Watch Freedom Dreams: Black Women and the Student Debt Crisis, the latest documentary short from The Intercept. Directed by Astra Taylor and Erick Stoll—two former 25 New Faces of Film from 2006 and 2017, respectively—the doc profiles Black women who have been buried by the staggering amount of student loan debt they’ve accrued. The film is narrated by former Ohio state Senator Nina Turner, who is an advocate for cancelling student loan debt nationwide. The film points out that Black women are often forced to take out more loans compared to other demographics due to an overwhelming lack of intergenerational […]
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- 8/22/2022
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Summer Lee, a progressive Pennsylvania state house member, won Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district. Her primary victory in the deep-blue Pittsburgh district all but guarantees she’s headed to Congress next year to join fellow left-wing lawmakers — and, very likely, the Squad.
34-year-old Lee first won her statehouse seat in 2018 as part of a wave of progressive, diverse, younger candidates who unseated longtime incumbents, winning in the same fashion as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-n.Y.) did at the federal level. Lee supports the typical slate of left-wing priorities,...
34-year-old Lee first won her statehouse seat in 2018 as part of a wave of progressive, diverse, younger candidates who unseated longtime incumbents, winning in the same fashion as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-n.Y.) did at the federal level. Lee supports the typical slate of left-wing priorities,...
- 5/21/2022
- by Kara Voght
- Rollingstone.com
A pack of progressive candidates have crashed this year’s Democratic primaries, hoping to unseat incumbents and push the party to the left. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-n.Y.), the fifth-ranking Democrat in the House, has other plans.
Jeffries and two of his House Democrat allies on Wednesday rolled out the first slate of endorsements from Team Blue Pac, a political action committee intended to protect incumbents from intraparty attacks. The endorsements and their attendant $5,000 campaign contributions are the strongest demonstration of support yet from Jeffries and his allies — and serve...
Jeffries and two of his House Democrat allies on Wednesday rolled out the first slate of endorsements from Team Blue Pac, a political action committee intended to protect incumbents from intraparty attacks. The endorsements and their attendant $5,000 campaign contributions are the strongest demonstration of support yet from Jeffries and his allies — and serve...
- 2/16/2022
- by Kara Voght
- Rollingstone.com
October 2019 feels like a lifetime ago. Covid-19 didn’t exist yet. Donald Trump was president. George Floyd was alive.
And on a sunny, brisk fall day in Queens, New York, in a baseball field under a bridge across the street from the country’s biggest public housing project (Queensbridge, which birthed rap legends like Nas and Mobb Deep), a balding U.S. senator from Vermont held a rally.
Bernie Sanders had just had a heart attack earlier that month, declaring “I am back!” to the crowd of 26,000 who had turned...
And on a sunny, brisk fall day in Queens, New York, in a baseball field under a bridge across the street from the country’s biggest public housing project (Queensbridge, which birthed rap legends like Nas and Mobb Deep), a balding U.S. senator from Vermont held a rally.
Bernie Sanders had just had a heart attack earlier that month, declaring “I am back!” to the crowd of 26,000 who had turned...
- 5/20/2021
- by Reed Dunlea
- Rollingstone.com
In this week’s quarantine episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by former Ohio State senator and Bernie Sanders surrogate Nina Turner, who makes her second appearance on the show and discusses the future of progressive politics in America after Sanders suspended his campaign.
Taibbi makes a critique about the selective morality around news networks airing Trump’s Covid-19 press conferences (hint: it’s about the money). And the duo also learn about Joe Biden’s Fig Newton affinity, and discover some...
Taibbi makes a critique about the selective morality around news networks airing Trump’s Covid-19 press conferences (hint: it’s about the money). And the duo also learn about Joe Biden’s Fig Newton affinity, and discover some...
- 4/24/2020
- by Reed Dunlea and Daniel Halperin
- Rollingstone.com
Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen apologized Friday morning after receiving backlash for a Thursday CNN segment where she told Nina Turner, a black woman, that she was misusing a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.
“On air thurs I said my colleague @ninaturner didn’t have standing to use Mlk Jr. That was wrong. I am sorry for saying those words. Pls no need to defend me and attack angry black women. They have standing. I always need to listen more than I talk. We rise together,” Rosen tweeted, referencing the exchange with the Bernie Sanders campaign’s co-chair on “Cuomo Prime Time.”
A second Rosen tweet said, “Good morning. I have nothing but the upmost respect for Nina, her experience as a person of color, and the fight she’s waging in this election. Wake up this morning to this: I apologized + I take full responsibility. I look forward to...
“On air thurs I said my colleague @ninaturner didn’t have standing to use Mlk Jr. That was wrong. I am sorry for saying those words. Pls no need to defend me and attack angry black women. They have standing. I always need to listen more than I talk. We rise together,” Rosen tweeted, referencing the exchange with the Bernie Sanders campaign’s co-chair on “Cuomo Prime Time.”
A second Rosen tweet said, “Good morning. I have nothing but the upmost respect for Nina, her experience as a person of color, and the fight she’s waging in this election. Wake up this morning to this: I apologized + I take full responsibility. I look forward to...
- 3/6/2020
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
“Mayor Bloomberg has a solid and strong and enthusiastic base of support,” Bernie Sanders said from the debate stage in South Carolina Tuesday night. “Problem is, they’re all billionaires.”
It was a tidy one-liner (with the bonus that it happens to have a basis in reality: Jeff Bezos was among those who reportedly lobbied the former New York mayor to get in the race), but the joke was met, somewhat mystifyingly, by a loud round of boos from the debate-night crowd in South Carolina.
The same crowd had, for most of the night,...
It was a tidy one-liner (with the bonus that it happens to have a basis in reality: Jeff Bezos was among those who reportedly lobbied the former New York mayor to get in the race), but the joke was met, somewhat mystifyingly, by a loud round of boos from the debate-night crowd in South Carolina.
The same crowd had, for most of the night,...
- 2/26/2020
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
The riotous peak of the Strokes’ get-out-the-vote concert rally with Bernie Sanders on Monday night came at the very end, when the opening notes of “New York City Cops” ripped through the Whittemore Center Arena in Durham, New Hampshire. Within seconds, fans were storming the college hockey arena’s stage, and a few New Hampshire cops were trying in vain to shut it all down as Julian Casablancas howled about their big-city colleagues: “They ain’t too smaaaaaaaaart!”
“My head’s spinning a little,” Casablancas tells Rs after the show,...
“My head’s spinning a little,” Casablancas tells Rs after the show,...
- 2/11/2020
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Since we released the first edition of this list in early December, the news cycle has taken several hectic turns.
The president was impeached, and responded by issuing “official movement permits” to Santa Claus and his nine reindeer, so they could legally enter the United States (not a joke!). The U.S. embassy in Baghdad was overwhelmed, and we assassinated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, a move Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described as a holiday present to the people of Iran (“We view the American action last night as giving them freedom”).
In the campaign,...
The president was impeached, and responded by issuing “official movement permits” to Santa Claus and his nine reindeer, so they could legally enter the United States (not a joke!). The U.S. embassy in Baghdad was overwhelmed, and we assassinated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, a move Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described as a holiday present to the people of Iran (“We view the American action last night as giving them freedom”).
In the campaign,...
- 1/13/2020
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by former senator Nina Turner. Currently the National co-chairwoman of the Bernie Sanders For President Campaign, Turner remembers her early day in politics and how those roots connect her to Sanders’ ideals.
“To have the Senator say healthcare is a human right in this country — my mother died at the young age of forty-two years old. An aneurysm burst in her brain,” explains says Turner, “to think about all she had to...
“To have the Senator say healthcare is a human right in this country — my mother died at the young age of forty-two years old. An aneurysm burst in her brain,” explains says Turner, “to think about all she had to...
- 1/10/2020
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Top campaign staffers for Bernie Sanders held a press call Monday, and the message was positive. The senator, they said, is doing well and won the last debate. And polls show, they added, that the country cares about his favored issues, particularly health care.
But that’s not always, his staff noted pointedly to listening reporters, reflected in the coverage.
“It seems like there’s a direct correlation,” said senior advisor Jeff Weaver, who was on the call alongside campaign co-chair and Ohio state senator Nina Turner and pollster Ben Tulchin.
But that’s not always, his staff noted pointedly to listening reporters, reflected in the coverage.
“It seems like there’s a direct correlation,” said senior advisor Jeff Weaver, who was on the call alongside campaign co-chair and Ohio state senator Nina Turner and pollster Ben Tulchin.
- 8/13/2019
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
Burlington, Vermont — Get ready to feel the Bern again. A movement to draft Bernie Sanders to run for president in 2020 is launching today, with the aim of building an organizational structure so the Vermont Senator can start campaigning at a moment’s notice.
“We have two goals,” Rich Pelletier, one of the four main organizers of Organizing For Bernie, tells Rolling Stone. “One, we want to show the support is there. The second is to begin to do the organizing that is going to need to happen for him to hit the ground running,...
“We have two goals,” Rich Pelletier, one of the four main organizers of Organizing For Bernie, tells Rolling Stone. “One, we want to show the support is there. The second is to begin to do the organizing that is going to need to happen for him to hit the ground running,...
- 12/3/2018
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
[[tmz:video id="0_6yzv4ial"]] Killer Mike loves him some Oprah Winfrey as much as anyone ... but that's Not who he wants running for President in 2020. We got Mike out at Lax Thursday and asked him about the wave of support -- and some backlash, too -- for Oprah to run against Donald Trump in the next election cycle. But as you can see from this video, Km wasn't having it. Killer Mike knows Exactly who he wants to run...
- 1/12/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Susan Sarandon and fellow actors gathered outside the Democratic National Convention Wednesday to protest the DNC's alleged efforts to silence Bernie Sanders supporters. Sarandon, Danny Glover, Shailene Woodley and Rosario Dawson rallied to express their frustration after former Ohio Senator Nina Turner, a strong supporter of Sanders, was denied the chance to be one of his nominators at the last minute, according to the Chicago Tribune. Turner was reportedly dismissed from the convention during the first night after her refusal to endorse Hillary Clinton. She was scheduled to introduce the Vermont senator on Monday evening but was stopped from doing so.
- 7/28/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit_
- PEOPLE.com
Susan Sarandon and fellow actors gathered outside the Democratic National Convention Wednesday to protest the DNC's alleged efforts to silence Bernie Sanders supporters. Sarandon, Danny Glover, Shailene Woodley and Rosario Dawson rallied to express their frustration after former Ohio Senator Nina Turner, a strong supporter of Sanders, was denied the chance to be one of his nominators at the last minute, according to the Chicago Tribune. Turner was reportedly dismissed from the convention during the first night after her refusal to endorse Hillary Clinton. She was scheduled to introduce the Vermont senator on Monday evening but was stopped from doing so.
- 7/28/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit_
- PEOPLE.com
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