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Black Woman From Atlanta Makes History, Turns 105 Years Old

Nationwide — Valena York Henderson, an African American woman from Atlanta, Georgia, recently turned 105 and celebrated the milestone with family and friends. The gathering honored her life of love, faith, and service across five generations. Born in 1919, Henderson has lived through world wars, the civil rights era, and over a century of change. Her family describes her as a steady presence — a woman whose quiet strength and compassion have shaped the lives of many. Now a mother, […]

todayJuly 22, 2025 9

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Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms ‘heartbroken’ over Biden’s cancer diagnosis

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms reacted to the devastating cancer diagnosis of former President Joe Biden, telling theGrio she is praying for her former boss. “I’m heartbroken, and my prayers are with him,” Bottoms told theGrio on Monday. Bottoms worked for President Biden as a senior advisor and led his White House Office of Public Engagement. The 55-year-old Georgia politician told theGrio she had not yet been in touch with Biden but said she intended to reach out to […]

todayMay 19, 2025 2

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Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is considering a run for governor of Georgia

Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta who ushered the city through COVID and the George Floyd uprising in May 2020, is heading back to Georgia and back into Georgia politics. Bottoms hinted at a run for the Georgia governor’s office in a recent interview with Jorge Estevez of Atlanta’s WSB-TV.  When asked about whether or not there was an office she might be considering running for in the state, Bottoms made mention of one particular race.  “Well, there […]

todayJanuary 24, 2025 1

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Michelle Obama will headline an Atlanta rally aimed at boosting voter turnout

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former first lady Michelle Obama will headline a rally in Atlanta a week before the Nov. 5 election alongside celebrities and civic leaders focusing on engaging younger and first-time voters, as well as voters of color. The Oct. 29 event will be hosted by When We All Vote, a nonpartisan civic engagement group that Obama founded in 2018 to “change the culture around voting” and reach out to people who are less likely to engage in politics […]

todayOctober 17, 2024 1

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Dueling Harris, Trump rallies in Atlanta arena show nation’s divides

ATLANTA (AP) — Two rallies. Two Americas. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump stood in the same arena four days apart, each looking over capacity crowds like concert stars or prizefighters. The competing events were staged three months before Election Day in the state that produced the closest margin of the 2020 race for the White House. On policy, tone, the types of voters in attendance and even the music playlists, the rallies offered not just opposing visions of the country […]

todayAugust 4, 2024 1

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‘Say it to my face’: Harris trolls Trump at star-studded Atlanta campaign rally

Vice President Kamala Harris brought out hip-hop’s biggest stars and trolled Donald Trump with song lyrics and one-liners as she delivered a fiery speech at a campaign rally in Atlanta prosecuting the case against his candidacy for president of the United States. “He does not walk the walk,” Harris said of Trump, her 2024 Republican opponent, on Tuesday evening at the Georgia State Convocation Center. Countering the former president’s misleading accusations that as a “border czar” for the Biden administration, […]

todayJuly 31, 2024 3

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How a Black conservative arranged Trump’s Atlanta Chick-fil-A stop

WASHINGTON (AP) — The scenes of Donald Trump being warmly greeted on Wednesday by a Black audience at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Atlanta electrified conservative political media at a moment when Republicans hope to make inroads with Democrats’ most committed voting bloc. Those widely shared moments were days in the making, an alliance between the Trump campaign, local activists, and students at some of the nation’s most iconic historically Black colleges. Trump and his allies have argued he can win greater Black […]

todayApril 13, 2024 2

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VP Harris celebrates HBCU culture, buys Black during Atlanta trip

With less than a year until Election Day 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia, a key swing state for the Biden-Harris campaign’s coalition of voters, to celebrate HBCU and Black culture and even supported a popular Atlanta Black-owned business while there.  TheGrio traveled with America’s first Black and first woman vice president during her day trip to Atlanta to watch her alma mater, Howard University, compete against Florida A&M University for the annual Cricket Celebration Bowl football contest. […]

todayDecember 19, 2023