::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

  Campaign to kick off summer outreach with eight-figure investment in engagement programming with Black organizations, community groups, and faith centers nationally and across battleground states Summer programming includes continued investments in Black media to engage Black voters where they are Five months till Election Day, Trump still has virtually no genuine engagement plan for Black voters Today, Team Biden-Harris is launching  Black Voters for Biden-Harris , a national organizing program to bolster our continued historic investments in outreach to the backbone of the Biden-Harris coalition – Black voters. These voters were instrumental in electing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2020, paving the way for the Biden-Harris Administration to deliver a record low Black unemployment rate, Black wealth increased by 60%, more Black Americans with health care coverage than ever before, and billions forgiven in student loan debt that disproportionately impacts Black borrowers. ...

(File this one in the "Don't-forget-where-you-came-from" folder) SUMMARY AP: In his bid to become North Carolina’s first Black governor, Republican Mark Robinson assails government safety net spending as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that has mired generations of Black people in “dependency” and poverty. But the lieutenant governor’s political rise wouldn’t have been possible without it. ===================================== By Mona Austin Mark Robinson (R-NC), the first Black man to run for governor of North Carolina is eating his own words. Yolanda Hill has run a free lunch program through a non-profit organization she founded, Balanced Nutrition, solely funded by tax payers for years. The organization, has collected roughly $7 million in government funding under the state Department of Health and Human Services since 2017, while bankrolling the careers of Hill, Robinson and other members of their family. The business helped child care centers get federa...

buzzz worthy. . .   SILVER SPRING, MD-November 3, 2016-TV One's  NewsOne Now, the first morning news program to focus on news and analysis of culture from an explicitly African American perspective, will bring the 2016 election season to a close with a special six-hour live telecast of  TV One's 2016 Election Night Viewing Party  on  Tuesday, November 8 at 7 p.m. ET   from   one of Washington, D.C's top restaurants along the U Street corridor. Hosted by  NewsOne Now's  host and managing editor  Roland S. Martin , the special primetime program   will focus on the intense presidential election as well as political races affecting the African-American community nationwide. Martin  will chat with political panelists about Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump's  and Democratic Presidential Nominee  Hillary Clinton's  election trail performances,  ...