alabama senate race

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Republican Roy Moore filed a lawsuit to try to stop Alabama from certifying Democrat Doug Jones as the winner of the U.S. Senate race. The court filing occurred about 14 hours ahead of Thursday’s meeting of a state canvassing board to officially declare Jones the winner of the Dec. 12 special […]

12/19/17- Roy Moore is still hot about the Alabama Senate election and will not concede. The election was about a week ago and Huggy can’t understand what’s wrong with Moore! Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram Sign Up For Our Newsletter!

WASHINGTON (AP) — Once again, black women showed up for Democrats, with nearly all of them voting in Alabama for new Sen. Doug Jones, just as they did for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot in other states over the last few months. The same women, having proven their loyalty by voting 98 percent […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Roy Moore has now lost more statewide races than he’s won in Alabama, including a Senate contest that seemed within reach. So will the Republican former judge now abandon politics and ride off into the sunset? Probably not. Instead, he’s discussing a possible recount — a longshot at best — and […]

12/14/17- Sherri was hot this morning! She’s had to wear her second face to work with her clear friends who just don’t understand. Everybody knows that face right? You put it on when you “just can’t” with people. Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram Sign Up For Our Newsletter!

The hashtag #BlackWomen is trending this morning because people are giving credit where credit is due in the defeat of accused child predator Roy Moore in Tuesday’s Senate special election in Alabama. Receipts published by The Washington Post showed that 98% of Black women voted for Democratic candidate Doug Jones in the traditionally red state. Early exit numbers indicate that […]

Alabama came out and voted yesterday, specifically the Black residents. So many people have said that Black people wouldn’t show up to vote like they did for Barack Obama, but they did. “We vote our interest and we came out in numbers that were over those in 08,” explained Sharpton. But he urges us not to […]

Everyone is talking about Doug Jones close win over Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate Race and comedian Arsenio Hall had to give his input on the whole thing. “You know what I think is very funny,” asked Hall. “They were going to have the acceptance speech at an after party in Claire’s in the mall,” laughed […]

After a long and heated Senate race in Alabama  Democrat Doug Jones has been declared the winner. Residents of Alabama showed up and voted to get Jones in. And now that he’s there what was really done to make this happen. In a roundtable discussion, Roland Martin talks with Roy Johnson from AL.com, LeTasha Brown the head of the […]

12/13/17- Tom is proud to be from Alabama this morning! The Alabama Senate race is over and the winner is Doug Jones. Black people showed up and represented yesterday and it paid off. Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram Sign Up For Our Newsletter!

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — In a stunning victory aided by scandal, Democrat Doug Jones won Alabama’s special Senate election on Tuesday, beating back history, an embattled Republican opponent and President Donald Trump, who urgently endorsed GOP rebel Roy Moore despite a litany of sexual misconduct allegations. It was the first Democratic Senate victory in a […]

It’s hard to know a moment in history when you are in it. The human ability to grasp the weight and gravity and consequence of an event, while it unfolds, is fleeting. History, as it turns out, is seen most clearly in retrospect. For most of my adult life, I wondered why people didn’t do […]