Deidre DeJear, the former state chair for Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, says she plans on making a decision before the caucuses Monday.
Mondaire Jones, who is vying to become the first openly gay black congressman, is running in a crowded field to replace Lowey.
The national effort to recruit and organize for Biden on campuses comes as Sanders has emerged as a potent force on HBCUs.
A newcomer’s critique of Amy McGrath is stirring tension in the race to oust Trump’s most powerful ally in Washington.
The Biden endorsements come as Pete Buttigieg’s black allies are trying to show he has support at home.
“The party says that black women are the base and our primary support, and there are five black women in the House who are attorneys and only two of us are former prosecutors,” Rep. Stacey Plaskett said.
Texas Rep. Al Green was the first to support impeaching Trump. He’s not planning on dropping it anytime soon.
“For me it’s not about having a plan or an ambition — it’s about having results. In New Hampshire, folks know what I’m talking about," the presidential candidate told BuzzFeed News.
"We haven't yet found the right language that makes the community feel as if we understand where they're coming from and what's actually happening to them,” a DNC official said.
"I’ve got butterflies, of course," Deval Patrick told BuzzFeed News, "because I’ve never done this before."
Donald Trump’s election and presidency has inspired the biggest outpouring of liberal activism in more than a decade. But Black Lives Matter seems less visible than a year ago. After a meteoric rise to prominence, the movement is struggling mightily with sharp disputes over direction and leadership.
Before he was a prominent voice in the Black Lives Matter movement, Shaun King pastored Courageous Church in Atlanta. Two years after he founded the church, King stepped down amid financial stress and some of the same questions that would dog his later career, something he addressed in an interview with BuzzFeed News.
The perils of the road to the presidency — and a life and business he loves — may ultimately keep Deval Patrick away from the Democratic primary. It’s just that he’s running into an awful lot of reasons to think that maybe they shouldn’t.
“What you’re seeing is not a performance.”
Campaign Zero is designed to stop the police from killing people and has a new tool to track its feedback. Some prominent Democrats are already sold — and it’s left other activists who had nothing to do with the project frustrated about where to go next.
The Florida gubernatorial candidate is making the rounds in Democratic politics.
"We haven't yet found the right language that makes the community feel as if we understand where they're coming from and what's actually happening to them,” a DNC official said.
In recent years, Georgia has become a state perpetually on the verge of theoretically turning blue. And now the state's governor's primary — between two candidates named Stacey — is a microcosm of a larger Democratic existential crisis, bringing delicate but explosive questions about race and party politics to the fore.
Booker is waging the civil rights movement's last battle — to unite a racially divided country on the verge of disaster — against Donald Trump. Will enough people listen to make him the nominee?
The Turn Up God supported...David Perdue for Senate?
