Rep. Frederica Wilson

Harris Lands 2020 Endorsement from 2 Black Caucus Members

Associated Press - JUANA SUMMERSJuly 2, 2019

Senator Kamala Harris courtesy photo BALTIMORE (AP) — Two more members of the Congressional Black Caucus are backing Kamala Harris’s bid for the presidency: Reps. Bobby Rush of Illinois and Frederica Wilson of Florida. Endorsements from the caucus, which counts more than 50 members, could be influential in the Democratic presidential primary. With these two new supporters, Harris now has six endorsements from the CBC. Rush has been sharply critical of former Vice President Joe Biden in the wake of comments in which he recalled working alongside two segregationist Southern senators. Rush told Politico that Biden, another Democratic presidential candidate,

Opinion

L.A. Morning Radio Host Bill Handel Calls Rep. Frederica Wilson a “Cheap Sleazy Democrat Whore”

Jasmyne A. CannickOctober 26, 2017

KFI needs to do the right thing about Handel’s egregious choice of words and their ongoing problem with how their hosts refer to Black women.

National News

Have We Forgotten the Kidnapped School Girls in Nigeria?

D. Kevin McNeir, NNPA/The Washington InformerApril 28, 2016

It’s been two years, April 14th to be exact, since the world witnessed the abduction of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls from their dormitory rooms at the hands of Boko Haram – a West African terrorist group that has lodged atrocities against its own people including the burning of children alive and sending teenaged girls on suicide bomb missions.