The Democratic National Committee has launched a new voter registration campaign at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) in battleground states, The Hill has exclusively learned. The campaign includes kiosk ads and “I Will Vote” posters across campuses in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania. The ads will… Source link
Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Palestinians have, since the start of Israeli retaliation for Hamas’s massacre on October 7 last year, been living through one of the worst calamities in an already tragic history. Attacks by the Israeli military have killed tens of thousands Palestinians in Gaza, and much of the region’s population of 2 million has been displaced—repeatedly—and remains at risk of starvation and illness. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli extremists have launched more than 1,000 attacks against Palestinians in recent months. Supporters of the Palestinian cause have been left with few options politically. The next occupant of the White House will come from one of the two major parties. On the Republican side, Donald Trump, the obvious favorite of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed to deport pro-Palestinian protesters and uses the word Palestinian as a racial epithet akin to an old southern slur. On the Democratic side, President Joe Biden has sought a cease-fire but has been unable or unwilling to bring the necessary …
(RNS) — Arab Americans, Muslim Americans and their interfaith allies spent much of Thursday (Aug. 22) pushing Democratic officials to allow a Palestinian American to speak from the party convention’s main stage, to convey a message of solidarity despite the party’s so-far consistent support for Israel in its prosecution of the war in Gaza. The push was accompanied by an all-night sit-in outside Chicago’s United Center at which members of the “uncommitted” movement also made speeches pressing the Democratic National Convention to feature a Palestinian speaker. The uncommitted — so-called because members of the movement wrote in “uncommitted” on their ballots rather than vote for President Joe Biden in this year’s Democratic primaries — want the DNC to recognize the suffering of Palestinians, 40,000 of whom have been killed by Israel’s massive Gaza assault of the past 10 months, an assault backed by U.S. bombs and munitions that has flattened the Gaza Strip and left tens of thousands homeless. In an emotional speech from the stage of the convention on Wednesday, Israeli Americans Rachel Goldberg-Polin …
“Divided we cannot endure, but united we can endeavor to humanize our democracy and endear democracy to humanity.” Gorman, 26, recited at the United Center arena in Chicago “It falls to us, to ensure that we do not fall. For a people that cannot stand together, cannot stand at all.” In 2021, the Harvard graduate burst onto the national stage when incoming First Lady Jill Biden invited her to deliver a reading at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. That memorable appearance made Gorman the youngest inaugural poet in American history. Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb,” and its message of unity in the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots resonated with millions of Americans. Her books of poetry rocketed to the top spots on Amazon’s bestseller lists, and overnight, Gorman became a literary celebrity. Read a transcript of Gorman’s 2024 DNC poem below. We gather at this hollowed place because we believe in the American dream. We face a race that tests if this country we cherish shall perish from the Earth, and if …
Democrats from across the country convened in Chicago to officially crown Vice President Kamala Harris as their nominee. The party’s energetic embrace of Harris’ candidacy coincides with the first in-person Democratic National Convention in eight years following 2020’s pandemic-altered convention. The party is also bidding a bittersweet farewell to President Biden. Photojournalists Robert Gauthier and Myung J. Chun are on the ground in Chicago to bring behind-the-scenes visuals and candid moments. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Vice President Kamala Harris on stage with family members at the Democratic National Convention. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) California Gov. Gavin Newsom joins the state’s delegation on the final day of the Democratic National Convention. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) Delegates cheer Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz during Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times) A Kamala Harris poster appears on a bridge in Chicago across from a Trump hotel in Chicago. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times) John Legend, left, and Ari O’Neal perform during the Democratic National Convention. Clockwise from top left: Oprah …
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Before the DNC kicks off on Monday, let’s quickly recap the sheer eventfulness of the past few weeks for the Democratic Party. Less than one month ago, President Joe Biden announced that he was exiting the presidential race. Almost at once, Vice President Kamala Harris became the heir apparent to the party nomination. Just over two weeks later, she became the official nominee; the next day, she named Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. This timeline means that the typical flow of a first-time nominee’s presidential campaign has been scrambled. But after a summer full of surprises and switch-ups, Harris will take the expected step of a Democratic nominee: appearing at the Democratic National Convention. The convention, which has had varying degrees of significance in recent presidential races, could be of particular consequence this time around. Here …
The political tension around the ever-growing pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses will likely be the focus of this week’s Sunday news shows. Two notable instances of violence breaking out at campuses amid the protests occurred Tuesday at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), when both the New York Police Department (NYPD) and Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) cracked down on pro-Palestinian protesters at the two schools. New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D), who had previously claimed that “outside agitators” were involved in protests at Columbia, will appear on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. He was pressed on those claims by CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins Wednesday, to which he responded that there was “clear evidence of training that was conducted by an outside agitator, that was not a student, did not belong on the campus.” Collins also asked Adams if there would be a “breakdown” from Adams’s office or the NYPD on how many of the people arrested Tuesday were actually Columbia students. “Here’s what we can do, we’re allowed to …
The Democratic National Committee voted Tuesday to reinstate New Hampshire’s delegates ahead of this summer’s convention in Chicago, ending months of fighting over the state’s 2024 presidential primary. “We as a committee and as a national committee have gone through a difficult number of weeks and months of getting to this point, and I know that New Hampshire has gone through a difficult number of weeks and months where some things we’d like to have seen take place did not,” Jim Roosevelt, the co-chair of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, said during a meeting on Tuesday. “As it happens, all that is behind us now. We have worked out compliance with our rules and with the charter.” New Hampshire, which has a state law on the books requiring it to hold the first presidential primary, had refused to comply with a new Democratic calendar that moved South Carolina to the front of the line. As a result, President Joe Biden did not file to appear on the ballot for New Hampshire’s unsanctioned Jan. 23 …
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) launched billboards in North Carolina Saturday targeting former President Trump on his abortion stance, ahead of Trump’s rally in Wilmington. Sixteen billboards will be displayed in Charlotte and Wilmington, in both English and Spanish, hitting Trump on his perceived support of the Tar Heel State’s 12-week abortion ban, signed into law by Gov. Roy Cooper (R). This is the most billboards the DNC has launched in response to Trump’s influence on states this election cycle, the committee said. “Donald Trump is responsible for the attacks on reproductive rights that we’re seeing in North Carolina and across the nation,” DNC spokesperson Jackie Bush said in a statement, shared with The Hill. “His anti-freedom agenda is already endangering the lives of women in North Carolina, but Trump and his cronies won’t stop until every woman across the country lives under an extreme national abortion ban. “That’s why women in North Carolina and across the country will reject Trump’s extreme bans at the ballot box this November and send President Joe Biden back …
1968 was a tumultuous year in American political culture. Civil Rights advocates were growing frustrated with the lack of social progress despite the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; the anti-war movement was vehemently protesting the ongoing Vietnam War, women were growing tired of continued institutionalized sexism, and the overall counterculture movement was thoroughly dissatisfied with the administration of US President Lyndon B. Johnson. After the tragic assassinations of both Martin Luther King, Jr. and US Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-MA) earlier in the year, America was on a powder keg. At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in July 1968, the powder keg erupted. Setting the Stage: Civil Rights Dissatisfaction Stokely Carmichael, seen here in 1967, popularized the term “Black Power” in 1966. Source: National Public Radio (NPR) In the mid-1960s, two landmark pieces of legislation were passed by Congress to improve the lives of minorities: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination in public accommodations, and the Voting Rights …
