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The Chicago police union and Jesse Jackson are set to hold dueling demonstrations outside the offices of prosecutor Kim Foxx; Matt Finn reports from the scene. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News…

And it was from these experiences that she learned something important — that she wanted nothing to do with politics. It was very difficult being married to a man that felt like politics was his destiny," Obama says. " Obama says it was "a little destabilizing to be a box-checker married to a serial swerver," and that she started questioning herself because she "could feel the force of his beliefs." Once they were married, and after two young daughters, Barack ran for public office, leaving corporate lawyer Michelle at home with the kids — a period Michelle Obama calls "irritating and hard." And people you love and people you want to build a life with, you're going to have to work through stuff with." It was the first part of that statement that was used as a sound bite, and Michelle Obama was accused of not loving her country, and criticized for being "an angry black woman." She says she was called "Obama's baby mama, and I put all that down [in her book] because I want young people to know there are highs and lows and rough patches and things you have to overcome." And being judged as a black woman was part of it, too. Obama recalls an instance as a child when she was visiting relatives and was asked why she was talking "like a white girl." Asked about her famous statement at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, "When they go low, we go high," Obama says it's still her belief, despite that even some Democrats feel it's out of step with the current political climate.

Red and blue are no longer mere colors, but the war paints of choice of America’s dueling tribes. America’s emerging divisions were coming into focus. Enter Newt Gingrich, an army brat, small college history professor, and conservative trend-threader. When Ken Starr supplied congressional Republicans with ammunition to impeach President Clinton, Gingrich, the congressional GOP, and the Republican base eagerly drank from the poisoned chalice—even as it ended an ethically-addled Gingrich’s congressional career and to Republican defeat in the 1998 midterms, a historic rarity for the “out party” in the sixth year of a presidency. The Red and the Blue also captures the other players and hot-button issues that shape the politics of our day. Kornacki also notes Trump’s prior disdain for Buchanan in the context of the 2000 presidential contest where Buchanan ran on the Reform Party line. At the time, Trump and Buchanan both contemplated running for the party’s nomination. Fittingly, The Red and the Blue ends by circling back to Gingrich and Clinton. What he didn’t count on was that it would do the same for the Democrats. Like their party they could see where their future was.” But as the 2016 election teaches us, that’s not enough for the Democrats to get to 270.

As black women, our very existence is political. It’s time for us — whether we’re in politics or not — to take the decision-making into our own hands. It’s time for us — and we mean all of us, whether we’re in politics or not — to take the decision-making into our own hands. As Leah often tells her congregation, “Sitting in church all day won’t make you a Christian any more than sitting in a garage will make you a car.” First, let’s remember our history. It’s time for women of color to take positions of power within political parties that have been denied to us. It was in that tradition that we came together for the Power Rising Summit. Use your power to help other women rise Third, use your power wisely to help others. To those women who are through the door and at the table, we say “Congratulations, you’ve made it! How have you made the path easier for another sister? We are committed to victory for our Sister Candidates.

In contrast, aside from the commemoration of the dead, Americans mostly have seen funerals as solemn reminders of how frail and transitory life is for all of us, and how our shared fates should unite even the bitterest of enemies. Mr. Wellstone’s Minnesota funeral was meant to be a commemoration of a life of public servant well lived. Mr. McCain and President Trump were hardly friends. In not-so-veiled allusions, daughter Meghan McCain received loud applause for blasting Mr. Trump, as if she had delivered a partisan campaign speech: “We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served.” Former President Barack Obama used his time similarly to reference Mr. Trump, with similar not so subtle attacks, “Much of our politics can seem small and mean and petty. He contrasted Mr. McCain with Mr. Trump’s policies on illegal immigration and the summit with Vladimir Putin, “[McCain] respected the dignity inherent in every life, a dignity that does not stop at borders and cannot be erased by dictators.” Once a funeral is turned into politics, then politics takes on a life of its own. Why are funerals of celebrities and politicians turning into extended and televised political rallies? Partly, the volatile Donald Trump and his frantic political and media critics are locked in a crude, no-holds-barred war against each other — waged everywhere nonstop. Partly, everything in America has become politicized. Not even the dead escape it. Politicizing funerals will not end well.

DETROIT—A stage is a stage, even when it’s a church and the performance is a marathon of a funeral. Some were barnburners who brought the house down, like Rev. Jasper Williams, Jr. of Atlanta who turned her eulogy into a more than 30 minute Bill Cosby-esque “Pound Cake Speech” rant, steeped in respectability politics on the problems in the black “house,” and how it needed to become a “home.” You could feel Fox News commentators potentially salivating over his oratory as he railed against black women’s abilities to raise their sons, despite their strength and how “fine” they are. He even criticized Franklin’s religious and civil rights titan of a father, Rev. Then there was Sharpton, who was seated next to Farrakhan during the beginning of the funeral. “She sang a song for all of us,” calling her the “soundtrack for the civil rights movement.” Then Sharpton turned, and used President Donald Trump’s recent statement about Franklin’s passing, that she used to “work” for him, as a cudgel to beat the president with. “She used to perform for you, she worked for us!” railed Sharpton. He called Bill Clinton “the first black president,” something I’m sure Clinton hadn’t heard since we elected an actual black president in Barack Obama back in 2008. Ellis joked how some of the white people in attendance (a personal side-eye from me to Hillary Clinton) were clapping “on the 1 and 3” instead of the one and two. And Franklin was a queen who loved to perform, who loved her people and loved the flare for the dramatic.