Archive for December 2020
Legacy civil rights groups feel left out of Biden transition
The heads of legacy civil rights groups say they are struggling to participate in President-elect Joe Biden’s transition, vying to be included as the incoming administration tries to make good on a promise to Black voters to be the most diverse in history. Prominent civil rights advocates say they haven’t been consulted about key cabinet…
Read MoreThe Women Who Saved the 2020 Election Are Already Back to Work
The 2020 election is over—at last. Joe Biden is our next president, and Kamala Harris is our next vice president. Their campaign slogan argued that the election would be “a battle for the soul of the nation.” Whether or not you believe America’s soul has been saved, you may still be relieved that the nation…
Read MoreKamala Harris and Black Women Voters Helped Joe Biden Get Elected. Here’s How America Can Do Right by Them
When Americans elected Kamala Harris Vice-President, they symbolically completed a 150-year project of recognizing the right of Black people to exercise the full franchise as citizens. Read more at Time.com.
Read MoreThe Major Difference Between Black Male and Female Voters
Since the years following the New Deal, when the majority of Black voters left the Republican Party, Black men and women have turned out in spectacular numbers for Democrats in presidential elections. No other racial group has been as consistent for the Dems. This year’s contest was no different; roughly 90 percent of this bloc…
Read MoreThere Are Still No U.S. Airports Named After Women of Color
For the first time in its 92-year history, New York’s Rochester International Airport has changed its name. The airport will now be known as the Frederick Douglass International airport, following a grassroots effort to pay homage to the man who was born into slavery and escaped to become a revered scholar, abolitionist, and statesman. Douglass…
Read MoreBLM demands Newsom appoint Black woman to fill Harris’ Senate seat: ‘Nonnegotiable – this must be done’
Black Lives Matter launched a petition Monday calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint a Black woman to fill the U.S. Senate seat to be vacated by Kamala Harris once she officially resigns to become vice president. “Appointing a Black woman to this seat is nonnegotiable — this must be done,” Black Lives Matter Global…
Read MoreGeorgia Voters and the Democrats’ Political Strategy
One day after Florida election officials announced that President Trump and Republican candidates had so badly beaten Democrats up and down the ballot that pundits were asking if Florida had become an irreversible red state, Joe Biden’s Florida campaign held a statewide conference call. “There was a Florida campaign call today that said Florida allowed us [Biden]…
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