Ed Gainey swept into office vowing to improve life for Black Pittsburghers. The new mayor of Pennsylvania’s second-largest ...

Garrity, who replaced Shapiro as Pennsylvania's top vote-getter in history when she ... a predominantly Black neighborhood in Philadelphia that went for former Vice President Kamala Harris ...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp sought equal rights for women. In their travels, these 19th-century figures lectured about abolition, temperance and women’s suffrage to a variety of ...

New conversations with Black men who voted for Donald Trump in swing states in November showed that nearly all of them remain staunchly with him, but his administration’s Department of Government ...

That evening, to commemorate the landmark amendment, thousands marched down Pennsylvania Avenue ... initially worried about bestowing voting rights upon black citizens, some of them still illiterate.

The GOP already flunked their first test, losing a Pennsylvania legislative seat that should have ... Malone defeated Republican Josh Parsons by less than one percent of the vote in a tightly-run race ...

The Underground Railroad helped Harriet escape to Pennsylvania ... Tubman took part in various women’s suffrage conventions organized by Black and white women. She supported the National ...

Seven states use partisan elections to select their Supreme Court justices while 14, including Wisconsin, use nonpartisan ...

About a third of voters said the economy was the most important issue in their vote for president ... Exit polling in Pennsylvania found that most of the Keystone State’s voters had confidence ...

She moved to Ohio and then Pennsylvania to teach ... She also became an active member of the suffrage movement, advocating for Black women’s right to vote and ultimately splitting off from the likes ...

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