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August 31, 2023
Civil rights advocates and Democratic state legislators defended and praised Anita Earls, a state Supreme Court justice, for suing this week to…
August 31, 2023
Mississippi will have its first-ever openly gay state legislator after a House candidate won his Democratic primary election runoff Tuesday.
August 30, 2023
Senator McConnell appeared to briefly freeze up and was unable to answer a question from a reporter at an event…
Judge Tanya Chutkan, and former President Donald Trump -- Trump indictments Washington
August 30, 2023
Donald Trump cited the 1931 Scottsboro Boys rape trials to boost his claim he doesn't have enough time to prep…
Harrison Floyd III -- Trump indictments latest news
August 30, 2023
Floyd is the only one of the 19 suspects in Donald Trump's Fulton County election probe to spend time in…
August 30, 2023
Zimbabwe’s main opposition partyon Tuesday demanded fresh elections supervised by neighboring countries, digging in on its rejection of last week’s polls.
Kristen Clarke thegrio.com
August 30, 2023
The U.S. Department of Justice and a northeastern Oklahoma bank have announced a proposed agreement to settle claims that the…
August 29, 2023
The administration released a list of the drugs for which prices will be negotiated directly with the manufacturer, expected to…
Missouri debtors prison
August 29, 2023
Members of Congress push legislation to end solitary confinement which disproportionately impacts Black and brown incarcerated individuals. 
August 29, 2023
Black leaders in Florida — and across the nation — say they’re outraged by DeSantis' actions and rhetoric before Jacksonville's…
August 29, 2023
Associated Press reports on Governor Ron DeSantis' appearance at a Jacksonville, Florida vigil following a tragic, racist shooting.
August 29, 2023
Republican lawmakers voted Monday to temporarily silence a Democratic member of the so-called Tennessee Three during an already tense House…
August 28, 2023
Sixty years after the March on Washington, civil and workers’ rights leaders are calling on the nation to look to…
Angela Alsobrooks , Barbara Lee and Lisa Blunt Rochester
August 28, 2023
Only two Black women have ever served as senators in the 234-year history of the U.S. Senate. Now, three women…
August 28, 2023
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called GOP challenger Vivek Ramaswamy "Obama 2.0." TheGrio’s Capitol Correspondent Ashlee Banks gives us…