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By Leonard E. Colvin
Chief Reporter
New Journal & Guide
In 2013, when Terry McAuliffe first ran for governor of Virginia, he lost the white vote by 20 points.
But McAuliffe won 90 percent of the Black Vote and that propelled him to a narrow 3-point victory over his Conservative Republican rival Ken Cuccinelli.
According to Dr. Eric Claville, the Director of The Center for African American Public Policy (CAAmPP) at Norfolk State University, McAuliffe secured 47.8% of the vote and Cuccinelli, secured 45.2%
A third-party candidate, he said, registered a historic and strong 6.5% of the electorate, pulling votes away from the Democrats.
Continue reading All Eyes On Virginia Governor’s Election at The New Journal and Guide.
Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
Denise Majette, former member of Congress, attorney, judge, and politician, was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 18, 1955 to Voyd Lee and Olivia (Foster) Majette. In 1976, Majette graduated from Yale University. She earned her law degree from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina in 1979.
After graduating, Majette joined the Legal Aid Society in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. During this period, she also served on faculty at the Wake Forest Law School. Majette relocated to Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1983. During the early1980s, she held positions as a clerk and an assistant to judges. From 1989 to 1992, Majette returned to private practice as a partner in the Atlanta law firm of Jenkins, Nelson, and Welch. During this period, she also served on the boards of various community organizations. In 1992, she was named an administrative law judge at the Georgia state board of workers compensation. The following year, Georgia Governor Zell Miller appointed her judge of the State Court of DeKalb County. Majette held the judgeship for nine years.
Majette resigned from her judgeship in 2002 to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia’s 4th congressional district. In a major upset, she defeated five term incumbent Cynthia McKinney in the Democratic primary. Majette was helped by Rep. McKinneys charge that President Bush deliberately ignored pre-September 11 intelligence reports indicating a terrorist attack was imminent. Capitalizing on those charges and an endorsement from Zell Miller who was then a U.S. Senator, Majette won 58% of the vote in the Democratic Primary against McKinney and 77% of the vote in the general election against Republican opponent Cynthia Van Auken.
Majette was appointed to the Budget, Education and Workforce, and Small Business Committees. She also served as Assistant Democratic Whip. Majette opposed President George W. Bushs record on domestic violence and education. She also opposed the Republican-sponsored Medicare Prescription Drug Act of 2003.
After only one
An aspiring journalist, believed to be the youngest person ever to interview a sitting US president, has suddenly passed away at the young age of 23. Damon Weaver was 11 years old when he interviewed former President Barack Obama in 2009 during his first year in office. As an 11-year-old, student reporter Weaver landed the […]
A private ceremony was held on July 30 in Atlanta.
PARLIAMENT is not expected to meet again until next Tuesday, September 29, as the new leadership of the House of Representatives is making efforts to resolve the protocol issues affecting the accommodation of Government members.Edmund Bartlett, the new leader of the House, and his deputy, Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, are expected to meet with architect Evon Williams this morning to discuss the necessary improvements.
“Career politician Christy Smith did nothing,” the narrator says in one ad for the Garcia campaign, accusing her of doing little while in the state legislature.
But when it comes to Capitol Hill, voters appear to still want to shake things up, making candidates like Garcia, Sherrill and Crow such key recruits for their respective campaign committees.
Also, Smith’s campaign shows the limitations of trying to tie first-time candidates to President Trump and his more outlandish statements or claims.
“I absolutely do support the president; I always have,” Garcia says in one of Smith’s ads, over a montage of news clips showing Trump boasting about his handling of the pandemic while the death toll skyrocketed.
Following Hill’s resignation in the wake of an inappropriate relationship with a campaign aide, Garcia finished second behind Smith in the all-party initial ballot in early March, finishing well ahead of Knight, a career politician whose father also represented the region in Sacramento.
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THE Opposition People's National Party (PNP) says it has employed a 'seat by seat' strategy in its quest to return to Government.While admitting that the party left the blocks behind the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), co-director of the PNP's 2020 election campaign Peter Bunting said the hierarchy is 'encouraged' by the results of polls conducted at the constituency level.
Netflix has dropped the trailer for its educational animated series We the People, with former president Barack Obama and first... View Article
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More than 55 millionaires are seeking a seat in The Bahamas Parliament in the September 16 general election, according to the full list of 2021 financial declarations published in the media on Monday.
[DW] In the past week alone, Somalia has been the scene of over a dozen deadly terror attacks by al-Shabab. The Islamist militant group is seen to be bent on thwarting the forthcoming elections in the Horn of Africa country.
BY NANCY DILLON NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/TNS He lost the popular vote and the U.S. election, but Donald Trump was named “most admired” man of 2020 in a new Gallup poll that left Democrats divvying up mentions. Former first lady Michelle Obama won the title of most admired woman for the third year in a […]
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Joe Biden named California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday, making history by selecting the first Black woman to compete on a major party’s presidential ticket and acknowledging the vital role Black voters will play in his bid to defeat President Donald Trump. Back when Kamala was Attorney General, she worked closely […]
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Jan Christian Smuts was born on a farm near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony. His ancestors were mainly Dutch, with a small admixture of French and German but no English, though he was born a British subject. Until he went to school at the age of 12, Smuts lived the life of a South African farm boy, taking his share in the work of the farm, learning from nature, and developing a life-long love of the land. Many years later, when asked by an American botanist why he, a general, should be an authority on grasses, Smuts replied, “But my dear lady, I am only a general in my spare time.”
At 16 he went to Victoria College (subsequently the University of Stellenbosch), where he studied science and arts and obtained first-class honours in both. At Stellenbosch he fell in love with a fellow student, Isie Krige, whom he later married and who remained a source of strength through the stresses and strains of an eventful life.
In 1891 he obtained a scholarship and entered Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he read law and was generally recognized as one of the most brilliant law students Cambridge had had. He was the first ever to take both parts of the law tripos examinations in the same year, and in both he came first. From Cambridge he went to London, where he came first in the Inns of Court honours examination and was awarded two prizes. It seemed clear that a distinguished academic career lay ahead of him; nevertheless, Smuts wanted to return to South Africa.
Apart from law he read widely in philosophy, poetry, and science, and it was at this time that he first read the poems of Walt Whitman. Many years later he compared the effect that Whitman had on him to St. Paul’s experience on the road to Damascus. Whitman’s conception of natural man liberated him, he believed, from the sense of sin induced by a strict Calvinist upbringing. Before he left England he wrote a book about Whitman but failed to find a publisher.
Returning to Cape Town in 1895, Smuts was at once drawn into politics. At first he supported Cecil Rhodes,
Former President Barack Obama knows a thing or two about organizing and building coalitions for change. As a community organizer... View Article
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by Derek Major June 29, 2021 - (Original News Source: www.blackenterprise.com) - Former President Barack Obama said Monday protecting voting rights is even more important in the aftermath of the 2020 election, taking a dig at [...]
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer/ BNC Contributor President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched an all-out effort pressing state and local officials to reopen schools this fall, arguing that some are keeping schools closed not because of the risks from the coronavirus pandemic but for political reasons. They think its going to be good for them politically, so they keep the schools closed, Trump said at a White House discussion on school plans for the fall. No way. Were very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools. The White Houses round-table gathered health []
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\"Happy birthday to my favorite guy,\" the former first lady tweeted on her husband's 59th birthday.
If you are one who believes that the best and most brilliant are fated to leave us the earliest on Earth, you may find that among Black activists, that belief is most true. Through the malice of their detractors, a lot of Black heroes all around the post World War II globe were take away...
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Born in Huntsville, Alabama, on the 6th of August, 1912, Illinois Congressman Bennett McVey Stewart was the son of Bennett Stewart and Cathleen Jones. He attended local public schools in Huntsville and Birmingham before entering Miles College in Birmingham. There he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1936. His first job after graduation was assistant principal of Birmingham’s Irondale High School, from 1936 until 1938. Next he took a job as associate professor of sociology at Miles College in Birmingham. That year he married Pattye Crittenden, with whom he had three children.
Stewart left the teaching profession in 1940 to work for Atlanta Life Insurance Company were he eventually became an executive. He moved to Chicago in 1950 to set up the Company’s new office and remained working there for the next eight years.
Stewart’s political career began in 1971 when he was elected to the Chicago City Council as an alderman from the 21st Ward. The next year he also served as the Democratic Committeeman. He held both of these positions until 1978. Following the death of Representative Ralph Metcalfe, Stewart was chosen as his party’s candidate to fill Illinois’s First District Congressional Seat. Although he was supported by all ten of the Democratic ward committeemen of the First Congressional District, Stewart’s selection was considered controversial because of his loyalty to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley who was perceived by many African Americans in his district as racist and repressive of civil liberties.
In spite of this opposition, Stewart won the nomination and the general election in November. He was sworn in on January 3rd, 1979. He served on the House Appropriations Committee, helping pass legislation that benefited his district, including the financial bailout of the Chrysler Motor Corporation, which employed over 1,500 of his constituents.
Stewart served only one term, but continued his career in politics as an interim-director of the Chicago Department of inter-Governmental Affairs. He was
More than a dozen Black luminaries joined in a virtual celebration Saturday afternoon to honor the 2020 graduates from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) whose commencement ceremonies were affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Hosted by comedian Kevin Hart, the National HBCU Commencement Celebration, presented by Chase, was livestreamed around the world and featured speeches and performances from celebrities such as Anthony Hamilton, Doug E. Fresh, Steve Harvey, Chris Paul and former President Barack Obama.
Obama told the graduates that, as young African Americans, they've been exposed earlier than some to the world as it is, but their HBCU education puts them in a unique position.
\"You chose to follow in the footsteps of people who shook the system to its core — civil rights icons like Thurgood Marshall and Dr. [Martin Luther] King, storytellers like Toni Morrison and Spike Lee,\" he said.
Michael Sorrell, president of Paul Quinn College in Dallas, spearheaded the idea for a virtual commencement for HBCUs.
