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Joe Biden told a harrowing story during an event in 2017 about facing down a razor-wielding gang leader named Corn Pop in his youth by threatening to “wrap” a chain around the man’s head. The incident came back into the spotlight over the weekend when footage of Biden’s remarks began circulating social media.

A group representing descendants of slaves had a message for the 2020 Democrat candidates who have not endorsed immediate reparations: “We see you.”

“[T]he overwhelmingly white audience he drew to the event in a historic black neighborhood reinforced the difficulty the Democratic presidential hopeful has had in connecting with African American voters,” the Chicago Tribune wrote about the event.

A string of high-profile gaffes within the past 24-hours have renewed doubts, especially on the left, over former Vice President Joe Biden’s capabilities as a candidate. 

Former Vice President Joe Biden is being accused of neglecting his longstanding relationships with African American leaders in South Carolina.

Former Vice President Joe Biden looms over the field of 2020 Democrats in South Carolina thanks in part to his advantage among black voters. 

Former Vice President Joe Biden dominates the 2020 field throughout the South, according to a series of new polls out of the region.

Democrats must block President Donald Trump from using his pro-American immigration policy to win more African-American voters, says New York Times columnist Charles Blow.

Democrats have given President Donald Trump an advantage on the issue of race relations after spending the week pandering to Al Sharpton and promising to take up the issue of reparations for slavery if elected.

In a world where concrete achievements count — and Jussie Smollett hoaxes do not — Trump is our most “progressive” president ever.

Unemployment of African-Americans has never been so low.

Democrats are worried Northam’s racist yearbook photo will hurt their efforts to use race as an issue against President Trump in 2020.

Civil rights icon Barbara Jordan warned more than two decades ago of mass immigration’s impact on black Americans. To this day, her reforms to aid the black community have remained unfulfilled. 

President Donald Trump made a moral and emotional case for border security and the border wall, saying that people build walls to protect the people they love. 

The NAACP’s Portland, Oregon, chapter is claiming the city’s policy requiring signage on certain buildings to warn about potential earthquake damage is ongoing housing discrimination aimed at black Americans.

President Donald Trump created the first national park to honor black people who fought in the Civil War with the designation of Camp Nelson in Nicholasville, Kentucky, as the nation’s newest National Monument.

A supporter of Democrat Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was caught on camera spewing racist insults at African-American and Latino Republicans at a New Jersey Senate debate last Wednesday in Newark, NJ.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders accused the media of dividing America on Tuesday, after a series of questions from reporters about whether President Donald Trump was racist.

A coalition of some 800 black pastors representing two million congregants held a press conference on Thursday at the National Press Club to push House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to censure Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) for encouraging people to confront members of President Donald Trump’s administration.

Rising optimism on the economy among racial minorities is boosting President Donald Trump’s chances in 2018, says a poll by Zogby Analytics. 

A white Democratic candidate for the North Carolina state house responded to concerns about diversity in his state by assuring voters that he is part of the black community.

The majority of Americans want a wall along the southern border to protect the United States and American workers from illegal aliens pouring into the country.

Americans support admitting zero legal immigrants every year more than they support current legal immigration levels at which roughly between one to 1.5 million legal immigrants arrive in the United States annually.

In the next two decades, a foreign-born voting population will be added to the United States electorate via “chain migration” that is double the size of the number of annual American births. By virtue of chain migration, newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. with them.

Black Americans are the most supportive group in the United States of dramatically reducing legal immigration levels, where the U.S. currently admits more than 1 million legal immigrants a year, a new poll reveals.

Democratic Senators believe amnesty for illegal immigrants is the “civil rights issue of our time,” declared Sen. Dick Durbin, just before he voted January 22 to end the 2018 budget filibuster.

A law professor from Fordham University argues that African Americans should be allowed to present their blackness as a recognized legal disability to better combat inequalities and prejudice.

While Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he is “focused” and working “full time” for illegal aliens, black Americans in his state of Illinois remain excessively unemployed, far above the national average.

For decades, researchers and immigration experts alike have warned lawmakers and administrations of the negative impact immigration, both legal and illegal, has on the African-American community.

Two new polls show President Donald Trump’s rising support among black voters, highlighting his political gains for pushing employers to hire well-paid Americans instead of lower-wage migrants.

Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, is scolding Republicans in Congress for considering amnesty for illegal aliens despite it likely “disproportionately” harming working-class black Americans.

A new poll from Berkeley’s Institute of Government Studies suggests that no Republicans will make it onto the ballot for the key races in the 2018 general election in the deep blue state of California.

Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon will headline a fundraising luncheon for Black Americans for a Better Future (BABF) on Tuesday at the Willard InterContinental Washington hotel in Washington, DC.

Donald Trump won the presidency because non-college white votes surged towards the polls, and because African-Americans walked away, says a new survey by the left-wing Center for American Progress.

The pro-amnesty illegals pushing for a “DACA” amnesty may kill the Democratic Party’s hopes of a recovery in the Midwest, the New York Times admitted October 1.

A Texas woman who said a Hobby Lobby store’s decision to display a vase containing cotton stalks is insensitive toward blacks is gaining attention on social media.