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April 10, 2022
Adams has canceled all public events for the week and will be taking antiviral medications and working remotely.
April 10, 2022
The new law will enable trained nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and physician assistants to provide abortions to patients.
April 9, 2022
Judge Rick Lawrence is in line to become the first African American to serve on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
April 9, 2022
As Stacey Abrams makes another run at the governor’s mansion, a lawsuit stemming from the 2018 election is going to trial.
April 9, 2022
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's speech about her Supreme Court confirmation was a tribute to Black people who paved the way…
A protester with a placard
April 8, 2022
Donna Brazile writes that Africa is already facing its worst food shortages in history due to conflicts and drought.
April 8, 2022
TheGrio was in attendance as an emotional Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson addressed the nation after being confirmed to the high…
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
April 7, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson has received the votes to become the next Supreme Court justice and will now have a job…
April 7, 2022
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been officially confirmed to the Supreme Court, becoming the first Black woman justice in U.S.…
April 7, 2022
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday that she tested positive for COVID-19 and would “work at home while following isolation…
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
April 6, 2022
GOP Senator Tom Cotton, in a word, is sinister. His latest attack on Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson…
April 6, 2022
TheGrio explores how Florida's law banning classroom discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity will affect LGBTQ+ youth.
Vice President Kamala Harris applauds beside former President Barack Obama who reaches toward President Joe Biden
April 5, 2022
TheGrio was inside the Affordable Care Act event as former President Obama reunited publicly with his friend and former VP,…
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown
April 5, 2022
On Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee decided that Ketanji Brown Jackson is not qualified to serve on the U.S. Supreme…
April 4, 2022
Republican Sens. Murkowski and Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s “historic nomination” to the Supreme…
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., addresses crowds during the March on Washington
April 4, 2022
In an interview with theGrio, Martin Luther King III and his wife Arndrea Waters King reflect on the life and…
April 3, 2022
Former President Barack Obama will be returning to the White House on Tuesday for his first public event there since…
April 2, 2022
Chris Jones would seem to have an ideal biography to run for governor, a job that’s wide open in Arkansas
April 1, 2022
TheGrio chatted with Sen. Klobuchar and D.C. Mayor Bowser about how Biden's budget could address issues important to Black communities.
April 1, 2022
Until recently, reparations for Black people were considered an impossibility. Too many Americans discounted the need for these amends.