black voters
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Texas Man Waits Six Hours in Line to Cast Vote on Super Tuesday
Republicans have consistently done their best to rig elections in their favor, often at the expense of black voters. If it’s not racially biased gerrymandering it’s closing polling stations in predominately black neighborhoods. Despite their best efforts, one Texas man would not be deterred from exercising his right to vote. Houston Public Media reports that…
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An Open Letter to White Liberals Blaming 'Low Information' Black Voters for Not Cleaning Up White Folks' Mess
Dear Sir or White Man, I’m writing this letter, lurking outside the threshold to equality, peering through the same peephole through which we watched you enjoy 401 years of unfettered, glorious freedom while black people presented themselves as a living sacrifice, offering their necks to nooses, their skulls to batons and their children’s bodies to…
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There Is No Such Thing as the 'Black Vote'
Once, for about an hour, on a hot day in July 2007, I was not black. This was before people had music on their phones, but I had figured out a way to hook my iPod Shuffle up to my stereo system. After hearing my Uncle Junior play it, I fell in love with James…
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Texas Has Closed Hundreds of Polling Stations—Most of Them in Places Where Black and Latinx Populations Are Growing
Racial demographic changes in Texas over the last decade have led political experts and activists to view the state, once considered a conservative stronghold, as a battleground state. But as Texas’ electoral power becomes increasingly contested, polling stations have closed at a pace that has eclipsed every other state in the country. As reported by…
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'We Can Control Our Destiny': Michael B. Jordan, H.E.R. and More Reflect on the Power of the Black Vote
“We can control our destiny. We can control our circumstances. We just have to educate ourselves and get out there and do something about it. Don’t feel like you as an individual don’t have the power to make a change, because you do.” —Michael B. Jordan text It’s Super Tuesday, y’all! Why is Tuesday so…
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Trump Is the 'First Black President’ According to Ex-NFL Player Turned Pastor Jack Brewer
Who in the hell and what in the devil? During a Black History Month celebration in the Cabinet Room at The White House on Thursday, a gang of black supporters of Donald John assembled to praise him and tout his record. One person of interest did the unspeakable – calling Poor POTUS “the first black…
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Move Over MAGA Hats, Trump Campaign’s Black Outreach Includes ‘Woke’ T-shirts
For some reason—maybe this has to do with white Midwestern farmers who don’t realize that Trump doesn’t care about them and yet they still support him—Trump believes that there is a way to pull the black vote. Since his campaign is either relentless, grossly underestimating the political education of black folks, or stupid (something tells…
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Elizabeth Warren Exists
Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, an evil, pumpkin-colored king named Dottard Grump ruled the land. Evil King Grump spent most of his days lying, obstructing justice, tweeting and playing golf. At night, he traveled across the kingdom to tell more lies and play more golf, coalescing a consortium of evil…
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I Can't Believe Black People Might Actually Vote for Michael Bloomberg
First, you try to get free. Margaret Garner tried to get free. On January 28, 1856, Margaret, her husband, their four children and 11 of their fellow enslaved freedom-seekers stole their master’s horse, sleigh and gun and absconded from their Boone County, Ky. plantation owner, Archibald K. Gaines. The family crossed the frozen Ohio River…
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Trump’s Backers Are Handing Out Cash to Black Voters
Nothing says totally legal and above board like giving a potential voter an envelope filled with cash, but that’s exactly what Trump folks have been doing ahead of November’s election. According to Politico, last month, at an event held by the Urban Revitalization Coalition, a 501(c)3 charitable organization headed up by Darrell Scott—“King Conk” to…