Harriet Jacobs hid in a crawl space for seven years, and Rep. Nicole Collier slept on the Texas state House floor. Black women do not bow.
I support Collier and agree that she is being courageous in the face of authoritarianism, but I don’t like the idea of what’s happening to her being flipped into another story about “resistance.”
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has been federally indicted on multiple charges stemming from alleged attempts to cover up an affair with a bodyguard.
Black women have steadily increased their role in the political universe; serving in statewide offices, state legislatures and Congress over the last decade.
Mayor Bass claims that only 200 out of those deployed were used, leaving the rest just sitting around in "complete boredom."
In this op-ed, Dr. Stacey Patton picks apart Fox News host Lisa "Kennedy" Montgomery's latest insults against Rep. Jasmine Crockett and calls them what they are.
Congressman Danny Davis is in hot water after he made some controversial comments in support of R.Kelly.
These public servants put it all on the line -- including their jobs -- when they got caught with their pants down cheating on their wives.
(Washington Informer) — Montgomery County’s top administrator banks a higher salary than the vice president of the United States. Ditto for Fairfax County’s executive. And the District’s police chief is paid more than the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and speaker of the House. Dozens of local officials earn better wages than the […]
(New York Times) — Even as Democrats gathered in the ballroom of a Manhattan hotel last week to celebrate their party’s sweep of statewide offices in New York, a sober realization began to dawn among some in the crowd: What once seemed like a new golden age for the state’s black political establishment could be […]
(Wall Street Journal) — Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the Rev. Al Sharpton—two people who don’t appear to like each other very much—tied for top honors in a new poll: They are the public figures New Yorkers most want to exit the public stage and never be heard from again. And Mets fans, it’s time […]
by Charing Ball CNN political analyst Roland Martin has parlayed his way into the fashion business. Recently, Martin, along with Verse 9 Neckwear, has created his own line of men’s ascots called the “Roland S. Martin,” which they labeled as the “new definition of swagger.” Besides the ascots, the new line also includes an array […]