Elections

If you haven’t been paying attention to the courts, you may not have noticed but Roland Martin points out that Republicans make elections about the courts. “They want to pack the federal bench with these young 35-40 year old right wing judges” he explains, that way they’ll control the courts for the next 50 years. Kristen […]

The 2020 election is creeping up on us and for some it caused them to completely forget about the 2019 elections. Well, election day was yesterday and Democrats won across the country. Roland Martin talks to Tom Perez, Chair of the Democratic National Committee  about what this means. Perez says yesterday was proof that we […]

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A handful of local elections in Georgia are being used to test new voting machines that combine touchscreens with a printed ballot, part of the state’s rush to meet a court-ordered deadline to retire its outdated, paperless system before any votes are cast in 2020. State election officials are piloting the […]

For a few minutes this morning I wanna demonstrate the power of local elections. On Tuesday a dangerous vote took place in the North Carolina where the state legislature passed House Bill 370. And it’s doing something we see happening all over the country. In North Carolina, at least 7 different elected sheriffs have said […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Presidents and other world leaders and political figures who use Twitter to threaten or abuse others could find their tweets slapped with warning labels. The new policy , announced by the company on Thursday, comes amid complaints from activists and others that President Donald Trump has gotten a free pass from […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 34-year-old black man whose family was homeless at times during his childhood in Kansas City, Missouri, will become the city’s 55th mayor. Voters on Tuesday chose Quinton Lucas over fellow City Council member Jolie Justus in a mayoral runoff, according to unofficial results that showed him with a commanding […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter says it has deleted nearly 4,800 suspect accounts linked to Iran that the company says secretly pushed that government’s agenda. Twitter is adding those accounts and their tweets to a public database it launched last year to track its battle against government-linked misinformation. It is also adding a smaller number […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Republican Brian Kemp’s campaign declared victory Wednesday in the Georgia governor’s race, though Democrat Stacey Abrams insists that enough ballots remain to leave open the possibility of a runoff. The Associated Press has not called the contest. Ryan Mahoney, a top Kemp campaign adviser, told reporters in a conference call that the […]

This morning Guy was feeling down and defeated, but after hearing Roland, Sybil and Shaun he feels better. If we look at this election like we look at sports we’ll see that we might not have won the whole game, but we had some amazing plays! Celebrate the good and learn from the not so […]

Jenifer Lewis posted a video singing “get your ass up and vote,” she wants everyone to go vote and get their voices heard! She says she’s been an activist all her life for one simple reason, she cares. Lewis never thought she’d be “running around the country quoting presidents,” but she quotes John F. Kennedy, […]

Today is the day we get to vote and take out country back! Election day has Huggy preaching about all of the good things that are going to come out of this election. We are going to tell the GOP that we don’t like the way they’ve been running this country. We are putting Stacey […]

There are a number of Black women running for office all over the country. Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with Dr. Duchess Harris, author of Black Feminist Politics From Kennedy To Trump.  Stacey Abrams is running for governor of Georgia and Harris says voter turnout has been at an all time high, which is a good sign. […]