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American Actress Jenifer Lewis criticised Black and Latino men for not supporting Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. In an interview with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, Lewis expressed her belief that these men didn’t vote for Harris because she is a woman.“They didn’t vote for her because she was a woman,” the actress said. “They […]
Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. This week, I had a chat with Lauren N Williams, the deputy editor for race and equity at the Guardian US, about the country’s election results and the role Black voters played. I wanted to discuss the reported swing among Black voters to Donald Trump, which seemed pretty […]
The working-class voters Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign needed were not moved by talk of joy. They were too angry about feeling broke. For decades, Democrats had been the party of labor and of the working class, the choice for voters who looked to government to increase the minimum wage or provide a safety […]
On Tuesday evening, Black voters milled about Washington DC as they awaited election results. Most voters had cast ballots for Kamala Harris and were excited that a Black woman might become president for the first time. It was a milestone that some didn’t believe that they would witness in their lifetimes. At a watch party […]
PHILLP E. THOMPSON AND TANJA S. THOMPSON As a married couple over the age of 50, my wife and I find ourselves questioning whether the Democratic Party still represents people like us. For decades, we stood by a party that fought for working-class Americans, ethnic minorities, equal employment, fair housing and accessible education. Yet today, […]
Jamaal Stokes’s quality of life in Milwaukee has declined over the past decade, just as it has for many other Black residents. He lost his well-paying factory job in the mid-2010s, when his company left town. He spent the next several years toiling in temporary jobs as he searched for stable employment. Mr. Stokes, 44, […]
Jamaal Stokes’s quality of life in Milwaukee has declined over the past decade, just as it has for many other Black residents. He lost his well-paying factory job in the mid-2010s, when his company left town. He spent the next several years toiling in temporary jobs as he searched for stable employment. Mr. Stokes, 44, […]
“It’s like being sucked into a tsunami,” said Vivian Glover, a Kamala Harris voter from South Carolina, about the realisation that Donald Trump had been re-elected as president. “The contrast between the two campaigns couldn’t have been more stark. On the one hand an intelligent, highly qualified public servant with a unifying message, and the […]
California voters have rejected a ballot measure to prohibit forced prison labor, in a major disappointment to advocates of criminal justice reform and many of the 90,000 people incarcerated in state prisons. Proposition 6 would have amended the state’s constitution to ban involuntary servitude for people in prison. The proposition would instead have allowed people […]
In the hours after Joe Biden’s decision to end his re-election bid and endorse Kamala Harris as the democratic nominee for president, 40,000 Black women – leaders in politics, business and entertainment – met on a Zoom call to rally around the vice-president. “We went from that call to organizing our house, our block, our […]