Deidre DeJear, the former state chair for Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, says she plans on making a decision before the caucuses Monday.
Mondaire Jones, who is vying to become the first openly gay black congressman, is running in a crowded field to replace Lowey.
The national effort to recruit and organize for Biden on campuses comes as Sanders has emerged as a potent force on HBCUs.
A newcomer’s critique of Amy McGrath is stirring tension in the race to oust Trump’s most powerful ally in Washington.
The Biden endorsements come as Pete Buttigieg’s black allies are trying to show he has support at home.
“The party says that black women are the base and our primary support, and there are five black women in the House who are attorneys and only two of us are former prosecutors,” Rep. Stacey Plaskett said.
Texas Rep. Al Green was the first to support impeaching Trump. He’s not planning on dropping it anytime soon.
“For me it’s not about having a plan or an ambition — it’s about having results. In New Hampshire, folks know what I’m talking about," the presidential candidate told BuzzFeed News.
"We haven't yet found the right language that makes the community feel as if we understand where they're coming from and what's actually happening to them,” a DNC official said.
"I’ve got butterflies, of course," Deval Patrick told BuzzFeed News, "because I’ve never done this before."
Nearly 20 years ago, Biden eulogized Strom Thurmond, who began his long political career as a segregationist. Some South Carolina Democrats still say that's a good thing — but politics has changed a lot.
Before he was a prominent voice in the Black Lives Matter movement, Shaun King pastored Courageous Church in Atlanta. Two years after he founded the church, King stepped down amid financial stress and some of the same questions that would dog his later career, something he addressed in an interview with BuzzFeed News.
Donald Trump’s election and presidency has inspired the biggest outpouring of liberal activism in more than a decade. But Black Lives Matter seems less visible than a year ago. After a meteoric rise to prominence, the movement is struggling mightily with sharp disputes over direction and leadership.
Two years ago, I spent days talking to people in the New York hip-hop circles he once moved in, chasing the Trump tape we're all looking for again.
The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives met privately on Tuesday with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, days after President Trump told police officers to not be “so nice” when dealing with suspects.
"There’s an opportunity to change this world with our election in November."
The former Apprentice villain and one of the most prominent black women in the administration is leaving the Trump administration.
The activist, former Congressman and NAACP president and CEO will endorse Clinton Monday via a statement, a Clinton campaign official said.
“You've got to think about the consequences of things. [If] you start handing out two years of free college at public institutions are you ready for all the black, private HBCUs to close down? That’s what's going to happen."
“This is about the lives of our children,” said family attorney Benjamin Crump.
