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Nathan Barksdale, the Baltimore drug lord and inspiration behind HBO's hit series The Wire, has died.

New Hampshire voters will make their choice in the first-in-the-nation primary election Tuesday in an effort to narrow the field of presidential candidates for the 2016 race.

“I admire Rick Snyder for stepping up right now. He’s going to the challenge, and he’s fired people and accepted responsibility to fix this."

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"I can't recall the last time candidates were afraid to criticize the frontrunner. Afraid to criticize him on policy," Martin explained to the panel.

Sadly, the Democrats, even with a mention of the Black Lives Matter Network, fell short. The concerns of millions of Black Americans were all but dismissed in the first debate, indicating that even the left needs a crash course on how to gain the Black vote.

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GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush claims he would not reinstate Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act if he were to be elected president.

While addressing a crowd in South Carolina Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said it was possible to garner more African-American votes by speaking words about “hope” – not “free stuff.” Bush’s comments were in response to a White man who inquired how the former Florida governor planned on gaining the Black vote, The New York Times reports. “Our […]

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Vying for the spotlight in a crowded field of Republican presidential candidates, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Tuesday appeared to throw a barb at the democratic notion of multiculturalism. CNN says Bush, a professed policy wonk who tends to use nuanced language, was referring to “multicultural” in the literal sense, meaning “a social model […]

As the 2016 presidential race kicks into high-gear we decided to get in the groove by helping candidates pick their campaign theme songs.

Donald Trump and Ben Carson gave lackadaisical performances at the debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California.

Although African-Americans have traditionally shunned the Republican Party because of policies that negatively impact the community, debates are important venues for voters to gauge where presidential hopefuls stand on important issues like restrictive voter ID laws, and economic and social policies. While those issues may not be on the table for tonight’s CNN debate (8 […]