A record number of Black candidates will run for office in the 2022 midterm elections including 16 Democrats and three Republicans. By Derek Major, Black Enterprise — A record number…
A record number of Black candidates will run for office in the 2022 midterm elections including 16 Democrats and three Republicans. By Derek Major, Black Enterprise — A record number…
Democratic strategist Karen Finney says that part of her mission is to ensure Black voters know they’re different in these all-important elections. By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire — The…
September 26, 2022 — On this edition of Vantage Point, Earl Ofari Hutchinson and Bill Fletcher join the Professor Dr. Ron Daniels to discuss the state of the state of…
The partisan redistricting tactics of cracking and packing aren’t merely flaws in the system—they are the system. By Louis Menand, The New Yorker — To look on the bright side…
By Julianne Malveaux — Democrats play checkers, and Republicans play chess. That’s why the Reagan Revolution, which kicked off in 1980, worked. President Ronald Reagan pledged to trim government bureaucracy,…
The right is seeking to steal elections and deputizing vigilantes to constrain our rights. U.S. democracy is in peril. By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout — The specter haunting the United…
By Bert Wilkinson, New York Amsterdam News — Grenadians this week began living under a new government following general elections late last week that saw a government which had won…
“We need to do this in order to protect our rights, rights we already have, rights we shouldn’t have to still be fighting for.” By Tom Conway — E.J. Jenkins…
Xiomara Castro’s administration won’t have it easy: Corrupt networks permeate every branch of government. By Jared Olson, The Nation — You could hear the shouting inside the Buenos Aires voting…
By W. T. Whitney, Counterpunch — Xiomara Castro, candidate of the Freedom and Refoundation Party (“Libre”) prevailed in presidential elections in Honduras on November 28. Her term begins in January,…
Andre Dickens beat Felicia Moore in a runoff election to become the 61st mayor of Atlanta. By Rachel Pilgrim, The Root — Andre Dickens was declared the newly elected mayor…
Asian American Michelle Wu is Boston’s first elected mayor who isn’t a white man. While many celebrate the milestone, others lament that all the Black candidates failed. By Tovia Smith,…