This is the first independent poll we've seen since the top-two six months ago. Last month, Campa-Najjar released numbers from Strategies 360 that found him down 47-43, but his campaign did not mention any presidential results. So far, though, no major outside groups on either side have booked air time here, though that could always change over the next two months. Campaign Action Issa infamously decided to run here the cycle after he retired as the congressman from the neighboring and more Democratic 49th District just ahead of the 2018 blue wave, and it's possible that his weak connections to this area are hurting him. SurveyUSA finds Issa with an even 32-32 favorable rating, while Campa-Najjar sports a 37-26 score. If SurveyUSA is right, though, then there's also been a…
Like most sane Black folks, I want Trump and his Republican Klan gone. Yesterday. We didn’t elect him. We are well aware that racism and white supremacy are deeply embedded in this nation’s foundation and we have been fighting against it since the time we were enslaved here, throughout Reconstruction and Jim Crow, and through the duration (ongoing) of the civil rights movement. We have had allies who were, and are, people of other races, and we are cognizant of the fact that unless white folks step up to the plate to correct what they have wrought, we’ll just have to keep on fighting. We are only 13% of this nation’s population. We are not, however, going to tamp down our struggle for equality in order to soothe the feelings of white…
Bullshit Mountain cont’d Eric the LesserGoodyear TiresGolden showersMount RushmoreThe dial on his TVHis younger brotherJoe Biden's bike rideHis Minnesota speechPre-existing conditionsThe Jerusalem embassyFact-checker Daniel DaleThe QAnon numbskull cultHuffPost reporter S.V. DateHis low, low convention ratingsThe current wife who hates himThe Manhattan District Attorney This is only the tip of the assberg. The rest can be seen at the bottom of today’s column. If you get bored with all the winning before then, feel free to skip it and donate a few bucks to your favorite Democratic candidate instead. And now, our feature presentation… - Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, September 1, 2020 Note: Due to circumstances beyond our control, the C&J pharmacy is no longer selling our new miracle Covid-19 cure known as—[Checks notes]—ingestible dynamite capsules. We have no further comment…
Greetings America. It is truly an honor to be speaking with you. That I am here tonight is a testament to the dedication of generations before me. Women and men who believed so fiercely in the promise of equality, liberty, and justice for all. This week marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment. And we celebrate the women who fought for that right. Yet so many of the Black women who helped secure that victory were still prohibited from voting, long after its ratification. But they were undeterred. Without fanfare or recognition, they organized, testified, rallied, marched, and fought—not just for their vote, but for a seat at the table. These women and the generations that followed worked to make democracy and opportunity real in the…
Attorney General William P. Barr vigorously defended the federal response to nationwide protests and civil unrest in a combative congressional hearing on Tuesday where Democrats accused him and other Trump administration officials of suppressing protesters’ rights in an overly violent crackdown.The attorney general also insisted that he intervened in the criminal cases of President Trump’s allies Roger J. Stone Jr. and Michael T. Flynn to uphold the rule of law, not to do Mr. Trump’s bidding.Mr. Barr’s defenses punctuated an outright hostile election-season oversight hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. Democrats tried to portray him as a dangerous errand boy for the president. But Mr. Barr insisted he was trying to enforce the law against what he characterized as rioters using demonstrations as cover to commit crimes. He also said…
In 1946, Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo advised his followers that the manner to support dark of us from vote casting used to be to salvage “the tar and feathers and don’t omit the match.” Within the Jim Crow South, African American citizens confronted bullets, beatings, lynching and more for making an try to forged a ballot. Over the years the weapon has gotten some distance more refined, the language a shrimp more genteel, but the aim has been appropriate the equal: salvage vitality by preserving American residents some distance flung from the vote casting gross sales situation. As Paul Weyrich, founder of the American Legislative Alternate Council that crafted an array of voter-suppression felony guidelines, explained in 1980, “I don’t need all people to vote… Our leverage, rather candidly, goes…
On Friday night, singer-songwriter and multimedia artist Solange Knowles bought the first Lena Horne Prize for Artists Growing Social Impact, celebrating at Novel York Metropolis’s ancient Metropolis Hall theater and memorializing Horne, the trailblazing actress and activist. There to tag the occasion: Horne’s daughter, the author and activist Gail Lumet Buckley and granddaughter Jenny Lumet; Martin Luther King III; her mother Tina Knowles Lawson and a checklist of artists — at the side of Jon Batiste, Andra Day, Talib Kweli and Leon Bridges — who turned into the theater into a birthday party with their fiery performances. The group had been united in each and each the birthday party of Knowles and a sense of urgency for respecting and uplifting the voices of dim ladies, a field that drew warm…
On Wednesday, the Senate ended President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial with a consequence that used to be momentous, if not elegant: with their vote to not convict him and steal away him from region of business, he changed into handiest the third President in American historical past to reach that level. Trump used to be acquitted on costs of abuse of vitality and obstruction of Congress, with Utah Senator Mitt Romney breaking away from his fellow Republicans by voting to convict Trump on the principle impress. But that wasn’t the finest historical moment on this historical trial. Right here, six historians replicate on how the 2020 impeachment trial suits into the greater scope of American political historical past — and how this could also be remembered. Carol Anderson, the Charles…
WASHINGTON — Thousands gathered in cities across the country Saturday as phase of the nationwide Females’s March rallies targeted on factors similar to native climate switch, pay fairness, reproductive rights and immigration. Hundreds confirmed up in Modern York City and hundreds in Washington, D.C. for the rallies, which plot to harness the political vitality of girls folk, even when crowds were noticeably smaller than in outdated years. Marches were scheduled Saturday in extra than 180 cities. The first marches in 2017 drew hundreds and hundreds of of us to rallies in cities across the country on the day after President Donald Trump turned into inaugurated. That twelve months’s D.C. march drew shut to 1 million of us. In Enormous apple on Saturday, hundreds of of us gathered as phase of…
California CurrentlyFriday: How segregation lives on in Central Valley water safe entry to. Also: A glimpse at Google’s founders.Dec. 6, 2019ImageLala Carbajal in entrance of an arsenic plant in Lanare that will get rid of arsenic from water. Thanks to a lack of assets for upkeep, the plant shut down after simplest three months.Credit score...Ryan Christopher Jones for The Fresh York TimesAppropriate morning.(Right here’s the signal-up, in case you don’t already safe California Currently by email.)My colleague primarily based right here in Los Angeles, Jose Del Staunch, has spent months reporting on how runt farming communities in the Central Valley lack safe entry to to elegant ingesting water. Right here is his dispatch from Lanare, finish to Hanford: Two issues in an instant struck Eulalia “Lala” Carbajal when she arrived…
There are a vogue of more than a few ways to blueprint partitions.By Thomas B. EdsallMr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.Dec. 11, 2019Supporters at a Trump rally in Dallas in October.Credit...Jonathan Ernst/ReutersDonald Trump has done all the pieces inner his vitality to set off racial and ethnic animosity in this nation. His main targets are immigrants, who are veritably greeted with putrid hatred. Nonetheless it no doubt’s a mistake to deem that Trump started all this, even as he’s taking elephantine benefit of the alternatives animosity has unleashed. He’s utilizing a wave.“Immigration attitudes are the fulcrum round which the politics of western societies are realigning,” in step with Eric Kaufmann, a political scientist at Birkbeck College, College of London.Kaufmann pointed me to…
The hotel ballroom is packed when the spoken-word poet Staceyann Chin takes the stage on a Saturday morning in late October. At least 1,100 mostly women and nonbinary people of color have filled the vast space in the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta in anticipation of her performance and of Stacey Abrams’ keynote address, which will come next. Chin’s first poem is a polemic against President Donald Trump, which elicits yells of support along with sharp laughs and applause. But the second performance, called “Tsunami Rising,” is when the audience explodes. In a monologue describing how black women have been brutalized, beaten down and discarded since before the founding of America, Chin expresses both the rage she feels at being ignored and the adoration she has for her fellow women of…
A Fresh York Times/Siena College watch in six key states also confirmed voters desire a candidate who can work with Republicans. If the Democratic presidential necessary were being held on the present time, whom would you vote for? Biden 24% 27% 30% 29% 28% 23% Warren 15% 19% 21% 15% 16% 25% Sanders 16% 13% 17% 13% 14% 20% Buttigieg 5% 5% 3% 1% 4% 5% Harris 3% 1% 0% 1% 1% 1% Yang 1% 0% 1% 0% 2% 2% Klobuchar 1% 2% 1% 0% 1% 0% Gabbard 0% 1% 1% 1% 0% 1% O’Rourke 0% 0% 0% 2% 0% 1% Booker 0% 0% 0% 1% 0% 1% Source: Fresh York Times Upshot/Siena College polls of Democratic necessary voters performed Oct. 13-26. | Mark: Greatest candidates who received 1 percent…
Though the president has injected himself into excessive-profile races this one year, the governor’s runoff in Louisiana is possible to be surely one of the well-known purest assessments of his impact.President Trump visited Louisiana on Wednesday to bolster the candidacy of Eddie Rispone, the Republican candidate for governor.Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The Novel York TimesWEST MONROE, La. — Strolling a ways from a T-shirt tent at a Republican rally this week, her hands stout of reliable-Trump swag, Resa Brady acknowledged she knew miniature about the dispute’s Republican candidate for governor.Nonetheless Ms. Brady, 61, stated she would presumably be voting for the candidate, Eddie Rispone, regardless, as an illustration of increase for the president she admires. “I’m searching for to provide protection to my man here,” stated Ms. Brady, a listening to devices specialist,…
Two days after the country selected Donald Trump to be president, the GOP’s senior adviser to the chairman presided over a conference name for a gaggle of black Republicans.The message from Elroy Sailor become clear: Black conservatives were again. Then the senior adviser to RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, Sailor hurried excitedly via the fundamentals of how they have to navigate the transition. Where to be for conferences. How to follow for jobs. And he defined how, after eight lengthy years in the desolate tract, it become time to show up and have a good time.“Campaigning is in fact effortless, but governing is tough,” he stated — before being interrupted. There become a message from the president-elect that couldn’t wait.“Hey, Omarosa,” said Sailor, ceding the ground. “How are you?” Omarosa Manigault…
[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKO18tHdA_A[/embed]Politics of the Southern United States (or Southern politics) refers to the political landscape of the Southern United States. Due to the region's unique cultural and historic heritage, the American South has been prominently involved in numerous political issues faced by the United States as a whole, including States' rights, slavery, Reconstruction and the American Civil Rights Movement. The region was a "Solid South" voting heavily for Democratic candidates for president, and for state and local offices, from the 1870s to the 1960s. Its Congressmen gained seniority and controlled many committees. In presidential politics the South moved into the Republican camp in 1968 and ever since, with exceptions when the Democrats nominated a Southerner. Since the 1990s control of state and much local politics has turned Republican in every state.…
Afro Blowout Justine Zwiebel/BuzzFeed, Eduardo Munoz / Reuters (de Blasio), Gallo Images / Rex (Jackson), Everett Collection (Grier), Lee Lockwood/Time Life Pictures / Getty Images (Newton), Hulton Archive / Getty Images (Davis), Everett Collection (Roundtree) Dante de Blasio’s Afro undoubtedly helped boost interest in the New York mayoral candidacy of his father, Bill de Blasio, on the family’s path to Gracie Mansion. Powerfully, his infamous ad showed New York City voters how the racial-profiling tactics of the NYPD could affect a young man. Dante’s embodiment of this message didn’t register with so many voters (and go viral worldwide) just because he is black, however, but because he is biracial. “The fact that the son became a poster child for stop-and-frisk, which we don’t necessarily associate with biracial bodies, but with…
By Andrew Lam Editor's Note: Professor Michael Watts teaches geography at UC Berkeley and is the author of many books, including “Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria” and “Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta.” He spoke to NAM editor Andrew Lam about the recent kidnappings of more than 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria by the radical group known as Boko Haram, and the apparent inability of the Nigerian government to either prevent or respond to their crimes. At the time of this writing, 276 of the girls that were kidnapped three weeks ago remain in captivity while 53 have escaped. On Tuesday, Nigerian officials reported that the group had struck again, abducting 11 more schoolgirls in the country's northeast region. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kizER_BkSWw…
No organization defines the history of the African American struggle for freedom like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, commonly known as, the NAACP. Many organizations and movements have come and gone. The NAACP remains.In many local communities in the Jim Crow and the post Jim Crow South, the NAACP has been synonymous with the Black struggle. Sometimes new organizations emerged and coalesced with the NAACP. At other times new organizations emerged in contrast to the NAACP. None have replaced the NAACP and its special historical relationship with the African American community. Below, you will find links to many sources where you can explore for yourself, The NAACP and the Black Political Struggle. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ... The National Association for the…
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