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November 2, 2021
Minneapolis voters on Tuesday rejected a proposal to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Public Safety.
Alvin Bragg thegrio.com
November 2, 2021
Alvin Bragg was elected as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney, a position that will give him oversight of prosecutions involving…
November 2, 2021
Democrat Eric Adams has been elected New York City mayor after handily defeating Republican Curtis Sliwa. He is the city's…
November 2, 2021
Democrat Shontel Brown won the Cleveland-area U.S. House seat formerly held by Housing Secretary Marcia Fudge in Tuesday’s special election.
President Biden
November 2, 2021
The Biden-Harris administration ran a campaign built upon sweeping appeals to working class Americans, especially Black voters. As the year
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…