary can’t win without maximum support from […]

Bill Clinton – GettyImages *Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Center’s intensive care unit due to a urinary tract infection that spread to his bloodstream, according to his doctors that spoke with CNN. Angel Ureña, spokesperson for Clinton, said in a statement Thursday, “On Tuesday, President Clinton […]

[…] will likely play the key role in 2016, once at the voter box as a block Black Americans tend to vote Democratic. Despite people’s memory of President Bill Clinton’s popularity in the African American community, the black turnout in 1996 for President Bill Clinton’s second election, was a low of 53 percent. If this repeats […]

[…] plans to vote for her, and condemns Trump. — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 25, 2016 Powell and Clinton got to know each other when he served as President Bill Clinton’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later when she served as his successor at the State Department. As previously reported, the former four-star Army […]

[…] were for his nasty and sexually aggressive remarks he made over a decade ago. But then he also strongly hinted that he was going to go after Bill Clinton for his indiscretions and Hillary indirectly. So, in a real sense, even his 2nd apology wasn’t a solid apology. Don’t look for a 3rd, though. Trump’s […]

[…] “white” states. The Clinton lock on the Black vote notion rests on some well-known and well-tuned reasons that go beyond the fact that she is married to Bill, and Bill’s near universal past popularity with African-American voters has endowed her. She has a sterling track record and history in speaking out on civil rights, […]