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Colonel Charles Young
April 30, 2022
The Army honored Colonel Charles Young during a posthumous promotional ceremony held at United States Military Academy West Point.
April 28, 2022
Buttigieg told theGrio that his department’s partnership with HBCUs is “very important” to him and the Biden-Harris administration. 
April 28, 2022
A new congressional caucus aimed at closing the economic gap for Black entrepreneurs in tech and innovation was launched on…
Dr. Oz campaign
April 28, 2022
Millionaire candidates and billionaire investors are harnessing their considerable personal wealth to try to win competitive Republican primaries for open
April 27, 2022
Despite what you may have gleaned from social media posts or cable news quarrels, you don’t actually have to pick…
Abortion rights protest, theGrio.com
April 25, 2022
Banning abortions is all that Republicans and their evangelical supporters have wanted ever since Roe v. Wade became the law…
April 23, 2022
Black people suffer disproportionately from climate change. Biden officials tell theGrio they're working to address it.
April 21, 2022
As the call for student loan debt cancellation grows, the question of why it should be canceled seems to be…
An American flag behind a gavel and a sound block with a marijuana leaf
April 20, 2022
More than a decade into legal cannabis, it is clear that the communities most harmed by cannabis prohibition are benefiting…
A set of hands holds up signs reading "#FairMaps - Stop Gerrymandering"
April 19, 2022
Critics say that new maps drawn by Republicans in states from Florida to Texas are deliberate tools to suppress Black…
Holiday travelers at airport
April 18, 2022
A judge voided the national mask mandate covering airplanes and public transportation as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials.
April 16, 2022
Cameroon is the 14th country eligible for Temporary Protected Status, a program created for people from countries stricken by civil…
April 16, 2022
The election will fill a state Senate seat left vacant by the resignation of Louisiana State Senator Karen Carter Peterson,…
April 14, 2022
TheGrio spoke with agency leaders on how they are fulfilling Biden's executive order to ensure government services are distributed equitably.
April 14, 2022
Republicans hate Black women, and there’s no shortage of evidence. Those who watched the hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson could…
April 12, 2022
New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin resigned Tuesday in the wake of his arrest in a federal corruption investigation.
Amy Wax and Tucker Carlson
April 12, 2022
I want to apologize to Tucker Carlson. First of all, there may be a perception that I hate Tucker Carlson…
April 12, 2022
The U.S. Attorney’s office said Benjamin was arrested on charges of bribery, honest services wire fraud and falsification of records.
April 11, 2022
The right to protest in America is under attack, and it all involves a case against a Black Lives Matter…
April 11, 2022
On Sept. 30, 2020, 401 years after traffickers landed in Virginia with enslaved Africans, California lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 3121.