America owes a debt of gratitude to Black women for defeating Trump and the Republican Party
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…
Read MoreThe other Georgia slugfest: A Brian Kemp-Stacey Abrams rematch
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.
Read More2020: The Year Black Voters Said, ‘Hold Up’
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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Read MoreBlack politicians, activists protest Anjanette Young raid, demand policy to prevent future raids
More than 200 people on Sunday, many of them Black female politicians, clergy, activists and union members, gathered to protest Chicago police leadership following the controversial release of a video of a wrongful police raid at the home of social worker Anjanette Young. Read more at The Chicago Tribune.
Read MoreHundreds of Black women gather to show support for Anjanette Young over botched police raid
Hundreds of people, mainly Black women, gathered outside Chicago Police headquarters in the Bronzeville neighborhood Sunday to express outrage over the botched 2019 raid of Anjanette Young’s home. Read more at The Chicago Sun-Times.
Read MoreHighly Anticipated Senate Runoff In Georgia Shatters Early Voting Records
With three weeks left before polls close in two U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia that will determine the balance of power in Washington, a record number of early voters cast their ballots in person in multiple counties, according to reports. Following close races in November, Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are hoping they…
Read MoreMore Than 1,000 Black Women Urge Joe Biden to #WinWithBlackWomen By Including More to his Administration
President-elect Joe Biden stated during his campaign that he would assemble a diverse staff in his administration. After picking a Black woman as his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, and winning the election, he then included two more Black women in his administration: Linda Thomas-Greenfield as the US ambassador to the United Nations and Cecilia…
Read MoreState board votes against Mercy Hospital closure
A state board voted unanimously Tuesday against an application to close Mercy Hospital & Medical Center in Bronzeville, following months of outcry from the community. The 6-0 vote by the state Health Facilities and Services Review Board means that Mercy now has 14 days to notify the board if it wants to reappear before the…
Read MoreTrump ratchets up pace of executions before Biden inaugural
CHICAGO (AP) — As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons, announcing plans for five starting Thursday and concluding just days before the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Read more at AP News.
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