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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‘Tidal wave of voter suppression’ washes over states, lawyer says | NBC News
“They can do it electronically, they can do it digitally and in ways we never thought about when I was coming along,” said Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] law will make elections fairer In Texas, officials in mostly white Waller County, citing cost concerns, announced that they would not make an early voting site […]
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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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Mike Espy Would Be Mississippi’s First Black Senator in 139 Years, But Governor Bryant Says It’d Begin ‘1000 Years of Darkness’ | Deep South Voice
Phil Bryant, Mississippi’s outgoing Republican governor, is warning that the election of Democrat Mike Espy, an African American who served as the US Secretary of Agriculture under President Clinton, would kick off a millennium of “darkness.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Espy is challenging US Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican that Bryant appointed to fill a vacancy in […]
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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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‘Stop This Illegal Purge’: Outrage as Georgia GOP Removes More Than 300,000 Voters From Rolls | Common Dreams
Warning of 2020 impact, one critic said Georgia could remain a red state solely “due to the GOP purposefully denying people the right to vote.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] A federal judge Monday night allowed Georgia to move ahead with a purge of over 300,000 voters deemed “inactive” by Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, sparking outrage […]
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