CPAC is the largest and most prominent annual event for the conservative movement. Every year, the conference attracts more than 10,000 attendees and the biggest names in the Republican Party. The gathering draws speakers from every facet of the activist movement. The speakers include media darlings such as Sarah Palin and Donald Trump; congressional leaders [...]
Mia Love Really Was The ‘Anchor Baby’ That Kept Her Parents In The U.S.
October 2, 2012 | Posted by
It looks as if Mia Love was the “anchor baby” that helped her family stay in the United States after all. The left-leaning magazine, Mother Jones, had questioned the story the Utah Republican congressional candidate likes to often tell about her Haitian immigrant parents while out on the stump. Love, the mayor of Saratoga Springs, [...]
Mia Love, Black Female Mormon Mayor in Utah, Receives Racist Hate Mail
September 27, 2012 | Posted by
Mia Love, the African-American Mormon mayor of Sarasota Springs, Utah, who became a nationally known figure after her speech at the Republican National Convention, received racist and disturbing photos in the mail that she says were sent to her because she “poses a problem to the policies of the Obama administration.” It’s an odd twist, [...]
Mia Love: A New Face For The GOP
August 30, 2012 | Posted by
Mia Love – A bright new star is shining across the land, after Mia Love’s widely hailed speech on center stage at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night. Love, the mayor of Sarasota Springs, Utah, is a black female Mormon running for Congress in Utah. Republicans are hoping that the telegenic Love has the [...]
Black Mormons and the Politics of Identity
May 23, 2012 | Posted by
SALT LAKE CITY — When Marguerite Driessen, a professor here, entered Brigham Young University in the early 1980s, she was the first black person many Mormon students had ever met, and she spent a good bit of her college time debunking stereotypes about African-Americans. Then she converted to Mormonism herself, and went on to spend [...]
Mia Love The Uncommon Congressional Candidate; Black and Mormon
May 22, 2012 | Posted by
Mia Love is unlike any Congressional candidate ever — she is African-American, she is Mormon, and she is conservative. Republicans have deemed her race in Utah’s newly drawn 4th district one of the top ten most important races in the country, vowing to spare no expense to get her to Congress. If she wins, Love [...]
