She has more than a dozen years of legislative experience, serving in the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature since 2004.
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The First White President | The Atlantic
The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.
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Let’s Try This Again: Yvette Simpson Runs for Mayor of Cincinnati; Will Black Voters Rally? | The Root
Cincinnati has never had a woman directly elected mayor. This city has never had an African-American woman elected mayor. This city has never had a black woman with even a chance of getting elected mayor.
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A C-SPAN caller confessed his racism to a black guest. A year later, he called back to say how he’d changed. | The Washington Post
A year ago this week, a white man named Garry from North Carolina called C-SPAN to talk to a black guest about his racial prejudices.
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Forget Bernie Bros: Meet the Young People of Color Leading the Country’s Socialist Revolution | Splinter
But erasing people of color from the narrative is deeply ahistoric at best and intellectually dishonest at worst.
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Supreme Court Ruling On Ohio Voter Purge Will Have Long-Range Impact on Black Votes – Atlanta Black Star
The United States Supreme Court’s decision to review a challenge to Ohio’s voters roll purge policy brings the question of voter discrimination to the forefront again.
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Black Aboriginal Leaders Reject Symbolic Recognition In the Australian Constitution, Instead Demand Their Land Back – Atlanta Black Star
May 27 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Australian Referendum, in which Australians voted to include Black people — known as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people — in the national census and to allow the government to make laws for them.
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Wyclef Jean to anti-Trump celebs: ‘Be very careful’ – Politico
‘I feel that we’re at a time now where your voice should be louder than it’s ever been,’ the music star tells POLITICO.
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The Competing Politics of the Jamaica Biennial – Hyperallergic
This year’s biennial was a mash-up of claims and interests that played out in four exhibitions grouped under one umbrella.
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‘It Could Have Been Me’: The 1983 Death Of A NYC Graffiti Artist – Code Switch
“It could have been me. It could have been me.”
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