Rhode Island Senator Tiara Mack dropped jaws when she uploaded a video of her shaking her tailfeather to her TikTok.
The First Lady, Michelle Obama has been an inspiration over the last 8 years. Let's take a peek at 10 of her best quotes over the years.
Although black females are scarce in politics, these women have shaped history and serve as examples of the power of sheer determination, purpose and intellect.
(Politics 365) — Opposition continues to mount against Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele, and it has actually intensified since the Chair announced his bid for re-election only a week ago. As the race for Chair fast approaches the RNC Winter meeting, accusations of playing the race card and racism itself abound on both sides of […]
(Politics365) — The all inclusive Texas Legislative Black Caucus recently welcomed its two newest members. Representatives-elect Stefani Carter and James White are two of the newest additions to the caucus, but unlike the body’s majority democratic membership, both Carter and White are Republican. The two GOP’ers both ran on the national Republican Party Platforms of […]
In a city long been dominated by race, Hansen Clarke defies easy definition—in his person and aisle-crossing politics.
(Time) — After a blizzard started blanketing the Northeast on Dec. 26, an event that earned the Twitter hashtag #snowpocalypse, Booker turned the microblogging site into a public-service tool. Residents of the city, which has a population of around 280,000, swarmed Booker’s account (@CoryBooker) with requests for help, and the mayor responded. He and his […]
(AP) — Alvin Greene, the unemployed Army veteran who suggested during his failed U.S. Senate bid that making action figures of himself would help create jobs, is running for office again. Greene paid the $165 filing fee on Christmas Eve to run in a special election for a South Carolina House seat made vacant by the death […]
There's fear that Clinton's stumping for Emanuel would siphon black votes.
(The Grio) — Of the dozen or so candidates running for mayor of Chicago, one of them dropped out of the race. And his decision was a prudent one. James Meeks (D-Ill.), Illinois state senator and black megachurch pastor, announced the day before Christmas Eve that he was withdrawing from the mayoral race. The reason he […]
(Wall Street Journal) — Rep. Charles Rangel has established a defense fund that will allow supporters to contribute as much as $5,000 a year to help pay his legal bills. The New York Democrat still owes money to his former lawyers, who represented him in an ethics case that ended with his censure. The Charles […]
(Chicago Now) — On Tuesday, Dec. 28th at 12 Noon a cross section of leadership from the Black coommunity will stage a public demonstration and press conference against the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper at 350 N. Orleans near the Chicago River. African-American clergy, business owners and community leaders expressed outrage over a column written by Neil Steinberg in the Monday edition […]