I need to do my disclaimer up front. Can you please allow me to have a good ‘ol barbershop conversation and share with you my thoughts about the debate last week and what I saw? For all of you that say ‘OKAY’ and will continue reading, buckle up Black people, this is going to be a rough ride!
Biden reportedly had called Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), former Ambassador Susan Rice, and three other candidates to inform them on Tuesday morning that they were not his pick. Harris had routinely been seen as the top pick, but her clashes with Biden during the Democratic debates appeared to give Biden pause.
The late arrivals have reignited a debate about “electability” and who can actually win in 2020.
“Some of us have been victims of the stain, the pain, the hurt of racism. In the 50s and during the 60s, segregationists told us to go back when we protested for our rights. They told ministers, priests, rabbis, and nuns to go back. The told innocent, little children seeking just equal education to go back,” said civil rights legend and Georgia Congressman John Lewis on the House floor during debate.
Young, a sociology major, earned the 2017 Academic and Student Services Success Award.
Los Angeles native Jana Coke responds from the heart to the controversy of the blue vs. red debate and the Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice battle of abortion.
Democrats attending their party’s convention last week in Philadelphia were moved to tears, rounds of applause and a standing ovation when nine mothers of Black men slain by police brutality and racially motivated attacks took the stage.
Oakland community leading the discussion on implementation Earlier this year, Californians engaged in heated debate over the state’s “School Vaccine Bill” as it made its way through the state legislature. At the time, the majority of the Senate Bill 277’s opponents were White voters living in middle class suburbs and smaller towns. Now, two months after the bill has become California law, vaccine safety is becoming an issue of growing concern among people in the state’s Black communities as well. It is also increasingly becoming a sticking point in the national political conversation. From 2016 presidential candidates like Donald Trump