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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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]…

LaTosha Brown doesn’t like to use the terms “blue state” and “red state.” It’s true, Georgia voted in Joe Biden’s favor during the 2020 presidential election and technically became a “blue state.” But Brown thinks the red state/blue state framework limits us. “It makes you choose a side. Ultimately, what we’re trying to say is…

Kamala Harris will become the first multi-ethnic Black woman vice president. This is the highest elected office that a Black woman in the United States has ever achieved. While this monumental win in it of itself is cause for celebration, it is necessary to contextualize this historic victory. Read more at Yahoo News.

At a time when many statues of controversial historical figures are coming down, some lofty women are going up. In New York City’s Central Park, a monument has been unveiled honoring women’s suffrage pioneers Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Correspondent Faith Salie talks with sculptor Meredith Bergmann about the Women’s Rights…