Black Democratic Senate Candidate In Kentucky Wears Noose In Campaign Video

Essence Magazine:

By Rayna Reid ·Updated June 3, 2022

Democratic Senate candidate Charles Booker (no relation to sitting New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker) just released a thought provoking digital campaign video, in which he wears “a noose around his own neck to highlight Sen. Rand Paul’s temporary blockage of an anti-lynching law.”

Another unusual feature of the ad is its running time—in a world of short-attention spans, political ads typically run for a

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