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President Biden Welcomes WNBA Champions Seattle Storm To The White House
August 23, 2021
President Joe Biden got down on one knee in the East Room during the celebration of the WNBA champions Seattle…
August 18, 2021
Americans will have to expand our imagination and develop a new constitution that respects human rights and protects the right…
August 12, 2021
Fair Right Action has been instrumental in promoting fair elections nationwide and the all-important aim of getting voters to the…
August 11, 2021
A series of anti-poverty policies in response to the pandemic offer a glimpse of what's possible when we center the…
August 11, 2021
Thirty days after Democrats left Texas to stop voting restrictions, cracks in the standoff widened as more began returning home.
Demonstrators sit outside Terminal B/C at the Reagen National Airport. (Photo: Marconja Zor)
August 8, 2021
Twenty-six protesters were arrested outside Reagan National Airport while demanding voting rights protections for Black Americans.
August 8, 2021
As Democratic lawmakers attempt to snuff out restrictive voting legislation in Texas, there are signs the stalemate may be thawing.
August 1, 2021
Republicans claim wrongdoing in the reliably Democratic county had stolen the 2020 election from Donald Trump, despite no evidence of…
U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris
July 30, 2021
Black people cannot save a party unwilling to use the power we gave them in the first place. It's not…
July 30, 2021
“The Summer of Activism” akin to the 1960s is the blueprint to make Republicans move on the For The People…
July 30, 2021
In a short clip, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee says of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act that "the people of…
July 23, 2021
Johnson, among 10 protesters cuffed on Capitol Hill Thursday, is the second Congress member arrested in support of key bills.
July 19, 2021
Texas House Democratic Caucus Chairman Chris Turner called the positive test results "a sober reminder that COVID is still with…
July 16, 2021
President Biden and Vice President Harris listened to Black women voting rights activists at the conference table of the Roosevelt…
Rep. Joyce Beatty arrested by Capitol police
July 15, 2021
Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty and other protesters were arrested on Capitol Hill while protesting over voting rights.
U.S. President Joe Biden, theGrio.com
July 13, 2021
Rev. Al Sharpton called Biden's voting rights speech "monumental," but NAACP President Derrick Johnson believes it missed the mark.
Texas rally at State Capitol, theGrio.com
July 13, 2021
Even with the chaos in Texas, rapid population growth in urban and suburban areas points to a trend of progressive…
July 11, 2021
The group gathered at Metropolitan State University of Denver to demand that Congress enact legislation to expand voter access.
July 10, 2021
The revived voting bills no longer include prohibiting Sunday morning voting, when many Black churchgoers go to the polls.
July 8, 2021
Biden and Harris met with civil rights groups to address the wave of Republican bills making it more difficult to…