Tag: Joe Biden
Vice President Kamala Harris’s Exclusive Talk With the Black Press of...
By Stacy M. Brown
NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Vice President Kamala Harris provided a message of hope while striking an encouraging tone during an exclusive...
Mayor Woodfin Scores First Major Victory of New Term with $35M...
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
It didn’t take long for Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin to score his first major victory with a new city council.
On...
Mayor Woodfin to Attend President Biden’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Signing
birminghamal.gov
Birmingham Mayor Randall L. Woodfin will attend the signing of the $1 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act at the White House. The...
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin cruises to second term with 64% of...
By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times
Randall Woodfin, elected four years ago as Birmingham’s youngest mayor in more than a century, on Tuesday cruised to a...
Opinion: Supporting President Biden’s Jobs Plans Means Supporting Schools
By Gaynell Hendricks
I support President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan. This plan, as constituted, makes some investments in three areas that directly affect schools....
Ellis: An Open Letter to President Biden
By Glenn Ellis
Dear President Biden:
It’s no secret to any of us that Black Americans have carried a disproportionate burden throughout every stage of the...
Biden takes the helm as president: ‘Democracy has prevailed’
By JONATHAN LEMIRE, ZEKE MILLER and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday,...
Malveaux: The Biden cabinet is made up of Obama-era retreads
By Julianne Malveaux
I neither expected sparks nor extreme surprises as President-elect Joe Biden begin to announce his Cabinet. I did expect diversity, and we've...
2020: A Year to Remember
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
What’s left to say about 2020 except that it’s over. But what a year with the well-chronicled coronavirus pandemic...
Joe Biden Taps Michael Regan As EPA Administrator
By Alexander C. Kaufman
Black Voices
President-elect Joe Biden is set to name Michael Regan as his pick for the nation’s 16th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,...