Politics

Jackson Lee says the new COVID-19 relief bill signed by the House includes $2,000 for Americans + $2,000 for their dependants, an extension of the eviction moratorium and more.

In the entire 231 years that the U.S. Senate has existed, there have only been 10 senators who are Black. Just two of that already small number are women.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision against picking a Black woman to fill Kamala Harris' U.S. Senate seat has set off a political firestorm on social media.

As a member of the House Judiciary Committee Bush will be among a group of legislators committed to oversee and reform policies at the Department of Justice and Homeland Security, as well as criminal and judicial proceedings, espionage and terrorism.

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Michigan’s former elections director discusses "the race factor" in Detroit for the 2020 presidential election.

Leslie T. Fenwick, the former dean emeritus of the Howard University School of Education and a professor of educational policy and leadership, has emerged as one of Joe Biden's cabinet finalists to lead the U.S. Department of Education. 

Abrams had a front row seat as she conducted roll call for 16 electors to cast their votes for President-elect Joe Biden.

A photo showing Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler smiling alongside a former Ku Klux Klan leader Chester Doles, who has a brutally racist history, has gone viral weeks ahead of her crucial Senate run-off race against the Rev. Raphael Warnock.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms turned down the chance to serve in President-elect Joe Biden's cabinet, one of the Atlanta mayor's advisers confirmed.

The news comes after voting rights activists again accused election officials of voter suppression, voicing concerns that lack of accessibility limits access for Black and Latino voters.

Former USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack's controversial firing of Shirley Sherrod in 2010 should preclude him from leading the agriculture agency under Joe Biden's administration, civil rights leaders and advocates say.

Michigan state Rep. Cynthia Johnson was removed from her committee assignments on Wednesday over a Facebook Live where she spoke out against racist threats she received online.