The Essence Magazine Festival Is Now Apparently a Mandatory Campaign Stop Ahead of 2020
Kamala Harris on stage at the 25th annual Essence Festival.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)/Associated Press For 25 years, Essence Magazine’s annual New Orleans music festival has been a premiere destination for black women who want to take in some culture and maybe go on a girl’s trip. This year, the festival also played host to the Democratic…
Joe Biden Thought His Presidential Debate Pain Was Over. Booker and Castro Have Different Plans.
mpi04/MediaPunch/AP Sen. Kamala Harris’ successful rebuke of Joe Biden’s past opposition to federally mandated busing to desegregate schools has also opened the door to attacks from his other rivals, as they continue to zero in on his defenses of problematic past stances. While many Democrats may be willing to forgive Biden’s past positions, namely his…
Julián Castro Labels Donald Trump Jr. a “Coward” For Racist Kamala Harris Attack
During last Thursday’s televised Democratic debate, the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., shared—then deleted—a tweet saying Sen. Kamala Harris wasn’t black enough to understand the problems faced by black Americans, provoking a fierce, unified backlash from Harris’s fellow presidential candidates. “Kamala Harris is implying she is descended from American Black Slaves,” alt-wing identity Ali…
How Kamala Harris Got Her Groove Back
MediaPunch/AP It hasn’t been an easy spring for the Kamala Harris campaign. The January launch was promising: a massive, 30,000-person rally in her hometown of Oakland; moving spirituals from the Oakland interfaith gospel choir and a performance by a samba funk band; more than a million in donations in 24 hours. A video announcement several days…
Joe Biden’s Response to Kamala Harris on Busing Is Going to Haunt His Campaign
Kamala Harris wasn’t going to miss her chance. After a back-and-forth over police shootings of African-American men midway through Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate, NBC moderator Chuck Todd was preparing to change the subject when the California senator interjected. Harris, the only black candidate on the stage, started talking about growing up in the Bay Area…
Democratic Candidates Seem Pretty Confused About Medicare for All
Cory Booker speaks at a 2017 news conference in supporter of Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill.Andrew Harnik/AP The lead author of the House of Representatives’ Medicare for All bill has been reaching out to Democratic presidential campaigns in an effort to remedy what she views as misrepresentations of the legislation by some of the…