Political

  Civil Rights Giant Congressman John Lewis Prepares to Fight Pancreatic Cancer By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Civil rights giant John Lewis, representing Georgia’s 5th Congressional District in the U. S. House of Representatives […]

JOSH SOLOMON St. Petersburg City Hall, Pinellas Courts reporter Before today, the city council never had six women, or two black women, serving together. ST. PETERSBURG — Two new council members took their oaths of […]

bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/12/19/kentucky-swears-in-first-african-american-attorney.html Daniel Cameron has been sworn in as Kentucky’s next attorney general. He is the first Republican to hold the office since 1948 and the first African American elected on his own ticket to statewide office, WVXU […]

By Cliff Albright https://www.theguardian.com/ The motivations behind today’s efforts to overturn elections and remove black elected officials are not very different than Reconstruction-era motivations On 5 November, Hester Jackson-McCray, a black woman, narrowly defeated Republican […]

By Alex Horton  November 29, 2019 at 8:33 a.m. EST BET founder Robert Johnson, a lifelong Democrat and America’s first black billionaire, has assessed the Democratic contenders in next year’s presidential election. And he doesn’t […]

The retiring so-called moderate who previously broke from Trump was called a “coward” for defending the president. Written By Bruce C.T. Wright Posted 15 hours ago Democrats’ optimism over the impeachment inquiry public hearings got a bit of […]

Trump, Pence, trying to win over African-American voters, to launch ‘Black Voices for Trump’ coalition in Atlanta Courtney Subramanian USA TODAY 11.8.19 WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is pitching his record to African-American voters on Friday […]

Tallahassee—The Florida Black Caucus revealed a 2020 legislative agenda that could provide quite a challenge to Governor Ron DeSantis. The Caucus, is the largest in the state legislature, is hoping to meet with him to […]