White Supremacists

My Plan to Lift Every Voice in Black America

Joe BidenOctober 22, 2020

President Trump wants to paper over the living wound of racism. He’s issued Executive Orders and established a new national commission designed to whitewash our history—and deny the daily reality of being Black in America. He actively appeals to white supremacists and fans the flames of hatred and division in our country, because he thinks it benefits him politically. He ignores the most basic job of every president: the duty to care for all of us, not just those who voted for him.

Op-Ed Opinion Political

Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson’s Statement on the Death of George Floyd

Sentinel News ServiceJune 4, 2020

“As a Black man who watched the George Floyd take his last breath while the 200 lb. weight of a police officer was leveraged on his neck for 8 minutes, I was overwhelmed with pain and anger. George repeatedly pleaded that he could not breathe as two other officers held him down in that fatal position. Another Minneapolis officer watched as his body succumbed to the attack and went limp.

National News Political

Outgoing Mississippi Governor Says state faces ‘1,000 years of Darkness’ if Black Man Elected

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior CorrespondentFebruary 27, 2020

“I intend to work for @cindyhydesmith as if the fate of America depended on her single election,” Gov. Phil Bryant tweeted on January 2. “If Mike Espy and the liberal Democrats gain the Senate, we will take that first step into a thousand years of darkness.”