About Donna Brazile

Donna Brazile is a veteran political strategist, Senior Advisor at Purple Strategies, New York Times bestselling author, Chair of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, and sought-after Emmy- and Peabody-award-winning media contributor to such outlets as ABC News, USA Today and TheGrio. She previously served as interim Chair of the Democratic National Committee and of the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute. Donna was the first Black American to serve as the manager of a major-party presidential campaign, running the campaign of Vice President Al Gore in 2000. She serves as an adjunct professor in the Women and Gender Studies Department at Georgetown University and served as the King Endowed Chair in Public Policy at Howard University and as a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School. She has lectured at nearly 250 colleges and universities on diversity, equity and inclusion; women in leadership; and restoring civility in American politics.

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November 1, 2022
This election is one of the most consequential because our democracy is on the ballot. Black voters need to turn up and turn out.
Stacey Abrams Brian Kemp
October 18, 2022
OPINION: Abrams will need strong voter turnout by the Democratic base to overcome the advantages that incumbency confers on Kemp.
Raphael Warnock Herschel Walker
October 16, 2022
Warnock gave up too much ground by trying to distance himself from President Biden and Walker exceeded expectations by just showing up.
October 14, 2022
A shower of kryptonite is hitting Donald Trump. It’s up to every American citizen and the rule of law to stop him.
September 28, 2022
Halloween has come early for Republicans as they masquerade as the party of “law and order” to try to trick voters.
September 20, 2022
Black Americans have always been underrepresented in elective office. But we could see an increase in representation after the elections.
September 14, 2022
Black women and girls would be hit especially hard if Republican legislation to ban most abortions after 15 weeks nationwide becomes law.
September 6, 2022
The ballot is the most powerful weapon Black Americans can wield in our long struggle against the systemic racism that has targeted us.
August 18, 2022
Fifty-nine years ago this month, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stirred the conscience of America with his eloquent “I Have a Dream” speech.
August 15, 2022
No one—not even former presidents—should be above the law and exempt from being investigated and prosecuted if the evidence warrants it.
August 5, 2022
Ads funded by the Democratic Governors Association and the DCCC have not urged Republican primary voters to cast ballots for GOP extremists.
July 25, 2022
As the former campaign manager for Vice President Al Gore, Donna Brazile charts the dangers of Trump and others pushing election lies.
July 11, 2022
After the July Fourth mass shooting in Highland Park near Chicago, you just might think, “How many more times?”
June 30, 2022
At last! After 233 years, a Black woman has finally joined the U.S. Supreme Court, with the swearing-in of Ketanji Brown Jackson.
how organizations can celebrate Juneteenth, theGrio.com
June 19, 2022
Donna Brazile reflects on the life and career of Hattie McDaniel and what we can all learn from her achievements this Juneteenth holiday
June 16, 2022
If there’s anything Americans of all political persuasions and every race should unite around, it is the reasonable gun safety measures.
June 2, 2022
OPINION: TheGrio contributor Donna Brazile writes that the toll of gun violence on Black Americans is especially severe.
May 25, 2022
Biden’s order benefits Black people because — as every Black person knows — we are disproportionately the targets of police violence.
May 16, 2022
We will never bring back the victims killed in Buffalo and in other hate crimes. The best we can do is work together to lessen the hatred.
May 9, 2022
The GOP, led by Donald Trump, is hungry for power and will do whatever it takes to achieve it – and at the expense of Black Americans.