Nationally syndicated columnist, radio host, civil rights activist; host of The Hutchinson Report, a weekly radio program, and of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, a nonpartisan public policy forum; author of several books, including The Emerging Black GOP Majority, Crisis in Black and Black and How Obama Governed: The Year of Crisis and Challenge
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