CHICAGO — Only hours before Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepted the Democratic nomination for president at the United Center in Chicago, six of the seven Black female chairs of their state Democratic parties — the highest-ever number of Black women state party chairs — gathered exactly a mile east of the convention hall at the interactive WNDR Museum. But ...
CHICAGO — Jesse Jackson sat in a wheelchair near the back wall of a darkened restaurant at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. It was late Thursday morning, the final day of the Democratic National Convention. Slowed by Parkinson’s disease at age 82, the reverend was eating, or trying to eat, a breakfast of strawberries, grapes and cantaloupe. With determined effort, ...
CHICAGO — Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to a 2024 election in which we’ll apparently have to make do with Beyoncé’s voice. (Make sure you are subscribed to this newsletter here. And also listen to the Campaign Moment podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. We dove into Tim Walz’s ascent Thursday, and we’ll ...
CHICAGO — Four of the exonerated members of the so-called Central Park Five — a group of five teenagers wrongfully imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a jogger — appeared Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention, warning of what a second Donald Trump presidency could bring. “Thirty-five years ago, my friends and I were in prison for a crime ...
CHICAGO — Democrats worried that protesters might derail their shining moment this week, pushing the spotlight from Vice President Kamala Harris to the devastation in the Gaza Strip. Republicans claimed that the Democratic National Convention was spiraling into chaos, disparaging this host city as a “Third World country.” But as the party wrapped up its four-day gathering Thursday night, the ...
Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech on the final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago featured high rhetoric but not many facts easily checked. Here are five claims made by Harris that caught our attention, in the order in which they were made. As is our practice, we do not award Pinocchios for a roundup of statements ...
CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday, using the most consequential speech of her political career to cast herself as an avatar of America’s middle class and an avenue to usher the country away from the abrasive style of politics embraced by Republican nominee Donald Trump. “Our nation with this election has a precious, fleeting ...
Under an image of the Statue of Liberty, set against a waving American flag, the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) website describes the agency’s commitment to “nondiscrimination in the workforce.” CBP’s self-praise includes its dedication “to preserving individual liberty, fairness and equality under the law.” But those notions of nondiscrimination and fairness took a big hit last week with a ...
Evelyn Lees was hiking across the mountains of northern New Jersey on Monday afternoon when her cellphone screen lit up with a notification that made the Puerto Rican middle school science teacher leap with joy: the Harris-Walz campaign had launched a bilingual WhatsApp channel for Latino voters. Lees, 53, said she ran to her car and immediately joined “Latinos con ...
Former president Donald Trump did not hold back as Democratic nominee Kamala Harris delivered her acceptance speech Thursday night, firing off a series of scathing, insulting and sometimes unrelated comments while Harris was speaking. Trump took to his Truth Social account to make a variety of comments, from accusing Harris of falsehoods to defending his record to making extraneous remarks, ...