#black-voters

#black-voters

Georgians on Tuesday will decide whether Senator Raphael Warnock, the Democratic incumbent, or Herschel Walker, the retired football star nominated by Republicans, will represent them in the Senate next year.The coda to the midterm elections comes after an intense, monthlong runoff contest in which Democrats spent nearly twice as much as the G.O.P.

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Evan Milligan, center, plaintiff in an Alabama redistricting case, speaks following Supreme Court oral arguments on Oct. 4, 2022.The court on Thursday ruled in favor of Milligan in the case, ordering the creation of a second Alabama congressional district with a large Black population.Patrick Semansky/AP MONTGOMERY, Ala.

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Just months ago, few Chicagoans would have expected Paul Vallas or Brandon Johnson to best incumbent Lori Lightfoot and survive to the mayoral runoff election.But before voters decide which of the two upstarts will claim City Hall, each candidate faces a steep challenge courting the roughly 45% of the electorate who preferred someone else in Tuesday's first round of balloting.

Jasmine Brown is still in medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, but she has already published a book about medicine: Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century.It's the culmination of research she started while a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford.

ATLANTA  While Georgia's Black faith leaders walk the line between their religious and political convictions in the last few days before the midterms, some have turned sharply to amplifying their criticisms of the state's Republican Senate candidate, Herschel Walker.Religious leaders have long been influential voices in their communities and play an important role in mobilizing Black voters, a crucial Democratic constituency.

Kristin Richardson Jordan, a democratic socialist who is among the most left-leaning elected officials in New York City, announced on Tuesday that she was abruptly withdrawing from next month's Democratic primary and would not seek re-election to the City Council.Her upset victory in a Harlem Council race by 100 votes just two years ago was seen by some as a watershed moment for the city's ascendant progressive movement, a sign that voters could accept a politician whose views included abolishing the Police Department.

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether a congressional voting district in South Carolina should be restored after a lower court struck it down as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.A unanimous three-judge panel of the Federal District Court in Columbia, S.C., ruled in January that the state's First Congressional District, drawn after the 2020 census, violated the Constitution by making race the predominant factor.

Chicago voters are turning out.A little more than a week away from the Feb. 28 municipal election, that's a bright oasis in these democracy-challenged times.In this year's elections for Chicago's top city and aldermanic offices, the early vote, mail-in and in-person, is surpassing previous elections.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot voted for herself Monday afternoon for a second term, then criticized rival Paul Vallas for telling crowds that his campaign for mayor is about "taking our city back," which she called "the ultimate dog whistle.""He's saying in certain audiences that we have to take our city back.

In a potential break for Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Ald.Tom Tunney will not challenge her in the 2023 election, according to multiple sources.Tunney, who represents Lakeview and Wrigleyville in the City Council and owns Ann Sather restaurant, had been mulling a run for weeks and posed a potentially formidable threat to Lightfoot as his candidacy could've divided up her original base of support on the North Side.

The Associated Press has declared Democrat Jonathan Jackson the winner in the 1st Congressional District race, filling the seat of longtime incumbent U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, who chose not to run again.The son of famed civil right activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jackson on the campaign trail argued he wouldn't "be a regular freshman congressperson," due to the relationships he's developed with sitting House members while working around the nation on voter drives for his father's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.

U.S. Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia took two key steps toward announcing a campaign for Chicago mayor this week, amending his campaign committee to support a City Hall run and filing an economic disclosure statement as he continues weighing a challenge to Mayor Lori Lightfoot.The moves come after Garcia conducted a poll that shows him beating Lightfoot, whose candidacy he supported in 2019.

Black-led businesses could be given more support to procure lucrative government contracts by a future Labour government as the party refines its offer to ethnic minority voters ahead of the next election.Labour's race equality task force, led by Baroness Doreen Lawrence, hopes to ensure that black-led groups get the chance to access a fair share of the billions of pounds paid out each year through government contracts, according to The Voice newspaper.

Democrats are poised to shake up the way in which they nominate presidential candidates, after Joe Biden said the primary process should better represent the party's non-white voters.Biden has reportedly told Democrats that Iowa, the state that has led off the Democratic voting calendar since 1976, should be moved down the calendar, with South Carolina instead going first.

Politics "Make no mistake ... our primary will continue to be First in the Nation."President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee are planning to shake up their party's longstanding order of presidential primary elections and, naturally, Granite Staters are not happy.The plan, unveiled Thursday, would boot the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary as Democrats' first nominating contests and install the South Carolina primary at the head of the pack, followed by Nevada and New Hampshire, Georgia, and Michigan, according to the New York Times.

If you watch a political campaign ad, listen to television pundits, or look at newspaper headlines, it's clear that climate change has once again fallen off the political radar heading into this November's midterm elections.In a way, this makes sense.The Supreme Court decision eliminating a constitutional right to abortion, rampant inflation, and concerns over crime all make for more obvious political talking points.