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July 3, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: Jeannine Lee Lake, Democratic candidate for Indiana’s 6th congressional district, speaks to the crowd gathered for Juneteenth day event in Columbus, Ind. The reenergized movement against racial inequality and police brutality following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has amplified the voices of Black candidates across the country. Among them is Lake,…
July 2, 2020
By AARON MORRISON NEW YORK (AP) — Spurred by broad public support for the Black Lives Matter movement, thousands of Black activists from across the U.S. will hold a virtual convention in August to produce a new political agenda that seeks to build on the success of the protests that followed George Floyd’s death. The…
June 25, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: In this June 16, 2020, file photo, a voter casts their ballot at a polling station inside the Brooklyn Museum as early voting continues in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo: John Minchillo, File) By Michael Tackett ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The ballot is deployed to replace the bullet, to decide…
June 19, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: In this Sept. 12, 2019, file photo, from left, Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, watches as then-candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., shake hands after a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston. Biden’s search for a running mate is…
June 11, 2020
In this May 28, 2020, file photo, mail-in ballots are processed at the Chester County Voter Services office in West Chester, Pa., prior to the primary election. Democrats are mounting a new effort to push back against a well-funded Republican campaign that seeks to undermine public confidence in mail-in-voting. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) By Brian…
June 7, 2020
Register at officeofphiladelphiasheriff.com/en/calendar/town-halls/june-25th-1st-virtual-town-hall
June 5, 2020
From voters trying to find a place to put their mail-in ballots to voters trying to find the right place to vote, the Pennsylvania primary allowed Philadelphians to get their exercise on Tuesday. By Denise Clay If you hung around long enough at the George Washington Carver High School for Engineering and Science in North…
May 29, 2020
The tradition of Memorial Day began on May 1, 1865, in Charleston, South Carolina. In the midst of ruins and at the war’s end, 10,000 African American former slaves and some White Union army allies inaugurated Decoration Day in an extraordinary parade on the Planters’ Race Course (a horse track). Some 260 Union soldiers had…
May 29, 2020
SUN NOTE: Pennsylvania primary is happening June 2. 190 polling places will be set up around the city to vote in person *Mail in ballots must have postmark date of June 2, 2020 to be counted by June 9. Candidates for President of the United States — Democratic Party Joe Biden Website: www.joebiden.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/joebiden…
May 29, 2020
The first Pennsylvania primary with a vote by mail option is happening on Tuesday. And the kinks aren’t entirely worked out. By Denise Clay On the Wednesday before Election Day, Danyl Patterson, a candidate running for the Democratic nomination for the 190th District, was doing a Facebook Live near the Octavius V Catto statue on…
July 3, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: Cars are lined up at a United Memorial Medical Center COVID-19 testing site Wednesday, June...
July 3, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: Mary J. Blige (Photo: Joe Seer / Shutterstock) By Florence Anthony Quarantine Billionaire Family Alert!...
July 3, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: Jeannine Lee Lake, Democratic candidate for Indiana’s 6th congressional district, speaks to the crowd gathered...
July 3, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: (Photo by Bill Z. Foster) Dear Cultural Coach: My comments may sound racist on the...
July 3, 2020
BPT Whether you’ve had exposure to someone who tested positive for COVID-19, have symptoms you’re worried about,...
July 3, 2020
All Signs: Does it feel like things are stalled in the water? Well, it so happens that...
