Black Caucus leader Virgie Rollins taps into her Black Panther path to call for a ‘revolution’
The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee’s Black Caucus, Virgie Rollins, admitted at a small town hall in Detroit Saturday that she is a former Black Panther, a radical protest organization that More...
Black activists, Project 21, praise President Trump’s SOTU address, ‘this speech went a long way in trying to repair’ America’s divide
Following President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address, black activists with the Project 21 leadership network are available for comment. In tonight’s address, President Trump spoke of More...
Sheila Jackson Lee says Trump’s NFL comments are racism, takes a knee in Congress
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) stated that President Trump’s comments about NFL players protesting and kneeling during the national anthem as undisguised racism during her speech from the House floor Monday More...
Illinois Congresswoman Robin Kelly says GOP health care move ‘is absolutely the wrong direction’
Congresswoman Robin Kelly, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, released this statement following the House vote to strip 24 million Americans of their health insurance: “I’m extremely More...
Barbara Lee praises $1billion famine relief spending in 2017 Omnibus bill
Congresswoman Lee released the following statement on funding to fight famine in the FY2017 omnibus bill. Last month, Congresswoman Lee circulated a bipartisan letter urging her colleagues to support $1 billion More...
Black Lives Matter’s Yusra Khogali offers racist attack on white: ‘sub-human’ with ‘recessive genetic defects’
A Black Lives Matter leader has landed in the headlines and come under attack on social media for claiming white people are “sub-human” and suffer from “recessive genetic defects,” hinting how the race More...
ADF praises Neil Gorsuch nomination, Mi Familia Vota says he’s hostile on women’s rights, bad on immigration reform
President Trump’s nomination of Colorado judge Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court was certain to create a divide between the left and the right, the progressives and the constitutionalists and that is More...
New Poll: Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 6%, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein left off
Donald Trump’s lead over Hillary Clinton in the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times national tracking poll grew to nearly six percentage points on Thursday, his largest advantage since his post-convention bounce More...
California’s Barbara Lee on President Obama’s SOTU address, talks gun violence, racism, education
Congresswoman Barbara Lee released this statement following President Obama’s State of the Union address: This evening, the American people and the world had an opportunity to hear directly from our President More...
Univ of Louisville pulls job posting which had excluded whites and asians from applying
The University of Louisville placed an ad for a “tenure-track Assistant Professor position” which specified the racial/ethnic makeup of who would be considered eligible. Newsbusters is covering the story, More...
President Obama discusses health care, gun control and ‘not negotiating’ with the GOP on debt
President Obama gave the keynote address Saturday night at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 43rd Annual Legislative Conference Phoenix Awards Dinner, the highlight of a four-day conference on public More...
Who stood by Charles Rangel, voting against censure
CrainsNew York.com writes: “On the darkest day of his four decades in Congress, Rep. Charles Rangel found a friend in Republican colleague Peter King of Long Island, who crossed party lines last week to vote More...