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April 5, 2022
Stacey Abrams now says she’s worth $3.17 million—compared with a net worth of $109,000 when she first ran four years…
Hands holding money
April 5, 2022
Fifty years ago, thousands of Black Americans demanded a unified political strategy to advance racial justice in the U.S.
April 4, 2022
Republican Sens. Murkowski and Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s “historic nomination” to the Supreme…
April 4, 2022
The Shelby County Election Commission has been hit with a lawsuit by the NAACP Memphis Branch, voting rights group, and…
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
April 4, 2022
Republicans and Democrats are still clashing over Judge Jackson’s nomination despite almost certain confirmation.
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., addresses crowds during the March on Washington
April 4, 2022
In an interview with theGrio, Martin Luther King III and his wife Arndrea Waters King reflect on the life and…
April 3, 2022
Former President Barack Obama will be returning to the White House on Tuesday for his first public event there since…
April 3, 2022
As the U.S. prepares to welcome Ukrainians fleeing war, the country continues to deport scores of African and Caribbean refugees.
Florida medical marijuana industry
April 2, 2022
Marijuana would be decriminalized at the federal level under legislation the House approved Friday seeking to let states set their…
April 2, 2022
Mississippi is on the verge of scuttling a state song with racist roots, two years after it retired a Confederate-themed state…
April 2, 2022
The state of Tennessee is threatening to take control over the town of Mason in an action that one city…
April 2, 2022
Chris Jones would seem to have an ideal biography to run for governor, a job that’s wide open in Arkansas
April 1, 2022
TheGrio chatted with Sen. Klobuchar and D.C. Mayor Bowser about how Biden's budget could address issues important to Black communities.
April 1, 2022
Until recently, reparations for Black people were considered an impossibility. Too many Americans discounted the need for these amends.
Signs indicating where to vote
April 1, 2022
A judge struck down portions of a Florida election law, saying that the GOP-led government was using subtle tactics to…