Bernie Sanders and the difference between black and white poverty The Vermont senator’s comment during last night’s debate hit a nerve. Gillian Branstetter.

In the 2016 Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton mopped the floor with Bernie Sanders among black voters. That a commanding 50-point margin separated the two with this crucial cohort prompted soul ...

Sanders declared himself a Democratic candidate for the White House in April. In July, Sanders responded to a mostly black group of Black Lives Matter protesters at the liberal Netroots Nation ...

Brown said, by some measures, Sanders actually leads among black and Latino voters. "Among African-Americans, who are 17 through 29, Bernie Sanders is actually leading that group, 51 to 48 ...

Bernie Sanders’ biggest selling point in 2016 was that he was ... He suggested that some of his opponents “think that all that we need is people who are candidates who are black or white, ...

But, some argue, Sanders has struggled to clearly articulate that connection in a way that earns black voters’ support. When Sanders first ran for president, in 2016, he excited white ...

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders opened up a double-digit lead over his Democratic rivals on Tuesday, with the democratic socialist drawing the most support among black, Hispanic, Asian and white ...

Conscious that post-WWII America was scarred by massive racial inequality and facing significant Black protest and racial unrest in the 1960s (when young Bernie Sanders worked with the Civil ...

You’ve probably already heard: Bernie Sanders is white. Of course, all of the nationally recognized Democratic primary candidates had this in common, but Bernie’s whiteness—or, more ...

Black Americans living in many other major metropolitan areas about their transportation experiences ... Bernie Sanders says white people don’t know what it’s like to live in a ‘ghetto.’ ...

Anyone who thinks Bernie Sanders can’t win black votes should’ve seen him at a prayer breakfast in Columbia, SC, Tuesday. ... Sanders is a white guy of 74. At one point, ...