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Rep. Joyce Beatty, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Trump Administration, theGrio.com
December 19, 2025
Rep. Joyce Beatty is speaking out after White House claims the vote to rename the John F. Kennedy Center after…
Ayanna Pressley, Yvette Clarke, Jerome Powell, Black unemployment, Federal Reserve, theGrio.com
December 19, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. congresswomen demand that the Federal Reserve Board confront economic disparities hurting Black households.
Kamala Harris, theGrio.com
December 18, 2025
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, said Democrats have to "speak to this moment."
Donald Trump, Marijuana, theGrio.com
December 18, 2025
Advocates have pushed for the legalization of marijuana, considering its prohibition has led to the mass incarceration of Black Americans.
Donald Trump, Kennedy Center, theGrio.com
December 18, 2025
Trump’s handpicked board voted to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House said.
Andrea Lucas, EEOC, theGrio.com
December 18, 2025
The unemployment rate for white men is below the national rate at 3.6%, yet the Black unemployment is at a…
Trump, trump plaques, Trump Presidential Walk of Fame, Presidential Walk of Fame, Obama plaque, Biden plaque theGrio.com
December 18, 2025
President Trump’s "Presidential Walk of Fame" features plaques with insults and false claims about past presidents Obama, Biden, and more
Donald Trump, Economy, theGrio.com
December 17, 2025
For millions, including Black and young voters who helped expand his coalition in 2024, Trump's claim of an improved economy…
Health Care, Health Care Subsidiaries, ACA, Affordable Health Care Act
December 17, 2025
Four Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson and signed onto a Dem-led petition that will force a vote to extend…
FBI Deputy Director, Dan Bongino, Dan Bongino FBI
December 17, 2025
FBI Deputy DIrector Dan Bongino confirmed he would be leaving his post in January, one of the highest-profile Trump admin…
Ayanna Pressley, Donald Trump, theGrio.com
December 17, 2025
U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley released a first-of-its-kind analysis report on President Donald Trump's clemency actions since entering office in January.
Fani Willis, theGrio.com
December 17, 2025
"I'm not Marjorie Taylor Greene. I ain't going to quit in a month because somebody threatens me!" said Fulton Country…
Evan Turnage, Bennie Thompson, theGrio.com
December 17, 2025
Evan Turnage, 33, is running in the primary for Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District, which Thompson has represented since 1993.
Joseline Peña-Melnyk, Maryland House of Delegates, Speaker of the House, Black Speakers of the House, theGrio.com
December 17, 2025
Maryland’s House of Delegates elects its first Afro-latina and immigrant Speaker of the House with Joseline Peña-Melnyk's win.
Everton Blair, Deval Patrick, Georgia's 13th Congressional District, theGrio.com
December 17, 2025
Patrick praises his former Harvard graduate student as a "deeply caring servant leader with big ideas and a record of…