By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Analysis: Despite an incessant rain on Election Day, Marylanders continued a vigorous voting pattern after record-breaking early voting and West Baltimore was not exempt from the electoral zeal. According to the State Board of Elections, 16.7 percent of eligible voters cast an early vote in Maryland, which is up from […]
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Rihanna and Axl Rose to Donald Trump: Stop Playing Our Music at Your Rallies
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor When a popular singer with 88 million followers on her twitter account sends a message about something bothering her, people tend to notice. When she sends the message less than 72 hours before a crucial midterm election they notice even more. President Trump’s constant use of popular music […]
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Vote for Justice, Equality and Democracy
By Camille O. Cosby, Special to NNPA Newswire My husband, Bill Cosby, was recently victimized by a malicious District Attorney and an equally vicious judge. This is not the first time that my husband has been persecuted by corrupt and self-serving politicians. In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, Bill Cosby, along with hundreds of […]
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Will Higher Turnout Favor Jealous?
By Brian Witte, The Associated Press Maryland’s popular Republican governor is earning enough support from Democrats and Black voters in the state’s largest jurisdictions to narrow the pathway to an upset sought by a challenger who led the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Democratic challenger Ben Jealous, a former national president of the NAACP, needs big support […]
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Obama Urges Georgia Voters to Elect 1st Black Female Governor
By Bill Barrow, The Associated Press Former President Barack Obama urged Georgia voters Nov. 2 to elect Stacey Abrams governor as a way to counter divisiveness and help keep Republicans from dismantling much of his legacy. Speaking before a raucous crowd at historically Black Morehouse College in Atlanta, Obama never mentioned President Donald Trump or Abrams’ Republican […]
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Black Women Save Politics
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Politics aren’t for the faint of heart- and, according to the new book, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics,” it’s taken some of the strongest people around to keep politicians and parties in tact- Black women. Described as the “four most powerful African-American women in politics,” Donna Brazile, […]
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Voters Raise Concerns About Voting Machines, Poll Access
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and ALINA HARTOUNIAN, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Political activist Leah McElrath was reviewing her electronic ballot at a polling place in Houston when she was shocked to find Republican Ted Cruz listed as her choice in Texas’ high-profile U.S. Senate race. McElrath had voted a straight ticket for Democrats, but the […]
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Trump vs. Obama in the Final Weekend of the Midterms
By KEN THOMAS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Feuding from a distance, President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama exchanged tough words Friday as they sought to rally their parties’ base voters in the final days before the midterm elections. Obama urged Democrats in Miami to turn against “a politics based on division” and expressed […]
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Oprah, Pence Offer Competing Visions of ‘Georgia Values’
By BILL BARROW and JEFF MARTIN, Associated Press MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — In a rousing speech in the Republican-leaning suburbs of Atlanta, Oprah Winfrey urged voters on Thursday to make history by backing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in next week’s election. Winfrey called Abrams a “changemaker” who represents the values of all Georgians. “I am […]
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Jealous Running Hard in Final Days of the Campaign, Even as Polls Point to Hogan
By Hamil R. Harris, Special to the AFRO It is the bell lap of the Maryland Governor’s race and Democrat Ben Jealous is working hard to mobilize college students and young adult voters in Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties in hopes of proving the pollsters and pundits wrong next Tuesday and upset incumbent Larry Hogan in […]
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Millennials Celebrate Their Power to Vote at Morgan State
By Lauren Poteat, Special to the AFRO Encouraging Black millennials to participate in the early voting process, organizations including Black Girls Vote,” “Planned Parenthood,” “1199SEIU” and “Young Gets It Done”—an organization dedicated to revolutionizing the voting process for minority populations, headed to Morgan State University over the weekend, for an epic rock the vote celebration. […]
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FAMU Graduate Seeks To Represent Ward 5 on the D.C. State Board of Education
By Lauren E. Williams, Special to the AFRO Adrian Jordan, talked to the AFRO for 30 minutes straight. Jordan, 34, a candidate for Ward 5 State Board of Education, took no breaks to read notes or even to drink a glass of water. He just looked at me straight in the eye and answered the reporter’s […]