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January 31, 2022

White House says HBCU bomb threats ‘certainly disturbing’

President Joe Biden has been informed of the bomb threats made at a group of HBCUs for the second time…
House Intelligence Committee Continues Open Impeachment Hearings
January 8, 2021

Congressional Black Caucus says law enforcement ‘complicit’ in Capitol attack, calls for immediate investigation

Rep. André Carson just ended a Zoom meeting with fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus when he was informed…
September 22, 2015

Ben Carson assumes the GOP mantle of Islamophobia with his Muslim comment

With his cold and callous attack on Muslim Americans, Ben Carson is competing with Donald Trump for the xenophobic, Islamophobic,…
September 20, 2015

Ben Carson: Muslims shouldn't be eligible to run for president

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says Islam is antithetical to the U.S. Constitution, and he doesn't believe…
March 6, 2012

Rep. Donald Payne dead: Remembering the late NJ Congressman

theGRIO REPORT - Political leaders are reacting to the death of Donald Payne, the first African-American to serve in the…
January 24, 2012

Andre Carson invites special guest to State of the Union Address

theGRIO REPORT - On Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama will have a very special guest in attendance at his State…
September 2, 2011

Why Allen West should stay in the Black Caucus

OPINION - If he quits the CBC, then 1 in 5 black Americans will have no representation within Congress's only…
September 1, 2011

Ind. lawmaker's lynching reference riles Tea Party

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A black Indiana congressman used a lynching metaphor to describe tea party policies he says would turn…
September 1, 2011

How the CBC covers up failures with Tea Party attacks

OPINION - Rep. Andre Carson's blast constitutes one of the most egregious examples of race-baiting politics has seen in some…
August 31, 2011

Allen West considering leaving Black Caucus

Rep. Allen West (Fla.), the lone Republican in the Congressional Black Caucus, said Tuesday morning that he is considering leaving…
August 31, 2011

Rep. Andre Carson: Tea Party wants blacks 'hanging on a tree'

POLITICO - Carson also said the Tea Party is stopping change in Congress, likening it to 'the effort that we're…
March 10, 2011

Lawmakers fear Muslim hearing may inspire terror

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rarely does congressional testimony attract as much advance controversy as Thursday's planned hearing on homegrown terrorism...
March 20, 2010

Health care reform protesters shout N-word at black lawmakers

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Andre Carson told a reporter that as he walked with Rep. John Lewis, a leader of…