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How the Black Vote Became a Monolith | The New York Times Magazine

November 1, 2020November 1, 2020Black Vote

An enduring unity at the ballot box is not confirmation that Black voters hold the same views on every contested issue, but rather that they hold the same view on the one most consequential issue: racial equality. The existence of the Black electoral monolith is evidence of a critical defect not in Black America, but […]

Best president for Black America since Lincoln? C’mon, man! | The Philadelphia Tribune

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020Black Vote, Politics

— CLARENCE PAGE, THE PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE Let us now celebrate the calming, sedative qualities of a mute button. Yes, the mere addition of a mute button in the second and final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden appears to have been all it took to squelch the constant interruptions, mostly from […]

Georgia ACLU says state wrongly erased 200K voters from rolls in 2019 | Georgia Recorder

September 19, 2020September 19, 2020Black Vote

— Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder A report released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia found that the state likely improperly purged 200,000 people from the voter rolls in 2019. The Palast Investigative Fund report “Georgia Voter Roll Purge Errors” said that the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office removed 198,351 people from the voting […]

The End of Black Politics | The New York Times

June 14, 2020June 14, 2020Black Vote

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New York Times Young black people have exploded in rebellion over the grotesque killing of George Floyd. We are now witnessing the broadest protest movement in American history. And yet the response of black elected officials has been cautious and uninspired. The Congressional Black Caucus offered a familiar list of the kind of […]

D.C.’s Election Was an Unmitigated Disaster | Slate

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020African American Politics, African American Vote ...

On Tuesday, as law enforcement officers swarmed the District of Columbia in response to largely peaceful protests against police brutality, the city attempted to hold a primary election. It was an unmitigated disaster. Thousands of residents who requested an absentee ballot never received one. They were forced to vote in person in the midst of […]

Ferguson elects city council member Ella Jones as first black mayor in city’s history | KSDK

June 3, 2020June 7, 2020African American Politics, Black Politics ...

Ella Jones will also be the first woman to serve as the Mayor of Ferguson FERGUSON, Mo. — Ferguson City Council member Ella Jones won the city’s mayoral election Tuesday. Jones defeated fellow council member Heather Robinett. Jones will succeed James Knowles III, who defeated Jones in the 2017 mayoral election and held the office […]

What the Hell Did Black Americans Lose Under Trump? | Democracy Guardian

May 18, 2020May 18, 2020African American Politics, Black Vote

On August 19, 2016, Donald Trump went to Dimondale, MI, a mostly white suburb of Lansing, Michigan, and appealed to the black people he chose not to appear before saying, “What the hell do you have to lose?” What he said exactly was: “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no […]

Incumbent Democrat Joyce Beatty wins Ohio primary against liberal Morgan Harper | Reuters

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020African American Politics, African American Vote ...

(Reuters) – The Democratic primary for the U.S. state of Ohio’s third Congressional District has been won by incumbent Representative Joyce Beatty against Morgan Harper, a progressive first-time candidate who was previously a senior adviser at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Ohio held mostly mail-in primaries due to the coronavirus pandemic after voting originally scheduled […]

Mfume to Return to Congress, Succeeding Elijah Cummings | The New York Times

April 29, 2020April 29, 2020African American Politics, African American Vote ...

He first held the seat from 1987 to 1996 until he left to serve as president of the N.A.A.C.P. and was replaced by Mr. Cummings, who died in October. WASHINGTON — Kweisi Mfume, a former Democratic congressman and president of the N.A.A.C.P., won a special election on Tuesday to represent Baltimore in Congress, reclaiming a […]

Black church snubs Bloomberg as congregants stand, turn their backs | The Washington Times

March 2, 2020March 2, 2020African American Politics, African American Vote ...

Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg was snubbed Sunday by numerous congregants at a historically black church in Selma, Alabama. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] According to a report in the New York Daily News, several members of Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church stood up and turned their back on Mr. Bloomberg as he was was speaking. […]