National Politics
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DNC Issues Plan for A More Inclusive Delegate Selection Process
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) recently issued its official Call of the 2020 Democratic National Convention. The Official Call sets…
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Former College Classmates Team Up To Create Voting App For Millennials
Howard University graduate Wen-kuni Ceant was 22 years old when she stepped into a Florida voting booth in 2016 and…
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Reparations – It’s Not About Money – It’s About Power!
This week Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) re-introduced H.R. 40 a bill that has been introduced every year since 1989.…
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Congresswoman Hopes Reparations Bill is Path to ‘Repair Some of the Damage’ Caused by Slavery
WASHINGTON – Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) told PJM that the federal government should conduct a study of reparations for…
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Pssst … Can We Say Impeachment Now?
IMPEACHMENT – IMPEACHMENT – IMPEACHMENT! There I said it. Seems that everyone is afraid to mention the word. Republicans because they…
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Lack of minority staffers threatens to hobble 2020 Democrats
Potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates in the early stages of assembling campaign staffs are running into an uncomfortable truth: Among…
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Minority Women Who Made History in the 2018 Midterms
Here are the trailblazing candidates who will bring more diversity to Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, youngest woman elected to Congress Alexandria…
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Stacey Abrams refuses to concede Georgia governor’s race
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams — running to be the country’s first female black governor — said early Wednesday that she…
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Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar first Muslim women elected to Congress
Palestinian-American Rashida Tlaib and Somali-American Ilhan Omar have become the first Muslim women elected to US Congress. Tlaib took Michigan’s…
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The Electoral Strength of Black Women
Fifty years after the election of Shirley Chisholm as the first African American woman to serve in Congress, black women…
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‘Whoever wins South Carolina will be the Democratic nominee’
It’s the early state that delivered a decisive victory to Barack Obama in 2008. In 2016, it saved Hillary Clinton.…
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Why Aren’t Top Democrats Acknowledging the Black Women Running for Office?
Jeannine Lee Lake decided to run for Congress after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election because she wanted to…
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