By Matthew Ritchie, Special to the AFRO The tightest contest of the Maryland State Senate has finally come to a close. On July 6, weeks after the official primary election voting ended, Del. Mary Washington claimed her victory over the incumbent, longtime Sen. Joan Carter Conway, who had represented the 43rd District in the Senate since […]
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NOT REAL NEWS: Waters Didn’t Suggest Immigrant for Top Court
By The Associated Press California Rep. Maxine Waters did not appear on CNN calling for the next U.S. Supreme Court pick to be an “illegal immigrant” despite a false image circulating online. The altered image was posted on the Trump Nation Facebook page June 28. It shows Waters during a CNN interview, over a banner […]
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Indiana GOP Leaders Call on AG to Resign Amid Groping Claims
By BRIAN SLODYSKO, Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and the two GOP Statehouse leaders have called for Republican Attorney General Curtis Hill to resign amid what they say are credible claims that Hill drunkenly groped four women, including a lawmaker, at an Indianapolis bar. “Four women had the courage to step […]
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Edwards Was Outwitted; P.G. Contests Unresolved
By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com A decade ago on June 19, Donna Edwards was sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives as the first Black woman to represent Maryland. Last week, Edwards was defeated for county executive for the jurisdiction that she represented as a federal legislator. As the smoke clears from the June […]
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Black Women Leaders Band Together on Behalf of Maxine Waters
Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com “Never get on a Black woman’s bad side,” are the wise words of anybody who’s ever found themselves on a Black woman’s bad side. Yet, for some reason or another, people will just keep testing Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-CA) patience. She’s reclaimed her time, defended her honor and even […]
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Votes are Still Being Tallied for Two Prince George’s Races
James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com While many Prince George’s County battles were resolved on June 26, after the Democratic Primary in Maryland, two other key county races weren’t. The race for District 7 County Council seat is now between Rodney Streeter and Krystal Oriadha, who have 2,776 and 2,743, respectively while the District 9 County […]
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Waters Claps Back at Attacks From the Right and Left
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Maxine Waters (D-CA.), the seemingly indomitable political firebrand who represents large swaths of South Central Los Angeles, is now taking fire politically from the Left, as well as the Right. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY.), the Senate Minority Leader recently attacked Waters during a speech on the Senate floor, describing her […]
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Protesters Flood U.S. Cities to Fight Trump Immigration Policy
By Ellen Knickmeyer, The Associated Press They wore white. They shook their fists in the air. They carried signs reading: “No more children in cages,” and “What’s next? Concentration Camps?” In major cities and tiny towns, hundreds of thousands of marchers gathered June 30 across America, moved by accounts of children separated from their parents at the […]
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Civil Rights Groups Want Supreme Court Vote Postponed
The Associated Press Various civil rights groups are backing calls from Democratic lawmakers to hold off on a vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s replacement until after the November elections. Vanita Gupta, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, says senators need to put country over party and use every […]
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Justice Roberts May Hold Key Vote as Supreme Court Moves Right
By Mark Sherman, The Associated Press Chief Justice John Roberts is the Supreme Court’s new man in the middle. It’s just that the middle may have moved well to the right. The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy means Roberts probably will be the conservative justice closest to the court’s four liberals, allowing him to control […]
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MVA Confident Voters Affected by Error Less than Announced
The Associated Press The head of Maryland’s Motor Vehicle Administration says she’s confident the number of voters affected by a programming error will be less than the nearly 80,000 announced the day before the primary. The MVA and the State Board of Elections announced the registration problem June 23, saying an estimated 18,770 voters might […]
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Surprising Primaries Results May Change Political Landscape
By Hamil R. Harris, Special to the AFRO Prince George’s County residents are poised to elect a new generation of lawmakers who political analysts and community leaders say represent a partial rebuke of the country’s old political guard who many say have grown out of touch with the needs of ordinary people. Former NAACP President Ben […]