Archive for July 2020

LaTosha Brown spent three hours in line last month waiting to vote in Georgia’s primary. After finally casting her ballot, she delivered pizza and encouragement to others in Black-majority districts of Atlanta who faced even longer delays. “Do you know how traumatic it is in 2020 to wait out there five, six hours to vote?”…

The killing of George Floyd has ignited protests and inspired conversations — and changes — across the globe. But New York Times Magazine writer Nikole Hannah-Jones says more needs to be done to address America’s racial wealth gap. “Very few Americans have created all of their wealth on their own; it’s passed down through generations…

If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes black Americans. Read more at The New York Times.

The first time Representative Karen Bass heard Joe Biden talk about the car crash that killed his wife and infant daughter, she dropped into her chair, overwhelmed. Read more at The Atlantic.

Five-term Los Angeles Rep. Karen Bass is the other Californian on Joe Biden’s short list to be his vice president. She’s rising up the veepstakes charts so fast that even conservative columnist George Will — the Ronald Reagan-cheerleader-turned-never-Trumper — said she’d be a great pick. Read more at the San Francisco Chronicle.

Former Vice President Joe Biden could do worse than to choose U.S. Rep. Karen Bass of Los Angeles as his running mate. Read more at The LA Times.

Now that former Vice President Joe Biden has clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, his next big task, save for polishing up his convention speech, is to pick a running mate. Mr. Biden, who emerged from a packed list 12 years ago to join then Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on the ticket, may seek to avoid…

Jill Biden got a root canal. Joe Biden got a new job. In the summer of 2008, the then senator answered his cell phone while waiting for his wife in a dentist’s office near their Wilmington, Delaware, home. When the Bidens returned to their car, Joe told Jill, “Barack called, and asked me to be…

If Joe Biden wins in November, his running mate could become the most consequential vice president in modern American history. The woman Biden picks could be seen as a potential president-in-waiting, a signal for the Democratic Party’s agenda in the years to come, and perhaps the most significant player trying to help Biden manage a…