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Millennial Politicians Fight for Equity in D.C. | Afro

Despite the District’s loyal love for leaders, there are millennial politicians who are on a mission to improve their beloved city, including Ward 8 representative and vice president of the State Board of Education (SBOE), Markus Batchelor and former president of the D.C. Young Democrats

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Explained: Coronavirus' spread in GOP territories | The Atlanta Voice

An Associated Press analysis of coronavirus case data shows the virus has moved — and is spreading quickly — into Republican areas, a new path with broad potential political

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Paris Dennard Doesn’t Shy Away from Backing Trump

Paris Dennard is one African American who thinks President Donald Trump has improved the lives of Black people in the United

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Source: The Washington Informer

Stop Pandering to the Leftists’ Systemic Racism “Big Lie”

Here in the United States of America, ANTIFA is demanding that white America literally kneel in worship to Black Lives Matter, an evil false

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Source: ThyBlackMan

Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr.

Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr., 1932–, African-American leader, clergyman, and public official, b. New Orleans. He was a leading civil-rights activist in the 1960s and, as a Democrat from Georgia, served (1973–77) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Under President Carter , Young was permanent

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Harrowing Blame Game Over COVID-19 Toll In Nursing Homes | Afro

The Trump administration has been pointing to a segment of the industry — facilities with low federal ratings for infection control — and to some Democratic governors who required nursing homes to take recovering coronavirus

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Ben Jealous - Wikipedia

After completing his degree at Oxford and returning to the US, Jealous worked as Executive Director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a federation of more than 200 black community

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Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mississippi lawmakers vote to remove Confederate emblem from flag

The Mississippi state legislature on Sunday passed a bill to remove the Confederate emblem from their flag in a historic referendum on the only remaining state flag to feature the Confederate

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Ice Cube Supports Charlamagne and Diddy Against Biden Democrats

According to Diddy, the blacks should refrain from supporting Joe Biden and other democrats until the challenges the black communities

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Source: Your Black World

New Juneteenth meaning for Black Texans, while push to make holiday goes national

The activist and educator will lead her community on foot for two and a half miles — a distance that represents the number of additional years it took before enslaved people in Texas were informed of their freedom after the signing of the Emancipation

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Can Charles Booker unseat Senator Mitch McConnell in Kentucky?

Democratic candidate for Kentucky Senate, Charles Booker, left, and Senator Mitch

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Source: theGrio

Fudge, Marcia (1952 - )

Democrat Marcia Fudge is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 11th Congressional District of Ohio since November 2008. She was the first female African American mayor of Warrensville Heights, a predominantly middle-class black suburban city outside of Cleveland. She

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Source: Black Past

Jennifer McClellan Could Make History As Virginia's First Black Female Governor | HuffPost

Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan (D) is jumping into the race for governor, saying the state is at a “critical crossroads right now about what direction we’re going to

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The South Has Some Of The Nation’s Dirtiest Electricity. Now It’s Seeing A Coronavirus Uptick.

Yet the region remains far behind the rest of the country on even the most basic policies to lower climate-changing emissions, according to research published Tuesday by the Southern Economic Advancement Project, a nonprofit founded by Stacey Abrams, a former Democratic candidate for Georgia

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"Yes We Can": Barack Obama's Road to the White House, 2008

Barack Obamas campaign for the Presidency in 2008 has been described by many political analysts as brilliant and virtually flawless. Despite his inexperience in national politics and limited experience in state politics (Obama was first elected to political office in 1994), he assembled

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Source: Black Past

Maxine Waters birth

Maxine Waters was born this day. Congresswoman Waters is a Democrat fromCalifornia.

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The True Plight of African-Americans.

Some of the most dangerous big cities are: St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Newark, Buffalo and

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Source: ThyBlackMan

Virginia state senator becomes second Black woman to declare for governor's race

Confederate statues are coming down in Richmond, Virginia, among many Southern states that still have

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Source: theGrio

Andrew Young

Andrew Young (born on the 12th of March, 1932) is an American activist, former pastor and diplomat from Georgia. Andrew Young served as Mayor of Atlanta, the US ambassador to the UN and as a congressman from the 5th congressional district from Georgia. Young was also a member of the Southern

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Jackson-Lee, Sheila (1950 - )

Sheila Jackson-Lee was born on January 12, 1950 in Queens, New York. She graduated from Jamaica High School in Queens, New York in 1968. She then graduated from Yale University in Connecticut with a B.A. in political science in 1972 followed in 1975 by a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law

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Source: Black Past

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1950

Biden Says He Would Not Pardon Trump or Block Investigations

The former vice president made his statement in response to a voter who asked him on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show, “The Last Word,” whether he would “commit to not pulling a Gerald Ford in giving Donald Trump a pardon under the pretense of healing the

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Source: Black America Web

Systemic bias has kept African Americans and women from the highest offices in Indiana

Recent Indiana history is littered with instances when party officials have worked behind the scenes to discourage women and minority candidates from seeking the highest offices to make way for white men deemed more connected, electable or better

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Mike Pence just gave a rambling non-answer on whether it's harder for black Americans

"I love your question because I saw where Joe Biden last night actually tweeted that everybody ought to have a fair shot at the American

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Fauci: US 'Going In Wrong Direction' In Coronavirus Outbreak

The U.S. is “going in the wrong direction” with the coronavirus surging badly enough that Dr. Anthony Fauci told senators Tuesday some regions are putting the entire country at risk — just as schools and colleges are wrestling with how to safely

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

With House in Tow, D.C. Statehood Backers Mull Senate Strategy

With the historic passage of a bill granting the District state-level sovereignty despite Republican opposition, statehood advocates are planning a Senate strategy for the remaining months of this congressional session and the next, regardless of the results of the November general

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Source: The Washington Informer

Batts, Deborah (1947- )

Deborah Batts, U.S. District Court Judge in New York City, received degrees from Radcliffe College and the Harvard University Law School. Batts began her legal career with the firm of Cravath, Swaine, and Moore in New York City. Later she was appointed assistant U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. In

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Source: Black Past

The History of Black History Month

In the following article Daryl Michael Scott, Professor of History at Howard University and Vice President of Program for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, describes the history of the Black History Month

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Source: Black Past

(1857) Abraham Lincoln, “The Dred Scott Decision and Slavery,"

? The Dred Scott Decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857 was supposed to end the decades-long debate about slavery in the United States. It did just the opposite, inflaming passions particularly in the North. In the follow speech, Abraham Lincoln, then a private citizen, p

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Advocates Worry Blacks, Hispanics Falling Behind in Census | Afro

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Halfway through the extended effort to count every U.S. resident, civil rights leaders worry that minority communities are falling behind in responding to the 2020

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Remembering the 1964 Murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner

For Blacks of a certain age, the May 25 knee-on-neck killing of George Floyd by a White police officer evokes that awful time in the summer of 1964 when young civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by a Klan

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