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Megyn Kelly blames Obama for America’s divisions in reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder

Many of the reactions to the fatal shooting of the right-wing activist and media personality Charlie Kirk have made headlines but the conservative host of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Megyn Kelly, may have one of the more bizarre responses. The right-leaning ex-Fox News host Kelly went on the conservative talk show “Paul Murray Live” this week and seemed to connect the killing of Charlie Kirk to former President Barack Obama and his era in the White House. She was answering […]

todaySeptember 15, 2025 2

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After Trump’s win, Black women are rethinking their role as America’s reliable political organizers

ATLANTA (AP) — As she checked into a recent flight to Mexico for vacation, Teja Smith chuckled at the idea of joining another Women’s March on Washington. As a Black woman, she just couldn’t see herself helping to replicate the largest act of resistance against then-President Donald Trump’s first term in January 2017. Even in an election this year where Trump questioned his opponent’s race, held rallies featuring racist insults and falsely claimed Black migrants in Ohio were eating residents’ pets, he didn’t just win a second […]

todayNovember 25, 2024 1

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Kamala Harris: Breaking barriers as America’s first female vice president

Everybody knows Kamala Harris. She’s the current Democratic candidate for president, the first Black and South Asian vice president and the former attorney general of California. It’s an undoubtedly impressive resume, and even more so when you take into account how rare these achievements are for a woman of color in the historically white — and male-dominated halls of American government. But unless you’ve studied up on her life and career, there’s probably still a lot more you don’t know […]

todayNovember 11, 2024 1

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Biden, who vowed to ‘pass the torch’ in Oval Office speech, praised for having Black America’s back

Democratic leaders are praising President Joe Biden’s record of advancing racial equity and justice for Black Americans after the 81-year-old leader decided to “pass the torch” to Vice President Kamala Harris, whom he described in his televised Oval Office speech Wednesday evening as “experienced,” “tough” and “capable.” “This man has done so much for not just the United States but for Black America,” said Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson, a Biden delegate who is now casting his ballot for Harris after […]

todayJuly 25, 2024 1

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We need to talk about white America’s ‘victim mentality’

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Are white people OK?  On Thursday, a New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree as part of a coverup to hide payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.  “This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt,” said the convicted felon who once […]

todayMay 31, 2024 2

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Fifteen years ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as America’s first Black president

Fifteen years ago today, the United States of America achieved something that it had not done in its more than 230-year history: a Black president was sworn into office. Former President Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother, took the oath of office on January 20, 2009 to become the 44th U.S. commander in chief and forever change the course of American politics. The skies were clear on that Tuesday and temperature just below freezing […]

todayJanuary 20, 2024 2

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Donald Trump and Nikki Haley show us America’s ignorance about the Civil War

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. When America fails to teach society about its history, you get the Republican Party and its attitudes toward the Civil War. This country is awfully ignorant when it comes to American history because that history is not taught correctly, truthfully or with any context or sensitivity. And this is how Republican presidential candidates can exploit a public lack of […]

todayJanuary 12, 2024