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April 27, 2020
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Detroit — the nation’s largest black city, the birthplace of distinctive soulful music and black cultural…
April 23, 2020
More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as job cuts escalated across a shutdown…
April 23, 2020
Biden's tenure as Obama's vice president is complicating his efforts to deepen ties with Latinos voters who could be critical…
April 23, 2020
President Trump said Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's decision to reopen nonessential businesses that had been shuttered to contain the coronavirus is…
April 21, 2020
HydroxyChloroquine, widely touted by Trump for treating the new coronavirus, showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use…
April 18, 2020
Leaders are demanding a reckoning of the systemic policies they say have made many African Americans far more vulnerable to…
April 15, 2020
Warren endorsed Joe Biden on Wednesday, becoming the last of the former vice president's major Democratic presidential rivals to formally…
April 13, 2020
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders officially throws his support toward former Vice President Joe Biden just days after suspending his campaign…
April 11, 2020
Coronavirus sickened dozens at a Kansas prison. Inmates say they've been mistreated, getting attention by breaking windows and setting small…
April 8, 2020
De Blasio said of the racial disparities: “It’s sick. It’s troubling. It’s wrong. And we are going to fight back…
Bernie Sanders theGrio.com
April 8, 2020
Senator Bernie Sanders drops 2020 bid, leaving Vice President Joe Biden as likely nominee for 2020 Presidential Election.
April 7, 2020
The civil rights icon gives the prospective Dem nominee perhaps his biggest symbolic endorsement among the many veteran Black lawmakers who already…
April 6, 2020
The UK prime minister's coronavirus symptoms worsened Monday, just a day after he was admitted for what were said to…
April 5, 2020
“This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it’s not going to be localized," Surgeon…
April 3, 2020
Trump says his administration is encouraging many Americans to wear face masks in public, though he stresses that the recommendation…
April 3, 2020
The three-time Grammy Award winner, who withdrew from making music in the mid-1980s, died on Monday in Los Angeles, the…
Black unemployment line, theGrio.com
April 2, 2020
More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — doubling a record high set just one week
April 2, 2020
The mayor of Los Angeles told everyone in the nation’s second-largest city to start wearing masks to combat the coronavirus.
April 2, 2020
Ellis Marsalis Jr. has died after battling pneumonia brought by the new coronavirus, one of his sons said late Wednesday.
Serena Williams
April 1, 2020
WIMBLEDON, England — Wimbledon was canceled on Wednesday because of the coronavirus pandemic, the first time since World War II that…