Archive for May 2019

It’s been a busy first term for U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Naperville). The freshman congresswoman and Naperville native is co-chair of the Black Maternal Health Caucus, created to address the high maternal death rate for black women, and this month, two of her bills – related to banning “junk insurance” and preventing suicide among veterans – passed the House. Read…

History has been made at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This year marks largest class of Black women to graduate from West Point. Because Of Them We Can reports 32 Black women graduated from West Point. cadet Tiffany Welch-Baker told the outlet, “My hope when young Black girls see these photos is that…

The family of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old woman found hanged in a Texas jail cell three days after she was arrested during a traffic stop, is calling for her case to be reopened following the release of previously undisclosed cellphone video. Investigators discovered video of Bland’s 2015 traffic stop confrontation with a state trooper on her…

Eight of the Democratic Presidential hopefuls descend on Houston last week for the “She The People Presidential Forum”–the first Presidential Forum dedicated solely to issues that affect women of color. Nearly 2,000 women attended the “for us, by us” event that tackled issues such as — racial, economic, gender, and social justice. Immediately following the…

Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman. Other times, the nice men running for president pat you on the head and tell you that one day you might get to play second fiddle to their greatness. In a time of extreme wokeness, a bunch of men, mostly white men, populate the top tier of Democratic…

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris received standing ovations from the audience at a forum on Wednesday dedicated to women of color — clearly emerging as favored candidates among some in an increasingly important Democratic primary voting bloc. Both lawmakers tied their policy proposals on issues including housing, criminal justice and equal pay to longstanding racial inequities, an…

I left something at my mother’s house. And the girl I was with needed to pee. That’s how it started. I forget what it was now, but it must’ve been something important because I drove there to get it in the middle of the night with her in the car. I was in college then,…

With dust settling on the biggest political upset in U.S. history, the hazy day after is an atom-bomb-drop mess of circular firing squads, blame games and armchair-quarterbacking analysis of what just happened. And while the top-line analysis pretty much points to white America’s collective anti-black streak as the primary culprit, we are now getting a…

CHICAGO (AP) — Lori Lightfoot’s victory in the Chicago mayor’s race signaled hope among voters that the nation’s third-largest city may someday move beyond long-entrenched divides, racial and otherwise, that have left large parts of the metropolis feeling ignored by people in power. Lightfoot became the city’s first black female and first openly gay mayor…