Tensions flared on Capitol Hill when a sitting U.S. senator engaged in a heated exchange with a union advocate during a committee hearing on labor issues. The confrontation escalated to the point where Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had to step in as a referee, defusing the situation and preventing the confrontation from becoming physical. Republican...
History is being made throughout the state of Minnesota with newly elected mayors. Roslyn Harmon defeated Gillian Rosenquist, making her the first black Mayor elected to the office of Golden Valley. A long-standing resident of Golden Valley, Harmon received 50 percent of the votes to defeat Rosenquist who received 49 percent of votes in the...
An organization founded by Democratic political activist Stacey Abrams nearly a decade ago is facing allegations of financial mismanagement as more than half a million dollars reportedly went missing after the sudden departure of the group’s former director late last year. The New Georgia Project, an organization Abrams established in 2014 to enroll Black voters, played...
Yusef Salaam, one of the “Exonerated Five” (formerly called the “Central Park Five”) who were wrongly imprisoned for raping a White female jogger, has won a city council seat in New York. Salaam, who earlier won the primary election in a landslide, will now represent a Harlem district on the city council. “For me, this...
Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon tapped her colleagues earlier this week to stand with her in calling for a cease-fire in the wake of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. “We are at 10,000 dead Palestinians. How many will be enough?” said Nixon, a Jacksonville Democrat who sponsored a proposal related to her cause...
History has been made in Philadelphia, as Cherelle Parker defeated Republican David Oh and will become the city’s 100th mayor and the first woman elected to the office on Nov. 7. In her acceptance speech, Parker said she will be a “get-it-done” mayor who “won’t ever forget her deep roots” once she is sworn in...