WHY HOLDING BIDEN HOSTAGE TO BLACK FEMALE VP PICK COULD BACKFIRE
Alston: "I do agree that a Black woman would serve us well as Vice President, I'm not sure if the public challenge in this instance was the best…
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NAACP Mourns the loss of former Congressman John Conyers
The late Rep. Conyers. Photo: Wikimedia commons. The NAACP has lost a life-long friend, and the nation has lost a fervent champion for equal justice with the passing…
SPEAKER PELOSI AND CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS COMMEMORATE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF FORCED ARRIVAL OF AFRICAN SLAVES
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "We thank the Congressional Black Caucus, the conscience of the Congress, for bringing together leaders of the Congress and the country for this solemn…
Urban League President Morial: “We Must Not Let Our Guard Down” Because Supreme Court Temporarily Blocked Trump’s Bigoted Census Citizenship Question
Trump's xenophobic attempt to add citizenship question was temporarily stopped because of what Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts called "contrived reasons." Photo: Facebook National Urban League President…
There Are Folks Who Don’t Want Black People Counted — Let’s Defeat Agenda to Sabotage 2020 Census
Marc H. Morial. The youth are our present and future and must be counted. Photo: Facebook. This is how Member of Congress Lacy Clay puts it: “The same…
Why States Reject Trump’s Repugnant Voter Scheme
President Trump. Photo: Gage Skidmore-Flickr It was clear from the moment it was announced that the federal “Election Integrity Commission” was nothing more than a vehicle for voter…
CALL REPUBLICAN SENATORS NOW TO REJECT SEN. SESSIONS FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL POST
If you ask House Republicans why they backed down on their attempt to gut Congressional ethics rules, they'll tell you it was because their offices were flooded by…
Friday: Barbara R. Arnwine, Renowned Civil Rights Lawyer Honored
Barbara R. ArnwineBarbara R. Arnwine, president and founder of Transformative Justice Coalition, is internationally renowned for contributions on critical justice issues including the passage of the landmark Civil…
The Ballot And American Democracy: One Step Foward One Step Back?
President Johnson and Dr. King seal the deal I graduated from high school just a few months before the monumental Voting Rights Act was passed on August 6,…
Obama: Congress Must Pass New Voting Rights Act
First of all, I love John Lewis. And I don’t know where he gets the energy, where he gets the drive, what stores of passion he’s still able…