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COMMENTARY: When Will Workers Get a Break?
By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Newswire Contributor
Now that the impeachment trial of the 45th President is over, perhaps our legislators can turn their attention to working...
In First Act of New Congress, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Introduces Reparations Bill
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
With the start of the 117th Congress this week, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), a senior...
Warnock and Ossoff Wins in Georgia Have Biden and Democrats Feeling ‘Peachy’
Following a near-decade war against the Voting Rights Act and the undisputable suppression of hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of African American Democratic votes, Republicans lost the White House and the Senate, in large part, because traditionally red states like Georgia flipped.
Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley to Object to Electoral College Votes
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Despite Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s pleadings with his Republican colleagues to move on and accept...
Black Voters Most Loyal Democratic Voting Bloc
By Khalil Abdullah
While minority voting blocs combined to deliver the presidency to Biden, African American voters continue to be the Democratic Party’s most loyal...