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Stacey Abrams AP thegrio.com
Stacey Abrams, a Georgia Democrat, came about 60,000 votes shy of becoming America’s first black female governor.
/ November 19, 2018
Morocco thegrio.com AP
French President Emmanuel Macron and Morocco’s King Mohammed VI have inaugurated Morocco’s first high-speed rail line, the first ever such line in Africa.
/ November 19, 2018
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
After a Chipotle manager was fired for refusing to give a group of Black customers their food before paying, the restaurant chain is walking back that decision after tweets surfaced showing one of the men had bragged about “dining and dashing.”
/ November 19, 2018
Stacey Abrams thegrio.com
“I’m going to spend the next year as a private citizen, but I do indeed intend to run for office again,” Stacey Abrams told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
/ November 18, 2018
George Zimmerman Mugshots thegrio.com
Prosecutors believe Zimmerman sent dozens of threatening messages and phones calls and emails to private investigator Dennis Warren.
/ November 18, 2018
Ben Carson thegrio.com
The group, known as Project 21, said the move to look for a new name is a purely political act which willfully ignores Ben Carson’s accomplishments.
/ November 18, 2018
Michelle Obama Becoming thegrio.com
“We are thrilled by the extraordinary response to Mrs. Obama’s beautifully rendered and deeply personal memoir,” the publisher said in a statement.
/ November 18, 2018