By Jennifer Stavros, BitchMedia On August 18, Donald Trump announced his decision to pardon suffragist Susan B. Anthony in a shallow attempt to honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave white women the right to vote. “Today, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Grant of Clemency (Full Pardon) posthumously to Susan […]
Getting the word out about the census in Corona, Queens, Aug. 26, 2020. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Rachel Holliday-smith, THE CITY The first responders to the non-responders have only a month left. After a historically fraught census season marked by budget woes, political tussling over a citizenship question, a last-minute timeline cut, and a pandemic, New York’s best hope […]
By Klaus W. Larres, The Conversation Even without a flashy virtual Democratic National Convention to formally introduce his presidential campaign, Joe Biden would be well known worldwide. He was U.S. President Barack Obama’s second-in-command for eight years and sat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for decades, chairing it for several years. Yet for all Biden’s foreign policy […]
Silence is complicity. There is too much at stake this year to be silent. We MUST participate in our democracy. We MUST demand that our voices are heard. And that means WE MUST VOTE. Voting is our constitutional right, and it’s also our power as We The People. It is how we take back our […]
By BBC Protests have erupted in the US state of Wisconsin after police shot a black man many times while responding to what they said was a domestic incident. The man, identified as Jacob Blake, was taken to hospital for surgery and is now in intensive care, his family said. Video posted online appears to […]
Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president on Aug. 20 during the final night of the Democratic National Convention. The coronavirus pandemic upended both parties’ traditional conventions.
Watch as Sen. Kamala Harris speaks at the 2020 Democratic National Convention to accept the nomination as Vice President. She reflected on how influential her mother was and what Joe Biden and her can accomplish together.
Former President Barack Obama gave his DNC speech from the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. Obama stressed Joe Biden’s qualifications and called out President Trump for “treating the presidency” like “one more reality show.”
Former First Lady Michelle Obama asks voters to “vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it” and says Trump “is the wrong president for our country” during her speech at the DNC.
‘The future of our democracy is at stake. The future of our economy is at stake. The future of our planet is at stake. We must come together’ — Sen. Bernie Sanders called for party unity in his address at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.