Donald Trump and his stunning rise as the GOP frontrunner in seeking the nomination for the 2016 presidency has puzzled some analysts and onlookers who have been critical of his abrasive antics. That brash tone that Trump has become notorious for has spread to his supporters, who clashed with Latino supporters who have gathered to […]
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson joined Roland Martin on TV One’s NewsOne Now to share his views on the 2016 race for the White House, the Black Lives Matter movement, the GOP’s outreach to African-American voters, Donald Trump, and more. While he agrees with the premise of Black Lives Matter, Carson told Martin he feels […]
A poll released Tuesday shows a large swath of Republicans voters believe President Obama is indeed Muslim and was born outside of the
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The 2016 presidential race is shaping out to be harder to predict by the day, even as Democratic Party front-runner Hilary Clinton is predicted by a number of analysts to win the nomination. In the crowded Republican Party candidacy field, the poll numbers tell one story but the Thursday’s face-to-face debate told another. The GOP debate took place […]
In her first national interview of the 2016 presidential race, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton dismissed polls that suggest Americans do not trust her, and seized the moment to attack Republican rivals on immigration reform. “People should and do trust me,” she told CNN‘s Brianna Keilar in the interview that aired Tuesday on The Situation Room […]
The massacre that took place Wednesday evening at a historic Black church in Charleston, South Carolina was reminiscent of what African-Americans went through during the Civil Rights Movement. The incident, which is being deemed a hate crime, brought attention to hate groups that exist within the area. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are 17 […]
Presidential hopeful Ben Carson placed another thorn in his campaign when he stated he was irritated by the comparisons between gay and civil rights, CNN reports. The GOP candidate spoke out on Wednesday during Fox News’ “Special Report.” Carson, who previously apologized for saying that being gay was a choice, said LGBT people haven’t faced the same […]
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for every American to automatically be registered to vote while calling out four potential GOP presidential rivals for being “scared of letting citizens have their say,” CNN reports. During a talk at the historically Black Texas Southern University, Clinton said she supports the idea of signing every […]
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert‘s alleged sexual abuse of a male student over 30 years ago when he was a high school teacher may not have been completely unknown to fellow congressional members, according to Politico. Former congressman Mel Watt, who is now head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, acknowledged on Tuesday that years ago […]
In an effort to gain an edge with voters of color over leading Democratic 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, one of her Republican opponents plans to use her husband’s record of putting “a generation of Black men in prison,” reports The Hill. Rand Paul, a freshman Republican senator from Kentucky, tells the online news site […]
A billboard with the visage of the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan was recently erected within sight of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL, where President Obama will be speaking today to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” reports the NY Daily News. Billboard honoring KKK founder set up by […]
