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Alabama Democrat Doug Jones escaped with a mere three percent margin of victory as much of the country watched with bated breath to see if the state would allow a racist, misogynist, sexual predator of children to follow America’s election of a racist, misogynist, sexual predator as president two Novembers ago. As the poll results […]

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill has been rising in prominence over the past few years. He is a Distinguished Professor at Morehouse College and a recent New York Times Bestselling author of the book Nobody. Now, the Vh1 and BET TV show host has shared his electoral plans for November with 105.1’s The Breakfast Club team […]

The Democratic National Convention (DNC) kicked off in Philadelphia yesterday, and although Hillary Clinton is the presumptive nominee, black women were front and center. From the convention chair, Representative Marcia Fudge to Georgia House Representative Stacey Abrams to the incomparable Michelle Obama, it is clear that black women are the backbone of the Democratic Party […]

On Monday evening, the Associated Press reported that Hillary Clinton has officially gotten the number of delegates that are necessary to secure the Democratic presidential nomination.

As exit polls came flooding in late Tuesday night, many of them looked like overlays from the 2016 presidential election which saw Republican Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton and Republicans retain Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate. In this election’s exit polls, it was revealed that Donald Trump still holds sway over […]

Editor’s Note: This month at BYP, we will be exploring the US Elections & Family/Parenting issues, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics. How has our political system been working for and against us? What dynamics are different today? How should we prepare for the presidential election, and what is the […]

Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is catching more flack for comments in which she yet again questioned why American politics are so soft on Israel. According to Vox, last week Omar was on a panel about the Israel-Palestine conflict alongside Rep. Rashida Talib, who like Omar is a freshman congresswoman and a Muslim. “I want to […]

On Wednesday, Virginia’s attorney general, Mark Herring, revealed he and his friends wore “brown makeup”—Blackface—to a 1980 college party, dressed as their favorite rappers. Herring’s revelations add to the pile of controversies for Virginia’s top Democratic leadership.

With much of the nation counting down the days until Donald Trump’s impeachment or the end of his presidential term (and hopefully avoidance of a second term), many members of the electorate are getting a better look at their 2020 presidential options. As the Hill recently reported, Sen. Kamala Harris is expected to be one […]

United States politics is centered around and obsessed with elections. After the 2016 election, many are hoping for a viable challenge to the Trump administration and are looking to the Democratic Party for that challenger.  But should they? This week, in a special election for Georgia Congressional District 6, an area just north of Atlanta, […]

News stories about GOP women feeling “betrayed” by the Republican Party have been breaking since late 2016. Sometimes the breakups come with drama and fanfare. At other times, GOP women, like Hawaiian Rep. Beth Fukumoto, choose clear and measurable actions that inevitably lead them to seek political asylum with the Democratic Party. But, what do […]

By: Dr. Barbara Ransby According to last week’s GenForward survey by political scientist, Cathy Cohen’s Black Youth Project, based at the University of Chicago, young people across the board, dissatisfied with both the Democrats and the Republicans, are eager for a fundamental political change. That is the good news.