Indiana Black Voters Feeling Ignored

For weeks, Delores Smith, membership coordinator at the Madame C.J. Walker Theater in Indianapolis, has e-mailed and called Sen. Barack Obama's representatives, hoping he'll hold a campaign event at the 937-seat theater. It is, after all, named in honor of one of the nation's first black millionaires. And its place in the heart of one of Indianapolis' oldest black neighborhoods makes it a key stop for candidates seeking this city's nearly quarter-million African-American voters — the largest concentration in Indiana. But so far, Smith says, "I haven't heard anything."

Obama/Wright and The Continued Power Of Black Nationalism

RealClearPolitics

Fri May 2

1