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Friends of Foes? Trump shares more about exchange with Obama at Jimmy Carter funeral

President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama‘s exchange at Jimmy Carter’s funeral on Thursday — which included lots of grinning and chuckling — has garnered a lot of attention (and memes) considering their very public animus relationship. A little more than two months ago, Obama was traveling the country warning voters about how dangerous Trump was to American norms and freedoms and how he didn’t care about “anyone but himself.” Sans the election and past warnings about Trump being the […]

todayJanuary 10, 2025

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President Biden, Ambassador Andrew Young honor Jimmy Carter at Washington funeral

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, was honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown. The first speaker was Joshua Carter, the former president’s grandson, who recalled how Carter regularly taught Sunday school after leaving the White House. “He built houses for people who needed homes,” Joshua said. “He eliminated diseases in […]

todayJanuary 10, 2025

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Harris returns love to ‘extraordinary’ Jimmy Carter with eulogy after winning his vote in 2024 election

Vice President Kamala Harris paid tribute to former President Jimmy Carter as his casket was laid inside the U.S. Capitol rotunda on Tuesday, remembering the 39th commander-in-chief for his humility, commitment to diversity, and revolutionary actions to advance environmental policies. America’s first female, first Black woman, and first South Asian vice president said the works of President Carter, who died at 100 years old on Dec. 29, will “echo for generations to come.” “Jimmy Carter established a new model for […]

todayJanuary 7, 2025 1

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Jimmy Carter, a forever president who brought decency to American politics

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, who died on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, at the age of 100, will best be remembered for bringing two Middle Eastern foes to the table at Camp David and facilitating the signing of a historic peace accord along with his post-presidency humanitarian actions. But the Jimmy Carter I knew as a teenager growing up in Louisiana was […]

todayDecember 30, 2024 1

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The Obamas, VP Harris and King family mourn death of former President Jimmy Carter

Tributes are pouring in from Black political leaders following the death of former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at 100 after battling cancer. Weeks after Jimmy Carter cast his 2024 election ballot in Georgia in hopes of electing Kamala Harris as the first woman, first Black woman, and first South Asian president of the United States, the historic vice president praised Carter as a man who was “guided by a deep and abiding faith — in God, in […]

todayDecember 30, 2024 1

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Former President Jimmy Carter, a proponent for Black civil rights, dead at 100

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and longest-lived former commander-in-chief, has died at the age of 100.   In February of this year, Carter made the decision to begin in-home hospice care without further medical treatment for brain cancer. Carter was diagnosed in 2015 and initially recovered from the cancer before it later returned. In November, Carter notably achieved his goal of living long enough to cast his ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential […]

todayDecember 29, 2024 2