NNPA NEWSWIRE — The study, titled “Waking the Sleeping Giant: Low-Income Voters and the 2020 Elections” also shows that of the 168 million people who voted...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The COVID-19 pandemic appears not to be stifling turnout for an election driven primarily by the controversial and divisive personal of Donald Trump....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The lesson from all of this? If we are going to oppose Russian electoral interference—which we should—then what is demanded of democratic-minded people...
Wesley Lowery, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) – In a Sunday speech on racial inequality, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called for broad...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The emergence of the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has reached the scale of “phenomenal.” What many...
Perry Bacon Jr. and Alex Seitz-Wald WASHINGTON (NBC News) – The African-American vote, usually an afterthought until after the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries, is...
Jesse J. Holland, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Black Lives Matter network will skip a presidential endorsement but keep up its political activism by...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said Wednesday that he hopes Donald Trump can win the presidency, hours before Trump participated...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist As we enter the 2016 political campaign season with numerous candidates for president of the United States in...
Dan Balz and Scott Clement, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) — Two non-politicians, businessman Donald Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, dominate...
S.A. Miller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (The Washington Times) — The anger over Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz imposing strict controls and limits...
Lisa Lerer and Julie Bykowicz, ASSOCIATED PRESS MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The only trace of the vice president came on a candy wrapper. Joe Biden...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The 17-person race for the Republican nomination for president closely resembles a clown show, starring Donald Trump. The unfortunate contrast...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “I’ll see your two Blacks and raise you two more.” The vast majority of the news is centered on politics,...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist At bottom, the plan of Donald Trump, the GOP’s political playboy, to “solve” America’s crisis of undocumented Latino immigration...
Steve LeVine, QUARTZ (Quartz) — In January 2008, then-US senator Barack Obama, coming off a surprise victory in the Iowa caucus, lost his next primary...
Jon Swaine, Lauren Gambino, and Oliver Laughland, THE GUARDIAN (The Guardian) — Leaders in the new civil rights movement campaigning against the killings of African...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I have to make a terrible confession: I simply could not watch the first Republican debate for the 2016...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The fate of the Republican Party’s presidential sweepstakes at the moment is being controlled by two political Frankensteins –...
Ken Thomas, ASSOCIATED PRESS LONG GROVE, Iowa (AP) — After bounding atop a blue trailer in a community park, Bernie Sanders quickly reminded people here...
Dan Balz, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) — By many accounts, Vice President Biden has spent his vacation week mulling whether to run...
Dana Leibelson, THE HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Huffington Post) — A Las Vegas campaign event for GOP presidential contender Jeb Bush came to a sudden...
Julia Craven, Ryan Grimm, and Ryan J. Reilly, THE HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Huffington Post) — Activists DeRay Mckesson and Brittany Packnett recently spoke with Hillary Clinton’s policy...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The 50th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act fell on the same day that Fox News...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The August 6th Fox News-sponsored, two-tiered debate of the GOP presidential primary candidates has shown anew the Republican Party’s...