Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota state lawmaker, is poised to be one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, winning the Democratic nomination in a left-leaning district.
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How a black, firefighting union president plans to take on Scott Walker | Vox
Mahlon Mitchell tells Vox that “Wisconsin is ready for a black governor.”
View More(2017) White lawmaker warns black attorney she may ‘go missing’ if Confederate statues are threatened | The Washington Post
“To many necks they are red around here. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
View MoreMarilyn Mosby wins re-election in three-way race for Baltimore state’s attorney | The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby won a contentious Democratic primary election Tuesday and became the city’s first top prosecutor to be re-elected in a dozen years after fending off weeks of attacks from her two challengers, defense attorney Ivan Bates and former prosecutor Thiru Vignarajah.
View MoreKamala Harris builds an online army | Politico
Ahead of 2020, the California senator is applying lessons drawn from Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign.
View MoreNew York Governor Restores Voting Rights to Parolees | Colorlines
An estimated 35,000 residents, overwhelmingly Black and Latinx, stand to benefit from Andrew Cuomo’s executive order.
View MoreThe Missing Obama Millions | The New York Times
Our analysis shows that while 9 percent of Obama 2012 voters went for Mr. Trump in 2016, 7 percent — that’s more than four million missing voters — stayed home.
View MoreBlack politics 2.0: The post-Obama generation is so done with the Democratic Party’s old ways | Washington Post
This is what the post-Obama era of black electoral politics looks like — and it is taking shape largely outside the daily headlines in Washington.
View MoreAs San Francisco mayor, London will share power with the poor | San Francisco Bay View
The party that jeers at the consequences of white privilege ended up forcing a vote on the Board of Supervisors that replaced an African American woman as mayor with a white man who supervises the city’s wealthiest districts.
View MoreBlack Construction Companies Working on $350 Million Obama Presidential Center | The Grio
Now that Barack Obama is out of the White House, he’s making a statement on support for Black businesses with a huge deal for the Obama Presidential Center.
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