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Shontel Brown Wins Rematch With Nina Turner Over Cleveland Congressional Seat
Voters in the majority-Black district again chose Brown over the progressive activist.
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Nina Turner Wants More Smoke With Shontel Brown
The former Ohio state senator is making another run to Rep Cleveland in Congress
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What Shontel Brown’s Win and Nina Turner’s Loss Say About the State of the Democratic Party
Basically not much at this point, because progressives are still a force.
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Nina Turner vs. Shontel Brown, Explained by The Wire
Ohio's congressional primary between Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Shontel Brown and former state Sen. Nina Turner has become a real-life version of The Wire.
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Loud, Wrong and White Democratic Strategist Apologizes to Black Woman for Whitesplaining MLK to Her and Saying She Has 'No Standing'
Whitesplaining Martin Luther King Jr. to black people appears to have joined baseball, eating contests and lynching negroes as America’s newest pastime. The latest culprit of this relatively recent phenomenon is Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen who not only attempted to explain her interpretation of MLK’s words in his Letter from Birmingham Jail to a black…
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State Democratic Leaders to Presidential Hopefuls: Remember Y’all Ain’t Barack Obama
Barack Obama may still be Democrats’ (and just about everyone else’s) fave, but party leaders weren’t too happy when he decided to form a competitive political group, Organizing for Action. Now, the current crop of leading Democratic presidential hopefuls have pledged that they won’t do the same if they get the chance to sit in…
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The Progressive Revolution Is Being Led by a Black Woman
If Nina Turner is tired and stressed out when I catch up with her in April, in her cluttered, Washington, D.C., office at Our Revolution, she doesn’t show it. She rarely works less than 12 hours a day, and her hectic schedule essentially keeps her on a plane; she has just flown into D.C. after…
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Killer Mike: Oprah’s A’ight, but if I Had to Choose a Black Woman for President, I’d Pick …
The white daredevils at TMZ who stop celebrities at the airport and shove cameras in their faces caught up with rapper and activist Killer Mike (not to be confused with me—Flesh-Wounder Mike) at Los Angeles International Airport and asked him about the hype surrounding the potential presidential candidacy of Oprah Winfrey. (Side rant: Why does…
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A Bold Sista: Move Over, Bernie Bros. Nina Turner Is the New Head of Sanders’ Our Revolution
Nina Turner is not hard to describe. She’s that other black woman on MSNBC and CNN talking about workers rights, fighting back and pushing for a progressive agenda, even during President Barack Obama’s administration. A former Ohio state senator and secretary of state candidate, she’s straight out of hardscrabble Cleveland, with the political scars to…