Politics
On Tuesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed that the congressional redistricting map he is proposing will dismantle a congressional district designed to help Black voters living in the former plantation territories of North Florida. he calls it "race-neutral" redistricting, but Black lawmakers call it racist.
President Joe Biden's speech from North Carolina A&T State University is expected to address rising prices at a time when Black students disproportionately saddled by debt are among the most adversely affected by the inflation crisis.
New York's NAACP President Hazel Dukes has offered a vehement defense of Brian Benjamin, the state's now-former lieutenant governor who resigned hours after he was indicted for alleged campaign finance violations, including bribery.
Republicans tried their damnedest to upstage the Senate vote confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson and reinforced the disrespect they've repeatedly directed toward the person poised to become the first Black woman U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling Jimmy Kimmel out for "threats of violence" against her and, in turn, threatening legal action against the comedian over a joke he made about the Will Smith slap in response to Greene denouncing Republican lawmakers for supporting Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination.
As HuffPost reported, on Tuesday, Cotton stood his long-neck-head-a** up during a Senate hearing to use Jackson's common AF surname to draw the stupidest parallel imaginable in insinuating that she's a Nazi sympathizer based on her record as a public defender.
The Tennessee legislature passed House Bill 2670, which would “prohibit a public institution of higher education from taking certain actions with regard to divisive concepts and the ideologies or political viewpoints of students and employees.”
GOP legislators overwhelmingly voted against the federal courthouse in Tallahassee after Judge Joseph Hatchett, the first Black judge since reconstruction to win a contested statewide race in Florida, defending his seat on the Florida Supreme Court.
Black women currently have no representation in the Senate, and there has never been a Black woman governor.
As funny as it may be for some people that Walker can't land his talking points right, republicans continue to distort the legal concept to get their voters worked up.
While ex-President Donald Trump was obsessively pushing "stop the steal," Thomas was making use of her husband's status and connections by relentlessly texting now-former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and urging him to be equally relentless in stealing back a demonstrably non-stolen election.
Missouri Democratic State Senator Steven Roberts, who has been accused of rape more than once, may be preparing to launch a primary campaign against progressive incumbent Congresswoman Cori Bush, who has been outspoken about her own experience as a victim of sexual assault.
