Latest from Errin Haines
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Biden campaign hopes to reach young voters through MTV Video Music Awards
A new ad airing during the MTV Video Music Awards marks Biden's biggest push to reach the key demographic.
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Renee Montgomery on the WNBA's history of protest
As the sports world strikes over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, The 19th talked to Montgomery, who took a year off of playing amid the racial reckoning to focus on voting initiatives.
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Kamala Harris brings history, identity to her convention night closeup
In a speech both personal and potent, the vice presidential nominee introduced herself to the nation and spoke to the existential nature of the 2020 presidential election.
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'We' versus 'Me': Suffrage centennial exposes vote gap in Black and White women
A century ago, White women got the right to vote. It took nearly 50 more years for that to extend to Black women. Experts weigh in on what the two groups have done at the ballot box since then.
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Michelle Obama could turn out the ‘Becoming Vote’
When the former first lady speaks at the Democratic National Convention, she could marshal enthusiasm among her memoir’s readership, a group that is at least 11 million strong.
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Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, to The 19th: “It’s good to be home.”
Meghan reflects on her lived experiences as a biracial woman and mother coming home to a troubled nation.
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Kamala Harris named vice presidential running mate to Joe Biden
The announcement marks history as Harris becomes the first woman of color to be named a vice presidential candidate for a major party.
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Black women insist that Biden “write us into history”
Interviews with a dozen strategists, activists and voters reveal that many now believe selecting a Black woman to be the vice presidential candidate is a requirement, not a recommendation.
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With Cori Bush, Black Lives Matter could go to Congress
Bush’s primary win in Missouri’s 1st District means the movement could be elevated into federal halls.
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The outsize importance of Biden’s vice presidential pick
“There’s a feeling that this woman has to be the woman that gets it across the finish line — otherwise, the story is that a woman couldn’t get it done again.”