For months, Florida Congressman Byron Donalds has been seen on cable news defending Donald Trump. There have even been times when Rep. Donalds has been called out for misrepresenting or glossing over many of Trump’s assertions that “crime is on the rise in the United States and increasing because of illegal immigration. “You’re lying. You’re lying, Congressman,” exclaimed CNN political analyst Keith Boykin during an episode of Abby Phillip’s show News Night on Oct. 1 on the question of crime. “It’s true, I’m not lying,” Donald shot back. The moment was just one of many times the top Trump surrogate…
Author: Lauren Victoria Burke
More than a week after a debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, one fact remains: Not one member of the 60 member Congressional Black Caucus, the largest in history, has announced that they want President Biden to step aside as the presumptive Democratic nominee for the 2024 presidential race. Even after the news that several senior members of the U.S. House are saying privately that Biden should step aside, no members of the Congressional Black Caucus are part of the group critical of the President. A zoom meeting called by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries on…
One of the last living legends of the American Civil Rights Movement that fought against violence and injustice on behalf of Black Americans, Rev. James Lawson, Jr., has died in Los Angeles. The reported cause was cardiac arrest. Lawson was a legendary associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a teacher, strategist and associate alongside all the major figures of the American Civil Rights Movement from King to Ralph Abernathy and James L. Farmer Jr. to John Lewis, Roy Wilkins and Bayard Rustin. Lawson would become an indispensable architect in the fight for justice for Black citizens in America. Lawson’s…