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More foreigners are being held each day under the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) than ever before in history, but far fewer are being deported overall. The Washington Post reported that about 50,000 immigrants have been detained on any given day this year and, according to ICE data, nearly…
Michelle Obama spoke out against “white flight” Tuesday at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago. She said she experienced it as a child growing up on the South Side of the city, but that it still exists today with immigrants as the “others.” “I want to remind white folks that…
A photo of seven young white men wearing “Team Mitch” shirts and pretending to choke a cardboard cutout of Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez surfaced on Twitter Monday. Mitch McConnell and the men faced backlash — including from Ocasio-Cortez herself. The photo was originally shared on Instagram with the caption, “break me…
Angela Davis, Ava DuVernay, Lena Waithe, Common, Steph Curry, LeBron James, Kevin Durant and more used social media to stand in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick on Super Bowl Sunday. Former Obama cabinet secretary, Chris Lu, tweeted the sentiment right before the game started: #ImWithKap is trending in USA. Because some…
UPDATE: Swift Sways an Uptick in Voter Registration That Has Never Been Seen Taylor Swift’s post did more than tick-off alt-righters. It motivated newer voters to register in a big way. Typically, there is an uptick in voting registration that occurs right before elections, but according to Vote.org Chief Operating…
UPDATE: Swift Sways an Uptick in Voter Registration That Has Never Been Seen Taylor Swift’s post did more than tick-off alt-righters. It motivated newer voters to register in a big way. Typically, there is an uptick in voting registration that occurs right before elections, but according to Vote.org Chief Operating…
Former President Barack Obama kicked off his campaigning for November’s midterms, on Friday afternoon, and took jabs at President Trump and the spineless backbones of his Republican constituents. Obama spared no expense rebuking the administration’s actions that have emboldened racists. “We’re supposed to stand up to discrimination, and clearly and…
The absence of diversity in the President Trump’s administration has been a subject of ongoing debate. In an interview on Thursday with “The Breakfast Club,” a radio show based in New York City, Angela Rye, an attorney, political commentator and a leader of the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, implied that…
U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee of California said in her decision Monday not to amend Flores v. Reno and that “absolutely nothing” prevents President Trump from reconsidering their current blanket policy of family detention. And, Tuesday is the deadline for the administration to reunite children under five with families…
A lot has been said around about what President Trump is or isn’t, and Blacks, immigrants and women especially have had strong opinions about his agenda toward anyone who isn’t a rich, white male. But a Quinnipiac University study released numbers to back it up. Trump’s history prior to taking…