Category: Politics

‘We must be at the table’ By Gheni Platenburg, The Lily Melissa Watson never planned to run for Congress. For over 13 years, the high school teacher and mother of two has been active in Democratic politics. She always preferred to serve in supportive, behind the scenes roles. In addition to volunteering for community organizations […]

By Hallie Jackson, MSNBC Massachusetts emergency room physician Dr. Alister Martin tells Ayman Mohyeldin about the organization he created, VotER, which allows patients who come into hospitals to register to vote. Dr. Martin says COVID has made voting a “public health issue,” which led him to the creation of the campaign. Full article @ MSNBC

Cori Bush, a racial justice activist who was once homeless, has ousted a 10-term political veteran in Missouri’s Democratic primary election. By BBC News Staff, BBC News She defeated Congressman William Lacy Clay 49% – 46%. Either Mr Clay or his father, a civil rights activist, has held the seat since the 1960s. An ordained […]

By EJI Staff, EJI On June10, 1954, governors and representatives from twelve Southern states met in Richmond, Virginia, and resolved to defiantly resist the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.Released less than a month earlier, the Brown decision struck down racial segregation laws — prevalent in the South — that required separate public schools for Black […]

By David Von Drehle, The Washington Post Herman Cain, a businessman turned politician turned commentator, was a pioneer, a leading member of the bridge generation of African Americans who brought the nation out of legally sanctioned segregation. He also belonged to the much smaller cohort of politically conservative African Americans, lonely ground he shared with […]

By Nicholas Wu + Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain died after a battle with COVID-19, according to posts on his Twitter account and on his website.  “Herman Cain – our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us – has passed away,” wrote Dan Calabrese on Cain’s website.  “Herman […]

The president’s extraordinary proposal represents what appears to be his first attempt at floating a suspension of the election. By Quint Forgey, Politico President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that November’s general election should be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic and his unsubstantiated assertions of widespread mail-in voter fraud. “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee […]

The former Republican presidential candidate and Trump campaign surrogate is “being treated with oxygen for his lungs,” his team said. By Hayley Miller, HuffPost Herman Cain, a 2012 Republican presidential candidate, remains hospitalized one month after being diagnosed with COVID-19, his team said Monday. “We know it’s been a few days since we last gave […]

The former president and vice president released a new video Thursday meant to cast President Trump as unbefitting of the office, while trumpeting the credentials of Mr. Biden. By EJI Staff, The New York Times Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. joined forces with his top surrogate Thursday morning, releasing a video of a conversation with […]

By Derek Major, Black Enterprise Activist Angela Davis said in an interview that resurfaced this week she’s rallying behind Joe Biden because it’s crucial to back the candidate “who can be most effectively pressured” by the left. In the interview, which took place in November 2019 on the YouTube show Going Underground With Afshin Rattansi, Davis admitted […]