Archive for January 2021

Republican legislators across the country are preparing a slew of new voting restrictions in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s defeat. Georgia will be the focal point of the GOP push to change state election laws, after Democrats narrowly took both Senate seats there and President Joe Biden carried the state by an even…

A new book offers a striking visual history of African women from 1870 to 1970. Read more at The New York Review of Books.

If the inauguration had been a movie it would have been called, “A Co-Star is Born.” Make no mistake, President Biden is the star of the new administration. But it was our own Kamala Harris in her new role as the multiracial, multicultural, Democratic female power ideal who stole the show on Inauguration Day. Read…

Cori Bush is a renaissance woman. Not only is the Missouri congresswoman the first Black woman to represent the state’s First Congressional District, she’s also a registered nurse, ordained pastor for the people of St. Louis, community organizer, single mother, and the first activist from the Black Lives Matter movement ever elected to the United…

Currently the chief operating officer of Starbucks, Rosalind Brewer is set to replace Stefano Pessina as CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, according to multiple news outlets. The unprecedented move will establish uncharted waters for African American women, as Brewer becomes the first and only Black female to lead a Fortune 500 company. Read more at…

It’s a sight many of us never believed we would see in our lifetime— hundreds of Americans storming the U.S Capitol in protest of the official presidential election results. Media, elected officials and government workers were all saying the same thing: “This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic — not our…

Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams aren’t on the ballot for Tuesday’s crucial Senate runoffs, but their political futures are at stake, along with the Senate majority and the direction of the country for the next two years. Read more at Politico.

It goes without saying that 2020 ranks as one of the all-time worsts, particularly if you come wrapped in melanin. Goodbye and good riddance to 2020’s cascade of horrors: a once-in-a century global pandemic. A pandemic disproportionately slamming people of color. Worldwide recession as a result of said pandemic. Not to mention that 400-year-old epidemic—American-style…

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