US Politics

Staceys Abrahams, during a campaign in 2018

On Monday, July 21, 2020, presumptive Democratic US presidential nominee Joe Biden said that he is vetting four Black Women as candidates from whom he will choose his running mate (see AfroAmerica Network: Joe Biden's Top Black Women VP Pick Contenders). On August 5, 2020 Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, co-chair on Biden's VP selection committee, told the Washington Post that Joe Biden is looking for a running mate able to give him the "best advice before the biggest decisions, who can really be his partner and who can be deployed whether on Capitol Hill or to a foreign capital... somebody who can be the President, the Vice-President and the Councillor." Meawhile, Rwanda, the small country in Africa, has become one of the topic  in the vetting process.

Keisha Lance Bottoms, Atlanta Mayor, July 22, 2020

On Monday, July 21, 2020, presumptive Democratic US presidential nominee Joe Biden said  that he is vetting four Black Women as candidates from whom he will choose his running mate. Although he told MSNBC's Joy Reid on "The ReidOut" that " I am not committed to naming any, but the people I've named, and among them there are four Black women," there are major pressures on him to name a Black Woman as his VP.

Kanye West, Charleston, South Carolina , July 21 2020

On Monday July 20, 2020, the 43-year-old Black rapper mogul and fashion designer Kanye Omari West, also known as Yeezy Ye, officially launched his campaign for the 2020 US presidential election. He started with an unusual rally, mostly attended by young people in Charleston, South Carolina.  The next day,  Kanye West confirmed the release of his next music album titled ‘Donda’ for July 24, 2020.