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Val Demings makes the case for a statewide run | The 19th

May 17, 2021May 17, 2021African American Politics, Black Politics ...

The Florida Democrat talks to The 19th’s Errin Haines about legislation on policing and voting, that testy exchange with Jim Jordan and what could be next for her politically. — BY, ERRIN HAINES Florida Rep. Val Demings emerged as a national figure in December 2019 as one of the seven managers in former President […]

In Explosive Debate, Pa. GOP Refuses To Swear In Reelected Democratic Senator | NPR, WAMU 88.5

January 6, 2021January 6, 2021African American Politics, African American Vote ...

— KATIE MEYER, NPR, WAMU 88.5 With the nation’s eyes toward Washington, D.C., ahead of Wednesday’s planned confirmation of Joe Biden’s presidential election, Republicans in the Pennsylvania state Senate refused a confirmation of their own. The state Senate’s first session of the new year devolved into shouting Tuesday as the Republicans who hold a […]

In majority-Black Georgia county, voting in Senate runoffs is more about fight to vote than right to vote | CNN Politics

January 5, 2021January 5, 2021African American Politics, Black Vote

— Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN POLITICS Mayfield, Georgia (CNN)Johnny Thornton stood on his sprawling catfish farm, once a symbol of empowerment in this majority Black county, and explained how the local election board once tried to strip him of his right to vote. In 2015, after a failed attempt to shutter almost every polling […]

Trump Officially Accuses Wisconsin’s Black Voters of Cheating | The Root

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020Black Vote

— Michael Harriot, The Root First, you have to understand how the law works: Remember when those white boys chased down Ahmaud Arbery and shot him for not burglarizing a home? Technically, they were “concerned citizens” chasing a “suspected burglar” to make a citizen’s arrest. According to police, Breonna Taylor was a “suspected drug trafficker.” George Floyd was “resisting.” Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) and […]

Biden Picks Linda Thomas-Greenfield for U.N. Ambassador | New York Amsterdam News

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020African American Vote, Black Vote

President-Elect Joe Biden nominated Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.N. Ambassador. — AmNews Staff Reports, New York Amsterdam News Thomas-Green served as the Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs. Her three-decades long career in the Foreign Service also includes an ambassadorship to Liberia from 2008-2010. A Louisiana native, Thomas-Greenfield credited her mother for […]

The Major Difference Between Black Male and Female Voters | The Atlantic

November 23, 2020November 23, 2020African American Vote, Black Vote

Black male turnout for Trump wasn’t indicative of the president’s successful outreach efforts, but rather the long-standing relationship between this voting bloc and the GOP. — Leah Wright Rigueur, The Atlantic Since the years following the New Deal, when the majority of Black voters left the Republican Party, Black men and women have turned out […]

Joy and Pain: MSNBC Host Assaults Trump’s Highest-Ranking Black Friend on Live TV | The Root

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020African American Vote, Black Vote

— MICHAEL HARRIET, THE ROOT For all the people who criticize The Root for our lack of coverage of Black-on-Black crime, we present MSNBC host Joy Reid’s heinous attack on one of America’s foremost MAGA negroes, Ja’Ron Smith. As the only prime-time cable news show hosted by a Black person, The ReidOut is essentially cable news’ Black neighborhood. Everyone […]

Black organizations across Georgia put in the work to turn state blue | AJC

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020African American Vote, Black Vote

— ERNIE SUGGS, AJC In the months before the Rev. Joseph Lowery died, Helen Butler sat down with him to talk about the organization that he created and she now runs — the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda. In preparation for the November election, Butler had already opened seven offices across the state aimed […]

How Georgia’s Senate run-offs could finally hand Stacey Abrams her victory | The Guardian

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020African American Activist, African American Vote ...

Two years ago, she lost to then-secretary of state Brian Kemp, but that loss spurred her to fight for Georgians’ right to vote — ANKITA RAO, OLIVER LAUGHLAND and SAM LEVINE, THE GUARDIAN Two years ago, Stacey Abrams became a household name when she ran for governor of Georgia against Brian Kemp, then secretary of state. Though […]

As Kamala D. Harris breaks barriers, India and Jamaica celebrate | The Washington Post

November 8, 2020November 8, 2020African American Vote, Black Vote

— JOANNA SLATER, THE WASHINGTON POST NEW DELHI — On the road to making history, Kamala D. Harris paused for a call to India. Early Thursday in New Delhi, her uncle Gopalan Balachandran got a message that his niece wanted to speak with him. Soon several members of the family were on a group call. […]