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June 21, 2022
Senate bargainers reached agreement Tuesday on a bipartisan gun violence bill, potentially teeing up final passage by week's end.
June 12, 2022
If the gun legislation goes into law, it would signal a turn from years of gun massacres that have yielded…
Karen Bass
June 7, 2022
Mayoral candidate Karen Bass in an interview with theGrio discusses the top issues in Los Angeles: homelessness, crime and the…
May 26, 2022
Despite calls for federal laws on gun control, most states are not even enacting them and seem to have little…
May 25, 2022
Will the mass shooting of children in Uvalde, Texas finally spur GOP members of Congress into enacting reasonable gun control…
May 25, 2022
New suggestions include renaming Fort Lee, named after Robert E. Lee, as Fort Gregg-Adams, after two Black army veterans.
May 20, 2022
The bill, backed by House Democrats, directs the FTC to punish companies that engage in price gouging and adds unit…
May 18, 2022
Brown, who spent almost 25 years in Congress, was released from prison due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
May 15, 2022
After a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, leaders said the need to combat white supremacy, domestic terrorism and gun…
May 14, 2022
The Democrats began their search process last year by inquiring about the interest of 20 locations and have narrowed it…
US Chairman Gregory Meeks
May 13, 2022
Meeks tells theGrio what he learned about a grain shortage in Ukraine that is impacting Africa amid the Russian invasion.
May 8, 2022
Leaders in Washington tell theGrio they are doing everything they can to deliver for Black moms and their families.
May 7, 2022
A Black Air Force veteran and Trump supporter won the Republican primary in Indiana's 1st Congressional District Tuesday. 
U.S. Representative Shontel Brown and challenger Nina Turner
May 2, 2022
U.S. Rep. Brown and Turner did not mince words with theGrio about why each feels they should represent the Buckeye…
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…
Rep. Ayanna Pressley, theGrio.com
March 18, 2022
"We are seeing this movement where it is Black public opinion informing policy,” Adjoa Asmoah, Creator of The CROWN Act,…
March 18, 2022
Congressman Meeks updates theGrio on his trip to Poland about the mistreatment of Africans at the Ukraine border.
March 5, 2022
The panel’s chairman, Jamie Raskin, called the high rates of missing minority women and girls a “crisis hiding in plain…
February 24, 2022
The wave of bomb threats on HBCU campuses has reignited concerns about the rise of domestic terrorism and its connection…
Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio)
February 9, 2022
The latest stunt by a Republican lawmaker against a Black woman in Congress should be a dealbreaker for us all.