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This historically Democratic city is a key battleground in Pennsylvania. But Gaza isn’t the only issue causing the vice-president problems Salima Suswell (speaking) and Curtis Jones (left) at Muslim City Hall Day in 2023, hosted by CAIR Philadelphia in collaboration with Emgage Pennsylvania. Photograph by Zeynep Emanet, courtesy of CAIR Philadelphia If Kamala Harris can’t […]
Soon after Vice President Kamala Harris shifted from vice presidential candidate to presidential nominee, 44,000 of her supporters dialed into a call dubbed Win With Black Women that quickly became something of a sorority rally. “Folks were shouting out their Greek letter organizations,” recalled Tamura Lomax, associate professor of religious studies at Michigan State University […]
On Sunday, two days before the 2024 U.S. general election, I attended my local church, Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston, S.C., a church in a “red state” and one of U.S. President Joe Biden’s first campaign stops in January. Mother Emanuel is also the church where nine people were killed by a white nationalist during […]
11-04-2024 (UMe) Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ little known 1974 concert album, Saturnight: Live from Tokyo, is scheduled for release in the U.S. for the first time ever, 50 years after it was released only in Japan, due to contractual restrictions. Remastered from the original production master for the first time since its original release, the […]
Nicknamed ‘the Black Harvard,’ Howard University occupies a central role in US vice president Kamala Harris’s biography: since graduating there in 1986, she has frequently returned at key moments in her life Islander News.com Source link
The US supreme court said Monday it will take up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana’s congressional map with two mostly Black districts. The court won’t hear arguments until early next year and the 2024 elections are proceeding under the challenged map, which could boost Democrats’ chances of retaking the closely divided US House. A […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court will decide, probably by next summer, whether Louisiana has one or two Black majority congressional districts. The court on Monday noted “probable jurisdiction” and consolidated the cases presented by the state of Louisiana and by Black voters, which are both defending the current maps establishing two majority Black districts. […]
It’s almost at the edge of living memory: U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act in July 1964, urging Americans to “close the springs of racial poison.” The legislation prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex or national origin at places serving the public – such as swimming pools and […]
Black Friday in the United States is just around the corner, and Walmart has organized a calendar of deals for its customers to save on a wide range of products. During November, there will be three key dates when Walmart will offer discounts on technology, fashion and household items. Walmart is getting a head start […]
Alice Lopez left the union hall so disturbed by what she had just heard that she determined she would persuade her daughters to vote even though they had never done so before. A friend had taken Lopez to a meeting arranged by Latino community leaders in bellwether Saginaw county, Michigan, to discuss Project 2025, the […]