National News

Maryland has a chance at its first Black Governor after Primary

Vox reports that former NAACP president Ben Jealous is breaking new political ground in Maryland. Following the primary, Jealous won the Democratic nomination against Prince George’s County official Rushern Baker, giving him the chance to be the first Black governor in the state’s history as well as the third African-American to be a governor, period. What’s shocking is that this marks Jealous’s first time as a political candidate, but he beat out several more experienced names from a former adviser to Hillary Clinton and a Maryland state senator. […]