Save the date for the 2016 Democratic National Convention Watch Party hosted by actress and producer, Vivica A. Fox and chair of the Darby Township Pennsylvania Democratic Party, Richard R. Womack Jr. Grammy Award winning singer, Howard Hewett, will perform. We’re “Celebrating the Black Vote,” because the fight for voting rights and the entire civil […]
Politics
GOP Used Carson to Improve its Image
By John J. Dunphy, The Telegraph – Ben Carson’s candidacy is collapsing. Conservative evangelicals, who formerly comprised the core of Carson’s supporters, are deserting the retired surgeon in droves for Ted Cruz or other GOP presidential contenders. Carson’s public statements finally convinced many of those who once ardently supported him that his abysmal ignorance of […]
Florida Rep. Corrine Brown Files New Challenge to Congressional District Changes
Tallahassee, FL BY Brandon Larrabee, (News Service of Florida) – Arguing that an east-west configuration for her district “combines far-flung communities worlds apart culturally and geographically,” lawyers for U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown asked a federal judge Tuesday to void Florida’s latest congressional redistricting plan. The complaint marks the next phase of a legal battle over […]
Democracy Initiative Adopts Bold Action Plan for 2016
Washington, DC – Last Wednesday, December 9th, 45 endorsing organizations of the Democracy Initiative (DI) adopted a four-part strategic action plan for 2016, calling for joint action in states; a major grassroots mobilization; a national education, communications, and outreach strategy; and continued efforts to strengthen the growing DI network. Collectively, we strive to build a […]
Al Jazeera America Opinion Piece Says Hillary Clinton Should Stop Taking African American Voters for Granted
I’m not sure what motivated Raina Lipsitz, the author of the Al Jazeera America column below, to conclude this early in the 2016 Election Cycle that Hillary Clinton is taking the black community for granted. Nevertheless, she makes a few good arguments about Clinton’s record on policy issues that are important to African American’s and […]
Do Black Votes Matter to Donald Trump?
By David A. Graham (The Atlantic) – “I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.” So Donald Trump claimed back in 2011. But his bravado induces renewed skepticism this week. Last Wednesday, Trump announced that he’d hold a press conference on Monday to announce his endorsement by […]
Why Hillary Clinton Will do More for Black People than Obama – By Michael Eric Dyson
(The New Republic) – There is good reason to be skeptical about Hillary Clinton and race. It’s never been anything explicit, necessarily, but she has sinned in the realm of signification, the place where innuendo and plausible deniability live. Let us start with her first presidential campaign in 2008, and the infamous “3 a.m. phone […]
As many African-American see it, there are 2 Ben Carsons
By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press – Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — Ayauna King-Baker loved Ben Carson’s “Gifted Hands” memoir so much that she made her daughter Shaliya read it. So when Carson showed up in town to sign copies of his new book, King-Baker dragged the giggly 13-year-old along to the bookstore so they could both […]
Newsone.com Exclusive: Black Scholar Explains Why African-Americans Should Vote Republican
By Lynette Holloway – Kiron Skinner, director of the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, and surrogate to GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012, tells NewsOne that African-Americans should look beyond the rhetoric and consider voting Republican in 2016. She is also a foreign […]