Fifty-two years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and 55 years after Jim Crow, Mississippi is burning again. Phil Bryant, the now-former governor of Mississippi (a state that was one of the flashpoints of the civil rights…
Today’s illegitimate acquittal is fitting for a dishonorable, unpatriotic, dangerous, illegitimate, and impeached president. Anyone who lends any credence to the idea that this unlawful outcome serves as a credible exoneration of Donald Trump is an enemy to the rule…
Shortly after the House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to impeach President Donald Trump on December 13, members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) held a conference call with publishers of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the trade…
More than four years after sections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were taken out by the Supreme Court and following four attempts under a House led by Republicans, Rep. Terri Sewell’s (R-Ala.) bill to reinstate voting protections has…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — By a party-line vote of 232-to-196, the Democratically controlled House of Representatives took the historic step last week of passing a resolution, formalizing the parameters of the next phase of the impeachment inquiry—an important move in a…
President Barack Obama said Monday he believes the Senate has a constitutional obligation to vote on a president’s nomination to the Supreme Court, staking out a position at odds with Republicans and some legal scholars. Obama made the claim in…
