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Showing posts with label black politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black politics. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Rep. Mia Love loses to Democrat in Utah

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Final vote counts Tuesday showed that Democrat Ben McAdams did not jump the gun when he declared victory a day earlier over two-term Rep...
Saturday, September 22, 2018

It's not a blue wave that's coming in the midterm elections — it's a black wave

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But besides the blue wave roiling America, there is a very real black wave. And both political parties need to pay attention. In one o...
Tuesday, January 09, 2018

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, ends her campaign for the Democratic nomination for Maryland governor

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Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) has been hospitalized for treatment of a bacterial infection, his office confirmed Friday hours after hi...
Thursday, January 04, 2018

Black Republicans say Omarosa blocked them from White House jobs.

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Black Republicans claim Omarosa blocked them from jobs in order to maintain her status as the “only African American woman… senior staff...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

LaToya Cantrell elected mayor of New Orleans

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LaToya Cantrell was coasting to victory and into the history books on Saturday, becoming New Orleans’ first female mayor. With more than...
Sunday, November 05, 2017

Must Read: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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“We were eight years in power” was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democrac...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Barber Shop Politics: A look back at President Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign

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By George L. Cook III African American Reports Here is a video that I made back in 2008 that was featured on CNN.Com. I think it only ...
Sunday, November 06, 2016

Cory Booker goes to Philadelphia to get the black vote out

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Seeking to close off any route for Donald Trump to get the 270 electoral votes he needs to be elected president, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

House ethics panel opens probe into Fla. Rep. Corrine Brown

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The House Ethics Committee has officially opened an investigation into Florida Democrat Corrine Brown over a number of allegations, inc...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Spike Lee radio ad in support of Bernie Sanders

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Director Spike Lee became the latest black celebrity enter the battle of presidential endorsements. This week the Bernie Sanders campai...
Sunday, February 08, 2015

Carl Heastie: First African American Assembly Speaker in New York.

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Feb. 4, New York Assemblyman Carl Heastie of the Bronx became the first African-American Assembly speaker in the state’s history. Whi...
Thursday, January 01, 2015

Elected Black Republicans Not Expected to be a Plus for the Community

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Lorenzo Morris, a political science professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C., said that the Black community shouldn’t expe...
Sunday, November 02, 2014

Will blacks vote for democrats who run away from President Obama?

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Let's be honest here. If democrats want to hold onto the Senate, they need to win the black vote overwhelmingly. While many pundit...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Will Muriel E. Bowser get enough black support to become the next mayor of Washington D.C.?

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*NOTE: a recent Washington Post poll shows Bowser with a 12 point lead. As the only African American Democrat in the District’s m...
Monday, September 29, 2014

More Blacks Headed to Congress

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There are 44 African American members of Congress. Next year, five more are expected to join them, bringing the total to 49. That wi...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Ferguson, Missouri a perfect example of what happens when blacks don't vote.

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When I first started blogging I had a blog titled Let's Talk Honestly and I think it's time to talk honestly about the town ...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

African Americans don't hate black conservatives.

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African Americans don't hate black conservatives. By George L. Cook III. If you have watched right wing/ conservative media rec...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

06/24/2014 Primary Elections: Warren Christopher candidate for Maryland congressional seat.

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Here at African American Reports we have reached out to African American candidates involved in state primaries tomorrow, 06/24/2014. ...

06/24/2014 primary election: Greg Holmes candidate for Maryland congressional seat

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Here at African American Reports we have reached out to African American candidates involved in state primaries tomorrow, 06/24/2014. ...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Councilwoman Muriel Bowser defeats incumbent Gray in D.C. mayoral primary

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Muriel E. Bowser, a low-key but politically canny District lawmaker, won the Democratic mayoral nomination Tuesday, emerging from a ...