Groups Hope Black Voter Turnout Rises in Election
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Black leaders are claiming success in their efforts to register new voters after the 2000 election debacle in Florida and are focusing now on getting them to the polls in next month's presidential election.
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Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the other Democratic presidential contenders battled for black support on Thursday with attacks on the ravages of racism, promises to lift up the poor and pledges to do more for Africa.
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Democratic rivals Barack Obama  and Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined by former President Bill  Clinton, descended on a hallowed shrine of the civil rights  movement on Sunday to court black voters who could help pick  the party's 2008 presidential nominee.
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The level of interest, if it is matched by turnout at the polls on Tuesday, could make the results more important for Democrats than they had assumed.
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More than 2,000 people crowded Ebenezer Baptist Church on Monday to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s commitment to peace and equality and note the importance of his legacy in this election year
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama dug in Wednesday for a campaign unlike any other, a woman and a black man drawing record voter turnout in an unpredictable race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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How will African-American voters respond to a Barack-Hillary showdown?
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It might seem unusual for a black candidate to model a campaign message on one of the most controversial, racially charged ads in the history of television campaign advertising Ã¢ÂÂ a spot that spurred outrage among the mostly liberal community of African-American activists.
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Polls suggest whites are more likely than blacks to say America is ready for a black president, which may be part of why much of the African-American community is cool to the presidential candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama.
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Anger boiled Sunday among African-Americans who had votes scrubbed out in the disputed 2000 US election, as Democratic hopeful John Kerry joined swinging, singing worshippers at a Baptist church.
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With most polls showing him running dead even with the President in Florida, John Kerry used the specter of the disputed 2000 recount yesterday to urge the state&#39;s black voters to turn out in force on Election Day.
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After the controversy of the 2000 election, many African-Americans are speaking about voting this year with rekindled fervor.
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SELMA, Alabama  - Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined by former President Bill Clinton, descended on a hallowed shrine of the civil rights movement on Sunday to court black voters who could help pick the party's 2008 presidential nominee.
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Some 20,000 are expected in Atlanta this week to show that they can work together despite political and religious divisions.
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COLUMBUS, OHIO - John Kerry appealed to African-American voters on Sunday, as he pushed ahead with his campaign to unseat George W. Bush.
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An event steeped in civil rights symbolism offers rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama an opportunity to show unity with the black community while they spar over support from a crucial Democratic constituency.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton received another boost from a prominent black leader on Wednesday as the head of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators endorsed her candidacy.