BET Wire: Cory Booker Doesn't Care If You Think He's Gay
The president seeks support for Obamacare.
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In Case You Missed It - President Obama meets with Black faith leaders; Colin Powell tells the right it's wrong on voter ID laws; Republicans can buy "Impeach Obama" swag – and more. – By Joyce Jones(Photo: BET)
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Not That There's Anything Wrong With It - In a Washington Post interview, U.S. Senate candidate and Newark Mayor Cory Booker said that his single status has led to speculation that he's gay. To those wondering, his response is, "So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I’m straight." (Photo: Michael Bocchieri/Getty Images)
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Pastors in the House - Obama and senior administration officials met with a group of Black pastors at the White House on Aug. 25. They discussed a broad range of topics, including the March on Washington and Obamacare. The pastors pledged to help educate their congregations about the new law and health care exchange enrollment. (Photo: Pete Souza/Official White House Photo)
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Forewarned - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered a stern warning to the Republican Party on the dangers of strict new voter ID laws. "You say you want to reach out, you say you want to have a new message. You say you want to see if you can bring some of these voters to the Republican side. This is not the way to do it," he said on the Aug. 25 edition of CBS News' Face the Nation. (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for IRC)
Photo By Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for IRC
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What's Old is New Again - Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. believes that tea party conservatives are Black America's biggest problem.“The tea party is the resurrection of the Confederacy, it’s the Fort Sumter tea party,” he told Politico, adding that Republicans oppose Obama's policies because he is Black. (Photo: Kris Connor/Getty Images)
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What Would Dr. King Think? - President Obama was in elementary school when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became synonymous with the civil rights movement. Mr. Obama is confident, however, that Dr. King would have strongly supported the Affordable Care Act because "he understood that health care, health security is not a privilege; it’s something that in a country as wealthy as ours, everybody should have access to.” (Photo: AP Photo/File)
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Banned Books Hit List - Alabama state Sen. Bill Holtzclaw is calling for The Bluest Eye, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's novel about a little Black girl who wishes for blue eyes, to be banned in schools. The book, which contains some graphic sex scenes, is on the 11th grade Common Core reading list. Common Core is a set of standards in math and English language arts. (Photo: Holt, Rinehart and Winston Publishing)
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Not So Funny Now - Tuffy Gessling, the rodeo clown who wore an Obama mask during his performance at the Missouri State Fair, is continuing to pay for an act he says was all in good fun. In addition to a lifetime ban from the fair, he has received death threats. "I didn't do this to do any hating on anyone. I did this to be funny; I did it to be a joke," Gessling told KCTV. (Photo: AP Photo/Jameson Hsieh)