Tag: democrats
Despite Supreme Court Ruling, Alabama Republicans Reject 2nd Majority Black District
By Kim Chandler
Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Republicans, under orders of the U.S. Supreme Court to redraw congressional districts to give minority voters a greater...
Jefferson County (AL) Split Over Whether to Open Courthouses for Sat....
By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times
Even though her attempts to open the Jefferson County and Bessemer (AL) Courthouses for Saturday absentee voting were shot down...
Rev. Jesse Jackson: Guns and the GOP’s plan to Defeat Dems...
By The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
It happened again. This time it was a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, of 19 second-, third- and fourth...
Malveaux: Why won’t Democrats fight?
By Julianne Malveaux
Not a day goes by that I don’t get a text or three from the Democratic National Committee asking for contributions. Sometimes...
In a first, leading Republicans call Biden president-elect
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, a groundswell of leading Republicans said Monday that Democrat Joe Biden is the winner of the presidential election,...
Wormsby: May be time to divorce from the Democratic Party
By Hollis Wormsby, Jr.
Ever since John Kennedy was elected president in 1960, the black community has been inextricably bound to the Democratic Party. Abraham Lincoln...
Tuesday’s elections gave black candidates a number of historic victories
Times staff report
Democrats scored several election firsts on Tuesday night and party officials credit the African-American electorate with playing a role.
In New Jersey, voters...
A Path Forward
It isn’t often that legislators in Montgomery are universally in agreement on anything. But this week it happened, twice.
First, legislators in the State House of...
BYD President Selected For Congressional Black Caucus Institute “Boot Camp”
Yawntreshia Coleman, community organizer and President of the Birmingham Young Democrats (BYD), has been selected for the Congressional Black Caucus Institute Political “Boot Camp”...
This Is Almost Unbelievable
The speaker of the house made a statement that he was going to file suit against the President of the United States. When a...
