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“Big Sister” Barbara Lee’s Advice for the New Women of Color in Congress | AFRO

January 28, 2019January 28, 2019African American Politics, African American Vote ...

“There’s always solidarity. But I think this year is unique because you have so many women of color, and women from diverse backgrounds, and women who have broken so many glass ceilings.”

Four Black Political Pioneers Pen Book of Their Lives | AFRO

January 25, 2019January 25, 2019African American Politics, African American Vote ...

“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics” (St. Martin’s Press) tracks the stories of Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry and Minyon Moore, (With Veronica Chambers) in a book that is part memoir, an ode to friendship and an insider’s tome to the political landscape over the last few decades.

Kamala Harris’s Campaign Strategy: Don’t Pick a Lane | The Atlantic

January 24, 2019January 24, 2019African American Politics, African American Vote ...

The 2020 candidate is pitching herself as the one who can actually put together a winning coalition of voters, a goal Democrats have obsessed over since their shocker loss in 2016.

‘We Call Ourselves the Badasses’: Meet the New Women of Congress | Politico

January 23, 2019January 23, 2019African American Politics, African American Vote ...

The history-making class of new women on Capitol Hill is here, and its members have a lot to say.

Black Farmer Says Trump’s Trade War, Shutdown Have Sliced His Profit Margins In Half | Atlanta Black Star

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

Tanasia Kenney, Atlanta Black Star | Eddie Cotton, 82, Hermanville, MS, clears a field for a fall crop of hay, using a 40-yr-old tractor. He is among thousands of black farmers denied federal loans in past years. “They took away my ability to provide for my family,” he says of the discrimination. ©Robin Nelson/ZUMA. Featured […]

Why Republicans Finally Moved Against Steve King | The Atlantic

January 16, 2019January 16, 2019African American Politics, African American Vote ...

Elections have consequences, and the Iowa conservative’s sudden vulnerability back home gave House GOP leaders the permission they needed to act against his latest racist comments.

NAACP Town Hall Extols the Power of the Black Woman | The Washington Informer

January 16, 2019January 16, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

Stacy Brown, The Washington Informer [dropcap]The[/dropcap] NAACP on Tuesday hosted its first tele-town hall of 2019, and it was all about the power of women — particularly Black women. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “As we celebrate Founder’s Day and also the 90th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, one of the things critically important with leadership is […]

How Kamala Harris, a Tweet and a Pink and Green ‘Screech’ Proves We Need More Black Journalists | The Root

January 14, 2019African American Politics, African American Vote ...

Michael Harriot, The Root [dropcap]Just[/dropcap] below the reported Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; immediately after the quiet white kid in class wearing the trenchcoat who doodles swastikas in the margins of his Social Studies book; ranks the third-place winner of people you don’t want mad at you: Black women. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] So it is with […]

50 Years After Their Mug Shots, Portraits of Mississippi’s Freedom Riders | The New York Times [Lens]

January 10, 2019January 22, 2019African American Activist, African American History ...

Maurice Berger, The New York Times Gloria Bouknight, at 20 years old, and at 74 in 2015. While living in New York City, she discovered the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, on a visit to Harlem, and became an active member. Since then, she started a business representing European designers in the United States, […]

Will it be a black woman who turfs Trump out of the White House? | The Guardian

January 9, 2019African American Politics, African American Vote ...

Democrat Kamala Harris embodies the driving force behind the party’s electoral surge. She may be their best bet for 2020.