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 […]
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2021 Urban One Honors Winners: Meet The Black Women Leading The Change | NEWSONE
— BY, TANAY HUDSON In the Black community, Black women are the matriarchs. The problem solvers. The providers. The protectors. The storytellers. They often don’t just fulfill these roles for their families, but for all those around them. This year’s Urban One Honors recipients are evidence of that. They are game-changers in their fields, leading and creating groundbreaking […]
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Time for Kamala Harris to get in touch with her inner Muhammad Ali | The Washington Post
By Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post As Kamala D. Harris accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president Wednesday night, the California senator sought to reveal more of her inner life but also to project toughness. She’ll need lots of it. Joe Biden’s selection of Harris as his running mate marks a trifecta of firsts: No woman of […]
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Kamala Harris makes history as first woman of color to accept a major party nomination for vice president | The Washington Post
By Annie Linskey, Michael Scherer, Colby Itkowitz, Felicia Sonmez & John Wagner, The Washington Post WILMINGTON, Del. — Kamala D. Harris, the Black daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica, on Wednesday became the first woman of color to accept the nomination for vice president from a major political party. The senator from California signaled that she plans to help lead […]
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Ferguson elects city council member Ella Jones as first black mayor in city’s history | KSDK
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 […]
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How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change | Medium, Barack Obama
As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, many people have reached out asking how we can sustain momentum to bring about real change. Ultimately, it’s going to be up to a new […]
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Black church snubs Bloomberg as congregants stand, turn their backs | The Washington Times
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. […]
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There Have Been 10 Black Senators Since Emancipation | The New York Times
Elected 150 years ago, Hiram Revels was the first. A few days ago, 300 people gathered in the Old State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the election of Hiram Revels as the nation’s first African-American member of Congress. As nearly everyone knows, in the nation’s more than two centuries of […]
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Cory Booker Drops Out of 2020 Presidential Race | The New York Times
The New Jersey senator, who built his campaign around a message of unity, was unable to catch on with substantial numbers of voters and ended his quest before voting began. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey dropped out of the Democratic presidential race on Monday, ending a nearly yearlong quest built around a […]
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Richard Hatcher, one of the nation’s first black mayors of a major city, dies at 86 | The Washington Post
Richard Hatcher, who became one of the first African American mayors of a large U.S. city when he was elected mayor of Gary, Ind., in 1967, died Dec. 13 at a Chicago hospital. He was 86. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] His death was announced by his daughter, state Rep. Ragen Hatcher, a Gary Democrat. The cause was […]
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