Politics
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a National Day of Service held on the civil rights icon's eponymous federal holiday, which comes just two days before their historic inaugurations.
Days before his inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden announced the “American Rescue Plan,” a $1.9 trillion recovery plan to combat COVID-19 and get the economy and the nation on track.
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., remains one of the most highly investigated and second-guessed murders of our time. While James Earl Ray pled guilty to killing the civil rights leader and was sentenced to life in prison, Coretta Scott King and other members of his inner circle had suggested that Dr. King was a “victim of conspiracy.”
Over the last week Black lawmakers and civil rights advocacy groups expressed concerns about the role several Republican congressional members may have played in the attack.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has been nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to be a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.
The appointment of Jaime Harrison to lead the Democratic National Committee drew attention to the shortcomings of his predecessor, DNC Chairman Tom Perez.
"It can no longer be denied: The new Georgia is real, here to stay and is essential to the efforts to protect our democracy," writes Nsé Ufot, CEO of the the New Georgia Project.
Black members of Congress brought the heat as the House voted to impeach a sitting president for the second time in one term.
A bipartisan coalition in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a single charge of incitement of insurrection stemming from the deadly violence by a mob of his supporters at the U.S. Capitol
Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley said she "realized our 'safe room' from the violent white supremacist mob included treasonous, white supremacist, anti masker Members of Congress who incited the mob in the first place."
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott -- the only Black Republican Senator -- proudly announced he wouldn’t be voting to convict Trump when the president's second Senate impeachment trial takes place.
Suggesting “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as a national pacifier is a bad look for South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, taking his role as elder Black spokesperson a bit too far.
