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Dems, GOP take different approaches on Georgia Senate blitz - Black News Channel

By BILL BARROW and BEN NADLER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jon Ossoff took the stage in Columbus and looked out over a parking lot filled with cars, with supporters blaring their horns in approval as he declared that 'change has come to Georgia.' Hours earlier, Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler stepped to a microphone in suburban Atlanta and addressed hundreds of eager supporters packed into the Cobb County GOP headquarters. The freshman senator and her Florida colleague, Sen. Marco Rubio, stirred the crowd with their insistence that the change offered by Ossoff and his fellow Democratic Senate hopeful Raphael Warnock […]

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Donald Trump a Voice of Reason on Police Reform.

Then Trump signed the order in the Rose Garden flanked by law enforcement leaders who support the administration's reforms. When former President Bill Clinton worked with both sides on an issue, they called it

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First U.S. Senator since Reconstruction

In 1962 Edward W. Brooke, a Boston attorney, became the first African-American to be elected Attorney General for the Commonwealth. Two year later, in 1964, he became the first African-American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Higher Heights For America PAC Officially Endorses Biden-Harris Ticket

Higher Heights For America PAC, which has previously endorsed Sen. Kamala Harris' 2016 run for Senate and her presidential campaign, has officially thrown itself behind the Biden-Harris 2020 ticket, endorsing

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Reddit Suspends Pro-Donald Trump Forum In Attempt Crack Down On Hate Speech - Blavity

The community of Donald Trump supporters became a haven for white supremacists and alt-right groups promoting racist

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Rift Valley leaders divided over Uhuru, Ruto war

A section of Jubilee Party senators and MPs from the Rift Valley — Deputy President William Ruto’s political bastion — are divided over the ruling party’s purge, which has seen some of the DP’s key allies kicked out of plum leadership

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Analysis: Money counts in Texas elections, but timing matters, too | Dallas Weekly

Editor’s note: If you’d like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, just click on the play button below. (Audio unavailable. Click here to listen on texastribune.org.) Late money is pouring into MJ Hegar’s campaign for the

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Republicans helping Kanye West secure spot on 2020 ballot - TheGrio

Is the Republican party trying to keep Kanye West on the ballot this November to skew votes away from Joe... View

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Rwanda: Tributes Pour in for Fallen Minister Ahead of Burial

Louise Mushikiwabo, Secretary-General of Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) and former senate president, Bernard Makuza, are among several officials who have paid tribute to former Minister Laurent Nkusi, who passed away on Monday, May

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Colin Powell is a retired four-star general of the United States Army. He is currently serving as an American Statesman. Powell was the first African-American to serve as the Secretary of State, which he did from 2001 to 2005 under George W. Bush. Powell is to date, the only African American to

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Racial segregation in the United States

Racial segregation in the United States, as a general term, includes the segregation or hypersegregation of facilities, services, and opportunities such as housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation along racial lines. The expression most often refers to the legally or

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@SenatorTimScott Finally Says Something After #Trump “white power” Tweet

Read entire at #NNPA / In yet another social media moment invoking race in America, President Donald Trump retweeted a video of a supporter heard yelling, “White

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(1948) Bayard Rustin, “Jim Crow Army"

By the early 1960s Bayard Rustin would emerge as a major strategist for the civil rights movement and advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King. In 1948, however, he was less well known among the American population. By that point, however, most of his views were shaped and well known. In World War

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1948

Filibuster in U.S. Senate killed FEPC bill

Filibuster in U.S. Senate killed FEPC bill.

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1946

Senator Doug Jones urges Governor Ivey to establish an Alabama Health Care Manufacturing Task Force

Senator Jones’ proposal would utilize existing infrastructure to create jobs in Alabama, provide a supply chain for vital COVID-19 supplies, reduce dependence on foreign health care suppliers, revamp Alabama’s manufacturing

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Juanita Jewel Shanks Craft (1902-1985) and the Long Civil Rights Movement in Texas

A small but growing number of black women are slowly being recognized for their contributions to the “long” civil rights movement, the nearly century-long struggle by African Americans against all forms of racial discrimination. In the account below University of Texas-El Paso

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Kenyatta Targets Ruto's Mt Kenya Allies in Fresh Purge

As Jubilee Party MPs await their parliamentary group meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta, the onslaught against Deputy President William Ruto's men in the Senate continues with a shake-up of committees expected

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Kenya: Sifuna Threatens to Sue Savula

ODM Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna has threatened to sue Lugari MP Ayub Savula over the politics of the Amani National Congress

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Representatives, Senators, Governors Who Else Is On The November Ballot?

Here are the other elected positions up for grabs this November that we need to be vested in as a community to move the anti-racism agenda forward.

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Democrats Threaten To Block 'Woefully Inadequate' GOP Police Reform Bill

Senate Democrats on Tuesday called Republican police reform legislation “woefully inadequate” and threatened to block debate on the measure, a move that elicited sharp partisan sniping amid ongoing nationwide protests over police

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Texas NAACP, Houston Urban League, LULAC to host virtual 'Unity Rally Against Racism'

The Texas NAACP, The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Houston Area Urban League will commemorate the anniversary of the signing of Civil Rights Act of 1964 by hosting a virtual Unity Rally Against Racism on Thursday, July 2nd, 2020 at 6:00

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US Senate panel head steps aside

Republican Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the powerful US Senate Intelligence Committee, stepped down Thursday after the FBI seized his cellphone in a probe of alleged insider stock trading tied to the coronavirus

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Lewis, John R. (1940- )

John Lewis was born in Troy, Alabama on February 21, 1940. In 1961 he received a B.A. from American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1967 he received an additional B.A. from Fisk University located in

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1940

(1918) Rev. Francis J. Grimke, “Victory for the Allies and the United States a Ground of Rejoicing, of Thanksgiving”

Francis J. Grimke was born a slave in Charleston, South Carolina on November 4, 1850. After the war he and his older brother, Archibald, went north to Lincoln University. Francis graduated from Lincoln in 1870. After working briefly at Lincoln, Grimke attended Princeton Theological Seminary from

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1850

OP-ED: A Huge Victory and More Work to Do - Black News Channel

By Benjamin Jealous, president of People For the American Way and People For the American Way Foundation After four exhausting years of President Donald Trump and four excruciating days of vote counting, the election was called for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on

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Kamala Harris Promises Free Tuition For Low-Income Students At Public Universities and HBCUs - The New York Beacon

Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris promised that if she and Joe Biden are elected, they would make college free for low-income students. Harris made the promise Thursday at a roundtable discussion held at Florida Memorial University, saying students whose family makes less than

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Black Girls Run: More Black Woman Seeking Office This Year Than Ever Before

“My mother used to tell me, ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things. Make sure you are not the last.’” – U.S. Senator Kamala Harris Black women across America are making political history in 2018. As Election Day approaches Tuesday, there are perhaps more Black women running for elected

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African American History and Women Timeline 1920-1929

[Previous] [Next] 1920s • Harlem Renaissance: also called the New Negro Movement, a blossoming of arts, culture, and social action in the African American community • 19th Amendment to the US Constitution became law, but practically this did not give the vote to Southern African American women, who,

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Kabuga: Kenya’s repeated denials of complicity under scrutiny

Earlier in June 2001, the International Crisis Group (ICG) released a report titled “International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Delayed Justice,” implicating government officials in the hiding of Mr

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Eight things Senate Dems can do to muck up Trump’s SCOTUS bum rush - The Bay State Banner

The universal consensus on Trump’s and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s speed rush to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat is that Senate Democrats can do nothing to stop it. This is dead

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Booker, Cory (1969- ) - Death

On December 20, 2012 Booker became a candidate for the United States Senate seat to succeed Senator Frank Lautenberg who had died in office on June 3, 2012.

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