2016 election

The colorblind sisterhood fantasy: Black women voted for white women — and white women voted for themselves A Clinton victory would have been most symbolic for white women. Why did so many not vote for her? (Credit: Getty/Chip Somodevilla) From the time she officially announced her...

President-elect Donald Trump is potentially seeking top secret security clearances for his children, sources tell CBS News. The Trump team has asked the White House to explore the possibility of getting his children the top secret security clearances. Logistically, the children would need to be...

Bob Christie, Associated Press November 5, 2016 at 12:54 PM EST A view of the U.S. Supreme Court building is seen in Washington, October 13, 2015. Hearing a death penalty case for the first time since their divisive lethal-injection ruling in June, the nine justices of U.S. Supreme Court on...

Short Guide To The Latest FBI Leaks: Murdoch, Trump, And Rogue Agents Today's smears come to us courtesy of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and the FBI. Please do note the common thread running through each of these stories. In the video above, (note: video at sourcelink, I didn't embed...

OpEd: Black Women of Ohio, Take a 'Sister Stroll to the Polls' by Angela Woodson One year ago Cleveland was the epicenter of the police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, as the group held their first national convening here in an effort to keep a spotlight on the death of...

Trump's PAC took the bait... There are vids at the sourcelink I was unable to embed and some other detailed info.... :colin::colin::colin::colin::colin::colin::colin: Exclusive investigation: Donald Trump faces foreign donor fundraising scandal Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is facing...

Comedian Bill Maher said on Sunday that Donald Trump’s campaign has revealed how many “vulgar, tacky, racist” people there are in the U.S. “What we learned is there are a lot of vulgar, tacky, racist people in this country — more than I thought, I knew there were some,” he said in an interview...

By Vanessa Williams October 15 at 7:00 PM Republican vice-presidential nominee Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks during a campaign rally on Oct. 11 in Newton, Iowa. (Charlie Neibergall/AP) This post has been updated. A progressive advocacy group is launching an advertising campaign accusing...

Three cases provide cues on how the Court may handle race and criminal justice questions that are roiling the country. One common theme in news stories about the current docket of cases before the Supreme Court is that they are boring, uncontroversial, and even “sleepy.” Some analysts have...

Be not afraid of Trump; be afraid of the people who support him. Donald Trump did not just magically become a despicable, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, asshole overnight. It’s not something that he has just developed as part of his campaign. He’s always been like this. It’s literally been...

Donald Trump’s strategy for minority Americans? DON’T LET THEM VOTE. WITH DONALD Trump’s polling numbers in a tailspin, he has doubled down in calling on Republican vigilantes to take matters into their own hands to thwart what many of them are primed to regard, without proof, as a rigged...

Baltimore Teens Make Diss Track To Donald Trump Published on Mar 29, 2016 Baltimore teens make a diss track to Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. The teens highlight Donald Trump's rhetoric against muslims and hispanics. They also reference the sick comment Donald Trump made on The View in...

Muslim-American Women Clap Back at Trump's Islamophobic Rhetoric With #CanYouHearUsNow The hashtag—a clarion call for Muslim women who are sick of the stereotype that says they have no voice—emerged after Donald Trump criticized Ghazala Khan's silence during the Democratic National Convention...

As long as I'm showing you charts of Donald Trump's falling popularity, here's another one. It comes via FourSquare, which tracks the mobile phones of millions of its users: Poor Donald. Ever since he began his presidential campaign, people have been staying away from his properties. Here's...

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I remember a time when according to many rap music was the lowest form of music one could listen to, the music of thugs, gang bangers and the un-evolved. My, how times have changed...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/30/donald-trump-can-still-win-and-he-ll-have-the-race-card-to-thank-if-he-does.html?via=twitter_page The presumptive Republican nominee is still calling numbers from Lee Atwater’s tattered playbook. There are yards yet to run and a lot of football...

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-28/trump-campaign-lining-up-tyson-and-ditka-for-convention Several sports personalities and musical entertainers have agreed to appear at this summer's convention. ESPN has nothing on this summer's Republican national convention. Donald...

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article86317537.html A group of white nationalists and skinheads who held a rally in Sacramento over the weekend where at least five people were stabbed plans to show up at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next month to “make...

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/conservative-columnist-george-will-leaves-republican-party-over-trump-n598961 Conservative columnist George Will says he's changed his party affiliation, and during a speech urged Republicans not to vote for presumptive party nominee Donald Trump...