During an interview for ABC's This Week Stacey Abrams, said she will continue to make the fight against voter suppression her foremost mission. Watch her full interview on the topic of voter suppression below.
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Historic marker to honor African American tennis club
A tennis club for African American players that hosted International Tennis Hall of Famers Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe is being honored with a historic marker.
The North Carolina Highway Historical Marker will be dedicated Thursday at the site of the Algonquin Tennis Club, which was created in 1922 by the American Tennis Association. The association was formed to support African American players who were then banned from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association.
The members met in private homes for 12 years before the Algonquin Tennis Club House was purchased in 1934.
The club closed in 1964, and its historic clubhouse burned down several years later. The ceremony will be held at the W.D. Hill Recreation Center, located in the same area.
The Durham Committee on Negro Affairs was formed at the club in 1935 and remains active today as the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People.
Friday, August 16, 2019
Sen. Cory Booker’s statement on Newark Water Crisis
U.S. Cory Booker (D-NJ) released the following statement via Twitter regarding the Newark Water Crisis:
Newark’s water emergency demands our federal government’s immediate attention. Everyone deserves clean, safe water—it's shameful that our national crisis of lead-contaminated water disproportionately hits poor black and brown communities like my own.
African American Charlotte (NC) Mayor receives racist & threatening letter
The letter read in part, "...Each of you despicable BLACK democrats should be tarred and feathered and run out of town (my town) on a rail..."
Watch this story below.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Stacey Abrams open to being a VP candidate
Former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams (D) isn’t running for president in 2020, but she said she’s open to being vice president for any of the candidates.
Abrams, who was narrowly defeated in the Georgia governor race last year by Republican Brian Kemp, told The New York Times that she has no plans to run for Senate or president in 2020 but is “certainly open to other political opportunities.”
When pressed on whether such an opportunity might include the vice presidency, Abrams said she would be “honored to be considered” for the position by any candidate. However, she said her focus at the moment is on the primary and fighting voter suppression.
“In the end, no matter where I fit, no matter which ones of our nominees win, if we haven’t fought this scourge, if we haven’t pushed back against Moscow Mitch and his determination to block any legislation that would cure our voting machines, then we are all in a world of trouble,” she told the Times.
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