we cannot go along with the tyranny of a majority in numbers or in electoral votes and turn a deaf ear to truth or a blind eye to injustice because of official or unofficial calls for compliance, calm or giving election-sanctioned evil a chance to prove itself.
Before heading to the polls tomorrow, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla is urging voters to know their rights.
I was not quite ready for the personal challenge posed by “Birth of a Nation,” the new film by Nate Parker. The lead character, Nat Turner—a slave preacher turned revolutionary—faces internal moral conflict when the politics of slavery forces him preach to slaves about being obedient to their brutally violent slave masters. The pulpit of the black church has always been a sacred place for the black prophetic tradition, but in this film we learn how it was also used to promote complicity with evil. As a black preacher, I began to wonder if I had ever been guilty, even
Watch as we catch up with 10th District Councilman Herb Wesson outside of 94.7’s WAVE Stage during the Taste of Soul!
Correspondent: Brittany K. Jackson
Director of Photography: Aaron Brumfield
Pollworkers play a huge role on Election Day to ensure the continued success of democracy and to the election process.
Due to unprecedented poor polling numbers in the African-American community, Republicans have ramped up their effort to court Black voters
Political veteran Donna Brazile was recently named Democratic National Committee chair, replacing Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Tim Kaine’s selection as Hillary Clinton’s running mate could totally upend Virginia politics, and would all but certainly result in the most expensive election cycle in the state’s history next year if he becomes vice president.
“Visual protest” highlighted the anniversary of Barbara Jordan’s historic Democratic Convention keynote address; Photo took place after national week of racial tragedy and unrest
As about 100 citizens along with dozens of law enforcement and faith-based leaders from the city of Compton converged on Gonzalez Park last week to protest an alarming rise of homicides in that city, it seems that the revolving cycle of violence continues.
On October 20, 1956 W.E.B. DU Bois delivered an eloquent indictment of U.S. politics while explaining to The Nation magazine readers why he would not vote in the upcoming presidential election.
It is a rare conversation in Black America. Phrases like “sponsored data” and “zero rated programs” and “free data” are simply not bread and butter issues like the more familiar “quality education”, “criminal justice”, and “health care”, among others.
In this March 5, 2016, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, accompanied by Bishop Corletta Vaughn, speaks with African American ministers, in Detroit. During a primary season that has proved surprisingly competitive, bombarded with persistent critiques about her likeability and trustworthiness, Clinton has maintained a strong bond with one significant block of Democratic Party voters. Black women. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) From the pulpit of an African-American church in Detroit not long ago, Bishop Corletta Vaughn offered a rousing endorsement of Hillary Clinton that went far beyond politics. With a smiling Clinton sitting a few feet away in the purple-walled
CBC Chairman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) released the following statement in response to President Obama’s decision to ban solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons and the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Montgomery v. Louisiana recognizing the requirement of sentencing courts to consider a child’s ‘diminished culpability and heightened capacity for change’ before condemning him or her to die in prison: “Members of the Congressional Black Caucus applaud President Obama’s bold executive action to prohibit the use of solitary confinement for some of the country’s low-level offenders and to ban the practice as punishment for the youngest offenders and the
Assembly Majority Floor Leader Chris Holden introduced legislation, AB 1715, that protects children with autism and other individuals receiving behavior analytic services. The bill ensures that only qualified professionals can provide this vulnerable population with quality care. “As health plans are now mandated to cover behavioral treatment for autism, demand for applied behavior analysis services has significantly increased,” said Assembly Majority Floor Leader Chris Holden. “Given the increase, we must protect autistic children, as well as others who can benefit from behavior analytic services, from those who falsely claim that they are qualified to practice behavior analysis.” According to Autism