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Rock the Vote San Diego: Doing What it Takes to Get Millennials to the Polls

On Sunday, October 21, Indivisible WATU in partnership with Rock the Vote© held a free non-partisan event to register and mobilize millennial voters for the upcoming midterm elections. Today, October 22, is the last day to register to vote in California. Indivisible WATU a political advocacy group (WATU meaning “people” in Swahili), in association with Be The […]

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Photo: Maxine Waters Praises Tucson NAACP For its Strength

Special Honoree Ms. Kiana Adams-Baker (Red dress holding plaque) poses with friends, family and councilwoman Maxine Waters. Photo: Joe Jackson/NAACP (Tucson, AZ) Congresswoman Maxine Waters spoke to a conference room filled with dignitaries, honorees, guests and members of the community at Desert Diamond Entertainment Center in Tucson, Arizona at the invitation of the NAACP Tucson Branch

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Ayanna Pressley Positioned to Become first Black Woman to represent Massachusetts in Congress

  Ayanna Pressley is positioned to become the first African-American woman elected to the US Congress from Massachusetts, following a primary upset defeating incumbent, Michael Capuano. It looks like change is on the way,” said Pressley at her campaign party. “I am so humbled to be standing here before you tonight victorious.” The 44 year-old

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2016 Connecticut Teacher of the Year on Track to Make History as the States First Black Democrat in Congress

Jahana Hayes, a 2016 National Teacher of the Year recipient, won Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District, is on track to become the state’s first black Democrat in congress.  After soundly beating Simsbury First Selectman Mary Glassman, a two-time candidate for lieutenant governor, she will face Republican Manny Santos, former mayor of Meriden,

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Stacey Abrams wins the Democratic nomination for governor in Georgia

Democratic candidate for governor Stacey Abrams has won Tuesday night’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, the party’s nomination to govern the state of Georgia. According to the Associated Press, Abrams takes at least 74% of the vote over Stacey Evans. Abrams will face whoever wins the Republican ticket in November. Would you believe not a single Black woman

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Netflix Forming Storytelling Partnership With Barack and Michelle Obama

  According to a press release from Netflix, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have entered into a multi-year agreement to produce films and series with Netflix, the world’s leading internet entertainment service. The Obamas will produce a diverse mix of content, including the potential for scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries and features. These

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