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By Leonard E. Colvin
Chief Reporter
New Journal & Guide
In 2013, when Terry McAuliffe first ran for governor of Virginia, he lost the white vote by 20 points.
But McAuliffe won 90 percent of the Black Vote and that propelled him to a narrow 3-point victory over his Conservative Republican rival Ken Cuccinelli.
According to Dr. Eric Claville, the Director of The Center for African American Public Policy (CAAmPP) at Norfolk State University, McAuliffe secured 47.8% of the vote and Cuccinelli, secured 45.2%
A third-party candidate, he said, registered a historic and strong 6.5% of the electorate, pulling votes away from the Democrats.
Continue reading All Eyes On Virginia Governor’s Election at The New Journal and Guide.
Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
THE usual fanfare surrounding polling activities was noticeably subdued in St Andrew East Rural yesterday as Jamaicans cast their ballots for the 18th time to choose a new Government, but supporters of both major political parties were in high spirits despite the absence of the usual large crowds and motorcades due to the spike in novel coronavirus cases.
Crusader Staff Report The Obama Presidential Center, already estimated to be the most expensive presidential library in U.S. history, will now cost nearly $700 million to build in Jackson Park, Obama Foundation President Valerie Jarrett said at a recent virtual event. The 19.3-acre OPC, which is scheduled to break ground in the fall, was originally […]
Oprah Winfrey sat down with former President Barack Obama on Wednesday for an interview about his upcoming memoir, 'A Promised Land.' The conversation will be made available for free and debut on Tuesday, Nov. 17 on Apple TV+, the same day as the memoir's long-awaited release. 'This book was worth the wait,' Winfrey said in a statement. 'Everybody who reads […]
With just 57 days until the 2020 election, it will be time to vote before you know it. For our special Labor Day edition, I'm breaking down the five big storylines to watch between now and Election Day - the narratives that will define the final stretch of the race between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. 5. […]
Former President Barack Obama released a list of songs he’s been jamming to this summer on social media. Obama dropped his 2021 Summer Playlist saying he’s been listening to “a mix of old and new, household names and emerging artists, and a whole lot in between.” It’s a tradition he’s been doing since his presidency. […]
WITH THE decreasing number of Caribbean-American voters participating in elections in the United States, coupled with news reports about the uncertainty of mail-in voting for the 2020 general election, a group of concerned Caribbean-Americans has...
With loyalists of People’s National Party (PNP) President Dr Peter Phillips now on edge and preparing for another round of internal schism, two signatories of a controversial letter are insisting that the correspondence is not a launching pad for Phillips’ ouster.
On Monday night, the executive of the PNP held a meeting at The Mico University College where Phillips asserted that the party would not be divided under his leadership.
But St Ann North West Member of Parliament Dr Dayton Campbell, the attack dog of the failed Peter Bunting challenge to Phillips’ leadership, said that the 15 signatories were seeking answers on how the party would remain viable, especially as national polls draw near.
“I believe I have a right to put my signature with any group of PNP supporters or members to any letter which is a decent letter to the president of the People’s National Party,” Buchanan, member of parliament for Westmoreland Eastern, said.
Campbell, who has been tasked by Phillips to craft the party’s election manifesto, said that the planned meeting was not adversarial.
FERGUSON, MO
Cori Bush, a community activist who led protests in Ferguson, Mo. following the 2014 fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by police officers, defeated long-time Missouri Congressman William Lacy Clay in the recent Mo. Democratic Primary. If she wins the general election in November, which she is expected to do, Cori Bush will be the first Black woman to be elected to the House of Representatives from Missouri.
Clay is a 10-term Congressman who replaced his father William Clay to represent Missouri’s First Congressional District in the House of Representatives.
Continue reading Grassroots Activist Defeats 10-Term Congressman in Missouri at The New Journal and Guide.
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — This week will find us back in a familiar place — waiting for Georgia to count votes. With control of the U.S. Senate at stake, all eyes are on a runoff election that has Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler facing Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. Millions of dollars have poured in, Georgians have been bombarded by advertisements and messages urging them to vote, and both sides have sent their heavy hitters to help turn out voters. Some things to keep in mind as the polls close Tuesday night: HOW DID […]
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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Trinidad...
President Donald Trump will be hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center 'out of an abundance of caution' after testing positive for COVID-19 and experiencing 'mild symptoms,' the Wall […]
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The #CreepyTucker hashtag went viral after the Fox News host continued his fearmongering about COVID-19 shots.
[Nation] A storm is brewing in Deputy President William Ruto's political camp.
On Tuesday (Dec 16), President O appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and clarified his stance on the matter, stating that the point he was trying to mke was missed by the masses after he was dragged online for seemingly criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement—a takeaway that the former President is calling false.
A Twitter account with the handle ANTIFA_US has been outed as a white nationalist organization attempting to spread disinformation and chaos.
According to Mic, Twitter has removed the account from its platform, but would not say how many followers the account had.
“This account violated our platform manipulation and spam policy, specifically the creation of fake accounts,” a spokesperson for Twitter told Mic.
“We took action after the account sent a Tweet inciting violence and broke the Twitter Rules.”
According to Twitter officials, this is not the first time the group has made a fake account posing as a supporter of other movements and engaged in hateful content on issues of race, religion, and sexual orientation.
SACRAMENTO Governor Gavin Newsom today issued a proclamation declaringastatewide General Election on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, and signed an executive order to ensure that Californians can exercise their right to vote in a safe, secure and accessible manner during the upcoming election. “We are committed to protecting the hard-fought right for Californians to []
The post Governor Newsom Signs Executive Order on Safe, Secure and Accessible General Election in November appeared first on La Focus Newspaper.
Former President Barack Obama said he believes America owes a debt to the descendants of enslaved Africans, reversing his position on reparations as debate about legislation on the contentious topic gains steam in Congress.
To suggest to any woman set to represent the party that gave Jamaica its first, and only woman prime minister - Portia Simpson Miller - that she is being nominated as a token by the People's National Party (PNP) is like a declaration of war.
Melvin Evans achieved distinction as the first popularly elected governor of the Virgin Islands—a multi–island territory in the eastern Caribbean. As the first black Delegate to represent the American territory in the U.S. Congress, Evans used his political experience to promote health care, education, and other areas of concern to his constituents during his brief tenure in the House of Representatives. “A man of conviction and high integrity, Congressman Evans would not be swayed from his principles,” asserted Representative Donald Clausen of California. “A spokesman for the common man, he assured that the interests of his constituents were never overlooked.”1Melvin Herbert (Mel) Evans was born in Christiansted, St. Croix, on August 7, 1917, soon after the United States purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark. After graduating from high school on St. Thomas, Evans received a bachelor of science degree in 1940 from Howard University and an M.D. from the Howard University College of Medicine in 1944. In 1945, Evans married Mary Phyllis Anderson, a nurse he met in a New York hospital; the couple had four sons: William, Melvin, Jr., Robert, and Cornelius.2 During the next 15 years he served in a variety of medical and public health posts at hospitals and institutions in the United States and the Virgin Islands. From 1959 to 1967 Evans served as the Commissioner of Health for the Virgin Islands; he also was the chairman of the Governor’s Commission on Human Resources from 1962 to 1966. In 1967 he furthered his academic credentials by earning a master’s degree in public health from the University of California at Berkeley. He returned to private practice for two years before President Richard M. Nixon appointed him governor of the Virgin Islands. In August 1968 Congress passed the Virgin Islands Elective Governor Act, providing for the election of a governor by the territory’s residents. Evans was elected as a Republican to the governor’s office in 1970 and served until 1975. After his unsuccessful bid for re–election in 1974, he was Republican National Committeeman from the Virgin Islands and chairman of the board of trustees of the College of the Virgin Islands.3In 1972, Congress authorized nonvoting Delegates for the Virgin Islands and Guam in the House of Representatives.4 When the first Delegate of the Virgin Islands, Democrat Ron de Lugo, announced his decision to leave the House at the end of the 95th Congress (1977–1979) to run for governor of the American territory, Evans entered the 1978 general election to fill his open seat. In a tight race, Evans narrowly defeated Democrat Janet Watlington, a congressional aide to de Lugo, with 52 percent of the vote, to become the Virgin Islands’s first black Delegate.5 Sworn in to the 96th Congress (1979–1981) on January 3, 1979, Evans served on the Armed Services, Interior and Insular Affairs, and Merchant Marine and Fisheries committees. During his congressional career, Evans paid close attention to the needs of his unique constituency, focusing on a legislative agenda
By: Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30) Chairwoman, House Science, Space and Technology Committee On November 3, 2020, the American people turned out in record numbers across the country to participate in the democratic process. Texas was among the several states that shattered its previous turnout records. It is estimated that 66% of Texas’ 17 million […]
Last night the California State Assembly voted to pass ACA 5.
The bill authored by Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus, sponsored the bill.
The ballot measure that could overturn Proposition 209 now moves to the state Senate for consideration.
“And let’s make sure Black Americans in California benefit significantly.”
California voters approved Prop 209 in 1996, a ballot measure that outlawed the consideration of race in contracting, college admissions, employment and state data reporting in California.
Businessman and former People's National Party (PNP) treasurer, Norman Horne is rejecting claims that withdrawing his nomination as an opposition Senator is dependent on the party repaying him a $10M debt. Horne was one of eight...
Preston Daniels, the first African American elected Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa, was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1945. Shortly afterwards his parents moved to Des Moines and he grew up in the Chesterfield section of southeast Des Moines, a working-class area also known as the “southeast bottoms.”
After graduating from high school in 1963 he served four years in the United States Army, and was honorably discharged at the rank of Sergeant. Daniels returned to Des Moines and received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Drake University in 1971. Daniels also obtained his Master of Science Degree in Health Science from the same institution in 1972.
Preston Daniels met his wife, Patty, during his time studying at Drake University. They married and have one son, Preston A. Daniels II. The Daniels family became involved in community activism in the early 1970s when they lived near the university. Patty Daniels became president of the Drake Neighborhood Association, a group of concerned residents who formed the second oldest nonprofit neighborhood association in the city. The new Association focused on preserving and restoring the historic housing stock in central Des Moines by working with the city on code enforcement and encouraging many of the owners of older homes to convert their now multiple family apartments back to single-family dwellings.
After working as a community activist for housing reform, in 1991 Preston Daniels entered local politics and became the first African American elected to the Des Moines City Council. He won the at-large seat on the Council based on a campaign centered on what he called City Hall’s historic neglect of the neighborhoods in favor of downtown development.
Daniels became a political ally of popular mayor Arthur Davis. When Davis died in office in 1997, Daniels decided to run for the office in the special election to fill Davis’s unexpired term. After winning an upset victory over wealthy cable television network owner Jim Cownie in the Democratic
BY NANCY DILLON NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/TNS He lost the popular vote and the U.S. election, but Donald Trump was named “most admired” man of 2020 in a new Gallup poll that left Democrats divvying up mentions. Former first lady Michelle Obama won the title of most admired woman for the third year in a […]
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