Cynthia Ann McKinney was born on March 17,1955 and is an American politician, academic, and conspiracy theorist.
60 Facts About Cynthia McKinney
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Cynthia McKinney was the first African American woman elected to represent Georgia in the House.
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Cynthia McKinney left the Democratic Party and ran in 2008 as the presidential nominee of the Green Party.
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Cynthia McKinney ran for vice president in 2020 after the Green Party of Alaska formally nominated her and draft-nominated Jesse Ventura for president.
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Cynthia McKinney is currently a professor in Political Science at North South University in Bangladesh.
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When her district was redrawn and renumbered due to the Supreme Court of the United States ruling in Miller v Johnson, McKinney was elected from the new 4th district in the 1996 election.
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Cynthia McKinney was defeated by Denise Majette in the 2002 Democratic primary.
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Cynthia McKinney was re-elected to the House in November 2004, following her successor's run for Senate.
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Cynthia McKinney was defeated by Hank Johnson in the 2006 Democratic primary.
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Cynthia McKinney eventually sought and won the Green Party nomination in the 2008 presidential election receiving 161,797 votes.
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Cynthia McKinney was born and raised in the affluent middle-class historic Collier Heights area in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of Leola McKinney, a retired nurse, and Billy McKinney, a law enforcement officer and former Georgia State Representative.
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Cynthia McKinney was exposed to the Civil Rights movement through her father, an activist who regularly participated in demonstrations across the south.
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In 2015, Cynthia McKinney completed her dissertation on the transformational leadership of Hugo Chavez and was awarded a Ph.
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Cynthia McKinney then taught political science at Agnes Scott College in Decatur and at Clark Atlanta University.
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Cynthia McKinney was the first African American woman to represent Georgia in the House.
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Cynthia McKinney's district was renumbered as the 4th and redrawn to take in almost all of DeKalb County, prompting outrage from Cynthia McKinney.
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Cynthia McKinney was re-elected two more times with no substantive opposition.
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Cynthia McKinney eventually ascended to the top Democratic spot on the International Relations Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, serving as ranking member.
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Cynthia McKinney chastised Gore for failing to support the U'wa people of Colombia trying to oppose petroleum drilling near them.
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Cynthia McKinney gained national attention for her remarks following the September 11 attacks in 2001.
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Cynthia McKinney asserted that the United States had "numerous warnings of the events to come" and called for an investigation.
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In 2002, Cynthia McKinney was defeated in the Democratic primary by DeKalb County judge Denise Majette.
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In 2004, Cynthia McKinney served on the advisory committee for the group 2004 Racism Watch.
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Cynthia McKinney hosted the first delegation of Afro-Latinos from Central and South America and worked with the World Bank and the US State Department to recognize Afro-Latinos.
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Cynthia McKinney was one of the 31 in the House who objected to the official allotment of the electoral votes from Ohio in the 2004 United States presidential election to incumbent George W Bush.
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Cynthia McKinney was an advocate for victims of Hurricane Katrina and a critic of the government's response.
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Cynthia McKinney was the only member of Congress to participate in a march across the Crescent City Connection Bridge on November 7,2005, to protest what had happened on that bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Cynthia McKinney chose to be an active participant in the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, although the Democratic Party leadership called for Democratic members to boycott the committee.
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Cynthia McKinney sat as a guest along with only a few other Democrats.
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In questioning Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Cynthia McKinney referred to a news story in which the owners of a nursing home had been charged with negligent homicide for abandoning 34 clients who died in the flood waters.
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The second title of the bill was submitted by Cynthia McKinney, seeking a Comprehensive Environmental Sampling and Toxicity Assessment Plan, or CESTAP, to minimize harm to Gulf Coast residents from the toxic releases into the environment caused by the hurricane.
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On June 13,2006, Cynthia McKinney said on the House floor that only a dozen of the 176 Katrina bills identified on the chart had passed into law, leaving 163 bills stalled in committee.
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Until 2000, Cynthia McKinney served on the House International Relations Committee, where she was the highest-ranking Democrat on the Human Rights Subcommittee.
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Cynthia McKinney worked on legislation to stop conventional weapons transfers to governments that are undemocratic or fail to respect human rights.
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Cynthia McKinney's bill was abandoned when it failed to clear the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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Two days later, Officer McKenna filed a police report claiming that Cynthia McKinney had struck "his chest with a closed fist".
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At her April 23,2006, "District Days" event, Cynthia McKinney was being interviewed by WGCL's Renee Starzyk, who repeatedly questioned her about the March 29 scuffle with a Capitol police officer.
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Frustrated, Cynthia McKinney stood up and apparently forgot she was still wearing the microphone.
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Cynthia McKinney submitted to Congress two different versions of the same bill, the "MLK Records Act", which, if signed into law, would release all currently sealed files concerning the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The 2005 version of the MLK Records Act, HR 2554 had 67 cosponsors by the time Cynthia McKinney left office at the end of 2006.
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Documents relating to the death of rapper Tupac Shakur, in which Cynthia McKinney took an active interest, would be released under another bill she would introduce.
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Cynthia McKinney's loss was attributed to a mid-decade redistricting, in which the 4th had absorbed portions of Gwinnett and Rockdale Counties, as well as her run-in with a police officer in the March 29,2006, Capitol Hill police incident.
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CNN reported that during her concession speech, Cynthia McKinney hardly mentioned her opponent but praised the leftist political leaders elected in South America.
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Cynthia McKinney questioned the efficacy of voting machines and criticized the media.
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In 2007, Cynthia McKinney moved from her longtime residence in the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain to California.
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Cynthia McKinney was a Green Party candidate in the 2008 presidential election.
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Cynthia McKinney appeared at the July 15,2007, Green Party National Meeting in Reading, Pennsylvania, where she suggested that the Green Party could become a progressive political force.
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At an August 27,2007, peace rally in Kennebunkport, Maine, Cynthia McKinney confirmed the depth of her disenchantment with the Democratic Party, urging San Francisco voters to replace Nancy Pelosi with antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan.
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On September 10,2008, Cynthia McKinney joined a press conference held by third-party and independent candidates, along with Ralph Nader, Chuck Baldwin, and initiator Ron Paul.
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On December 30,2008, Cynthia McKinney was aboard the ship Dignity when it attempted to enter the Gaza Strip, which had its coastal area declared a "closed military zone" by Israel, while on a humanitarian mission by the Free Gaza Movement from Cyprus.
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Cynthia McKinney initially refused to sign the deportation papers because they were written in Hebrew and that the papers would require them to admit that they were in violation of Israel's blockade, which they denied.
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On July 7,2009, Cynthia McKinney was deported to the United States.
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On May 21,2011, Cynthia McKinney appeared on state-run television in Libya and stated that United States participation in military intervention in the 2011 Libyan civil war was "not what the people of the United States stand for and it's not what African-Americans stand for".
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Cynthia McKinney announced in April 2012 that she would run for the 4th congressional district against Hank Johnson on the Green Party ticket.
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In March 2009, Cynthia McKinney was present at a gathering of Holocaust deniers in London.
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The Washington Post noted that, amid a sitewide increase in hate speech following Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, Cynthia McKinney had prominently amplified and made tweets in 2022 containing a hashtag mainly used by white nationalists claiming to "notice" Jewish people in positions of power.
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In 2016 Cynthia McKinney released a statement via Twitter accusing Israelis of conducting the 2016 Nice truck attack in France and the Wurzburg train attack in Germany, she did not provide any evidence for either claim.
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In May 2020, The Algemeiner Journal and other medial outlets reported that Cynthia McKinney released a series of statements via Twitter questioning the true number of Jewish people murdered during The Holocaust.
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The Jerusalem Post reported that on June 28,2021, Cynthia McKinney posted a meme to Twitter that depicted the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center as a puzzle with the "final piece of the puzzle" having the word "Zionists" on it.
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Cynthia McKinney has been featured in a full-length documentary titled American Blackout.