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Prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson on Tuesday lost a bid to become the 50th mayor of Baltimore, receiving only 2 percent of the vote in his effort to win the Democratic nomination. The Baltimore Sun reports that Mckesson was among 12 contenders–including former mayor Sheila Dixon and Nick Mosby, who is married to Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn […]
Longtime Philadelphia Rep. Chaka Fattah became the first person to lose the House primary on Tuesday night. Rep. Fattah’s legal troubles may have hindered him from clinching the victory against Rep. Dwight Evans. Evans was the front-runner with 43 percent of the votes; Fattah trailed behind with 36 percent, reports Politico. Last year, Rep. Fattah was indicted […]
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 27 8:30 AM EST Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton inched closer to clinching their party’s nomination Tuesday after key wins in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. From CBS News: For much of this primary season one argument for Trump’s success was that he was winning primaries without gaining a majority of the […]
Federal investigators visited Wake County, N.C. to investigate complaints about racial bias in the school district. This is part of an ongoing civil rights probe.
President Barack Obama offered mixed praise to activists in the powerful Black Lives Matter movement during a speech Saturday to an audience of young people, according to The New York Times.
St. Louis school officials announced a ban against automatic out-of-school suspensions of students in preschool through second grade. This move follows a report that said Missouri leads the nation in suspending Black elementary school students.
In an effort to block Donald Trump from garnering the 1,237 delegates necessary to clinch the Republican presidential nomination, rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich announced plans Sunday to join forces, CNN reports.
As voters head to polls in five primary states Tuesday, NewsOne decided to take a look at exit poll data from New York's primary race on Tuesday to determine just who voted for Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, and what it likely means for the rest of the election season.
The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution proposes changes that could help close the achievement gap. They call for efficient use of federal resources and tech in the classroom.
After The New York City Board of Elections removed more than 125,000 Democratic voters from the rolls during one of the most important presidential primaries this season, officials have pledged a probe, reports The New York Times.
In 2008, large swaths of mostly Black communities in New York City, particularly in Brooklyn, helped push Obama to victory, reports The New York Times.
