He’s just 27 years old, and now he’s the youngest mayor ever elected in Greenbelt. Colin Byrd, a Democrat and lifelong Greenbelter, was elected Tuesday, receiving a total of 1,769 votes. Byrd defeated incumbent three-term mayor Emmett V. Jordan by just 95 votes.
Tag: Black Voters
Stacey Abrams launches multi-million dollar voter protection initiative in 20 states; rules out run for president
After spending the beginning of 2019 mulling a presidential run and ruling out a run for Senate, Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams announced a new multi-million dollar initiative on Tuesday that’s aimed at beefing up voter protection operations in 20 battleground states throughout the 2020 election cycle. “There are only two things stopping us in 2020,…
Files expose how North Carolina Republican systematically stopped Black people from voting
A batch of secret files found on a longtime Republican operative’s computer was found after his death which showed that he compiled race based data and blatantly used it to help the GOP intentionally stop Black voters from making it to the polls. A batch of secret files found on a longtime Republican operative’s computer…
50 Cent Says Trump Offered Him $500,000 To Help Win Over Black Voters
“I was like, ‘Nah, that’s not good money.” 50 Cent has claimed that he was offered $500,000 to campaign for Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. During an appearance on New York Hot 97′s “Ebro in the Morning,” Curtis James Jackson III, aka 50 Cent, was candid with host Ebro about the current president,…
The ‘smoking gun’ proving North Carolina Republicans tried to disenfranchise black voters
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory speaks during a candidate forum in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday. (Chuck Burton/Associated Press) Today, a federal court struck down North Carolina’s voter-ID law, one of the strictest in the nation. In addition to requiring residents to show identification before they can cast a ballot, the law also eliminated same-day voter…
Joe Biden Has Reportedly Lied For Decades About Marching In The Civil Rights Movement
The former vice president’s support among Black voters seems unwavering. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders might have elicited groans from one audience when he recently repeated his often cited line that he marched with the rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But at least he was telling the truth.
