US Rep Ayanna Pressley (D-7th) and US Sen. Elizabeth Warren pretty immediately endorsed Kamala Harris for president today: Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 10/01/2021 - 9:07am
US Rep. Ayanna Pressley today endorsed Michelle Wu for mayor.
Pressley, who served with both Wu and Annissa Essaibi George on the Boston City Council, said: Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 09/27/2021 - 11:25am
Ayanna Pressley has endorsed Julia Mejia (incumbent), David Halbert, Ruthzee Louijeune and Carla Monteiro for the four at-large council seats and Kendra Hicks in District 6 (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, Mission Hill). Didn't say if she'll be endorsing somebody for mayor. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 05/05/2021 - 9:03am
Pressley yesterday called for an independent probe into the death of Mikayla Miller last month: Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 05/01/2021 - 2:41pm
Acting Mayor Kim Janey, US Rep. Ayanna Pressley and state Rep. Liz Miranda are all telling the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association to knock it off with the personal attacks on City Councilor Andrea Campbell - who is running against Janey in the fall elections - saying they are no longer going to just sit back while the union continues what Pressley called its long running racism. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 01/13/2021 - 6:42pm
Conan Harris tested positive last night, a week after he spent time in one of those Congressional "secure room" with Pressley, and, among others, reality-denying Republican who refused to put on masks while hiding from the rampaging mob in the corridor outside.
By adamg - Wed, 01/13/2021 - 10:16am
The Globe interviews Massachusetts members of Congress and their aides on what they experienced in the failed fascist putsch, including Sarah Groh, Rep. Ayanna Pressley's chief of staff: Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 3:31pm
By adamg - Wed, 11/11/2020 - 9:36pm
Elected officials gathered at the Green Line terminus at Heath Street today to demand the MBTA rescind its plan announced this week to end the E Line at Brigham Circle. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 11/03/2020 - 9:07am
Beata Coloyan captured Ayanna Pressley joining a dance line outside the Muni in Hyde Park this morning: Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 10:38am
The Herald reports that Rayla Campbell, the Randolph Republican who likes to show up at events in a flag dress, is suing the state to get on the November ballot in the 7th congressional district, currently represented by Ayanna Pressley. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 07/13/2020 - 3:14pm
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the state does not have to print Rayla Campbell's name on the Republican ballot for the 7th District congressional seat, because she failed to collect even the reduced number of signatures the court had earlier allowed due to Covid-19 issues. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 03/25/2020 - 9:31pm
By adamg - Mon, 01/20/2020 - 6:25pm
Ayanna Pressley gave an impassioned speech at the annual Martin Luther King breakfast this morning about how King's fight for civil rights is far from over. Charlie Baker came next and started with "The only thing I can add to that rant is this ..." He's apologized, of course. Rev. Laura Everett explains the damage was done.
By adamg - Thu, 01/16/2020 - 9:00pm
The Root talks to Pressley about the loss of her proud locks due to Alopecia areata, in which the body's immune system kills off hair follicles.
The night Pressley lost her final piece of her hair was pivotal, she says. Not only was it the night before Donald Trump’s impeachment vote in the House of Representatives, it was the anniversary of her mother’s death. The sense of loss was manifold.
By adamg - Wed, 02/27/2019 - 5:49pm
Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley asks Michael Cohen about President Trump's history with race relations. pic.twitter.com/Sbyd0KaNfd
— Liam Martin (@LiamWBZ) February 27, 2019
By adamg - Tue, 01/08/2019 - 4:26pm
David Bernstein posts a copy of Ayanna Pressley's first speech on the floor of the House.
By adamg - Thu, 01/03/2019 - 3:37pm
Back in 2010, when she was a BU student, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez danced in this BU Brat Pack mashup (she's the one in the dark-gray T-shirt).
Speaking of Boston and future congresswomen, here's our own Ayanna Pressley reading from Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of the Morning" back when she was still a city councilor: Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 12/05/2018 - 3:28pm
Councilor Kim Janey had to fight back the tears as she praised Ayanna Pressley for being a role model for her, for the other four women on the Boston City Council, for people across Boston. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 11/26/2018 - 6:49pm
First Steve Lynch abandons him and now Ayanna Pressley says she'll vote for Pelosi for speaker.
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