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Kamala Harris' deep roots in the HBCU community could help her reach deep into the 2020 presidential primaries.

Twitter drags a congressman who for forgetting about slavery.

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Texas Rep. Will Hurd poked a hole in the president’s shaky assertion that there was an immigration crisis.

Sen. Tim Scott can't bring himself to call for racist Rep. Steve King to resign.

Commissioner Annabelle Lima-Taub has vowed never to apologize.

King is an "unrepentant" racist, Rep. Bobby Rush says.

The president’s announcement that he would nominate William Barr to be the next attorney general was a nod to both the past and future of criminal justice reform.

A new profile on the First Lady highlights her life before 45.

After treating Black people as a political afterthought for the first two years of his borderline illegitimate presidency, Donald Trump has now tried (and failed) twice to appeal to African-Americans when it comes to his racist immigration policies.