Mayor Tonga Turner insisted she wasn’t resigning because of the racist bullying, with her spokesperson saying she wanted more time with family.
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Obamas jump into booming podcast business with Spotify partnership | Reuters
Jill Serjeant, Reuters Women working at sewing machines in factory. Pic credit: Sleek Garments Export Ltd. Featured Image [dropcap]LOS[/dropcap] ANGELES (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle entered the booming podcast business on Thursday, announcing a multi-year partnership with streaming service Spotify to produce a series of exclusive podcasts. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] […]
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Activists say new Tennessee law aims to suppress African American votes | The Guardian
Khushbu Shah, The Guardian The Equity Alliance registered nearly 100,000 black voters in Tennessee during the midterm elections in 2018. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]Tequila[/dropcap] Johnson lists off laundromats, nightclubs and churches. Those are the places her team of 150 volunteers visited during the midterm elections last year, registering black voters across […]
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A Forgotten Presidential Candidate From 1904 | NPR
Despite what you read in some history books — such as the Biographical Dictionary of Congressional Women — Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) was not in 1972 the first African-American candidate to run for president of the United States. In 1904, George Edwin Taylor — often forgotten in the discussion of black American political pioneers — […]
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Russian documents reveal desire to sow racial discord — and violence — in the U.S. | NBC News
The revelations come as U.S. intelligence agencies have warned of probable Russian meddling in the 2020 election.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she’d be ‘hard pressed’ to back Biden in primary | The Guardian
Bernie Sanders appears to be the favorite to secure Ocasio-Cortez’s prized endorsement in the Democratic presidential primary
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Kamala Harris’s Long-Shot Bid to Fix School Funding | The Atlantic
The senator and presidential candidate says America needs to reform how it funds schools, but the details of any alternative approach are scant.
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Adrienne Jones elected Maryland’s first African-American, female House speaker | CNN
Veronica Stracqualursi, CNNAmber Ferguson/The Washington Post, Featured Image [dropcap]Washington[/dropcap] (CNN) A Maryland lawmaker made history on Wednesday when she became the first woman and first African-American elected as the state’s House speaker. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Del. Adrienne Jones was unanimously voted as speaker after the two Democratic candidates who were vying for the job stepped aside […]
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Baltimore’s Mayor Resigns Over a Series of Self-Published Children’s Books | Slate
Elliot Hannon, Slate Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh delivers an address during her inauguration ceremony on Dec. 6, 2016. (Patrick Semansky/AP), Featured Image [dropcap]Baltimore[/dropcap] Mayor Catherine Pugh’s bizarre tenure in office came to an end Thursday, when she resigned amid a cloud of scandal and scrutiny over, of all things, a self-published series of children’s books. […]
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Stacey Abrams’s next move could bolster Democrats in Georgia — and her own political fortunes | The Washington Post
Amy Gardner, The Washington Post Stacey Abrams at an event at the Carter Center in Atlanta on April 23, 2019. (Elijah Nouvelage/For The Washington Post), Featured Image [dropcap]DECATUR[/dropcap], Ga. — In a quiet suite of offices above a bank in this eastern Atlanta suburb, Democrat Stacey Abrams’s newest venture is quickly taking shape. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] […]
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