Now comes the hard part: Getting buy-in from enough lawmakers.Rep. Joyce Beatty listens as Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, chair of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, attends a markup in the House Judiciary Committee for H.R. 40. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP PhotoReparations legislation could soon be headed to the House floor for the first time in more than three decades. Now comes the hard part.Wednesday night, the House Judiciary Committee voted to bring H.R. 40 out of committee — a historic feat not accomplished since the late Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) first introduced a...…Now comes the hard part: Getting buy-in from enough lawmakers.Rep. Joyce Beatty listens as Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, chair of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, attends a markup in the House Judiciary Committee for H.R. 40. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP PhotoReparations legislation could soon be headed to the House floor for the first time in more than three decades. Now comes the hard part.Wednesday night, the House Judiciary Committee voted to bring H.R. 40 out of committee — a historic feat not accomplished since the late Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) first introduced a...WW…

The lawsuit claims that the former president and his personal lawyer violated the Ku Klux Klan Act by conspiring with white supremacist groups to incite the insurrection.On the heels of the Senate’s acquittal of Donald Trump, the NAACP, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson and civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll filed a lawsuit against the former president, Rudy Giuliani and two white supremacist groups, citing their role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.in Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that Trump and Giuliani, in collaboration with the Proud Boys...…The lawsuit claims that the former president and his personal lawyer violated the Ku Klux Klan Act by conspiring with white supremacist groups to incite the insurrection.On the heels of the Senate’s acquittal of Donald Trump, the NAACP, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson and civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll filed a lawsuit against the former president, Rudy Giuliani and two white supremacist groups, citing their role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.in Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that Trump and Giuliani, in collaboration with the Proud Boys...WW…

The control of the Senate is up for grabs in Georgia. So Republicans are taking a page from an old playbook.Raphael Warnock speaks during a campaign rally on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, in Marietta, Ga. | AP Photo/Brynn AndersonGeorgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock has made his faith a defining element of his candidacy. The GOP aims to make it his fatal flaw.Republicans are taking to the airwaves and social media to frame the pastor as a radical and tool of the “extremist” left. Using sound bites from his past sermons, they’re making the case to Georgia voters that the Democrat is anti-police...…The control of the Senate is up for grabs in Georgia. So Republicans are taking a page from an old playbook.Raphael Warnock speaks during a campaign rally on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, in Marietta, Ga. | AP Photo/Brynn AndersonGeorgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock has made his faith a defining element of his candidacy. The GOP aims to make it his fatal flaw.Republicans are taking to the airwaves and social media to frame the pastor as a radical and tool of the “extremist” left. Using sound bites from his past sermons, they’re making the case to Georgia voters that the Democrat is anti-police...WW…

Raphael Warnock, a first-time candidate running for Senate, is working to turn out new and infrequent voters. But a tough runoff almost certainly looms.Rev. Raphael Warnock's role at Ebenezer Baptist Church — once led by Martin Luther King Jr. — gives him an credibility with Georgia’s powerful Black faith community. | David Goldman/AP PhotoATLANTA — Rev. Raphael Warnock, a first-time political candidate who could be the key to a Democratic takeover of the U.S. Senate, likes to talk about a guy named DJ Ray J.On a campaign tour through the Atlanta suburbs on Saturday, Warnock repeatedly told...…Raphael Warnock, a first-time candidate running for Senate, is working to turn out new and infrequent voters. But a tough runoff almost certainly looms.Rev. Raphael Warnock's role at Ebenezer Baptist Church — once led by Martin Luther King Jr. — gives him an credibility with Georgia’s powerful Black faith community. | David Goldman/AP PhotoATLANTA — Rev. Raphael Warnock, a first-time political candidate who could be the key to a Democratic takeover of the U.S. Senate, likes to talk about a guy named DJ Ray J.On a campaign tour through the Atlanta suburbs on Saturday, Warnock repeatedly told...WW…

Gen Z is not only liberal but skeptical, and the Black community’s diehard support for the party that embraced civil rights is ripe for a rethink.Asha Stuart for POLITICOLike most young African American members of Generation Z, the 18-year-old conservative activist Coreco Ja’Quan (C.J.) Pearson hails from a family of Democrats, following a tradition of party loyalty that began toward the end of the civil rights movement.Pearson, like most of his generation, is also coming into adulthood during a time of heightened awareness of race and its impact on American life, from police brutality to...…Gen Z is not only liberal but skeptical, and the Black community’s diehard support for the party that embraced civil rights is ripe for a rethink.Asha Stuart for POLITICOLike most young African American members of Generation Z, the 18-year-old conservative activist Coreco Ja’Quan (C.J.) Pearson hails from a family of Democrats, following a tradition of party loyalty that began toward the end of the civil rights movement.Pearson, like most of his generation, is also coming into adulthood during a time of heightened awareness of race and its impact on American life, from police brutality to...WW…

A month out from Election Day, Trump is appealing to the voting groups that shored up his base in 2016 while Biden chips away at them.President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Duluth International Airport on Sept. 30, 2020. | Stephen Maturen/Getty ImagesOn Tuesday, President Donald Trump refused to condemn white supremacists. On Wednesday, he appeared to blame suburban, low-income people of color for “ruining this American dream.”The two comments represent a feature, not a bug, of his presidency and campaign. And he’s ramped it up in the final month of the election.A day...…A month out from Election Day, Trump is appealing to the voting groups that shored up his base in 2016 while Biden chips away at them.President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Duluth International Airport on Sept. 30, 2020. | Stephen Maturen/Getty ImagesOn Tuesday, President Donald Trump refused to condemn white supremacists. On Wednesday, he appeared to blame suburban, low-income people of color for “ruining this American dream.”The two comments represent a feature, not a bug, of his presidency and campaign. And he’s ramped it up in the final month of the election.A day...WW…

Conservatives are using images of Black protesters with guns to justify their calls for law and order.An armed protester awaits the casket of Rayshard Brooks to pass by the area where he was killed near a Wendy's restaurant on Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in Atlanta. | AP Photo/John BazemoreWhen coronavirus lockdowns spread nationwide in March, millions of Americans flocked to their local grocery stores and wholesale markets to stock up for what would become months stuck at home. Black Americans did the same, but some had one addendum to their shopping list: a firearm.Since the beginning of the...…Conservatives are using images of Black protesters with guns to justify their calls for law and order.An armed protester awaits the casket of Rayshard Brooks to pass by the area where he was killed near a Wendy's restaurant on Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in Atlanta. | AP Photo/John BazemoreWhen coronavirus lockdowns spread nationwide in March, millions of Americans flocked to their local grocery stores and wholesale markets to stock up for what would become months stuck at home. Black Americans did the same, but some had one addendum to their shopping list: a firearm.Since the beginning of the...WW…