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President Barack Obama will do what he’s done so many times as president, he will speak with and to families who have lost loved ones to senseless violence. He will speak to a confused, angry, grieving and divided nation. This time he will combine two tightropes that he usually walks separately – race and gun […]

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I went to high school with the police chief. He graduated the year before me. The victim’s family attorney My nieces know Alton Sterling – not well- but they’ve bought CD’s and DVD’s from him at the local convenience store. One of my nieces does his aunt’s hair. They say in all their interactions with […]

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If you blinked might have missed it. Seriously, if you weren’t in front of a television or listening on line or the radio – which most of us weren’t – around quitting time on Wednesday, you probably missed President Obama going on a rant. A rant is what he called it. Though he never mentioned […]

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It’s still trending on social media. My mom sent me several links on Facebook. It was all over the news on TV, on radio and online. People were asking me about it wherever I went. What am I talking about? “This award – this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all […]

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  What happened on the floor of The House of Representatives on Wednesday during the day, Wednesday night and is still going on is nothing short of extraordinary. House Democrats took over the floor and staged a sit-in disrupting the work of congress, demanding a vote be held on gun legislation. It was a good […]

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  The Trump campaign is trouble – real trouble!! And here’s how I know it: Not because he is running out of money – $1.3M on hand. Not because he fired his campaign manager – Corey Lewandowski. Not because he has anywhere from 30 to 70 people working for his campaign nationwide– maybe 29 or […]

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Today, the President and Vice President will travel to Orlando, Florida to meet with families of victims of the attack and stand in solidarity with the Orlando community. And it’s not just getting to be a habit, it is a habit. I was in Aurora, Colorado when Mr. Obama traveled there to meet with families […]

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We’ve been learning a lot about the 29-year-old man accused of killing 49 people and injuring more than 50 others in the pulse nightclub in Orlando a few nights ago. The most interesting thing that we have learned is that Omar Mateen may have been a self-hating gay man who was conflicted by his religion […]

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Hillary Clinton won California, and in doing so made history by becoming the first woman to become the Presidential nominee for a major political party. “So many of you feel like you’re out there on your own, that no one has your back. Well, I do. I hear you. I see you. And as your […]

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Here we go. As the saying goes, ‘you know what’ just got real! Why? Roll it! “Breaking news.  Hillary Clinton has 2,384 delegates. That’s one more than she needs to clinch the Democratic nomination. That’s how I opened my CNN show last night with that bit of breaking news. You might recall that I said […]

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For days now, I’ve heard just about everyone discussing what happened in Cincinnati at the zoo over the weekend. People are outraged at the zoo for shooting a 450lb, endangered silver backed gorilla after a 3-year old boy somehow wiggled his way into the animal’s enclosure. Why the outrage? Here’s attorney Lisa Bloom on my […]

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If you haven’t read Charles Blow’s latest editorial in The New York Times, I suggest you do. It’s entitled “The Ghosts of Old Sex Scandals.” Blow, who is a CNN contributor and a frequent guest on my show, lays out in layman’s terms exactly what is going in this election cycle when it comes to […]