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The White House will review Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s lack of disclosure on his hospital stay

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Monday that the administration will review what rules or procedures weren’t followed when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin did not disclose his hospitalization for days to President Joe Biden and top officials at the Pentagon and the National Security Council. “We’ll do what’s akin to a hot wash and try to see if processes and procedures need to be changed at all or modified so that we can learn from this,” John Kirby, the […]

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FAMU students fear Florida law will affect teaching topics related to race and American history

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A core mission of Florida A&M University from its founding over a century ago has been to educate African Americans. It was written into the law that established the school along with another college, in Gainesville, reserved for white students. At Florida’s only public historically Black university, some students now fear political constraints might get in the way of teaching parts of their history. A law signed last spring by Gov. Ron DeSantis, a candidate for […]

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Senior Pentagon service leaders, White House National Security Council remained unaware for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in the hospital

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon officials and members of Congress were unaware for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized since Monday, U.S. officials said Saturday, as questions swirled about his condition and the secrecy surrounding it. The Pentagon did not inform the White House National Security Council or top adviser Jake Sullivan of Austin’s hospitalization at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, until Thursday, according to two administration officials. The officials were […]

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What should be on Black voters’ radar ahead of 2024 elections

The 2024 election is just over 300 days away, with plenty of races and policy issues for Black voters to dive into in the months ahead.  In addition to the likely repeat matchup between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump to determine who will run the White House for the next four years, elections across all 50 states of America will determine political leadership on the state and federal levels for the next two to six years.  In […]

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The Jan. 6 Capitol riot gave ‘new courage to white supremacists,’ activists say

Today marks three years since MAGA supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and a number of activists and lawmakers said they think the insurrection and former President Donald Trump’s lack of incarceration have emboldened racists. The insurrection “has given new courage to white supremacists,” Svante Myrick, president of People for the American Way, an organization founded to combat extremism. “When Donald Trump was elected, you remember that the Klan marched […]

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Dems find Trump accepted money from foreign govs, but what does it mean for Black voters falling out with Biden?

House Democrats held a press briefing detailing how “princes, prime ministers, and premiers paid off President Trump” during his time in the Oval Office and how the alleged findings could sway Black and brown voters in the 2024 presidential election. U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, told theGrio, “If we have Black, brown or young men and women not vote for the president or say ‘I’m going to vote for the former president because of the current conflict,’ I think it’s […]

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since Jan. 1, but the Pentagon kept the news quiet

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since Monday due to complications following a minor elective medical procedure, his press secretary said, in the Defense Department’s first acknowledgement that Austin had been admitted five days earlier to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said Friday that it was not clear when Austin would be released from the hospital, but said the secretary was “recovering well.” The Pentagon’s failure to disclose Austin’s hospitalization is […]

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White House takes victory lap as Black unemployment remains low

The White House is taking a victory lap this week after December’s jobs report revealed that the Black unemployment rate remains low at 5.2%, dropping slightly from previous months.  The rate of jobless Black Americans now stands at its lowest since April 2023, when the unemployment rate for the community reached a record low of 4.8%.  Kirabo Jackson, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told theGrio that continued low unemployment for Black Americans results from President […]

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Protecting democracy and freedom may be a viable formula for President Biden in 2024

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. At a moment when fewer Americans believe that Trump bears responsibility for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection than in 2021, President Biden is right to center his opening campaign pitch on democracy. But labeling Trump a threat alone isn’t going to cut it.  In his speech Friday on the eve of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection […]

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