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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.
\tState Minister for Education Alando Terrelonge has filed a defamation lawsuit against Ainsley Parkins, the councillor for the Southboro division in his constituency.\tTerrelonge, the St Catherine East Central MP, is alleging that Parkins...
Prime Minister Hon. Allen Chastanet has stressed that the extension of Saint Lucia’s state-of-emergency to October 16, will not hinder the nation’s upcoming general election. During a recent sitting of Parliament, the House of Assembly approved a five-month extension of the state-of-emergency, beginning May 17 and running into the final quarter of the year. With elections […]
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Preston Daniels, the first African American elected Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa, was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1945. Shortly afterwards his parents moved to Des Moines and he grew up in the Chesterfield section of southeast Des Moines, a working-class area also known as the “southeast bottoms.”
After graduating from high school in 1963 he served four years in the United States Army, and was honorably discharged at the rank of Sergeant. Daniels returned to Des Moines and received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Drake University in 1971. Daniels also obtained his Master of Science Degree in Health Science from the same institution in 1972.
Preston Daniels met his wife, Patty, during his time studying at Drake University. They married and have one son, Preston A. Daniels II. The Daniels family became involved in community activism in the early 1970s when they lived near the university. Patty Daniels became president of the Drake Neighborhood Association, a group of concerned residents who formed the second oldest nonprofit neighborhood association in the city. The new Association focused on preserving and restoring the historic housing stock in central Des Moines by working with the city on code enforcement and encouraging many of the owners of older homes to convert their now multiple family apartments back to single-family dwellings.
After working as a community activist for housing reform, in 1991 Preston Daniels entered local politics and became the first African American elected to the Des Moines City Council. He won the at-large seat on the Council based on a campaign centered on what he called City Hall’s historic neglect of the neighborhoods in favor of downtown development.
Daniels became a political ally of popular mayor Arthur Davis. When Davis died in office in 1997, Daniels decided to run for the office in the special election to fill Davis’s unexpired term. After winning an upset victory over wealthy cable television network owner Jim Cownie in the Democratic
By: Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30) Chairwoman, House Science, Space and Technology Committee On November 3, 2020, the American people turned out in record numbers across the country to participate in the democratic process. Texas was among the several states that shattered its previous turnout records. It is estimated that 66% of Texas’ 17 million […]
… had a complicated relationship with Black Americans that often goes unspoken.
On … immense pride and loyalty among Black Americans. On the other hand, he … his failure to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court and …
A section of Jubilee Party senators and MPs from the Rift Valley — Deputy President William Ruto’s political bastion — are divided over the ruling party’s purge, which has seen some of the DP’s key allies kicked out of plum leadership positions.
Five of the seven Senators who voted against the axing of Kithure Kindiki as Senate Deputy Speaker face a political onslaught from lawmakers perceived to be leaning towards President Uhuru Kenyatta as the 2022 succession politics take centre stage.
Mr Kutuny on Sunday told the Nation that Prof Kindiki’s removal has proven that the region has two factions, one championing the DP’s interests while the other works with the government to improve the socio-economic status of their people.
Those who voted against the party decision during the removal of Senator Kindiki are not committed to the party, and it shows that they are out to please their master, not like us who are after championing the people-driven agenda,” said MP Kutuny.
But Mr Cherargey said he was not party to the changes that he described as “illegal and immoral”, adding that if the removal of the DP’s allies from key posts would make the President work for Kenyans, he was not ready to work with him.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sephora's Artemis Patrick and designer Aurora James, creator of the "15 Percent Pledge" to support Black-owned brands, about how the initiative is going.
Following public concern about his health, Audley Shaw, the minister of industry, investment and commerce, has disclosed that he is nursing a vocal cord injury. The public was alarmed about Shaw’s voice during Sunday’s swearing-in ceremony at King’...
TWO years away from a general election, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) could not resist dragging skeletons of the 2018 poll out
The post Editorial comment: Zec must come clean on poll theft appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.
by E. Faye Williams, Esq. (TriceEdneyWire.com)—And it’s long overdue!!!Juneteenth has beenofficially recognized and designated a national holiday!!On June 15th, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved the measure and on June 16th, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly did the same.This bill was signed into law by President Biden on June 17th, and codified an event long observed … Continued
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It is official! CNN projects that Joe Biden has become the 46th president of the United States after a victory in his home state of Pennsylvania put him over the 270 electoral votes needed to win.
“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.
To deflect from criticism about his \"election integrity\" activities, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin released an ad that is eerily similar to a viral ad released last year by Sen. Raphael Warnock.
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate for St Andrew South Eastern Kari Douglas says victory is sure when the votes are counted on September 3.
After becoming the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee last week, Zaila Avant-garde has bagged another... View Article
The post Spelling Bee champ Zaila Avant-garde receives full LSU scholarship offer appeared first on TheGrio.
“True justice requires that we come to terms with the fact that Black Americans are treated differently, every day. It requires us to recognize that millions of our friends, family, and fellow citizens live in fear that their next encounter with law enforcement could be their last. And it requires us to do the sometimes thankless, often difficult, but always necessary work of making the America we know more like the America we believe in.”
New York (AP) – For the Rev. Jimmy Gates Sr., the 2008 presidential election year was one to remember – and not just because it ...
With voter suppression bills passing in Florida, Georgia, Texas, and other GOP-led states, many Democrats in the Senate and President Joe Biden had hoped the “For the People Act” would override restrictive legislation.
The bill addresses voter access, election integrity, election security, political spending, and ethics for the three branches of government.
The post Senate Republicans Block Sweeping Voting Rights Bill appeared first on The Seattle Medium.
GEORGTOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Former secretary general of the African Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP), Dr Patrick I Gomes says it is “shameful” that four months after a regional and general election, voters in Guyana are yet to know the official results.
Gomes said that it is “shameful to our sister countries in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and internationally, that Guyana, held in such high regard, is failing to complete in a fair and credible manner, the recount of votes cast in an election some four months ago”.
GECOM was due to announce the results after deliberating on the report, paving the way for what political observers said would be the formal announcement of the elections which the main Opposition People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) said that it won based on the national recount of votes that ended on June 9.
Meanwhile, the Court of Appeal was due to hear an injunction filed by a private citizen, Eslyn David, seeking to prevent Lowenfield from submitting a report to the GECOM chairperson, retired justice Claudette Singh.
In her affidavit, David, who said she lives in the capital Georgetown, said that “during the recount, the Guyana Elections Commission were written letters by the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change election agent Joseph Harmon in which he pointed out numerous discrepancies and anomalies which impacted on the credibility of the elections”.
The last presidential debate will be moderated by Kristen Welker, a Black co-anchor of NBC's Weekend Today.
[Monitor] A recently released report by Afrobarometer pours cold water on the much-talked about media-only political campaign for Uganda's 2021 General Election.
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s weekend attack on the MDC Alliance, calling it a terrorist organisation has attracted backlash from the opposition and political analysts who say that it was a ploy by the government to crackdown on dissenting voices ahead of the 2023 elections.
