South Side Chicagoan and former First Lady Michelle Obama will not attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. The Office of Barack and Michelle Obama confirmed...
A hand fan depicting Kamala Harris lies on the sidewalk in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 6, 2024. Bastien Inzaurralde/AFP via Getty Images
by Farida Jalalzai,...
President Biden delivers the final speech during Day 1 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
CHICAGO – Since Vice President Kamala Harris declared, "We did...
Year in Review: Chicago Came to a Political Crossroads in 2016 By: Defender Senior Writer, Mary L. Datcher and Defender Contributing Writer, Erick Johnson The marathon of political mayhem has brought an onslaught of surprises along the way to kick off the year with non-stop coverage of the primaries on the national and local fronts. Democratic […]
The Republic is Still in Danger “If you’re honest, you will admit that Donald Trump acts more like an overgrown preteen who is not quite sure of who he wants to be.” “What we have here is a failure to communicate,” a line from the film “Cool Hand Luke,” speaks volumes now that we […]
Conceding to the Democratic Party's shocking and devastating defeat to President-elect Donald Trump, President Obama invited Trump to meet with him at the White House...
CNN fired part-time employee and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, after hacked emails from WikiLeaks showed that she shared questions for CNN-sponsored candidate events in advance of...
RALEIGH –In an exclusive interview with North Carolina’s African-American press, Hillary Clinton said that even though she is running to benefit all Americans, the first woman expected to be elected president of the United States on Nov. 8th does have a special focus on working with the African-American community and its leaders — both local […]
