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  DETROIT (AP) — Embattled U.S. Rep. John Conyers has no plans to resign amid allegations that the congressman sexually harassed several women when they worked on his staff, his lawyer said Wednesday. Detroit-area attorney Arnold Reed told The Associated Press that the 88-year-old Conyers is going to fight claims that he inappropriately touched the […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Calls for Michigan Rep. John Conyers to resign increased on Tuesday after a former staffer said the longest-serving member of the House made unwanted sexual advances that included partially undressing in front of her in a hotel room and inappropriate touching. Deanna Maher, 77, who ran a Michigan office for Conyers from […]

It’s come to this: A racist supporter of President Donald Trump threatened to murder  U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters. For months, many Black Americans have talked openly about how Trump’s racially incendiary rhetoric incites his bigoted supporters to violence but conservatives always dismiss the notions as left-wing quackery. But  Anthony Scott Lloyd, 44, from San Pedro, California, […]

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Gov. Mark Dayton became the latest public official to denounce a racially biased attack on St. Paul mayoral candidate Melvin Carter.

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New Orleans will have its first female mayor, and both candidates in the final election round are African Americans.

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Randall Woodfin, a city attorney and member of the Birmingham Board of Education in Alabama, can now add the title of Mayor-Elect to his name. Woodfin won the seat in a runoff election against incumbent Mayor William Bell, bolstered by running on a largely progressive platform. Woodfin, 36, and a graduate of Morehouse College, was […]

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Clarence Lightner was  Raleigh, North Carolina’s first, and to date, only, Black mayor in its history. The late Lightner attended North Carolina Central University, taking a somewhat unusual path to politics. Lightner was born August 21, 1921, in Raleigh. After leaving NCCU, Lightner earned a degree in Mortuary Science and began working in his father’s funeral […]

History was made in Alabama on this day in 1964  after a run-off election changed the course of the Cotton State’s political scene. Civil rights leader, the Rev. K.L. Buford, and Tuskegee Institute professor Stanley Hugh Smith became the first Black elected officials since the Reconstruction era. Rev. Buford had amassed a reputation in the […]

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The CBC was one of the first parties to call for Nixon's impeachment, which will be a "guiding comparison" in their Trump discussion.

Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s estranged wife has named a few familiar folks in her divorce proceedings and Jesse, Jr. is not happy about it. One of the people named is former NBC anchor Tamron Hall. The names were submitted by Jesse’s soon to be ex-wife, Sandi Jackson who has asked for Hall to be subpoenaed in […]

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Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s estranged wife has named a few familiar folks in her divorce proceedings and Jesse, Jr. is not happy about it. One of the people named is former NBC anchor Tamron Hall. The names were submitted by Jesse’s soon to be ex-wife, Sandi Jackson who has asked for Hall to be subpoenaed in […]

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Chokwe Antar Lumumba was sworn in this past July as Jackson, Mississippi’s youngest mayor. Lumumba followed in the footsteps of his late father, Chokwe Lumumba, carrying on the family legacy with a hopeful message for the people. Lumumba, 34, mirrored his father’s career path. The Tuskegee University graduate became an attorney like his dad, graduating […]