She has more than a dozen years of legislative experience, serving in the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature since 2004.
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Baton Rouge reaches cash settlement with 69 protesters | The Philadelphia Tribune
BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge approved a class-action settlement Friday that awards up to $1,000 in cash to dozens of protesters who claim police violated their civil rights and used excessive force in arresting them after a deadly police shooting.
View MoreIs atheism the reason for Ta-Nehisi Coates’ pessimism on race relations? | The Guardian
In his latest book, Ta-Nehisi Coates, one of America’s leading public intellectuals, betrays an atheistic worldview devoid of redemption
View MoreRemembering Black Women in St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Housing Projects | Black Perspectives
Policymakers assumed that if men were in the home, poor women on welfare would inevitably have more children and cost taxpayers more money. So by 1959, women headed the majority of households in Pruitt-Igoe.
View MoreThe First White President | The Atlantic
The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.
View MoreLet’s Try This Again: Yvette Simpson Runs for Mayor of Cincinnati; Will Black Voters Rally? | The Root
Cincinnati has never had a woman directly elected mayor. This city has never had an African-American woman elected mayor. This city has never had a black woman with even a chance of getting elected mayor.
View MoreWere Black Progressives Wrong to Not Support Clinton, Opening the Door for Trump’s Victory? | Atlanta Black Star
“I would rather have Trump be president for four years and build a real left-wing movement that can get us what we deserve as a people, than to let Hillary be president and we stay locked in the same space where we don’t get what we want.” – Marc Lamont Hill
View MoreA C-SPAN caller confessed his racism to a black guest. A year later, he called back to say how he’d changed. | The Washington Post
A year ago this week, a white man named Garry from North Carolina called C-SPAN to talk to a black guest about his racial prejudices.
View MoreForget Bernie Bros: Meet the Young People of Color Leading the Country’s Socialist Revolution | Splinter
But erasing people of color from the narrative is deeply ahistoric at best and intellectually dishonest at worst.
View MoreAfter Obama’s 2008 Win, Indiana GOP Added Early Voting in White Suburb, Cut It in Indianapolis | Slate
In 2008, Barack Obama squeaked out an unexpected win in Indiana thanks in part to his huge margin of victory in Marion County, which has a large population of black Democrats.
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