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Politics Around The Nation
Slay Like Michelle Obama In Her ‘Becoming’ Clothing, Accessory Line
If you’re one of the people who’s fallen in love with for- mer First Lady Michelle Obama all over again since the November release of her autobiography, Becoming, there’s a new way you can show your adoration: wear her clothing line.
The Chicago native who is Barack Obama’s better half and more has released a clothing and accessory line that includes positive mes- sages intended for girls and women to empower them- selves.
The clothing line includes a crewneck sweater for $60
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tures Mrs. Obama’s chal- lenge to each of us – to work to create the world as it should be.”
There’s also a white uni- sex T-shirt going for $50 that features the three dis- tinct sections of Obama’s book, “Me, Us, More.” Ac- cording to the description, the shirt is “inspired by the three sections of Mrs. Obama’s Becoming mem- oir.”
For the younger set, there are children’s T-shirts and even onesies for babies and toddlers going for $20. They read, “Excellent from
the start” and “Becoming me.”
Coffee and tea fans can check out mugs that say “Ex- cellent from the start” and “Find your voice” that are going for $20.
A key chain with the Be- coming logo goes for $15.
Obama is touring the country, offering her thoughts on life, especially for women and girls, her thoughts on the Trump ad- ministration and reading ex- cerpts from her book. According to her site, her tour is running through at least mid May.
that reads “Work to create the world as it should be.”
The description says, “This black unisex sweater fea-
Eyeing 2020, Harris Addresses Prosecutorial Past In Memoir
Elizabeth Warren Announces Bid To Run For President In 2020
Before ringing in the new year, Senator Elizabeth Warren threw her hat into the ring on Monday and an- nounced her bid to run for President in 2020, The New York Times reports.
The Massachusetts Demo- crat is the first of what’s ex- pected to be a wave of declared candidates to come out and kick off the 2020 presidential season by declar- ing their intent to enter the fight to remove President Donald Trump from office.
Warren sent an 8:30 am
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email to supporters on New
Year’s Eve, outlining her in- tent. And Warren released a video, accompanying her an- nouncement. Warren an- nounced her intent to form an exploratory committee so she can begin fundraising and fill vital staff positions before her formal kickoff.
“How did we get here?” Ms. Warren said in her an- nouncement video. “Billion- aires and big corporations decided they wanted more of the pie, and they enlisted politicians to cut them a fat- ter slice.”
As she nears a decision on whether to seek the presi- dency, Sen. Kamala Har- ris is taking on what could be a hurdle in a Democratic pri- mary: her past as a prosecu- tor.
In her memoir published Tuesday, the California De- mocrat describes herself as a “progressive prosecutor” and says it’s a “false choice” to de- cide between supporting the police and advocating for greater scrutiny of law en- forcement. The argument is aimed at liberal critics of her record who argue she was sometimes too quick to side with the police and too slow to adopt sentencing reforms. “I know that most police offi- cers deserve to be proud of their public service and com- mended for the way they do their jobs,” Harris writes in “The Truths We Hold.” ”I know how difficult and dan- gerous the job is, day in and day out, and I know how hard it is for the officers’ families, who have to wonder if the person they love will be com- ing home at the end of each shift.”
But, she continues, “I also know this: it is a false choice to suggest you must either be for the police or for police ac-
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countability. I am for both. Most people I know are for both. Let’s speak some truth about that, too.”
After high-profile fatal shootings involving police of- ficers and unarmed people of color, the criminal justice sys- tem’s treatment of minorities is a top issue among Demo- cratic voters. The passage suggests Harris is aware that her seven years as the district attorney in San Francisco, fol- lowed by six years as Califor- nia’s attorney general, is something she will have to ex- plain and signals how she may frame her law enforce- ment career if she decides to run for the White House.
Mandela Barnes Makes History As Wisconsin’s First Black Lieutenant Governor
Mandela Barnes was not having it. Just a few months ago, the Wisconsin Lt. Gov.-Elect ran into a few issues that could have cost him an election nomination. “It was wild.”
Leading up to the primary election, he was the only can- didate erased from multiple- sample ballots, pronounced dead by a local TV station, and mistaken for a white man.
Yet, Barnes now laughs like he’s conquered some- thing. And he has. On Janu- ary 7, he made history as Wisconsin’s first Black lieu- tenant governor and the na- tion’s youngest lieutenant governor.
Born in Milwaukee’s 53206 zip code, which is pre- dominately Black and has the highest incarceration
The politician talks about challenging the lack of authenticity in politics and how his upbringing plays an important role in his political career.
rate of Black men in the country, Barnes never envi- sioned that politics would be a viable career path. As a boy, his father would oftentimes take him to vote.
“He made me go with him every time, made me grab a sample ballot and learn everything,” he said.
His leadership interests developed in high school through programs like Top
Teens of America and fol- lowed him to college where he was involved in student government and a NAACP student chapter.
Following graduation from Alabama A&M Univer- sity in 2008, he worked for a congressional campaign be- fore returning to Milwaukee in January 2009. Lately, Barnes has been particu- larly reflective on Twitter.
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