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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…
April 20, 2022
Advocates argue that legalizing cannabis would restore the harm caused by criminalization in Black and Brown communities.
March 10, 2022
Famed Texas Senator Barbara Jordan has been honored with a memorial stretch of highway near Texas State University.
Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio)
February 4, 2022
Minority and women-owned businesses risk being sidelined in federal contracts unless action is taken to ensure they have equal access.
January 28, 2022
Flowers, an Army veteran who has worked for the Department of Defense, is running to defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene in…
January 4, 2022
First reported by The Chicago Sun-Times, Rush said he plans to remain active in his ministry and inspire younger generations.
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick
December 13, 2021
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick could succeed the late Rep. Alcee Hastings in Florida's safely democratic 20th district.
December 2, 2021
The Senate passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday that avoids a short-term shutdown and funds the federal government through Feb.…
US Reps. Lauren Boebert and Ilhan Omar
November 30, 2021
Democrats on the Hill push Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to publicly call out Boebert after contentious phone call with…
November 29, 2021
Meek's children said she was "a bridge builder and healer, a unifier with a legacy defined by selfless public service."
Reps. Lauren Boebert and Lauren Boebert
November 27, 2021
Rep. Boebert, who apologized for calling Rep. Omar a "jihadist," is one of the silliest and repugnant, members to ever…
November 19, 2021
The Build Back Better Act brings are far-reaching changes in health care, energy, climate change, family services, education and housing.
November 6, 2021
The House approved a $1 trillion package late Friday after Democrats resolved a months-long standoff between progressives and moderates.
November 2, 2021
Democrat Shontel Brown won the Cleveland-area U.S. House seat formerly held by Housing Secretary Marcia Fudge in Tuesday’s special election.
October 1, 2021
Pressley calls on Congress to “stand in the gap” to lessen the blow to social issues, like abortion, ravished by…
Martin Luther King III, theGrio.com
September 14, 2021
Activists led by Martin Luther King III are pressing the Senate to act on voting rights legislation amid Republican voter…
August 4, 2021
House candidate Nina Turner out-raised, out-organized and outspent opponent Shontel Brown and yet still came up short.
U.S. Rep. Cori Bush
August 4, 2021
Most members of Congress are still overwhelmingly white, male and wealthy -- women of color like Congresswoman Bush are changing…
Shontel Brown and Nina Turner, theGrio.com
August 3, 2021
Shontel Brown’s fight against progressive Nina Turner was a proxy for the tensions between Democrats’ old guard and liberals.
Rep. Mondaire Jones
May 26, 2021
Rep. Mondaire Jones, 34, has in total sponsored and co-sponsored 287 legislative measures, according to data analyzed by Axios.