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Obama’s callout to Black men touches a nerve among Democrats. Is election-year misogyny at play?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama had frank words for Black men who may be considering sitting out the election. “Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that,” he said Thursday to Harris-Walz campaign volunteers and officials at a field office in Pittsburgh. America’s first Black president touched a nerve among Democrats worried about Vice President Kamala […]

todayOctober 14, 2024 1

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Watch: Biden reflects on his Black agenda and what he wished he did differently

In an exclusive interview with theGrio’s “The Hill with April Ryan” in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, President Joe Biden reflected on his Black agenda over the past nearly four years and more. “I wish we could have gotten more work done quicker in terms of the Black agenda,” Biden admitted. However, the 46th president of the United States listed off a number of achievements during his administration, including reducing Black poverty and unemployment.  “We increase the participation of the number of small […]

todayOctober 13, 2024 1

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Trump catches heat after insulting Detroit during speech – in Detroit

They say ignorance is bliss, and it seemed as if former President Donald Trump forgot where he was on Thursday when he indirectly insulted the city of Detroit while giving a speech at the Detroit Economic Forum. “The whole country will be like … you want to know the truth? It’ll be like Detroit,” Trump said at the podium as he railed against his Democratic presidential opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if […]

todayOctober 12, 2024 1

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Watch: Biden explains why he wants to eliminate every lead pipe in America

“It is important that we focus on things that change people’s lives,” said President Joe Biden while in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this week as he focused on the effects of lead pipes in the nation’s antiquated infrastructure system. Lead pipe remediation was a campaign promise that took three years to implement as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had to overturn a Trump-era policy. Now, as the process is moving forward, President Biden told theGrio exclusively that his administration is focusing on […]

todayOctober 12, 2024 1

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Kamala Harris’ winning message has been there all along

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. The venue — the Javits Convention Center — was chosen carefully and strategically, as much for its large glass ceiling as for its capacity. It would be beautifully symbolic, the campaign assumed, to have Hillary Clinton, our newly elected first woman president, give her acceptance speech under that glass dome while celebrating that we’d finally broken that highest, hardest […]

todayOctober 12, 2024

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Harris rips Trump for his criticism of federal storm response and calls for ‘dignity’

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House criticized Donald Trump for his attacks on the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton and suggested he was wrongly trying to turn the deadly storms to his political advantage. Attending a town hall sponsored by Univision in Las Vegas, Harris was asked about complaints that federal officials have bungled disaster recovery efforts. She responded, “In this crisis — like in so many issues that affect the people of our country — […]

todayOctober 12, 2024 1

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The attacks on childless women by Republicans may lead to their downfall

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Like Vice President Kamala Harris and millions of women, I’ve never given birth to a child. But contrary to the insulting views of Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance and Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, this doesn’t make us inferior to biological mothers. Sanders, who was then-President Donald Trump’s White House press secretary, criticized Harris last month […]

todayOctober 11, 2024 2

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Harris covers Vogue Magazine, talks ‘complexity’ and ‘nuance’ of Israel war in Middle East

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is once again gracing the cover of Vogue Magazine for the fashion bible’s latest digital edition. The portrait cover, Harris’ second since being elected vice president, was shot by the legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz. Harris, 59, is photographed seated in her Washington, D.C. residence, Naval One Observatory while wearing a monochromatic brown suit and blouse by Gabriela Hearst. Vogue also notes the vice president is rocking earrings from Tiffany.The magazine’s cover story follows Harris on […]

todayOctober 11, 2024 1

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Obama urges Black men to show up for Harris as he campaigns in critical Pennsylvania

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Former President Barack Obama gave a blistering critique of his White House successor Donald Trump and urged Black men to show up for Kamala Harris as he opened a swing-state tour for the Democratic ticket. At a campaign field office to thank volunteers, Obama said Thursday he wanted to “speak some truths” after hearing reports on the ground that there was lower enthusiasm for Harris than there was for his own candidacy and that some Black men were thinking of sitting out the […]

todayOctober 11, 2024