By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi police are investigating two nooses and six signs that were found on the grounds of the state Capitol on Monday, a day before a U.S. Senate runoff that has focused attention on the state’s history of racist violence. It was not immediately known who put […]
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Defeated Republican Rep. Mia Love Delivers Rebuke to Trump
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The first and only black Republican woman in Congress delivered a sharp rebuke Monday to President Donald Trump and her party’s relationship with African-Americans in her first remarks since her midterm defeat. Mia Love was narrowly defeated by Democrat Ben McAdams for the suburban Salt Lake […]
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REPORT: None of the 28 Top Staffers in House and Senate are People of Color
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia WASHINGTON – The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has released six detailed reports on the troubling lack of racial diversity among the 167 top staff in the Washington, D.C. offices of six congressional delegations – Delaware, Maryland, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia. Of the 12 U.S. […]
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Democrat’s Path to Victory in Mississippi: Black Turnout
By JEFF AMY, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The special election for a U.S. Senate seat in deeply conservative Mississippi wasn’t supposed to be competitive. But hopeful Democrats are eyeing a narrow path to victory next week by driving up African-American turnout after Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith stirred outrage with her remark to a supporter […]
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After 2 Painful Years, Elijah Cummings Will Be More Powerful
By BEN TERRIS, The Washington Post WASHINGTON (AP) — When the word of the Lord came to Elijah, it arrived on a slip of paper tucked in a stranger’s bra. In 2017, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings had been laid up in a Johns Hopkins hospital bed for two months, crippled by pain after a difficult […]
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After Referendum, North Carolina GOP Tries Voter ID Again
By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Emboldened by a referendum voters approved this month, North Carolina’s soon-dwindling Republican majorities at the legislature will scramble to approve their preferred voter identification law before Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper can stop it. The GOP-dominated General Assembly returns to work Tuesday to decide how a […]
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Professors at HU Break Down Black Women in the 2018 Elections
By Brianna McAdoo, AFRO Staff Writer, bmcadoo@afro.com 2018 marks 50 years since the first Black woman Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) was elected to the U.S. Congress; and in 2018 Black women have continued her legacy making their mark in politics with these past midterm elections. From Minnesota’s Ihan Omar, who became the first Somali-American woman to ever be […]
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Democratic Leaders Emphasize the Fight for Justice During Conference
By Brianna McAdoo, AFRO Staff Writer, bmcadoo@afro.com Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network brought the action to the Hill with the Legislative & Policy Conference held November 13 and 14. Over a hundred activists from around the country convened for the conference where politicians discussed the midterm elections, issues plaguing America and a way forward. The National […]
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Pugh Taps Ft. Worth Chief to be Next Baltimore Commissioner
By Stephen Janis, Special to the AFRO One of the most highly anticipated personnel moves by Mayor Catherine Pugh finally reached a conclusion as Pugh announced the hiring of current Fort Worth, Tx. police chief Joel Fitzgerald to be Baltimore’s new top cop. In a written statement released Nov. 19, Pugh called the decision a step […]
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Kansas Official Who Said Whites Are ‘Master Race’ Asked to Resign
The Associated Press Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer has called on a White county official to resign after the official said at a public meeting that he belongs to “the master race.” Leavenworth County Commissioner Louis Klemp cited the master race — the Nazi ideology of Aryan supremacy — at a board meeting Nov. 13 while […]
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Florida’s 1st Black Nominee For Gov Challenged GOP Dominance
By GARY FINEOUT and BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Andrew Gillum, who tried to energize Florida’s young and minority voters through a Democratic coalition seeking to end two decades of Republican control of the governor’s office, ended his hard-fought campaign Saturday as the state’s first black nominee for the post. Gillum, whose refrain […]
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Abrams Acknowledges Loss, Plans Legal Challenge of Georgia Elections
By Bill Barrow and Kate Brumback, The Associated Press Democrat Stacey Abrams ended 10 days of post-election drama in Georgia’s closely watched and even more closely contested race for governor Nov. 16, acknowledging Republican Brian Kemp as the victor while defiantly refusing to concede to the man she blamed for “gross mismanagement” of a bitterly fought election. […]