Long before she would become Orlando’s first female Chief of Police, Val Butler Demings learned from her parents about the American Dream. They didn’t have much: two parents and seven children in a small wood-framed house in Jacksonville. Her mother Elouise Butler worked as a maid; her father James as a janitor, landscaper, and orange […]
Georgians Unite to Celebrate Voting Rights Joining John Lewis “Good Trouble” Marches and Votercades in Cities Across Georgia
By Edrea Davis –Black and Brown voters in cities across Georgia are joining the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda, the Transformative Justice Coalition, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and community organizers for John Lewis “Good Trouble” Marches and Votercades, festive celebrations of voting rights that will lead voters to the polls for early voting for the […]
Georgia Senate Runoff Amid Ongoing Efforts to Disenfranchise Black Voters
By Edrea Davis – Ongoing efforts to suppress and invalidate the voices of Black voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia have galvanized the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda (Peoples’ Agenda), Clayton County Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) and other groups to register, educate and mobilize voters for the upcoming Senate runoff elections. The disenfranchisement […]
Advocates Tackle Bolstering Black Entrepreneurship In Town Hall On The State Of Black Business
By J. Cunningham – Black business leaders and supporters strategized on solutions to save African-American livelihoods at a recent virtual town hall on the state of Black-owned businesses. The panelists discussed the specific needs of the more than two million Black-owned businesses in the United States and what should be done to ensure they survive […]
Republican Senate Committee Plays the Race Card in North Carolina
By Raynard Jackson – Once again Republicans have proven that when the radical liberal Democrats call us a party of racists, there is some merit to the charge. During the past fifty years Republicans have made a conscious decision to disengage with the Black community, their most loyal voting block in the history of the […]
Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye’s One-Woman Play: The Fannie Lou Hamer Story Visits Atlanta
The 58th Annual Session of The Progressive National Baptist Convention will feature the award-winning musical theatrical tribute to voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer Award-winning singer, actress, and playwright, Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye will return to Atlanta for a performance of her acclaimed stage play about civil rights activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, during the 58th Annual […]
Democratic Exit Polls Show Party’s Dependence on Latino and Black Voters
Atlanta, GA (Associated Press) – Eight years ago, exit polls showed Hillary Clinton with comfortable margins over now-President Barack Obama among whites and Latinos during the Democratic primary season. This year, exit polls of Democratic voters showed whites narrowly preferred Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Yet, Clinton is the presumptive 2016 Democratic nominee. The key difference: […]
The Pragmatic Tradition of African-American Voters
(New York Magazine)African-American support for Hillary Clinton asserted itself again in Wisconsin and accounts for her firm command of the Democratic primary. It is likewise the source of befuddlement and consternation among Bernie Sanders’s supporters. Sanders has energetically promoted racial justice and attracted numerous high-profile black surrogates, all of whom earnestly see his brand of […]
Donald Trump and the GOP is Struggling to Attract More Black Voters than Mitt Romney Received – Zero Percent
Because of the browning of America, Donald Trump is trying to do what many other Republican presidential candidates have struggled to do in the past but must do to win future elections: make himself more appealing to black and Latino voters. Trump has been arguing that the Democratic party has been taking the black vote […]