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Majority of Democrats think Kamala Harris would make a good president, AP-NORC poll shows

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden faces a growing drumbeat of pressure to drop his reelection bid, a majority of Democrats think his vice president would make a good president herself. A new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 6 in 10 Democrats believe Kamala Harris would do a good job in the top slot. About 2 in 10 Democrats don’t believe she would, and another 2 in 10 say they don’t know […]

July 19, 2024

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Race for Louisiana’s new second majority-Black congressional district is heating up

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In a critical election year, the race for Louisiana’s new mostly Black congressional district is heating up as three candidates — including a longtime Democratic state lawmaker and former congressman and an 80-year-old Republican who is a former state senator — officially submitted paperwork on Wednesday to run in November. State Sen. Cleo Fields, a Democrat, and former GOP lawmaker Elbert Guillory turned out on the first of three days for candidates to qualify for […]

July 18, 2024

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Donald Trump must be protected at all costs

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. “I got this,” I said, lying through my teeth. I could feel my sisters’, cousins’ and friends’ sense of imminent doom as we approached the rendezvous point for my hastily scheduled after-school showdown with Tony Trimble, Carolina Elementary’s top-ranked, undefeated bully. They had a legitimate cause for concern. Not only was Tony “the Troublemaker” bigger, stronger and older than […]

July 18, 2024

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I read the entire Project 2025. Here are the top 10 ways it would harm Black America

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. If you frequent Black Twitter, visited a barbershop recently or could hear the BET Awards over your uncle yelling: “If God made something finer than Taraji P. Henson, he must’ve kept it in heaven,” then you know about Project 2025. According to my cousin’s beautician who does hair in her kitchen, on Jan. 20, 2025, shortly after the inauguration […]

July 18, 2024

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Plaskett calls out ‘hypocritical’ Republicans, condemns Trump for telling supporters to ‘fight’ after shooting

Democratic Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett slammed Republicans for suggesting Democrats were to blame for the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Plaskett, a former House impeachment manager in a case against Trump, also called out the Republican presidential nominee for telling his supporters to “fight, fight, fight” just moments after a nearly-deadly bullet grazed his ear. “That’s a ridiculous argument,” said Plaskett, a House delegate representing the U.S. Virgin Islands. The ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Government Weaponization […]

July 17, 2024

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‘Vile, crass white nationalist’: Critics call out VP nominee J.D. Vance’s flip-flop on Trump’s racism

Though you would never know it today, before he was selected as Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, J.D. Vance repeatedly called out Trump and the Republican Party’s politics of racism. However, years later, the U.S. senator from Ohio emerged as a carbon copy of the former president based on his many views, including those about race. Critics who spoke with theGrio slammed Vance for his duplicity, noting that when it became politically expedient, he adopted the very ideologies of […]

July 17, 2024

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Appeals court won’t hear arguments on Fani Willis’ role in Georgia Trump case until after election

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia appeals court has set a December hearing for arguments on the appeal of a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against former President Donald Trump. Trump and other defendants had asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to hold oral arguments in the case, and the court on Tuesday set those arguments for Dec. 5. That timing means the lower court proceedings […]

July 17, 2024

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Georgia county says slave descendants can’t use referendum to challenge rezoning of island community

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Zoning changes by a Georgia county that some residents say threaten one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants can’t be challenged with a referendum, an attorney said Monday in a letter to the judge considering a petition by local voters. Though Georgia’s state constitution allows citizens to force special elections on some decisions by county governments, it doesn’t give them the power to overturn county zoning decisions, wrote Ken Jarrard, an attorney […]

July 17, 2024

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President Biden calls out media ignoring Trump’s lies in new interview with Lester Holt

In a new interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, President Joe Biden had some pointed words for media critics who hyperfocused on his debate performance at the expense of holding Donald Trump accountable for lies he’s told. After Holt opened the interview by asking whether the president called Trump after the assassination attempt on his life (Biden called Trump and expressed prayers for his family), the veteran journalist pressed Biden on whether he played a role in inciting violence against Trump. […]

July 17, 2024