Posts Tagged ‘house of representatives’
Donald Trump becomes the 1st POTUS to be impeached twice
During a rigorous process that eventually saw a resolution of 232 to 197, the House of Representatives just voted to impeach Donald Trump for a second time. While there was plenty of pushback from a number of members of the GOP, ten republicans voted to impeach Trump in an unprecedented vote. The single article, “incitement…
Read MoreCongressman Hank Johnson discusses Black community, COVID-19 and 2020 Census
Congressman Hank Johnson is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia’s 4th Congressional District. He works to empower underserved minority communities and help ex-offenders reenter society after incarceration. Rolling out spoke with the congressman about the state of Black America during this global health pandemic, the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security…
Read MoreMinnesota House candidate: ‘I want to be your n—-r’ (video)
This is what politics has become in 2018. Just days after a white Florida gubernatorial candidate tells residents they should not “monkey this up” and vote for his Black opponent, on the other side of the country, a Black candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives tells voters that he “wants to be your n—er.”…
Read MoreCompton Mayor Aja Brown to run against Stacey Dash for Congress
Actress Stacey Dash is not going to just walk unimpeded in her quest to become a California congresswoman for the southern Los Angeles region. One of the popular politicians in the state of California is going to run against Dash for the federal legislative seat. Aja Brown is currently the mayor of Compton, California, the famously…
Read MoreRep. Al Green says he will vote for Trump impeachment by this time
U.S. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, thundered away at the House podium on Wednesday as he declared his second and more pronounced formal call for Donald Trump’s impeachment. He promised the American people that he would bring the matter to a vote on the House floor sometime before Dec. 25, 2017. “Before Christmas, there will be a vote on the chief…
Read MoreKiller Mike explains failed campaign to win political seat
While it sounded good in theory, Atlanta based rapper Killer Mike’s (almost) bid for seat in the Georgia House of Representatives never quite got off the ground. A day after announcing via his Instagram account that he wanted voters to write-in his name on the ballot to replace the disgraced Tyrone Brooks as representative of Georgia’s…
Read MoreSen. John Boehner threatens to arrest children during immigration protest
More than 40 Hispanic children, ages 6 to 15, were threatened with arrest when they protested Congress’ immigration reform in front of the office of Sen. John Boehner, R-Ohio. The youth and adults were with the immigration advocacy group Fair Immigration Reform Movement. They have been trying to gain an audience with Congressional members in…
Read MoreJefferson Franklin Long: Georgia’s 1st black congressman
Born into slavery on March 3, 1836 in Alabama to a slave, Jefferson Long was the second African American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Long served less than three months—the shortest term of any African-American member. During the 1850s, his slave-holder family moved from Knoxville to Macon, taking Long with them. There, Long…
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