WASHINGTON (AP) — Racism in America is an institutional “white man’s problem visited on people of color,” Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday, arguing that the way to attack the issue is to defeat President Donald Trump and hold him responsible for deepening the nation’s racial divide. Taking aim at incendiary racial appeals by Trump, […]
Saturday evening in Durham, Democratic Candidate Senator Kamala Harris spoke at the Founders Banquet for the Durham Committee on Affairs Of Black People. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1lzbSbHvhr/ Near Durham, the Ku Klux Klan went waving their confederate flags and wearing the Klan robes causing a large disturbance in Hillsborough. No word if this will affect her other speaking […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Democrat Stacey Abrams, who vaulted onto the national political stage championing voting rights during an unsuccessful 2018 run for Georgia governor, announced on Tuesday that she’s launching a new multistate voter protection initiative and not running for president in 2020. Abrams revealed plans for the initiative, called Fair Fight 2020, during a […]
Despite Donald’s Trump’s seemingly racist rhetoric, his administration hopes to woo Black voters ahead of the 2020 election. As noted by Politico, when Trump took office in January 2017, the unemployment rate among African-Americans was 7.7 percent. Friday’s jobs report pegged it at 6 percent for July. SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER: LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM […]
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson previously opened up about how Donald Trump’s administration offered him “half a million dollars to go” to Trump’s Jan. 20, 2017 swearing in. Earlier this year, the Power star told Late Late Show” host James Corden that he didn’t do it “because I didn’t know if I could fix the damage.” “To be honest […]
DETROIT (AP) — Should Democrats be going big or getting real? That’s the question that dominated Tuesday’s Democratic primary debate, as progressive favorites Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders fended off attacks from lesser-known moderates. The display amounted to a sometimes testy public airing of the party’s anxieties about how far left is too left and […]
DETROIT (AP) — Joe Biden rarely lets a public event pass without reminding voters of his work alongside President Barack Obama. But the former vice president insisted on Wednesday that he’s not overly relying on that relationship to fuel his 2020 White House bid. “It’s not a crutch,” Biden said during a forum in Detroit […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kamala Harris can’t forget the older black woman she met in Iowa while campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama before the state’s 2008 caucus. “I remember her saying to me, ‘They’re not going to let him win,'” Harris recalled. “She did not want to go to the caucuses. She didn’t […]
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Sen. Kamala Harris says busing students should be considered by a school district trying to desegregate its locations, but suggests it should not be federally mandated. She says she thinks of busing as “being in the toolbox” of way to desegregate schools. SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER: LIKE US […]
After the second presidential debate, candidate Kamala Harris has raised a whopping $2 million for her campaign. The New York Times reports that Harris received donations from 63, 277 supporters, with 58 percent of them being people who never donated to her campaign before. The average donation was around $30. “It was the best day […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NBC says round two of the Democratic presidential debate was the party’s most-watched ever. Based on Nielsen figures out Friday, the event including early front-runners Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders averaged 18.1 million viewers across NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo. RELATED: Kamala Harris Takes Control In Dem Debate That topped the previous […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When North Carolina drew its most recent political maps, state leaders split a historically black university in Greensboro into two congressional districts that critics say diluted the voting power of African Americans on campus. Lawmakers defended it as partisan gerrymandering — a tactic that the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block Thursday. […]
