Kamala – Page 14 – WUVS 103.7 The Beat

Watch: Marc Morial explains why Kamala Harris could be better for your bank account

As thousands continue to gather at the United Center in Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention, theGrio’s senior White House correspondent, April Ryan, caught up with Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League. Morial criticized former President Donald Trump, who claims our nation’s economy was better off under his leadership.“Well, let’s understand Donald Trump not only has amnesia, he’s once again fabricating his own record,” Morial asserted. “Donald Trump left a recession behind. He left 15 million […]

August 22, 2024

News

Rep. Jasmine Crockett gets emotional sharing Kamala Harris story at DNC

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, took to the stage on night one of the Democratic National Committee Convention, delivering a fiery and, at one point, emotional speech at the United Center in Chicago. Crockett, a freshman congresswoman whose popularity skyrocketed in recent months due to several viral moments on Capitol Hill, drew much applause and internet reactions following her DNC address. The 43-year-old Texas lawmaker was notably brought to tears while sharing a personal story about an encounter she had […]

August 21, 2024

News

John Legend’s daughter sees herself in Kamala Harris: ‘Excited to see someone who’s Black and Asian like she is’

John Legend is speaking out about his daughter’s admiration of Vice President Kamala Harris. The “Green Light” singer revealed in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter that his and wife Chrissy Teigen’s oldest daughter, Luna, 8, looks up to the Vice President because she sees herself in her. “[Luna] is so excited to see someone who’s Black and Asian like she is, [and] a woman like she is — so she’s looking at [Kamala] like, ‘This is me’ up […]

August 20, 2024

News

Why Pro-Palestine activists are beefing with Kamala Harris’ Black supporters, explained

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. On March 9, 1965, people who were not from Selma, Ala., were angry. They’d come from all over the country after hearing about the violent attack on Bloody Sunday. They were going to march from Selma to Montgomery again. But when organizers obeyed a court injunction and turned the crowd around, many of the predominately white crowd questioned the […]

August 20, 2024

News

Kamala Harris proposes a string of new economic policies

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is out with a string of new economic proposals focused on food prices, taxes, housing and medical costs that she says will empower the middle class. The plans constitute the first major policy proposals that Harris has released in the nearly four weeks since President Joe Biden bowed out of the race and endorsed his vice president. A look at what Harris is proposing: Food prices After years of polling showing that Americans are worried about inflation, Harris is aiming to […]

August 17, 2024

News

A prosecutor’s charges turned his life upside down. Why he’s gone from skepticism to supporting Kamala Harris.

When you say the word “prosecutor” to Khari Noerdlinger, painful memories come to mind. At 19, Noerdlinger was attacked by three men armed with weapons. When he fought back in self-defense, fatally wounding one of the attackers with a knife, a New Jersey prosecutor charged him with manslaughter. Noerdlinger and his family fought the charges, and they were dismissed after a judge ruled that the prosecutor had engaged in prosecutorial misconduct. But the trauma of his arrest looms when conversations about the justice system come […]

August 14, 2024

News

The power of the Black sororities is Kamala Harris’ secret weapon to winning the White House

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Much has been made about the role of Black women in the 2024 election, but this is not a new thing. In February 1913, before women’s right to vote was added to the U.S. Constitution, Nelly M. Quander, a Black woman, Howard University graduate, and then-president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., engaged pointedly with the women’s suffrage movement. […]

August 9, 2024

News

Kamala Harris’ nomination was an unprecedented moment. As we head toward the Democratic National Convention, history is in our hands.

A year ago, I answered President Joe Biden’s call to serve as the chair of the 2024 Democratic National Convention. And on Tuesday, just 13 days before the convention kicks off here in Chicago, I was honored to officially recognize Vice President Kamala Harris as our next Democratic nominee for President of the United States. It’s hard to overstate the significance of this moment, for the first time ever — a Black woman has secured the presidential nomination of a […]

August 8, 2024

News

Watch: White House describes Kamala Harris’ role in shaping equity policies

As presidential nominee Kamala Harris hits the campaign trail with her newly announced running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in key battleground states, many Black and brown Americans are looking to learn more about the vice president and her work at the White House. When asked by theGrio about Harris’ role in shaping equity policy at the White House during Tuesday’s press briefing, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre noted that the vice president and President Joe Biden have been “critical partners.” “You […]

August 7, 2024