Vice President Kamala Harris honored the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson at his retirement celebration at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago on Sunday, July 16. After decades as a civil rights leader, two presidential runs in 1984 and 1988, Jackson, the founder of Rainbow PUSH, has decided to step down as the organization’s president....
On July 11, Mesha Mainor, a Democrat who represented part of Atlanta in Georgia’s House of Representatives, switched over to the Republican Party. Mainor is now the only Black member of the GOP among Georgia’s 236 state lawmakers and is the first Black woman to hold office as a Republican. The last Georgia Democrat to...
Tommy Tuberville, who famously coached the Auburn Tigers college football team before being elected to the U.S. Senate, created rancor when he refused to characterize White nationalists as “racists.” Tuberville, a Republican, was questioned about White nationalists espousing their racist views while serving in the U.S. military. Initially, Tuberville adamantly refused to say the two...