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Potential Black candidates to fill Texas’ 18th Congressional District after deaths of Reps. Turner, Jackson Lee

Texas’ 18th Congressional District is currently without representation following the consecutive deaths of two former U.S. representatives in less than a year. Former U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner, 70, died after a medical emergency on March 5, serving only two months in office after succeeding longtime Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who died of pancreatic cancer on July 19, 2024. Now, a crop of declared and potential candidates to succeed the historic Texas seat is emerging as the district awaits Gov. Greg […]

todayMarch 26, 2025

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Democrats call out DEI ‘irony’ amid Trump administration’s controversy on Signal

The Trump administration is being ridiculed for its focus on eliminating DEI as it struggles to explain away what is likely a national security threat after a journalist received texts on the Signal messaging app from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about an imminent military attack on an American target in Yemen. On Monday, Jeffrey Goldsberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, revealed that two hours before U.S. military fired missiles at the Iran-backed rebels group known as the Houthis, he received messages […]

todayMarch 25, 2025 1

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Karine Jean-Pierre doesn’t miss her job as White House press secretary

Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has only been out of the job for two months, but she’s already enjoying life away from the press briefing podium. The former Biden spokesperson and senior advisor recently revealed that while holding the position of press secretary was a great honor, she’s not losing sleep at night that she’s no longer in the high-stakes position. “It was an honor and a privilege to have the job and to have done it for […]

todayMarch 25, 2025 3

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Ras Baraka could be NJ’s first Black governor – and polls show him in the lead after taking on Trump

Mayor Ras Baraka is running for governor of New Jersey and defying expectations in the process. While some political consultants ranked him as the underdog when he entered the race, Baraka has just been announced as the frontrunner in a new poll of Democratic candidates—beating out established names like Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill and performing well in predominantly white counties, despite having spent less on the race thus far. If he wins, he’d be the first African American governor in the […]

todayMarch 24, 2025 4

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Battle over Black voter representation in Louisiana heads to Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in a case that could determine whether Louisiana will have to uphold a second majority-Black congressional district. The case more broadly will focus on the future enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as it relates to how race is legally considered in the drawing of district lines around the state and beyond. The consolidated cases, Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, are focused on a map first crafted by […]

todayMarch 24, 2025

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Mia Love, former Republican congresswoman, dead at 49

Mia Love, the first Republican Black woman elected to the United States Congress, is dead at 49. The former Utah U.S. representative’s family confirmed her death in a public statement. Love suffered from a years-long battle with glioblastoma brain cancer. Love died “peacefully” at her home on Sunday surrounded by family, said the statement shared on the former congresswoman’s Instagram page. ”In the midst of a celebration of her life and an avalanche of happy memories, Mia quietly slipped the […]

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Trump has ordered the dismantling of the Education Department. Here’s what it does

Moving to fulfill a campaign promise, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the Education Department, an agency Republicans have talked about closing for decades. The order says Education Secretary Linda McMahon will, “to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities.” Eliminating the department altogether would be a cumbersome task, which […]

todayMarch 22, 2025 2

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Trump’s move to dismantle DOE sparks fears of racial segregation, ‘Attack on Black children’

Reactions from elected leaders and activists to President Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education were swift, sparking outrage and fears about the future of education for millions of Black children across the country. President Trump, flanked by schoolchildren sitting at classroom desks in the White House East Room on Thursday, signed the order instructing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure” of the DOE and “return authority over education […]

todayMarch 21, 2025 2

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Center 1968 is on a mission to train and elect more Black women in politics and policy

When Jasmine Sessoms observed the political landscape, she was disheartened to see that practically no Black women worked in public policy. After successfully training Black women to run for political office in her home state of Pennsylvania through her “She Can Run” program—resulting in graduates like Cherelle Parker, who went on to be elected Philadelphia’s first female mayor—Sessoms decided she needed to go a step further. “Without training us, investing in us, and connecting us, we really are struggling,” said […]

todayMarch 20, 2025