1. Rash of Fatal Police Shootings Overwhelm Headlines What You Need To Know: Over the past several weeks, news of fatal police shootings has overshadowed the headlines, highlighting a disturbing trend that has sparked protests and raised more questions than answers. 2. Troy Carter Elected to Cedric Richmond’s Congressional Seat What You Need To Know: […]
This election season is looking like it could be a good one. Louisiana Congressman, Cedric Richmond talks to DL about the good things that we as voters have already done, and the next steps. “African Americans are turning out in a higher proportion,” and also “over performing our white counterparts,” Richmond said, adding that those […]
Bennie Thompson, Cedric Richmond and Sheila Jackson Lee spoke out.
CBC leaders met with Trump Wednesday and raised “several areas of concern,” including his description of Black communities as “completely lawless,” proposed cuts to domestic programs that will harm low-income people, troubling positions on law enforcement and mass incarceration, and the “rolling back” of voting rights.
Obviously Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) thought about his ill-advised joke about Kellyanne Conway in the now iconic and infamous White House photo of Trump’s senior adviser kneeling on a couch and issued a statement of apology on Sunday after getting a lot of blow back. “After a discussion with people I know and trust I […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond has been elected chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. The three-term lawmaker will take over for the current chairman, Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., in January when a new Congress is sworn in. The 43-year-old Richmond has a reputation of working with Democrats and Republicans. Butterfield says he […]
Roland Martin caught up with U.S. Representative Cedric Richmond at the 2013 Congressional Black Caucus. A champion for New Orleans, Richmond stressed the importance of forging…
