south carolina
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Black Voters Are the Most Influential Voting Bloc in the Country. Their Generational and Regional Differences Are Worth Exploring
The immediate wake of Super Tuesday went more or less as predicted: some jubilation, some anger, and a lot of punditry on overdrive as those invested in the Democratic presidential nomination collectively recalibrated where the race now stands. Southern states turned out for former Vice President Joe Biden, pushing him to the front of the…
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South Carolina Sued Over LGBTQ Sex-Ed Ban
Sex education has often done a poor job when it comes to LGBTQ students. A new lawsuit hopes to change that, at least for the state of South Carolina. NBC News reports that the National Center for Lesbian Rights along with Lambda Legal has filed a lawsuit against the state in an effort to overturn…
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Obama to Pro-Trump Super PAC: Don’t Play With Me or My Homeboy
On Wednesday, former President Barack Obama had to come out of character to check a South Carolina TV station that was running an ad from a pro-Trump super PAC that took Obama’s words out of context to go after his ace, former Vice President Joe Biden. According to the Washington Post, some super PAC called…
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Charleston News Broadcast Confuses U.S. Senate Candidate Jaime Harrison With Shoplifting Suspect: 'It Is Shocking and Disturbing'
FOX 24 Charleston, you done fucked up. During a news segment discussing 2019 Root 100 Honoree Jaime Harrison, who also just so happens to be running for U.S. Senate in South Carolina—he has our vote!—this happened: Yes, they flashed a mugshot while discussing the 44-year-old’s ongoing campaign but no, the woman in that mugshot—22-year-old Javondrea…
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Dylann Roof’s Lawyers Appeal Death Sentence, Saying He Was Too Mentally Ill to Represent Himself at Trial
Lawyers for Dylann Roof, the avowed white supremacist convicted of killing nine black parishioners in a South Carolina church in 2015, want his death sentence overturned. In a 321-page motion filed Tuesday with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals, Roof’s lawyers appealed his death sentence, arguing that Roof was mentally unstable when he represented himself…
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Tom Steyer Picks Up 3 Black Surrogates From the Carolinas
Tom Steyer, who is making some surprising inroads with African-American voters in South Carolina, has just picked up two more endorsements from powerful members of the state’s Democratic leadership and one more from neighboring North Carolina. Johnnie Cordero, chairman of the Democratic Black Caucus of South Carolina, and South Carolina state representative Jerry Govan, chairman…
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Lindsey Graham’s Democratic Challenger Jaime Harrison Raises $3.5 Million in 3 Months
South Carolina Democrat and 2019 Root 100 honoree Jaime Harrison is running to oust Senator/human Muppet Lindsey Graham from the seat he’s held for three terms. Recent fundraising numbers show he just might have a shot. The Hill reports that Harrison raised over $3.5 million over the last three months. Harrison’s campaign has touted that this…
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Revisionist History X: Nikki Haley Claims Dylann Roof ‘Hijacked’ Meaning of Confederate Flag
For the better part of this year, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley was blessedly irrelevant. That changed Friday, after a clip of a recent interview with Glenn Beck went viral. In the snippet, Haley appears to suggest the Confederate flag was not a symbol of racism until Dylann Roof made it so.…