The initiative, a partnership of major community organizations, was launched last year to intensify HIV prevention in the black community. Black Americans represent about 14 percent of the U.S. population, but are nearly half of people living with HIV/AIDS and almost half of the new infections each year, according to CDC data.
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Democrats are spending an unprecedented $20 million to mobilize Hispanic voters around the candidacy of Barack Obama, whose campaign has already spent more on Latino outreach than any presidential campaign in history.
The news comes as a new Pew Hispanic Center survey finds Obama holding a substantial lead over Republican John McCain among Hispanic voters. The campaign plans to spend money in all 50 states, but will focus on swing states such as Nevada and Florida.
Democratic Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA) said the Hispanic vote has been described as a "sleeping giant." "Well, the giant has woken up, and it's being prodded now by the Obama campaign, and we're very delighted that that's happening," Solis said at a news conference.
But while some are praising the Obama campaign’s efforts to rally Hispanics, some executives in black media -- and black radio in particularly -- are grumbling privately and publicly about the campaign’s perceived reluctance to spend significant dollars to advertise with black media.
The Cato Institute's Casey Lartigue discusses whether the government has been overall a friend or an adversary for American minority groups.
"Race and the State," featuring Bruce Bartlett and Casey Lartigue.
Is government more likely to be the friend or adversary of minority groups? Has it been liberals, conservatives, or libertarians like William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass who have been the most consistent defenders of everyone's rights? What does history suggest would be the best public policy for racial minorities in the 21st century?
Bruce Bartlett, a former Reagan administration economist with a provocative new book, and Casey Lartigue, coeditor of Educational Freedom in Urban America and a controversial former XM 169 talk show host, will discuss these questions - Cato Institute
Casey Lartigue is a former policy analyst with Cato's Center for Educational Freedom. His research expertise includes school choice, teacher quality and minority education. His writings have been published in USA Today, Ed. magazine published at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Education Week, the New York Post, the Washington Times, Asian Week and the Washington Post.
Before joining the Center, he worked as a staff writer at Cato. He has spoken at the National Press Club, Harvard Law School, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, been a guest on the Rush Limbaugh Show, and testified before Congress on school choice in the nation's capital.
Prior to joining Cato, Lartigue taught English and worked as a language examiner in Taiwan and South Korea. Lartigue received a bachelor's degree from the Harvard University Extension School and a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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