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Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris nodded knowingly when a black woman at a weekend candidate forum recounted watching her mother face racial discrimination during her childhood.”You and I have a similar experience growing up,” said Harris, the California senator and former prosecutor who would be the first black woman elected president. “I don’t talk about it often. But I remember walking into a department store and people looking at my mother assuming she couldn’t afford to buy what she was looking at.”
/ June 25, 2019
TheGrio’s CCO Amy Barnett offers a two-part cautionary tale on what Black voters need from some of the top Democratic candidates before the first debate.
/ June 25, 2019
Jussie Smollett
Chicago Police have released bodycam video footage showing Jussie Smollett with a noose around his neck after the alleged attack.
/ June 24, 2019
The Democratic presidential candidate has announced his plan to get rid of as much as $1 trillion in money owed by people who borrowed money to go to college
/ June 24, 2019
After the military coup against Omar al-Bashir, the country’s new leadership is allowing one person to obtain Internet access and he is hoping to get access to people nationwide
/ June 24, 2019
Arthur Ashe
After years of debate, the tennis legend finally has a street bearing his name in the place he was born, 26 years after his death
/ June 24, 2019
Phoenix
Another Black man says the same Phoenix cop who allegedly harassed a Black family also accosted him at an amusement park
/ June 24, 2019