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November 2, 2021
As Biden weighs paying families separated by Trump's zero tolerance policy, it begs the question if Black people will receive…
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November 2, 2021
The founders of The Collective PAC released a statement Tuesday announcing the organization’s support of 78 candidates running for office.
November 2, 2021
Voters in Minneapolis were deciding Tuesday whether to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Public Safety.
November 2, 2021
Sen. Manchin's "opposition to the Build Back Better Act is anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman and anti-immigrant," said Rep. Cori Bush.
November 2, 2021
TheGrio explores the role Black voters will play in Tuesday's elections with pollster Cornell Belcher and elected officials.
Jesse Jackson
November 1, 2021
After falling on Howard's campus, Jackson was rushed to the hospital to receive care for the wound and check for…
Virginia lieutenant governor candidates, Democrat Hala Ayala (left), an Afro-Latina, or Republican Winsome Sears
November 1, 2021
Virginia voters on Tuesday will make history by electing the commonwealth’s first woman of color lieutenant governor.
New York Attorney General Letitia James
November 1, 2021
Stacey Abrams’s status as the only Black woman to win a major party’s nomination for governor may be erased this…
November 1, 2021
The Supreme Court is taking up challenges to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second-largest…
Eric Admas, Kasim Reed and Hala Ayala
November 1, 2021
Donna Brazile breaks down elections with implications for Black America. The stakes are also high where Black candidates aren’t on…
Tampa-Area Chidren Return To Classrooms On First Day Of School
October 31, 2021
Schools in Orange and Broward counties will see mask-wearing rules be loosened this week as COVID-19 transmissions slow.
October 31, 2021
Mayor Mike Duggan, Detroit's first white mayor since the 1970s, faces lawyer Anthony Adams in a mayoral race this coming…
October 31, 2021
The surprisingly tight contest has exposed the depth of the Democratic Party’s dependence on Trump as a message and motivator.
October 31, 2021
The National Archives said in a court filing early Saturday former President Donald Trump seeks to block documents from being…
October 31, 2021
The gun rights case brought before the Supreme Court could threaten restrictions on guns in public spaces in New York…