Rev. Michael Ephraim Sr. and his more than 250 congregants remember when Dougherty County was a one-time epicenter of the pandemic in March. And they’re still waiting for COVID-19 relief.
“By the mere fact that people that are used to congregating can’t congregate, it’s on their minds,” Ephraim said.
Ephraim’s Bethel AME Church in Albany is now virtual. And the pandemic was one reason voters in Albany and the surrounding area cast ballots in the runoffs. Another was a chance to change the balance of power in the U.S. Senate. A third reason, Ephraim says, were attacks on Warnock that may have played a role in energizing Black churchgoers in South Georgia.
4 presidential impeachments in U.S. history: See Express-Times front pages for each
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
Posted Jan 14, 2021
The Express-Times and its predecessors have been publishing long enough to run reports on all four presidential impeachments in U.S. history. At center, the Jan. 14, 2021, edition announces President Donald Trump s second impeachment. The others, clockwise from top left: Bill Clinton s in 1998, Trump s first impeachment in 2019, Richard Nixon s resignation before impeachment in 1974, and Andrew Johnson s in 1868.lehighvalleylive.com archives
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Of the four presidential impeachments in U.S. history, Donald Trump now has two.
Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998. Richard Nixon resigned to avoid it in 1974. Congress brought charges against Andrew Johnson in 1868.
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Watching US President Donald Trump s supporters storm the Capitol last week, I wondered who or what could possibly stop the madness.
And then the answer became clear: corporate America.
The problem seemed insurmountable. The rebels consumed a strict diet of lies, conspiracy theories and us-versus-them rhetoric. They turned out to vote, to protest, to riot. They were willing to commit crimes and shed blood for their leader, whose name and face they wear on their clothes and tattooed into their skin.
Nothing Trump did or did not do – not the 380,000 Americans dead from COVID-19, not saying I ll be with you when he meant I ll be watching you on TV – seemed to turn them against him. But he could easily turn them against anyone he disliked, to the point that the entire Republican Party feared his retribution.