By Nomalanga Mhlauli-Moses Paul Ryan, the Republican Party’s  nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2012 election, “casually” mentioned, in an interview, that he dated a Black woman. He also mentioned that he has a Black sister in law.Somehow this brought back memories of when I would be around non-Black people who would try to make me ...

by Etan Thomas By now, most Americans have certainly heard that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has selected U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate in this year’s presidential race. Ryan is considered one of the GOP’s gurus on fiscal and budgetary issues, and enjoys immense popularity among fiscal conservatives. In Ryan, Romney has selected a tea party darling, ...

By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee announced that he has selected  Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his vice presidential running mate.  Conservatives are hoping against hope that this selection will relaunch Romney’s campaign by providing the necessary policy focus that has been lacking up to this point.  Conservative columnist Paul Gigot recently wrote, ...