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April 2, 2023
Many voters with disabilities face barriers at the polls most voters never even consider, such as missing ramps or door…
April 2, 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris was welcomed as a “daughter of our own country” when she sat down with Zambia’s leader.
April 1, 2023
Gardner, the city's first Black circuit attorney, is among several progressive Democratic prosecutors across the country.
April 1, 2023
Former Democratic City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas was found guilty of seven felonies, including conspiracy, bribery and fraud.
A Black LGBTQ+ Lives Matter flag
April 1, 2023
Advocates say Black and brown trans and non-binary people are most vulnerable to societal harm amid a wave of anti-LGBTQ…
April 1, 2023
ACLU legal director Sharon Brett told theGrio the organization was “disappointed” to hear that the Supreme Court refused to hear…
April 1, 2023
Democratic Del. Lamont Bagby will fill the open Richmond-based Virginia Senate seat previously held by U.S. Rep. Jennifer McClellan.
April 1, 2023
Democratic state Rep. David Tyson Smith warned of a threat of unrest if lawmakers do not “rein this divisiveness in.”
April 1, 2023
Black America has some advice for the new criminal justice reform activists in Donald Trump's uncivil whites movement.
Senate Chaplain Barry Black
March 31, 2023
Unfortunately, too many in Congress are calling for thoughts and prayers and nothing more, as gun violence claims new victims.
Former President Donald Trump
March 31, 2023
No matter how the arraignment and subsequent trial go down, no one can dismiss that this indictment effectively pierces the…
March 31, 2023
Trump now faces threats to his freedom after decades of legal investigations that have never resulted in serious consequences.
March 31, 2023
The majority-white and Republican-led Mississippi Legislature is taking final steps to expand the the territory of a state-run police department…
March 31, 2023
Mississippi's Republican-led Senate voted Wednesday against confirming veteran educator Robert P. Taylor as state superintendent of education.
March 30, 2023
The Exonerated Five reacted to the indictment of the man who ran 1989 ads about them with a one-word statement:…