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Elijah Cummings theGrio.com
January 30, 2020
Two dozen Democrats and eight Republicans are vying for the seat left empty by the passing of Congressman Elijah Cummings.…
Georgia
January 30, 2020
Rev. Raphael Warnock, of Ebenezer Baptist Church, has announced his run for the Georgia U.S. Senate seat held by gubernatorial…
Michelle Obama
January 30, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden let it be known that he would love for our forever FLOTUS, Michelle Obama, to…
Darrell Scott
January 29, 2020
Maybe money can't buy love, but allies of President Donald Trump may think it can buy votes from Black Americans.
Mayor Pete theGrio.com
January 28, 2020
Pete Buttigieg says his low poll numbers among African American voters has been something that even Black candidates have gone…
Kwame Kilpatrick
January 27, 2020
Peter Karmanos Jr., who founded Compuware, is asking President Donald Trump to commute the sentence of former Detroit Mayor Kwame…
Congresswoman Gwen Moore theGrio.com
January 27, 2020
Rep. Gwen Moore is teaming up with Rep. Cedric Richmond and other House Democrats to co-sponsor the CROWN Act, a bill that…
Bernie Sanders
January 24, 2020
Explaining that Bernie Sanders seems is a match for his own grassroots point of view, Kendrick Sampson says the Vermont…
homeless theGrio.com
January 24, 2020
Black people make up 13 percent of the United States population yet accounted for 40 percent of the homeless population in…
Isabel dos Santos
January 22, 2020
EuroBic, the Portuguese bank where Isabel dos Santos is the biggest shareholder, has announced it is ending its commercial relationship…
Hakeem Jefferies theGrio.com
January 22, 2020
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries invoked the lyrics of Biggie Smalls during a speech on the opening day of President Donald Trump’s…
1968 Olympics
January 21, 2020
More than a half-century later, Tommie Smith and John Carlos are cemented into Olympic lore — their names enshrined in…
President Trump MLK Memorial theGrio.com
January 21, 2020
President Donald Trump made a surprise trip to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on Monday to honor the civil…
Democratic Presidential Candidates Participate In Debate In Atlanta, Georgia
January 20, 2020
In a break with tradition, The Times endorsed senators Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Voting in Indiana thegrio.com
January 19, 2020
“For hundreds of years, America systematically stole Black lives, Black freedom and Black labor," Bloomberg said. “Well, it’s past time…