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Mississippi maintains tough path to restore voting rights

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Kenneth Almons says he began a sentence in a Mississippi prison just two weeks after graduating from high school, and one of his felony convictions — for armed robbery — stripped away voting rights that he still has not regained decades later. Now 51, Almons told lawmakers Wednesday that he has worked hard and remained law-abiding since his release at age 23, and he wants to be able to vote. “It would mean I am no […]

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For 4/20, advocates call on Biden and Harris to go further on marijuana policy

As millions of people around the globe celebrate the cannabis holiday known as 4/20, advocates are calling on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to do more on the federal level to redress the legal and societal harms of marijuana prohibition, and its disproportionate impact on Black and brown communities. “It is a moral imperative that marijuana be decriminalized and descheduled,” read a letter addressed to Biden and Harris from the Marijuana Justice Coalition, which is comprised of […]

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Kentucky lawmaker seeks limitations on college diversity programs

A Republican lawmaker has signaled plans to mount another effort to limit diversity, equity and inclusion practices at Kentucky’s public universities after GOP supermajorities failed to resolve differences on the issue during the recently ended legislative session. Kentucky lawmakers will convene again in January, and state Sen. Mike Wilson said he hopes lawmakers use the coming months to craft another version of DEI legislation for the 30-day session in 2025. “It’ll be something that we’ll work on in the interim […]

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Jeffries hopes Supreme Court will have ‘compassion’ in case that could criminalize homelessness

Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case that will determine whether to criminalize unhoused people for sleeping on the street.   TheGrio caught up with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., following his weekly press conference on Friday. He told theGrio, “It would not be a shock to anyone” if the conservative majority decided to criminalize homelessness. The New York congressman said the Supreme Court has already stripped “reproductive freedom from the women of America and detonated […]

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The Supreme Court just ruled that rights don’t really matter

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Officially, no one killed Alton Sterling.  On July 5, 2016, Baton Rouge, La., police officer Blane Salamoni pumped six shots into the back and chest of 37-year-old Sterling as Officer Howie Lake II held him down. Because Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry concluded that the officers “acted as reasonable officers…and were justified in their use of force,” neither officer […]

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US deports about 50 Haitians to nation hit with gang violence, ending monthslong pause in flights

MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration sent about 50 Haitians back to their country on Thursday, authorities said, marking the first deportation flight in several months to the Caribbean nation struggling with surging gang violence. The Homeland Security Department said in a statement that it “will continue to enforce U.S. laws and policy throughout the Florida Straits and and the Caribbean region, as well as at the southwest border. U.S. policy is to return noncitizens who do not establish a […]

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Chicago’s response to migrant influx stirs longstanding frustrations among Black residents

CHICAGO (AP) — The closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black neighborhood it served, symbolizing a city indifferent to their interests. So when the city reopened Wadsworth last year to shelter hundreds of migrants, without seeking community input, it added insult to injury. Across Chicago, Black residents are frustrated that long-standing needs are not being met while the city’s newly arrived are cared for with a sense of urgency, and with their […]

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Watch: An exclusive look into the Obama Presidential Center | The Hill with April Ryan

This week’s edition of theGrio’s “The Hill with April Ryan” takes an exclusive look at the worksite for the Obama Presidential Center, which is currently under construction in the southside of Chicago. We also look at the state of the economy and persistently high inflation with Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, who gives an assessment of how the Black community is fairing economically. Meanwhile, Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s president and CEO, Reverend Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III stepped […]

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Members of Congress put pressure on Biden to grant protections for Haitians fleeing to the U.S.

U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., is urging the Biden-Harris administration to stand with Haiti and extend safeguards as they flee from the Caribbean nation to the United States. Clarke told theGrio the situation in Haiti “is very chaotic” as Haitians are “not receiving humanitarian aid” and some are on the verge of starvation amid the country’s instability. In a letter addressed to President Joe Biden, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Clarke demands that the […]

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