DONALD TRUMP MAKES PROMISES TO BLACK AMERICA. Donald Trump has laid out an extensive proposal for the upliftment of the African American community. Dubbed the Platinum Plan, he detailed in […]

‘RACE AND VIOLENCE IN OUR CITIES’? A TOPIC FOR THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE DRAWS CRITICISM. The topics for the first presidential debate focus on issues that have dominated the news […]

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION TAKES ‘EARTH SHATTERING’ TURN WITH ITS FOCUS ON RACE. B-L-M block letters sat propped behind Elizabeth Warren in a Massachusetts classroom. Hillary Clinton urged people to vote “for […]

KAMALA HARRIS IS A BLACK WOMAN: IT’S NOT COMPLICATED. Kamala Harris could become the first woman to be vice president. And she’s a Black woman. Calling her Black does not […]

BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT TO PLAY ELEVATED ROLE AT CONVENTION. The message of Black Lives Matter will be woven throughout the 2020 Democratic National Convention, starting with a focus on […]

‘THE PRESIDENT WAS NOT ENCOURAGING’: WHAT OBAMA REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT BIDEN. Past tensions between Obama’s camp and Biden’s camp have endured, forming some hairline fractures in the Democratic foundation. Some […]

HARRIS VP PICK HIS HISTORIC BEYOND RACE AND GENDER. SHE’S BREAKING THE HEMISPHERIC CEILING TOO. It’s hard to overstate how hugely historic a Black woman on a major-party U.S. presidential […]

NEW GOP HEADACHE AS CANDIDATE CONDEMNED FOR RACIST VIDEOS WINS REPUBLICAN PRIMARY. Marjorie Taylor Greene has won the GOP nomination for a deep red congressional seat in Georgia despite widespread […]

KAMALA HARRIS IS ELIGIBLE TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT. Multiple posts on Facebook falsely claim that — in the event [Joe] Biden is unable to serve out his term –Harris is ineligible to serve […]

JOE BIDEN PICKS KAMALA HARRIS IS BIDEN’S CHOICE TO BE HIS RUNNING MATE. Ms. Harris, 55, is the first Black woman and the first person of Indian descent to be […]

HOW MANY INSULTS ARE BLACK VOTERS SUPPOSED TO TAKE FROM JOE BIDEN? Last week, at a convention for Black and Hispanic journalists, a Black reporter asked Joe Biden whether he has taken […]

BIDEN RISKS ALIENATING YOUNG BLACK VOTERS OVER RACE REMARKS. “Trump is terrible, and he’s a racist, and we have to get racists out of the White House. But then Biden […]

BIDEN SEEKS TO CLARIFY COMMENT THAT LATINO COMMUNITY IS DIVERSE, ‘UNLIKE THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY’. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden sought Thursday night to limit the political damage after he said […]

THE REAL SWING VOTERS ARE YOU BLACK AMERICANS — AND THEY’RE NOT SOLD ON BIDEN OR ON VOTING. Only 47% of those Black Americans under 30 years old that we surveyed plan […]

WNBA PLAYERS UNITE IN SUPPORT OF KELLY LOEFFLER’S OPPONENT IN U.S. SENATE RACE. WNBA players are not hiding their disdain for Kelly Loeffler. The Atlanta Dream co-owner and Republican U.S. […]

THE HISTORY OF THE FILIBUSTER AS ‘JIM CROW RELIC’. Historians told PolitiFact that the filibuster did not emerge from debates over slavery or segregation. However, they agreed that the parliamentary […]