Social media users recently flooded platforms with unfounded rumors about Haitian immigrants in a small Ohio town. The immigrants are feasting on neighborhood pets, as well as ducks and geese at local parks, the social media posts said. But a city spokesperson told PolitiFact there are no credible reports this is happening. A Sept. 6 Facebook […]
Kamala Harris
Posted inPolitics & Policy
10 Questions Capital B Readers Have for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
There is a lot at risk for our communities in the 2024 presidential election, from access to the ballot box to reproductive justice to financial support for Black farmers. Borrowing a page from their Republican rivals’ book, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have framed the contest as a […]
Posted inElections, Politics & Policy, Rural Issues
Georgia Residents React to Harris-Walz Rally in Savannah
When Brandon Byrd learned that Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz would be in his home state of Georgia to campaign this week, he responded: “It’s about damn time.” Byrd understands rural areas better than most as a native of Metter, a 30% Black town of fewer than 4,000 people. Since 2021, […]
Posted inBlack Farmers, Rural Issues
Justice Has Been Delayed for Black Farmers, and They’re Looking to the Next President for Answers
Bernice Atchinson, an 85-year-old advocate from Alabama, has been fighting for more than 40 years on behalf of her fellow Black farmers. She even represented them in the landmark case Pigford v. Glickman, a class-action lawsuit alleging the U.S. Department of Agriculture discriminated against Black farmers from 1983 to 1997 when they applied for federal […]
Posted inPartner Content, Politics & Policy
Kamala Harris Fact-Check: How Accurate Was Her 2024 DNC Speech?
CHICAGO — Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris said she’ll be a president who is “practical and has common sense and always fights for the American people.” In a 37-minute acceptance speech — roughly one-third the length of former President Donald Trump’s at the Republican National Convention in July — Harris retold the story of […]
Posted inPartner Content, Politics & Policy
Fact-Checking DNC Night 2: What Democratic Speakers Got Right, Wrong
CHICAGO — Two decades after exploding onto the political scene at a different Democratic convention, former President Barack Obama, along with former first lady Michelle Obama, energized convention attendees here. The Obamas bestowed their support on nominee Kamala Harris, who aims to follow Obama as the nation’s second Black president. Barack Obama began his address by […]
Posted inPartner Content, Politics & Policy
DNC Fact-Check Day 1: Democrats’ Warnings About Trump’s ‘Project 2025 Agenda’
Project 2025 has a starring role in this week’s Democratic National Convention. And it was front and center on Night 1. “This is Project 2025,” Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, said as she laid a hardbound copy of the 900-page document on the lectern. “Over the next four nights, you are going to […]
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Can Kamala Harris Recreate the Political Momentum of 2008?
Black Voters and the Fight for Democracy is a multipart series that explores the stakes of the 2024 election for our communities. This project was produced as part of the Advancing Democracy Fellowship. Jovita Lee wasn’t old enough to vote in 2008, when Barack Obama was at the top of the Democratic Party ticket. But […]
Posted inPolitics & Policy
How Trump’s NABJ Interview Might Go Over With Black Voters
The strategy was simple. Donald Trump would attend a Black journalism convention in Chicago and go after Kamala Harris for her record. The former president’s advisers reportedly urged him to portray Harris as a “radical” and a “liberal prosecutor” from California who, as vice president, utterly failed to secure the southern border. This strategy would […]
Posted inPolitics & Policy
It’s Official! Kamala Harris Secures Democratic Presidential Nomination.
In less than two weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris has ascended to launching a record-breaking presidential campaign and gaining enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination for president. Harris’ campaign made the announcement on Friday, days before the Aug. 7 deadline, multiple news outlets reported. She ran unopposed in a virtual roll call that began […]