Local and Congressional Democratic Campaigns in Pennsylvania

A wren build a nest in my friend, Wayne’s safety helmet.

When I was eight or nine years old, my father was driving the babysitter, an African-American woman we knew as Mrs. Smith home to where she lived on the southside of Bethlehem. She was sitting in front in the passenger seat, and I was in the back the topic of conversation was the television show Julia, which featured a very light skinned Caucasian featured with African ancestry. Mrs. Smith said to my father “When we look at television, we don’t exist.” through the memory of the child, what I believe she meant by this was that not seeing representations of oneself in mass media is diminishing. Tracee Ellis Ross talks about this a bit and her recent interview on NPR. Tell me what you think…

Tracee Ellis Ross : Fresh Air Tracee Ellis Ross co-stars in the Oscar-nominated movie American Fiction. For eight seasons, she starred in the ABC comedy series Black-ish. We talk about her new projects, her superstar mother, Diana Ross, and forging her own path outside of her mother's success. We also talk about how she's come t...

Adrienne Redd will work to restructure public education funding Pennsylvania is ranked 48th worst out 50 states in terms of how regressively it funds public education education. I propose that we phase out property taxes ...

We'll be getting out the vote this weekend: November 3, 4, 5 and Election Day November 6th! I am serving as staging director for the Democratic Consolidated Campaign out of the office at 801 Easton Road, Willow Grove. We are working to elect Daryl Boling for State Rep., Maria Collett for State Senator, Madeleine Dean for Congress in the 4th District and to re-elect Senator Bob Casey and Governor Tom Wolf. Stop by the office any time from 8 am until 8 pm to help us out.