Black U.S. Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker make the cut for the 5th Democratic Debate in Atlanta this week and no more than 2 Blacks have been on a major party presidential debate stage at once in America.....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's black digital news leaders

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), a former California attorney general and the only Black female candidate in the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America, and U.S. Senator Cory Booker(D-NJ) of New Jersey, a former Newark mayor and the only Black male in the presidential race, both of them qualifying for the Fifth Democratic Debate on Nov. 20 in Atlanta, Georgia

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief at Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog, both also at the top in Black digital news in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama  CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, ATLANTA, Georgia- U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, the only Blacks in the race for president, are among the 10 Democratic presidential candidates who have made the cut for Fifth Democratic Debate on Wed., Nov. 20 in Atlanta, Georgia at 9pm EST, a much anticipated debate that will be hosted by MSNBC and the Washington Post.

The debate comes as the Nov. 3, 2020 presidential election nears and Democrats work to unseat President Donald Trump from the White house.

A public impeachment inquiry began last week against the embattled Republican president, a billionaire real estate mogul who narrowly defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to win the presidency in 2016.

Other candidates meeting the polling and fundraising requirements set by the Democratic National Committee to debate this week  in Georgia are former vice president Joe Biden, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg,  Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar,  Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, billionaire businessman Tom Steyer, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and entrepreneur Andrew Yang. 

Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke and former HUD secretary Julián Castro, who both participated in all  of the other debates, including the fourth debate, failed to meet the qualifications criteria and have both suspended their presidential campaigns. 

The Fourth Democratic Debate was held in mid-October at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, a Columbus suburb, and some 12 candidates qualified, including all of the aforementioned.

Ohio remains a pivotal state for presidential elections.

Biden, Warren, Sanders and Buttigieg are the national front runners as the 2020 election nears, Buttigieg the front- runner for the Iowa Caucuses, though Iowa is 91 percent White.

Harris and Booker also qualified for the other four debates.

The third debate was held the campus of Texas Southern in Houston

The first two debates, the first in Miami and the second in Detroit, had 20 candidates for each debate, both spread out over two nights, some 50 million television viewers tuning in for the two-night first debate in Miami that was sponsored by NBC and MSNBC, with half the television viewers nationwide watching the second two-night debate in Detroit, CNN the sponsor of the second debate.

Historically speaking, there has never been more than two Black candidates for the Democratic nomination for president on a national debate stage at one time, the last time in 2004 when former U.S. senator Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, and of whom lost reelection after three terms in Congress, and the Rev Al Sharpton were candidates.

Other Black candidates for the Democratic nomination over the years include the late and former New York congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman in Congress and the first Black major party candidate for president, former Rep. Barbara Jordan, also deceased and the first Black elected to the Texas senate and the first Black southern Black woman elected to Congress, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. 

Only one Black, among both Democrats and Republicans, has reached the status of a presidential nominee of a major American political party, that being two-term former president Barack Obama, a Democrat and the nation's first Black president. 

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.