Former Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland won the open seat in Washington’s 10th Congressional District, besting a fellow Democrat to become the first Black Korean-American woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as the representative from Washington state. She…
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Biden Acknowledges Impact of Black Voters To His Victory
President-elect Joe Biden used his victory speech Saturday evening to deliver an emphatic thank-you to the Black voters who overwhelmingly backed him in major cities, helping propel him to victory in crucial swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. “Especially…
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Cori Bush Becomes Missouri’s First Black Congresswoman
Cori Bush has been elected to Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, making her the first Black Congresswoman in the history of Missouri. Her journey to Congress was captured for the Netflix documentary “Knock Down The House,” which premiered at Sundance in 2019….
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Latest on the US Election 2020
The election of the President of the United States is considered the world’s most consequential democratic exercise. This is especially true of Election 2020 — as the US is more divided than at any other time in its recent history,…
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The 1960s Reminisce: Black Americans Voting For the First Time
As the nation awaits results in what has turned out to be a historic election in a historic year, we look back to the elections after the Voting Rights Act. Today marks the conclusion of a fraught political season like…
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The Power Of Black Women At The Polls
Black women only make up about seven percent of the nation’s population but at the polls, Black women turn out to vote in larger numbers than almost every other demographic. Some experts said Black women will be a major force…
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