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January 17, 2023
Days before his inauguration, in a downtown office building in Baltimore City, Maryland Governor-elect Wes Moore sat down with theGrio. 
January 16, 2023
In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. called for radical redistribution of power. Economics professor Andre Perry assessed that progress.
January 15, 2023
President Joe Biden honored Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the civil rights leader’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta,…
January 15, 2023
President Joe Biden is marking Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with a sermon Sunday at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Joy Reid speaks to Rep. Byron Donalds
January 13, 2023
The House Republican gave the MSNBC host a valuable lesson on how conservatives managed to dispel one of Black America's…
January 13, 2023
Donald Trump’s company was fined $1.6 million as punishment for a scheme in which his top executives dodged personal income…
January 12, 2023
Fellow Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein has apologized to Kyra Harris Bolden for publicly criticizing her hiring decisions.
January 12, 2023
Catch an all-new episode of “The Hill with April Ryan” every Thursday on theGrio.com and theGrio’s social media platforms.
January 12, 2023
Amid recent admission that a second batch of classified documents was found at Biden’s residence, things are heating up on…
January 11, 2023
House Republicans on Wednesday opened their long-promised investigation into President Joe Biden and his family.
January 9, 2023
Many are comparing the insurrection in Brazil to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack, where Trump supporters tried to overturn…
President Joe Biden, Raphael Warnock, Atlanta
January 9, 2023
President Biden's Jan.15 visit to Ebenezer Baptist Church will come on what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 94th…
January 8, 2023
The African National Congress, the oldest liberation movement against colonialism in Africa, led South Africa’s transition to democracy.
January 7, 2023
In the early hours of Saturday, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries officially made history as the first African American to lead a…
January 7, 2023
Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot early Saturday.
Anthony Brown
January 6, 2023
As Maryland's first Black AG, Anthony Brown plans to pursue greater authority to investigate police misconduct and civil rights violations.
U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., theGrio.com
January 5, 2023
On the third straight day of votes in the U.S. House of Representatives to select the speaker of the House
January 5, 2023
Cardona sits down with theGrio after brief is filed with the Supreme Court in the legal challenge blocking student debt…
January 4, 2023
On day two of House votes for the speaker of the House, Rep. Byron Donalds, who is Black, was nominated…
January 3, 2023
As the new year is underway, theGrio is keeping an eye on these five political stories in Washington and beyond.