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Deval Patrick ends 2020 presidential bid
AP | President Jovenel Moïse said Friday that he is optimistic that negotiations with a coalition of his political opponents will succeed in forging a power-sharing...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire | In an effort to emphasize measurable policy change with tangible direct action, members of the Congressional Black Caucus will...
Booker drops out of presidential race
AP | Republican Daniel Cameron has been sworn in as the first African American in Kentucky history to serve as its attorney general. Cameron took the...
AP | Senator Kamala Harris told supporters on Tuesday that she was ending her bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. “I’ve taken stock and looked...
Bloomberg | Senator Cory Booker is calling for a US$100 billion investment in historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and other minority-serving institutions. In addition to...
By Kirsten West Savali Rep. Ayanna Pressley, unveiled a sweeping criminal justice reform resolution on Thursday that could begin dismantling a racist system that disproportionately targets,...
AP | The widow of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings has resigned as Maryland’s Democratic Party chair to run for her late husband’s congressional seat. Maya Rockeymoore...
AP | Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is considering making a late run for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to 2 people with knowledge of his...
AP | A former leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Kweisi Mfume, launched a bid to return to Congress Monday,...
AP | Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris spoke at a criminal justice forum at a historically black college after a group that honored President Donald Trump...
AP | The first black leader of South Africa’s largest opposition party resigned Wednesday in a blow to efforts to shed the liberal party’s image as...
AP | Maryland Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper’s son who rose to become the powerful chairman of one of the U.S. House committees leading an...
By David Malingha and Fred Ojambo Bobi Wine has garnered a huge following among Uganda’s youth Bloomberg | His life has been threatened and he’s been...
AP | Haiti’s president says he will serve out his term despite rising violence, poor economic performance and months of protests over unresolved allegations of corruption...
AP | Democrat Stacey Abrams, who vaulted onto the national political stage championing voting rights during an unsuccessful 2018 run for Georgia governor, announced on Tuesday...
YouGov | Michelle Obama has supplanted Angelina Jolie as the world’s most admired woman, according to YouGov’s annual study of which public figures the people of...
Reuters | Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris will unveil a plan on Friday to invest US$60 billion in historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) if elected,...
By David M. Drucker Rattled by her deft vivisection of Joe Biden at the last debate, Republicans wonder how Harris might do against a real villain...
AP | Kamala Harris can’t forget the older black woman she met in Iowa while campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama before the state’s 2008...
AP | Senator Kamala Harris said Wednesday that busing students should be considered by school districts trying to desegregate their locations – not the federal mandate...
AP | Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Kamala Harris picked up another endorsement Wednesday from a member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), where she is competing...
Reuters | U.S. Senator Cory Booker’s best hope of capturing the Democratic presidential nomination may be reassembling the coalition that propelled Barack Obama to the White...
Guyana’s incumbent president David Granger, has invited Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to meet with him to discuss the current political situation in Guyana resulting from the...
AP | Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is stepping up her campaign outreach to the black community. The California senator is seeking to mobilize students and...
AP | The Oklahoma Democratic Party has elected a Tulsa real estate agent as its new chairman, the first time an African American has been elected...
AP | Veteran Republican state Senator Jackie Winters, the first African American Republican elected to the Legislature, died at age 82 on Wednesday after a battle...
AP | Susan E. Rice, the former national security adviser and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has a book coming out this fall. “Tough Love”...
AP | Lori Lightfoot has taken the oath of office, becoming Chicago’s first black female and openly gay mayor. Lightfoot was inaugurated Monday morning at Chicago’s...
AP | Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker is proposing that all gun owners be licensed by the federal government, a process that would include an interview...
AP | She’s been called “Kerosene Maxine” and gaveled off the House floor for accusing Republican men of badgering women. She dismissed US President Donald Trump...
AP | Kamala Harris found her way back to the spotlight this week. The Democratic presidential candidate and California senator won praise from liberals for seemingly...
AP | Maryland lawmakers elected the state’s first black woman to be the state’s House speaker on Wednesday, a stunning turn of events after she had...
Ramaphosa has to win big to consolidate power in the ANC in order to reform the economy. When South Africans go to the polls on May...
AP | Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker released 10 years of tax returns Wednesday, showing his income plunged last year but he remained generous toward charity....
AP | A former federal prosecutor who has never held elected office was vying for Chicago mayor on Tuesday against a powerful official whose political career...
Guyana President David Granger has accepted the resignation of all government legislators who hold dual citizenship. A brief statement from the President’s Office said that the...
AFP | New French minister and government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye has spent almost 5 years at Emmanuel Macron’s side as his media adviser, earning a reputation...
The Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice has set May 10 to hear the appeal regarding the ruling of the Court of Appeal in Guyana...
AP | Haiti’s largest opposition groups have united in a campaign to push President Jovenel Moïse from office with nationwide protests aimed at paralyzing the country...
AP | Unless you are a Florida State University football fan, chances are you have never heard of the newest Democratic candidate for president — but...
AP | Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris announced Thursday the rollout of a slate of endorsements in South Carolina, including one of its longest-serving black lawmakers....
President Jovenel Moïse says he will soon begin the process of selecting a new prime minister for the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country even as Prime...
Six months after being sworn into office, the government of Prime Minister Jean-Henry Céant was forced out of office Monday after the Lower Chamber of Deputies...
AFP | Haiti’s Chamber of Deputies voted Monday to censure Jean-Henry Céant’s government, with a new prime minister set to be named soon. Of the 103...
AP | Cheri Beasley, North Carolina’s first African American female chief justice says she believes her elevation to the post brings “a lot of hope and...
AP | Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Friday that she became a prosecutor because she wanted to work from the inside to change a criminal...
Reuters | Ghana’s main opposition party has nominated former President John Mahama to challenge incumbent Nana Akufo-Addo in next year’s election, a party official said on...
AP | A former federal prosecutor and a county board leader will face each other in a runoff to become Chicago’s first black female mayor after...
Eight years after it was swept out of power, the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) headed by Andrew Fahie, has won the general election, winning 8 of...
AP | Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has said that he is in the final stages of deciding whether to seek the 2020 Democratic nomination...
Reuters | U.S. Senator Cory Booker made the nation’s complicated history with race relations and racial disparities a focal point at events in the key state...
Reuters | Nigerians will on February 16 choose between two septuagenarians to lead Africa’s largest democracy: President Muhammadu Buhari and former vice president Atiku Abubakar. The...
AP | Stacey Abrams will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer told reporters last...
The Black Economic Alliance PAC wants to help black Americans get work, wealth and wages, but members are still debating policy. More than a half-century...
AP | U.S. Senator Cory Booker on Friday declared his bid for the presidency in 2020 with a sweeping call to unite a deeply polarized nation...
AP | Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris says she’s the kind of leader who can unify the country and would fight for the needs of all...
The Guyana government is arguing that there was a miscalculation of the majority of all elected members of parliament as required by the country’s constitution for...
AP | Kamala Harris, a first-term senator and former California attorney general known for her rigorous questioning of President Donald Trump’s nominees, entered the Democratic presidential...
The Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Irwin LaRocque, has said the ongoing legal and political situation in Guyana shows that the “democratic process is...
By Renae Merle | The Washington Post For the past 2 years, Congress woman Maxine Waters has been best known for her role as a foe...
President Jovenel Moïse says 2019 must result in Haiti achieving “credible, honest, democratic and transparent elections” and that his administration will provide the necessary resources to...
AP | As she nears a decision on whether to seek the presidency, Senator Kamala Harris is taking on what could be a hurdle in a...
AP | Letitia James has assumed the office of New York’s attorney general, becoming the first black woman to hold office in the state. The 60-year-old...
The St. Kitts and Nevis government last week easily brushed aside a motion of no confidence filed against it by Opposition leader Denzil Douglas, who claimed...
(BlackmansStreet.Today) – U.S. Representative Karen Bass of California is expected to lead a much larger Congressional Black Caucus when the 116th Congress begins January 3rd. Caucus...
AP | Former Massachusetts governor, Deval Patrick, announced to a small tight-knit group of his strongest supporters Tuesday that he will not run for president. A...
Two of Madagascar’s former presidents are set to face each other in a runoff election next month after failing to win a clear majority in a...
AP | Stacey Abrams’ Democratic campaign filed a federal lawsuit Sunday asking a judge to delay vote certifications in Georgia unsettled governor’s race by one day...
(Press Release) – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the foremost civil rights organization in the United States, ramps up its civic...
(Press Release) – In less than 2 weeks, Americans from coast to coast will take part in one of the most important elections of a generation,...
(Reuters) – Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum pulled off a stunning upset in the Democratic primary for Florida governor with an unapologetically liberal agenda and grassroots campaign....
Verla De Peiza has been elected leader of the opposition Democratic Labor Party (DLP) succeeding former prime minister Freundel Stuart – who stepped down his and...
CNN | A new political group called the Black Economic Alliance publicly launched Monday with US$3.5 million raised for this year’s midterm elections and plans to...
Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister, Keith Rowley has indicated that he intends to continue leading his ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) party into the next general...
AFP | Zimbabwe’s incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa has only a narrow lead over opposition leader Nelson Chamisa ahead of the country’s landmark elections on July 30,...
(Reuters) – Barack Obama said on Tuesday the world should resist cynicism over the rise of strongmen, in an apparent reference to populist leaders who hold...
AFP | Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) President Alassane Ouattara on Monday made clear he will not seek re-election in 2020 as he launched a new umbrella...
Former U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Kenya Sunday, the country of his father’s birth, his first visit to this East African country since leaving office....
AFP | Lawmakers in Haiti will vote Saturday on the fate of embattled Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant, who has refused to resign in the wake...
(BlackPRWire) – In the 173 years of Florida becoming the “Sunshine State” of America, never once has an African American male or female been elected as...
AP | London Breed is set to make history Wednesday as the first African American female mayor of San Francisco when she is sworn into office...
AP | Former National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) President Ben Jealous won the Maryland Democratic nomination for governor on Tuesday, giving him...
AP | Georgia Democrats gave Atlanta lawyer Stacey Abrams a chance to become the first black female governor in American history on a primary night that...
Barbadians go to the polls this Thursday to elect a new government amid growing economic concerns and the possibility of choosing a woman for the first...
Press Release | Columbia, South Carolina Mayor Steve Benjamin became the 76th President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) in an inaugural ceremony on Monday,...
Leader of the main opposition Barbados Labor Party (BLP), Mia Mottley says her party will tackle several social issues if elected to govern the country in...
(Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will seek another term in elections in February 2019, his office said on Monday, ending months of speculation about his...
(Reuters) – Zambia’s main opposition party filed a motion on Thursday seeking the impeachment of President Edgar Lungu, accusing him of constitutional breaches, the presidency said...
(Reuters) – Sierra Leone’s election to pick outgoing President Ernest Bai Koroma’s successor will head to a run-off later this month after neither of the 2...
Antigua & Barbuda will hold parliamentary elections on March 21, according to an announcement made by Prime Minister Gaston Browne during a party rally late Saturday....
(Reuters) – South Africa’s new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, is expected to give more details about how he plans to tackle corruption and boost economic growth today,...
A Court of Appeal judge, Paula Mae Weekes, has been nominated as Trinidad & Tobago’s choice to replace Antony Carmona as president of the twin-island republic....
Keisha Lance Bottoms is set to be sworn in today as the 60th mayor of Atlanta. Bottoms won a special run-off election in December over Mary...
St. Lucia’s Governor General Dame Pearlette Louisy has announced that she will be leaving office at the end of the year. The Governor General made the...
(Reuters) – The number of consumers who signed up for 2018 Obamacare health insurance surpassed the 1 million mark in the second-to-last week of enrollment, the...
The vote tallies for the runoff election in the Atlanta mayoral race are official, but with a razor-thin margin remaining, the trailing candidate said Monday that...
Ernest Finney, South Carolina’s first African American chief justice, died Sunday. He was 86. South Carolina Deputy Supreme Court Clerk Brenda Shealy confirmed Finney’s death but...
AP | Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in for a second term Tuesday in what some hoped would be the end of months of election...
Former Trinidad & Tobago prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, has been re-elected as the leader of the opposition United National Congress (UNC) party after her main challenger...
LaToya Cantrell, a City Council member who first gained a political following as she worked to help her hard-hit neighborhood recover from Hurricane Katrina, won a...
Democratic party candidates claim big victories in races up and down the ballot and across the United States. A nearly 30-year veteran of local government was...
Reuters | After years of recovery under Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping bring peace after civil war turned her country...
Woodfin becomes city’s youngest Mayor since 1893 (AP) | Birmingham – Alabama’s most populous city has a new mayor. Voters on Tuesday elected challenger Randall Woodfin...
Washington, D.C. (AP) – The U.S. Senate’s lone black Republican urged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to avoid inflammatory racial rhetoric such as his statement blaming...
Togo’s opposition parties on Thursday said they had shelved a planned meeting to discuss constitutional reform and instead called for the country’s biggest ever anti-government protests....
South Africa’s opposition called on Wednesday for parliament to be dissolved and a national election held, a day after its no-confidence motion in President Jacob Zuma...
South Africa President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday survived a parliamentary vote of no confidence, as ruling African National Congress (ANC) party lawmakers stuck by their leader...
Democratic U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters has been added to the list of honorees at BET’s 2017 Black Girls Rock Awards. BET said the congresswoman will earn...
South Africa’s main opposition party earlier this week called on voters to “punish” the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in a final push for support...
A U.S. Senate led by Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans dealt the president a harsh blow on Friday, failing to move ahead with a major campaign promise...
Maya Rockeymoore has revealed that she is “strongly considering” running for governor of Maryland. Rockeymoore, a Democrat, told reporters in an interview, that the health care...
The race for Kenya’s presidency between incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga has tightened less than 3 weeks before election day, with polls showing...
Voters are headed to the polls in Bermuda today in a contest that is pitting the ruling One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) against the opposition Progressive Labor...
Two more U.S. Republican senators announced their opposition Monday to their party’s efforts to “revamp Obamacare”, derailing their form of legislation in its current form and...
The newly elected Minnis administration government will not be going forward with the energy reform proposal that was drafted by the recently defeated Christie administration and...
The main opposition United National Congress (UNC) party has announced plans to file a no-confidence motion against House Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George following a heated sitting of...
Former Prime Minister ends successful political career Former Jamaican Prime Minister and People’s National Party (PNP) Leader Portia Simpson-Miller will be stepping down from the island-nation’s...
Aja Brown, was last week re-elected Mayor of Compton, California for a second term. The 35-year-old Brown, who was first elected mayor in 2013 at age...
Following a weekend of negotiations – the result of an inconclusive outcome to last week’s general elections in the Cayman Islands, longtime political rivals Alden McLaughlin...
Abrams could become the first African American woman governor in the United States Georgia House minority leader Stacey Abrams, earlier this month filed paperwork to run...
Hubert Minnis, was sworn in Thursday as prime minister of the Bahamas, following his Free National Movement (FNM) party’s landslide victory in the general election held...
Former U.S. President Barack Obama, in his first public comments about the ongoing debate over his signature health care plan, implored members of Congress on Sunday...
The Partido Alternativa Real (PAR) led by its new political leader Eugene Rhuggenaath was Saturday declared the biggest winner following the preliminary count of the general...
Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie announced earlier last week that the general election will be held on May 10. Christie’s announcement came minutes after Commissioner of...
South Africa’s top court said on Tuesday it will consider whether a motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma should be taken by secret ballot....
The main opposition party in the Bahamas – the Free National Movement (FNM) – says it regards the upcoming general election as a “referendum on the...
South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma faces a confrontation with senior members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the country’s currency – the rand –...
The Congressional Black Caucus plans to push President Donald Trump on the changing priorities of the Justice Department’s monitoring of police departments and cuts in education...
Urges citizens to heal divisions Haiti’s new prime minister on Tuesday urged this deeply polarized country to bridge divisions, and he vowed to bring steady advances...
Haiti on Monday announced 6 days of official mourning for the late former president René Préval, who died Friday aged 74, at his home of cardiac...
Lafontant becomes the no.2 in the Moïse administration Jack Guy Lafontant – a professor of gastroenterology at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the State...
Dominica’s Irwin LaRocque was last week voted to a second term of office as the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. Current CARICOM Chair, Belizian...
New Hampshire’s Ray Buckley dropped out of the race for Democratic National Committee chair Saturday, throwing his support behind Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison. Buckley’s announcement comes...
The Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Guyana’s president David Granger, has said that the regional integration grouping welcomes the transfer of power in Haiti after...
Haiti held a final round of legislative contests as well as long-overdue municipal elections on Sunday, closing a repeatedly derailed electoral cycle that started in 2015....
Now an elder statesman, U.S. President Barack Obama is returning to Chicago where he launched his unlikely political career to tell Americans not to lose faith...
Ofori-Atta’s nomination li Ghana’s new President Nana Akufo-Addo is likely to name investment banker Ken Ofori-Atta as finance minister, 3 sources close to the presidency told...
(Press Release) – A week after statewide demonstrations and a sit-in arrest at the offices of U.S. Attorney General nominee and Senator Jeff Sessions, NAACP President...
Akufo-Addo to be inaugurated president on Saturday Ghana’s outgoing president John Mahama urged his compatriots to get behind his successor, Nana Akufo-Addo, during his farewell address...
Vowing to protect California’s values and constitutional guarantees, the state Legislature has selected former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to serve as outside counsel to advise...
Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Joseph Kabila will step down after elections held before the end of 2017, under a deal struck by political parties on...
Electoral confusion discouraged investment Haiti’s economy expanded by only 1.4 percent this year, according to official figures released Wednesday, as the country’s electoral confusion has discouraged...
Rufus Ewing – former Premier of Turks & Caicos – has resigned as leader of the Progressive National Party (PNP), following the loss of his own...
U.S. President Barack Obama says one of his missions after leaving office will be to develop a new generation of leaders on issues such as climate...
The Opposition People`s Democratic Movement (PDM) led by Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson seems like the clear winner of Thursday’s election in the Turks & Caicos Islands, according to...
U.S. President Barack Obama will be out of office when the 3rd anniversary of the public-private initiative he started to help create educational and other opportunities...
Voters in Turks & Caicos are electing a new government on Thursday. While the outgoing Progressive National Party (PNP) government of Premier Rufus Ewing boasts of...
It will be one of the most watched mid-life career changes in recent memory. What does Michelle Obama do next? After 8 years as a high-profile...
Tight race expected in Ghana Voters in Ghana began lining up at polling stations before dawn on Wednesday to elect their next president as the West...
The African Union (AU), through its African Union Leadership Academy (AULA) will convene the first ever leadership debate for candidates contesting for the position of the...
Two old foes are stepping back into the ring to fight in Ghana’s hotly contested presidential election on December 7. This is the second time that...
Louisiana Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond has been elected chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). The 3-term lawmaker will take over for the current chairman, Rep....
Moïse wins presidential election with comfortable margin Haitians have chosen businessman Jovenel Moïse as their next president. According to preliminary results, Moïse won 55.6 percent of...
As U.S. President Barack Obama readies to leave the White House, he continues to score high marks on his 2-term record According to the latest poll,...
Zuma under increasing pressure to step down South African President Jacob Zuma is currently meeting with African National Congress (ANC) veterans, who have called on him...
Haitians go to the polls to elect a president this weekend despite the fact that much of the southwest is still in ruins from Hurricane Matthew,...
Michael Tubbs was earlier this week elected Mayor of Stockton, California. The 26-year-old Tubbs becomes the city’s first African American mayor, and the youngest candidate elected...
Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has hinted at the possibility of a postponement of the November 20 presidential and legislative elections, if the authorities are not...
Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley, on Monday fired 2 senior Cabinet ministers in the first major reshuffle of his administration since the People’s National...
The Obama years have shaken up America’s role in the world History will remember Barack Obama as America’s first black president. But his years in office...
Voters in Grenada will no longer be voting to make changes to the country’s constitution on October 27, but will do so on November 24. The...
Keeping vulnerable males out of trouble is an “American Challenge” Promoting his initiative for boys and young men of color, U.S. President Barack Obama earlier this...
Haiti’s elections officials postponed Sunday’s re-run presidential and legislative elections for the second time this year, saying they had yet to assess the extent of damage...
The presidential election slated for October 9 in Haiti will be important to easing poverty, according to acting President Jocelerme Privert. “The credibility of the upcoming...
Critics suggest Aristide will govern behind the scenes in the event of Narcisse victory Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has leaped from behind the scenes to take...
National Union of Mineworkers backs Ramaphosa for president South Africa’s deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s chances of becoming the next leader of the country got a boost...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fainted on stage at an election rally while campaigning for his Lavalas party’s presidential candidate, Maryse Narcisse, after his blood sugar...
U.S. President Barack Obama said Saturday night he will take it as a “personal insult” if the African American community fails to turn out for the...
President Obama Will Deliver Remarks at the Opening Dedication of the Museum The Smithsonian Institution says President Barack Obama will speak at the opening ceremony of...
Move signals a thaw in relations between both countries. Haiti has agreed to lift the restrictions on overland imports of several products from the neighboring Dominican...
Gabon’s Ali Bongo has been re-elected as President for a second term, in a closely contested presidential election according to official results released on Wednesday. Bongo...
Serena Williams won despite a shoulder injury. If this is how Serena Williams serves when she can’t practice properly because her right shoulder is sore, watch...
Aristide urges voters in Haiti to back Maryse Narcisse for president Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide made a rare public appearance to support Maryse Narcisse –...
A sluggish economy in Zambia could tilt the election in the opposition’s favor. Zambia’s electoral commission said it would announce initial results on Friday in a...
By Dennis Matanda, Ryan Elcock & Emmanuel Musaazi | The Habari Network Part 1 of a commentary as to why Donald Trump will lose in November...
Interim Haiti President Jocelerme Privert insists country cannot miss another elections deadline. Haiti’s interim president Jolocerme Privert in a decree, has urged the country’s 5.8 million...
People in the small African islands nation of Sao Tome and Principe voted Sunday for a new president, with the incumbent facing 4 challengers. The citizens...
Former St. Lucia Prime Minister Kenny Anthony has broken his silence on why he resigned as political leader of the St. Lucia Labor Party (SLP). Following...
The 37th Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government summit has kicked off Monday July 4th in Georgetown, Guyana. Climate change, energy independence, indebtedness, protecting migrant remittances...
Almost 8 years after electing a black president, vast majorities of blacks and Hispanics think President Barack Obama at least tried to make race relations in...
U.S. Congressman John Lewis last night led congressional Democrats in an all all-night sit-in into Thursday morning to push for gun control legislation after the gay...
Haiti’s Lower Chamber of Deputies and senators are debating on whether to extend the term of interim President Jocelerme Privert. Chamber President Cholzer Chancy, acting as...
U.S. President Barack Obama has formally endorsed Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House on Thursday, praising his former secretary of state’s experience and grit, and...
U.S. Congressman John Lewis will be honored with Philadelphia’s Liberty Medal for his dedication to civil rights. In announcing the award late last week, National Constitution...
Voters in the Bahamas have chosen to reject 4 pieces of legislation that the authorities said would have allowed for an amendment to the country’s constitution...
Haitian electoral officials announced Monday that a new presidential election will be held in October with additional safeguards in place to avoid the widespread fraud that...
Haiti’s interim President, Jocelerme Privert, says the electoral process will be re-launched this week with the publication of the electoral timetable by the Provisional Electoral Council...
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has revealed that plans are on track for a fixed election date. Holness, on the campaign trail leading up to the...
By Stephen Lande and Dennis Matanda Washington, DC | May 18, 2016 United States Trade Representative Ambassador Froman should be lauded for his recent suggestion at...
U.S. President Barack Obama told graduating students at Rutgers University Sunday that “ignorance is not a virtue” in politics, as he continued to attack Donald Trump...
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, in a gutsy decision, is engaging states in helping prisoners with the transition to society. One important suggestion: to let prisoners...
Americans as a whole are probably better off than they would have been in the absence of U.S. President Barack Obama’s efforts. His economic track record...
U.S. civil rights activist DeRay McKesson, who was instrumental in the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement against police violence, lost his bid Tuesday night...
Demonstrators marched in Haiti’s capital calling for resolution to a protracted impasse that has repeatedly postponed a run-off presidential election. The demonstrators carried placards emblazoned with...
Lizette Parker, the first African American woman to be elected mayor of Teaneck, in Bergen County, New Jersey, died on Sunday after being hospitalized for “respiratory...
African National Congress (ANC) leaders in South Africa’s Gauteng province, on Tuesday said the scandal over President Jacob Zuma’s failure to repay taxpayers’ money spent on...
The Opposition Barbados Labor Party (BLP) has revealed that it will file a motion of no confidence against the Freundel Stuart administration. BLP leader Mia Mottley...