About April Ryan

April Ryan is also the Washington D.C Bureau Chief and Senior White House Correspondent at theGrio. She can be seen on CNN as a political analyst. Ryan is the longest-serving Black woman reporter in the White House press corps and has served on the board of the prestigious White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) for 25 years. She is one of only three African Americans in the Association’s over 100-year history to serve on its board. She is also an esteemed member of the National Press Club. In 2015, Ms. Ryan was nominated for an NAACP Image Award (Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author) for her first book.

April opened the DC Bureau for theGrio and led theGrio to a permanent White House Briefing room seat and into presidential and supplemental pool duty, a first for a Black-owned digital news organization.

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Karine Jean-Pierre
February 19, 2022
Jean-Pierre is the first openly queer Black woman of Haitian descent serving as White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary.
February 18, 2022
Sources close to the White House describe to theGrio the thinking of the Biden team as anticipation for the Supreme…
February 10, 2022
U.S. Congresswoman Cori Bush on Tuesday convened a gathering of 10 mostly Black journalists in her office in the Cannon…
February 8, 2022
The Secret Service and FBI are investigating the incident, which happened the same day Spelman College reported a bomb threat…
February 8, 2022
Biden spokesperson Jen Psaki announced the potential no-knock policy move when asked by theGrio about the shooting of Amir Locke.
President Joe Biden speaks about the January jobs report
February 7, 2022
While Black unemployment rate has dropped alongside the national rate, joblessness for the community remains disproportionately high.
President Joe Biden
February 3, 2022
Biden traveled to NYC and addressed an uptick in gun crime while the White House simultaneously considers executive orders on…
February 2, 2022
Biden's Supreme Court nomination calls to mind in his involvement in the hearing of Anita Hill, who accused Justice Thomas…
February 1, 2022
Black leaders are calling recent bomb threats against several Historically Black College and University (HBCU) campuses “terrorism.”
The U.S. Supreme Court building
January 28, 2022
Sources described nomination process for the first Black woman Supreme Court justice as more of a vetting than a search…
January 27, 2022
The process to install the nation's first Black woman Supreme Court justice is shaping out to be a battle between…
January 26, 2022
A White House source tells theGrio that conversations are being had over possibilities to fill the soon-to-be vacant Supreme Court…
January 26, 2022
"58 percent of the individuals that we vaccinated were from minority populations," says FEMA's Deanne Criswell.
Democratic U.S. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm thegrio.com
January 24, 2022
Shirley Chisholm’s political grit and history-making presidential campaign has served as an inspiration to Black women in politics.
January 20, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: From the COVID-19 pandemic to an economic recovery, the Biden White House has had its ups and downs.
January 19, 2022
While passing the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act was a long shot, President Biden and allies refuse to…
January 18, 2022
The Biden-Harris administration is negotiating unilateral action on police reform steps since Congress failed to pass George Floyd bill.
Bernice King, Martin Luther King Jr., theGrio.com
January 17, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: “It’s time for Black Americans to get our check," said the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris
January 11, 2022
The political fight to protect the right vote and reform the filibuster reaches new heights as the White House visits…
January 6, 2022
As chairman of the Select Committee probing the Capitol attack, Thompson has a mission to “reinstall Democracy” in the United…