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The closing of three polling centers in Daphne has some folks wondering what the motivation is. Starting with municipal elections in August 2016, voters will go to one of two precincts.
A federal appeals court Friday invalidated an array of voting restrictions North Carolina imposed in 2013, finding that they violated the Voting Rights Act by obstructing African-Americans' access to the polls. In a blistering opinion that minced few words about the racial polarization it said continues to afflict the state, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., reinstated an array of election tools that disproportionately aided African-Americans.
The notion that the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia would run smoother than the GOP's Trumpfest last week went out the door quickly. Even before the affair was gaveled in Monday, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced she would quit after the convention - the biggest scalp from the Wikileaks hack of DNC e-mails.
If you are a Donald Trump supporter, you hate it because you dislike Democrats, rationality, civil rights lawyers who have fought for black people, and anyone who falls to the left of Benito Mussolini on the political spectrum. If you are a progressive, you can be happy because of some of the ideals Kaine has pursued throughout his adult life - as a missionary to Honduras, as the mayor of a majority black city who worked to get more public schools opened and sent his children to them instead of to one of Richmond's well-regarded private institutions, his early career working as a fair housing lawyer on behalf of African-American clients in Richmond.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, stands beside Sen. Jeff Sessions during a Feb. 28 rally in Madison, Ala. By the time Jeff Sessions appeared before the Senate to answer questions about his nomination to the federal bench, his reputation was in tatters.
Donald Trump is wildly unpopular among young adults, in particular young people of colour, and nearly two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 18 and 30 believe the presumptive Republican nominee is racist. That's the finding of a new GenForward poll that also found just 19 per cent of young people have a favourable opinion of Trump compared to the three-quarters of young adults who hold a dim view of the New York billionaire.
Donald Trump is wildly unpopular among young adults, in particular young people of colour, and nearly two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 18 and 30 believe the presumptive Republican nominee is racist. That's the finding of a new GenForward poll that also found just 19 per cent of young people have a favourable opinion of Trump compared to the three-quarters of young adults who hold a dim view of the New York billionaire.
Young Americans have education and the economy at the top of their minds as they think about this year's presidential election. But their thoughts on some of the other top issues facing the country - and which of those issues are most important to them - vary among young people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds.
An African-American pastor who warmed up the crowd at a rally for Donald Trump by urging the religious conversion of Bernie Sanders said he hadn't meant to insult the "Jewish faith." Mark Burns, the president of the Christian NOW Television Network and one of Trump's few public supporters in the black community, spoke in March at a campaign event in Hickory, North Carolina.
Organized labor, elected officials and Black leaders from across the country will come together to lift up champions of the Black vote and pay homage to a true icon in the civil rights movement, Rev. Dr. Joseph E Lowery, during DogonVillage.com's Democratic National Convention Watch Party July 26, 2016 in Philadelphia.
Utah Republican Rep. Mia Love said she will not attend the GOP's national convention next month. Instead, she will be visiting Israel in the company of a Congressional delegation.
Way back in 1999, when Donald Trump was toying with the idea of a presidential run, he was asked who would be a good vice president on a ticket and cited Oprah Winfrey, calling her "very special." Just last year, he repeated that choice, saying that together, the two would win "easily."
Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.
The Supreme Court will review a districting plan for the Virginia House of Delegates that challengers say gives too little power to African-American voters in an effort to boost Republican strength. The case concerns claims that black voters were illegally packed into a dozen legislative districts.
Donald Trump touted his support among African-Americans on Friday by pointing out a single black man in the crowd at a rally. He pointed at the man and said, "Oh, look at my African-American over here!" Trump added, "Are you the greatest? You know what I'm talking about? OK."
Trump made the proclamation at a rally in Redding, California on Friday, singling out one black supporter in the crowd, saying "Look at my African-American over here!" Gregory Cheadle says he was that man in the crowd, and that he wasn't offended ... so no one else should be. "I think that I was the only black guy in the audience anyway," Cheadle said while laughing.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Redding Municipal Airport Friday, June 3, 2016, in Redding, Calif. - Donald Trump singled out a black supporter at a rally in California on Friday as he sought to demonstrate his support among African-Americans, saying, "Look at my African-American over here!" At the Friday rally, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was in the middle of describing a past campaign event, at which he said a black supporter "slugged" protesters who were dressed in a " Ku Klux Klan outfit."
Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan said Saturday that white middle-class Americans have become so disenfranchised that many are looking to Donald Trump as African Americans did to Barack Obama in 2008 - "with hope." "I think, culturally, they're under assault," Buchanan, former aide to Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, told Michael Smerconish on CNN.