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Mayoral Candidate Dianne Morales Doesn't Want to Return New York City Back to 'Normal'
There are a lot of folks running for office who want to get back to normal. It makes sense, given how rough four years of Donald Trump have been. Here in New York City, where the pandemic has pulled the city into a projected $4 billion budget deficit this year and an unclear window of…
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Black People Risked Their Lives to Get Biden Elected. Here's What He Owes Us
Senators-elect Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are seen as manifestations of the New South, but it was Black women like LaTosha Brown who risked their lives mobilizing enough Black people in Georgia to make it happen. Their victories tilted the balance of power to Joe Biden, whose victory in the state and nationally similarly…
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Raphael Warnock Takes Over Seat Once Held by Senator Who Called for Lynchings of Black Men
Rev. Raphael Warnock became the first Black senator elected out of Georgia, but another senator who once held his seat believed men like him should be lynched. In October of 1922, Rebecca Latimer Felton was appointed to the U.S. Senate out of the state of Georgia for one full day. She was a leading voice…
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A Few Notes About the Georgia Runoff
Georgia voters have begun early voting in the state’s U.S. Senate January runoff that will determine the balance of power in Washington. Democrats Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are in tight races with their GOP opponents Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, respectively. Neither candidate was able to get to the 50 percent threshold…
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Jamaal Bowman Wants to Reimagine the Democratic Party
Jamaal Bowman believes the Democratic Party needs a makeover. That’s why he’s been so outspoken over former President Barack Obama’s anti-defund the police remarks. Of course, he’s not dissing the first negro-in-chief. Bowman just believes Obama isn’t a relevant voice who can speak to the millions of people who rose up this summer after the…
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Black Female Lawmaker Isn't Caving in After Death Threats, Losing Committee Assignments
Michigan state Rep. Cynthia Johnson knows why she is being inundated with death threats after she confronted Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani during a Dec. 2 Michigan state oversight hearing over the 2020 election. “You’re out of order for asking a white man such a question,” she told The Root. “That’s how I took it. You’re…
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Activists Are Primed to Fight GOP Voter Suppression Tactics In Georgia's Runoff
A report in September revealed that nearly 200,000 people have been purged from the voter rolls in Georgia, and investigative journalist Greg Palast, Black Voters Matter and other activist organizations are trying to make sure those folks have a right to cast their ballots in the Jan. 5 runoff, which will determine who controls the…
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Democrats Have a Messaging Problem. Will They Do the Work to Fix It?
More than three weeks after Democrats’ disappointing showing on Election Day, party leadership is still arguing over what went wrong. Beyond winning the White House—and activists argue that had it not been for their activism and street-level organizing, Democrats would have lost that race, too—there aren’t too many bright sides. They expected to expand on…
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The ‘Blue Wave’ Crashed Into a Wall of White Supremacy. How Can Democrats Break Through?
Joe Biden likely will be the next president of the United States because Black and Latinx people overcame the raging, racist, white Republican shitstorm hellbent on ensuring that he would not overcome their fury. While Biden will be able to claim victory, the very fact that this race was even close should concern Democrats. Biden…
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The Presidential Race Isn't Finished, but One Thing Remains True…America Is Still Racist
Michigan’s secretary of state announced that final results won’t be ready until Wednesday. Philadelphia has 300,000 mail-in ballots to count. Milwaukee isn’t reporting until later this morning. And despite President Trump’s phony declaration of victory, we do not know who won the presidential election as of this morning. Because Trump doesn’t give a shit about…
