Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden announced Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate today. Here’s a look at what this choice means and … what it doesn’t. … A clear plurality of Black voters favored Biden throughout 2019, helping keep the former vice president near the […] Read more »
The Black Lives Matter protests preview the politics of a diversifying America
The movement against police mistreatment of African Americans is broadening far beyond its core support in the Black community, with potentially landmark consequences both for the movement itself and the younger generations of Americans who have fueled this spring’s massive wave of protests. After years in which polls showed that […] Read more »
George Floyd’s killing was just the spark. Here’s what really made the protests explode.
What prompted the worldwide protests against racially biased policing? The simplest answer would be that on May 25, a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, by kneeling on his neck for more than eight minutes, as millions of Americans have now witnessed in a video that […] Read more »
I Ran Stacey Abrams’s Campaign. Black Voters Powered Us to Near Victory.
… Something nearly unthinkable happened in Georgia in 2018. More black voters, more Asian-American/Pacific Island voters and more Latino voters turned out than in the 2016 presidential election. Sure, turnout was up everywhere and at presidential levels in many states. But Georgia was the only state where midterm turnout was […] Read more »
Census Bureau Finds Latinos, Asians Sensitive To Now-Blocked Citizenship Question
The citizenship question the Trump administration wanted to add to the 2020 census would have likely been especially sensitive in areas with higher shares of Latinx residents and noncitizens. That’s among the Census Bureau’s final conclusions from its recent experiment testing public reaction to the question. CONT. Hansi Lo Wang, […] Read more »
Asian American and Pacific Islander voters may soon face potential shift in political power
When tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang became the last 2020 presidential contender to secure a spot on the December debate stage, his presence as the sole candidate of color to appear in an otherwise all-white lineup provided a visible example of the types of concerns his competitors have cited about the […] Read more »