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The story of us connected the values and interests of the campaign worker and voter with candidate Obama. What Martin Luther King Jr. called "the fierce urgency of now" focused the voter's hopes on the imminent election. The importance of relationships, rather than campaign platforms, dominated the Camp Obama training program for campaign workers.
[6] [7] [8] Including partly Black people, Los Angeles proper is 10% Black (estimated 385,000 residents in 2021). [9] Many African Americans have become homeless in the city. African Americans make up 34% of Los Angeles's homeless, while only being 8% of the city's population in 2020. [10]
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of California, including both historical and contemporary publications.California's first such newspaper was the Mirror of the Times, which began publishing in the mid-1850s. [1]
Black Voters Matter participated in voter outreach during the 2017 special election that resulted in Doug Jones' election to the United States Senate from Alabama.Jones was the first Democrat to fill the seat since 1992, [2] and Black voter turnout was especially notable in the election, with 98% of Black women casting votes for Jones.
Todd Alan Gitlin (January 6, 1943 – February 5, 2022) was an American sociologist, political activist and writer, novelist, and cultural commentator.He wrote about the mass media, politics, intellectual life, and the arts for both popular and scholarly publications.
Here is your voter guide to the 2024 California primary election.
Some of the white college volunteers returned in the summer of 1966, and a few enrolled in Black southern colleges and continued community organization activities beyond the spring of 1966. Dr. King announced the SCOPE project in a speech at UCLA on April 27, 1965, and his visit resulted in the recruitment of twenty UCLA students, including ...
During the presidential election four years ago, the Equal Ground Education Fund hired over 100 people to go door-to-door and attend festivals, college homecomings and other events to help ...