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6 Afro Latino Politicians Making An Impact In America
Blavity via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs Hispanic Heritage Month ends this weekend, it’s important to recognize the specific contributions...
Charles Rangel Fast Facts
CNN via Yahoo News· 11 months agoHere’s a look at the life of former US Congressman Charles Rangel, who represented New York from 1971 to 2017. Personal Birth date: June 11, 1930 Birth place: New York, New York (Harlem) Birth ...
Thank You For Your Service: Cheers To These Black Celeb Veterans On 75th Anniversary of the...
The Root via Yahoo News· 9 months agoOn this day in 1948, former President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order to desegregate...
Fact Check: Biden to Racially Mixed Crowd: Republicans Will 'Put Y'all Back in Chains.' We Tracked...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 3 months agoGetty Images Claim: In 2012, then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told an audience that included...
Longtime Harlem lawmaker Inez Dickens to retire as candidates angle to replace her
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAssemblywoman Inez Dickens, a Democrat and longtime fixture in Harlem politics, said Monday that she...
House Republicans Vote To Cripple Ethics Watchdog
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHouse Republicans voted nearly unanimously to cripple the Office of Congressional Ethics, a bipartisan watchdog whose work has led to resignations and...
Bill Perkins, a force in Harlem politics, is dead at 74; ‘Harlem has lost a giant,’ says Mayor Adams
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 12 months agoBill Perkins, a hard-charging, reform-minded city and state lawmaker who championed equality in health care and criminal justice as an energetic force in Harlem politics across three decades ...
From Otto Warmbier to Kenneth Bae: The US nationals arrested by North Korea
The Independent via Yahoo News· 10 months agoUS soldier Travis King was detained in North Korea on Tuesday (18 July) after crossing into the...
Why it’s so rare for Congress to expel a member
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIt almost seems to be harder to get kicked out of Congress than it is to get elected in the first place. There’s been no shortage of scoundrels elected...
Barbara Jordan was one of the first Black and LGBTQ women in Congress, but her relationship was kept...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBarbara Jordan.File/AP Barbara Jordan was one of the first Black and LGBTQ women in Congress,...