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January 9, 2023
Many are comparing the insurrection in Brazil to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack, where Trump supporters tried to overturn…
January 9, 2023
The special grand jury in Atlanta that has been investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies committed any crimes while...
President Joe Biden, Raphael Warnock, Atlanta
January 9, 2023
President Biden's Jan.15 visit to Ebenezer Baptist Church will come on what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 94th…
January 9, 2023
Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his election defeat stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and…
January 9, 2023
President Joe Biden walked a muddy stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border and inspected a busy port of entry Sunday on his first…
January 7, 2023
In the early hours of Saturday, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries officially made history as the first African American to lead a…
January 7, 2023
Cheryl Johnson, who became the 36th person to serve as House clerk in 2019, is the first Black woman to…
January 7, 2023
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill authorizing regulators to set limits for fees on calls from corrections facilities.
January 7, 2023
Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot early Saturday.
Republican Representative Byron Donalds of Florida
January 6, 2023
The problem with today’s GOP is that they actually believe Black people are replaceable — or more likely, interchangeable. 
A makeshift gallows with a noose and supporters of former President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021
January 6, 2023
When theGrio compared data from the Jan. 6 insurrection to the 2020 George Floyd protests, we discovered some not-so-shocking disparities.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis -- social studies textbooks
January 6, 2023
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona dismissed Gov. Ron DeSantis' latest action as “an attempt to get a national name for himself.”
South Carolina voting maps
January 6, 2023
Federal judges have decided that new voting maps in South Carolina intentionally split the Black vote, ruling that they must…
Pennsylvania voters mail-in ballots
January 6, 2023
The Department of State has revealed that two-third of Democratic voters had their mail-in ballots canceled in Pennsylvania.
Anthony Brown
January 6, 2023
As Maryland's first Black AG, Anthony Brown plans to pursue greater authority to investigate police misconduct and civil rights violations.