A new study finds that the counties or areas of the country where slavery was most prevalent today vote Republican and continue to have the least progressive views on race.

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump‘s campaign was in crisis mode Friday evening after he was caught on a 2005 tape bragging about “making sexual advances toward a married woman, aggressively kissing and groping other women, and boasting that ‘when you’re a star they let you do it‘” reports The New York Times: The remarkable recording, unearthed […]

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There is a long evil history in the U.S. that involves validating and approving the access, acceptance, and achievements of others.

A Flint, Michigan pastor interrupted Donald Trump's stump speech at her historically Black church. The candidate had agreed to focus on the water crisis and its impact, but veered instead into Hillary bashing.

A week after Nykea Aldridge was caught in a deadly crossfire of gang violence while strolling her infant down the street on Chicago’s South Side, her cousin, NBA superstar Dwyane Wade appeared Friday on Good Morning America to discuss the tragedy. Wade, who recently signed with the Chicago Bulls, also seized the moment to discuss the ensuing social media outrage over a tweet by […]

With the general election less than 100 days away, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has once again thrown his party into turmoil, escalating a war of words with Muslim parents who spoke at the Democratic National Convention. So bad were Trump’s recent attacks against Khizr and Ghazala Khan, that Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain, “a respected figure on national […]

Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is fond of bragging about his great relationship with African-Americans, well, you know, “The Blacks.” Who could forget how he pointed out his “African-American over here” in June while speaking about a Black supporter in Phoenix, Arizona. And don’t forget his April 2011 comment “I have a great relationship with […]

An estimated 52 percent of Republican voters would have preferred someone else as their party's standard-bearer.

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Trump is expected to be officially nominated in July at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

After calling President Barack Obama "an animal" who has been trying to turn America into "just another country," a Republican U.S. Senate candidate is refusing to apologize.

Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz have upped the ante in what could serve as a reality television show instead a race for the most esteemed office in the world: President of the United States. The virtual sparring erupted Tuesday after Trump accused Cruz of using a G.Q. magazine picture of his wife, Melania, a former model, in an ad.