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Black Youth Vote Decreasing Despite Increase in Protests and Activism

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By Vanessa Williams and Scott Clement, (Washington Post) – The generation of African Americans pushing criminal-justice issues and institutional racism to the forefront of the presidential election had little effect at the ballot box during this primary season, according to an analysis of exit polling across 25 states. African Americans account for a larger share […]
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Environment

American Lung Association’s LUNG FORCE Partners with Patti LaBelle in a New Video to Raise Awareness of Lung Cancer in Women

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The American Lung Association’s LUNG FORCE initiative, nationally presented by CVS Health, recently debuted a short video featuring GRAMMY® Award-winning singer Patti LaBelle, who shares how lung cancer – the number one cancer killer of women in the United States – has affected her personally and taken the lives of many people close to her. […]
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VIDEO: Donald Trump Speaks On How Much He “Respects” Women

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Politics

Trump Campaign Claims Selection of White Nationalist Leader as a California Delegate was a Database Error

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By Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones – On Monday evening, California’s secretary of state published a list of delegates chosen by the Trump campaign for the upcoming Republican presidential primary in the state. Trump’s slate includes William Johnson, one of the country’s most prominent white nationalists. [Update: Responding to this story late Tuesday, the Trump campaign […]
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Author of Brown is the New White, Steve Phillips, Urges Democrats and Progressives to Mobilize Voters of Color or Fall Into the #TrumpTrap

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By Steve Philips – Democrats: You’re Falling Into the #TrumpTrap If we don’t start inspiring and mobilizing voters of color, we are facing a horrifying reality: President Donald Trump MEMORANDUM To: HRC, Democratic Party, Progressive Organizations, Interested Parties From: Steve Phillips Re: Stop Falling Into the Trump Trap The unthinkable has happened: Donald Trump has […]
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Politics

Forbes Contributor John Zogby Says Trump Win is Possible Even Though He Has Alienated Large Swaths of Voters

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(Forbes.com) – By any objective and traditional standard, there should no way that Donald Trump should be able to win the presidency in November. He has alienated large swaths of voters and, while some of these key groups (women, non-whites, Muslims, Latinos) would probably not be voting for a GOP candidate anyway, he could actually […]
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Politics

President of Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Russell Moore, Breaks the Silence on Donald Trump

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“A White Church No More” by Russell Moore (NYTimes.com) – Years ago, members of a Southern Baptist church in suburban Birmingham, Ala., who couldn’t figure out why their church was in decline asked a friend of mine for advice. The area had been majority white during the violent years of Jim Crow. While civil rights […]
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Entertainment

Beyonce’s Visual Album on HBO Called Celebration of Black Womanhood, Features Mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Snippet of Malcolm X

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(dailymail.co.uk) – Beyonce’s surprise new album features the bereaved mothers of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown: Singer’s political overtures as she makes tracks available exclusively on husband Jay-Z’s Tidal Beyoncé’s much-anticipated album Lemonade aired on HBO Saturday The film featured appearances from the mothers of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, two young black men who […]
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Headlines

Congressman John Lewis Receives Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Elie Wiesel Award

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum presented the 2016 Elie Wiesel Award, the institution’s highest honor, to United States Representative John Lewis, of Georgia at the Museum’s National Tribute Dinner on Wednesday, May 4. Lewis, the only surviving “Big Six” leader of the Civil Rights Movement, was recognized for his extraordinary moral and physical courage […]
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