Leah Wright-Rigueur

Leah Wright-Rigueur

Historian, Author, & Political Scholar.

Why Bernie Should Stay in the Race & other Super Tuesday analysis

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This week on Tell Me More with John Fugelsang on XM Insight Channel 121, we had a lively discussion about Super Tuesday, the protesters, and the purpose of receiving endorsements from people like Ben Carson. This is my first show as a weekly contributor so I hope you enjoy it and will tweet me what you think.

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Black Voters Are Not A Monolith.

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here’s a gross misunderstanding of what black politics and activism means in our country. We’re seeing some of that misunderstanding play out right now, as pundits rush to assess the role that black voters played in Hillary Clinton’s triumphant victory in South Carolina’s Democratic primary – a contest where roughly 86 percent of black voters

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Do republicans want the black & latino vote?

“Get him the hell out of here,” said Donald Trump. Later, Trump’s supporters shouted, “Go home, nigger.” Trump. That’s the claim by Mercutio Southall, co-founder of the Birmingham, Ala., chapter of Black Lives Matter. Video footage of the incident, which has gone viral, shows white Trump supporters shoving, punching and kicking the black activist in

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