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Three Black Senators Introduce Bill to Make Lynching a Federal Hate Crime
The Senate’s lone black members, Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), introduced a bill Friday that would make lynching a federal hate crime. The bill is similar to one introduced earlier this month by Rep. Bobby Rush, Democratic congressman from Ill., which has 35 co-sponsors from the Congressional Black Caucus. The…
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Lowndes County, Ala.: The Place God Forgot
"It seems like everybody forgot about Lowndes County ... even God.”
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Sen. Cory Booker Blames Low Voter Turnout for Republican Victories
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story, which was based on reporting from The Guardian, stated that Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) blamed low African-American voter turnout for Donald Trump’s presidency. This post has been updated to note that Booker was referring to low overall voter turnout in the 2009 gubernatorial race that propelled Chris…
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Cory Booker and Jeff Flake Had a Snowball Duel, and I Have Questions … a lot of Questions
I miss the old Cory Booker, the Newark, N.J., mayor who was so grassroots that he was like a New Jersey-born superhero who literally was saving people from burning buildings and pushing snowed-in cars to safety. Oh, Hurricane Sandy knocked your power out? No biggie, just slide over to Booker’s crib to watch Netflix and…
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Walt Swanston-NuevaEspana, Diversity Champion, Dies
For Decades, a Go-to Person on Inclusion Efforts Visiting Press Groups Alarmed by Climate in U.S. Washington Post Sets Out to Find ‘What Unites Us’ Post-Gazette Won’t Run Dissents From Newsroom ‘Is This Norway?’ Asks Member of the Twitterverse About Axios In U.S., Supremacists Are the Extremists to Watch Short Takes Walterene Swanston-NuevaEspana, a decades-long…
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Can We Talk About How a Woman With the World’s Whitest Name Pretended Not to Know That Norway Is White?
Admittedly, there are times when witnessing the audacity of caucasity in its full splendor that there’s nothing left to do but marvel at it. Perhaps, if you’re feeling particularly magnanimous, you can even appreciate it. Not because of what it does but because that level of confidence and performative obliviousness can be aspirational. I mean,…
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Cory Booker Looked Poised for 2020 as He and San Juan, Puerto Rico, Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz Were Honored by the King Center in Atlanta
Oprah Winfrey may rule out a 2020 run to end President Donald Trump’s reign of terror over this country, but Cory Booker might not. In Atlanta Saturday, the U.S. senator from New Jersey was a thunderous presence at the King Center’s annual Salute to Greatness Awards Gala, where he was the main honoree. Introduced by…
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Kamala Harris, Cory Booker Appointed to Senate Judiciary Committee
Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) were appointed to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. This is only the second time in the 201-year history of the committee that anyone black has served on it, and the first time there have been two black people on the committee at once. Mark this down…
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New Jersey Police Increase Sen. Cory Booker’s Security After Death Threats
Newark, N.J., police have beefed up the security for Sen. Cory Booker and his family following death threats, following an advisory from Newark’s Mayor Ras Baraka. “The Newark Police Division has been notified by the United States Capitol Police regarding a threat on the life of New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and his family members,”…