Pictured are U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky (wearing blue suit), who won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate on Tues, May 17, and former state representative Charles Booker (weaing tan suit), a Black Louisville Democrat, won the Democratic nomination. The two will square off in November for the midterm elections

The Associated press called the race early on Tuesday, Kentucky's U.S. Senate primary race one of several being closely watched across the country.

Booker, 38, who rose to prominence as a community advocate during the Breonna Taylor protests, won against three obscure candidates, and Paul, 59, making his third six-year term, won over five low profile opponents,

A former state representative who succeeded Darryl Owens into office and the first Black Democratic candidate to be nominated for statewide election in Kentucky history, Booker is making his second run for the U.S. Senate after running in 2020 and losing the Democratic nomination to retired Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath, who went on to lose the general election to Republican Mitch McConnell.

A son of former three-time presidential candidate and 12-term former U.S. represetative of Texas, Ron Paul, Sen. Rand Paul heads into the November election with an $8.6 million campaign war chest and Booker has some $470,000. Currently the U.S Senate consists of 50 Democrats, 48 Republicans, and two independents with Republicans vying to take control in November of both the U.S House of Representatives, which the Democrats control, and the Senate.

While eyes are on U.S. Senate races on Tuesday in places like Kentucky and North Carolina, Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race is considered by many the most closely watched contest being held on May 17. At stake there is the open Senate primary, with Republican Senator Pat Toomey retiring

(CNN)-BUFFALO, New York-Ten mostly Black people were killed in a racially motivated mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo on Saturday by a suspect in tactical gear who was livestreaming the attack, law enforcement officials said during a news conference.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio. After snubbing local Women's March organizers, Planned Parenthood's "Bans Off Our Bodies" marches in Northeast Ohio in Cleveland and elsewhere nationally failed to garner the mass crowd that was expected on Saturday in spite of the corporate-funded group spending thousands upon thousands of dollars for Facebook and other ads for the national initiative. And while a few media outlets covered the event, organizers of Cleveland's rally and march, who did not reside in Cleveland and were from Columbus and Akron, Ohio, got absolutely no pre coverage of the event from Cleveland's mainstream media. (Editor's note: Women's March Cleveland will rally and march Sat. June 11 at noon on the steps of Cleveland City Hall before the U.S. Supreme Court issues its decision in a Mississippi case where the court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade and more than a thousand have already responded on Facebook for the event. Click here to register on Facebook for the open-to-the-public event in June. Click here to register for the event at mobilize us). The event contact tel is (216) 659-0473.

In Cleveland, for instance, which was dubbed the Northeast Ohio regional Bans Off Our Bodies, only hundreds came out to Willard Park in downtown Cleveland, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper, Ohio's largest newspaper. Also, Blacks and elected officials in the majority Black major American city of some 372,000 people stayed away in droves. Organizers had predicted that thousands would turnout, like they did on Oct 2, 2021 for Women's March Cleveland's mass reproductive march, but to no avail.

"They failed to engage the media and the community and were largely ineffective in Cleveland and elsewhere because they are inexperienced organizers who snubbed and disrespected  local women's march organizers in the respective cities, including in Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton and Cleveland," said Women's March Cleveland head organizer Kathy Wray Coleman. She went on to say that "the event in Cleveland lacked diversity and Black people, and the inexperienced organizers of Planned Parenthood actually cursed out local women's march organizers in Cleveland."

The absence primarily of local leaders in a largely Black city also puzzled Coleman, a seasoned Black community organizer who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper for 17 years as a reporter, a historical Black print weekly published in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. Also, she said, there is a gubernatorial and a U.S. Senate race in Ohio, and congressional and other races, and none of the candidates spoke as the November midterm elections loom. That too, said Coleman, is a reflection on the organizers.

A former Cleveland schools high school biology teacher and longtime community activist and local reporter who also leads the Imperial Women Coalition and International Women's Day March Cleveland, Coleman is Black and has been a head organizer of Women's March Cleveland's mass rallies since 2018 when some 6,000 people turned out, up from 2,500 people on Market Square on Oct 2, 2021 who participated in a reproductive rights rally and march that included Black speakers, local community activists, and a diverse group of area elected officials.

The other reason they were ineffective, said Coleman, is that  unlike Women's March Cleveland, which includes a coalition of local organizations at each major rally and march, Planned Parenthood is corporate funded and is run primarily by  Washington insiders with no ties to the community, let alone the Black community.  She said that "they thought they could buy successful mass marches in Cleveland and nationwide while simultaneously excluding experienced Black local organizers, and they could not."

Coleman called Saturday's rally  and march of mainly out-of-towners in Cleveland by Planned Parenthood's disgruntled outside organizers "divisive and mediocre at best."

Moreover, the local Cleveland activist and organizer said that Women's March National and Planned Parenthood were both unprepared when the leak came down in early May that the U.S. Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v Wade this summer.

Women's March Cleveland, she, said, which has ties to the national group but remains independent locally since divisive conflict in 2019 between Women's March National and the Jewish community, will be prepared to rally and march and is organizing now with a noon march on June 11 on the steps of Cleveland City Hall before the Supreme Court issues its decision to overturn Roe v Wade, likely in late June.The rally and march will also address Civil and voting rights since Clevelabd is a largely Black city.

Roe v Wade is the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that made abortion legal nationwide. When it is overturned this summer by the Supreme Court the states will then have authority to regulate or dismantle abortions, and most of the nation's state legislatures are predominantlty Republican like in Texas where abortion after six weeks of pregnancy has been unlawful since September of last year, per a new state law.

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WASHINGTON, D.C-President Biden has named Karine Jean-Pierre as his White House press  to replace Jen Psaki later this month, Jean-Pierre the first Black women in U.S. history to be named to the pretigious post.

She has been Psaki's deputy since the start of the administration and stood in for her on occasion, including when she was out was COVID-19. She will  also be the the first openly gay person in the prestigius role of speaking for the president and the U.S. government and holding in press briefings that are watched in venues internationally.

"Karine not only brings the experience, talent and integrity needed for this difficult job, but she will continue to lead the way in communicating about the work of the Biden-Harris Administration on behalf of the American people," Biden said in a statement. "Jill and I have known and respected Karine a long time and she will be a strong voice speaking for me and this administration."

Jean-Pierre, 47,  said at Thursday's press briefing, where she appeared with Psaki, that her new White House assignment "is a historic moment, and it's not lost on me."

Previously, Jean-Pierre was the senior advisor and national spokeswoman for MoveOn.org and a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. She is also a former lecturer in international and public affairs at Columbia University. She has worked at the Center for Community and Corporate Ethics, and in December 2018, The Haitian Times named her one of six "Haitian Newsmakers Of The Year".[I, May 2022 Forbes described Jean-Pierre as having been a "prominent Democratic activist

As of 2020, Jean-Pierre lives in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with her partner, CNN correspondent Suzanne Malveaux, and their daughter. She is fluent in English, French, and Haitian Creole

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