Mayor Eric Adams speaks during election campaign rally for Governor Kathy Hochul at BKLYN Studios in New York on November 5, 2022. (Shutterstock) By Hon Eric Adams Election Day is over. And though Americans did not speak with one voice, working-class voters sent a clear message: They are deeply concerned about the economy, crime and […]
New York, NY – September 7, 2020: Congressman Hakeem Jeffries speaks at US Senator Chuck Schumer and members of NY House delegation media briefing on 3rd avenue in Manhattan. (Shutterstock) By Sam Cabral, BBC News, Washington US lawmaker Hakeem Jeffries has formally launched a bid to succeed Nancy Pelosi as the Democratic leader in the […]
Poughkeepsie, NY – October 6, 2022: President Joe Biden Jr. delivers remarks at IBM facility. (Shutterstock) By Sir Ronald Sanders Democracy is at stake in the country that proclaims itself as the world’s bastion of democracy. That is the judgement of no less a person than the President of the United States of America (US), […]
Washington, D.C. | U.S.A. – Aug 28, 2021: March On for Voting Rights “Protect Our Vote!” (Shutterstock) By Holly Otterbein and Elena Schneider, Politico PHILADELPHIA — On a chilly afternoon last week, Pastor Melanie DeBouse stood on a small stage in a city park trying to fire up her neighbors, many of them Black, and […]
Kyiv, Ukraine – January 10, 2022: Girl with political banner “Say No To Putin” at winter street protest rally. By Sir Ronald Sanders “Every bullet, every bomb, every shell that hits a target in Ukraine, hits our pockets and our economies in Africa.” Those were the words of the President of Ghana, Akufo-Addo, at the […]
With thousands of absentee ballots yet to be counted, around 1,300 votes separated Goldman and Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou, who refused to concede until every vote is counted.
New York, NY – October 7, 2021: U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler attends the 2021 Hudson River Park Gala at Pier Sixty on Chelsea Piers. (Shutterstock) By Claudia Irizarry Aponte George Joseph and Stephon Johnson, THE CITY Fifteen-term U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler won the Democratic primary in a hotly contested race for Congress in Manhattan while […]
New York, NY – July 28, 2022: Vice President Kamala Harris announced the formation of the Economic Opportunity Coalition to invest in underserved communities at Restoration Plaza. (Shutterstock) By Sir Ronald Sanders The fight for the post of leader of the ruling Conservative Party in Britain and for the presidency of the United States is […]
London UK. 24th July 2019. Boris Johnson, U.K. prime minister, delivers a speech outside 10 Downing Street. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson, promise to take Britain out of the European Union by 31st (Shutterstock) By Brian Wheeler, BBC News Boris Johnson has defied the normal rules of politics for so long, it is hard to […]
New York, NY / USA – July 11th 2020: Former Mayor Bill De Blasio and first lady McCray participate in “Occupy the Corner” in Harlem with Inez Dickens, Gale Brewer, Hazel Dukes and others on gun violence. (Shutterstock) By Stephen Witt, Politics NY Thousands of Black and Hispanic small property owners in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant […]
Congressional and state seats have changed. Before this summer’s primary elections, find out how your old districts stack up with your new ones.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 31, 2020: People vote in the Brooklyn Museum during the 2020 Presidential election between President Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden. (Shutterstock) By Will Welch, Rachel Holliday Smith and Alyssa Katz, THE CITY After a chaotic redistricting process, New York’s political boundaries have finally been set for the 2022 election […]