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More 230,000 Chicago voters have applied to vote by mail in November, shattering the record set during this year’s primary election with more than 80 days left until Election Day, officials said Thursday. Chicago Board of Election Commissioners staff members are working seven days a week to scan in the approximately 30,000 applications that have arrived…

It’s pronounced “comma-la.” Soft vowels. Equal emphasis on all three syllables. “Like the punctuation mark,” vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris has said of the pronunciation. The senator’s first name has Hindi origins (her mother was born in India; her father was born in Jamaica). And despite her almost two decades in public office, it continues…

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Check out this election guide for the 2020 Election at BlackHer.us.

Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker, who tapped into his multi-billion dollar fortune to personally finance a winning campaign for the state’s top job, is raising the price of poker in Illinois’ political discourse once again. Read more at the Center for Illinois Politics.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s selection Tuesday of Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., as his vice presidential running mate leads me to say to my sisters and brothers: Let’s shout to the heavens! Hurrah and Praise the Lord!  Our time has finally come — as Democrats, as women, and as African Americans. Read more at Foxnews.com.

Joe Biden announced Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate. “I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris  — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants — as my running mate,” he announced on Twitter Tuesday. Read more at TheGrio.com.

If elected, Harris will be the first African-American and woman to hold the office of the vice president. Read more at Essence.com.

Obtaining the vote was just one item on a long civil rights agenda. Read more at History.com.