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7 people who deserve pardons more than Donald Trump

“If they’re mad at you, make sure they’re furious.” — Jesus, probably Winfield Madison II offended everyone.  He drank whiskey and smoked cigarettes. He used profanity in mixed company and cussed at children. While everyone who knew him disapproved of his tactics, the educator affectionately known as “Poncho” spent three decades as a teacher at Arrington Middle School in Birmingham, Alabama, and won multiple titles as the school’s head coach for the football, basketball and girls’ softball teams.  Everyone loved […]

todayDecember 5, 2024

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Donald Trump is building the Dallas Cowboys of presidential administrations

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Trump voters remember when America was great. They remember when smart, capable white men weren’t losing jobs to unqualified diversity hires. They distinctly recall when colleges admitted students based on “merit” instead of affirmative action. Before the anti-white “woke mob” began enforcing “cancel culture,” Black people weren’t always complaining about racism, men had sex with women, trans people didn’t […]

todayNovember 14, 2024 1

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Fani Willis, Georgia prosecutor pursuing election case against Donald Trump, is reelected

ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who brought charges against former President Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has won her bid for reelection. Willis, a Democrat, defeated Republican challenger Courtney Kramer, who had interned in the White House counsel’s office during the Trump presidency and is active in GOP organizations. Fulton County, which is home to 11% of the state’s electorate and includes most of the city of Atlanta, is a Democratic […]

todayNovember 9, 2024

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Black Hollywood reacts to Donald Trump reclaiming the White House: ‘There is more work to do’

As the nation reels from the news that Donald Trump has reclaimed the White House after securing well over the 270 electoral votes needed to declare victory over Kamala Harris during last night’s Presidential election, many famous faces have fired off responses. Whether through social media posts or during Wednesday appearances on talk shows, much of Black Hollywood has been making their feelings known. According to Variety, during the Wednesday episode of “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg declared she would not […]

todayNovember 6, 2024 1

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Downballot: Donald Trump is not a threat to democracy

As the 2024 election nears, theGrio’s Downballot series explores the issues, races and individual candidates appearing on the ballots in state and local elections.  What happens to an election deferred?  Does it dry uplike a president’s Big Lie?Or ramble aimlesslylike a man in cognitive decline?Will votes be certified on the House floor?Or in the Supreme Court,like Bush v. Gore? Maybe America’s too strongto let democracy erode. Or does it explode? Can one drop of anointing oil spoil a ballot?  I’m […]

todayOctober 25, 2024

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Breaking news: Donald Trump is a white supremacist

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.   White supremacy (n):  1. “the belief [that the] white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races.” Example: Adolph Hitler 2. “the social, economic, and political systems that collectively enable white people to maintain power over people of other races.” Example: the New York Times On March 29, […]

todayOctober 23, 2024

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Donald Trump suggests ‘one rough hour’ of policing will end retail theft

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump has suggested that “one rough hour” of law enforcement action would tamp down retail theft, an echo of his longstanding support for more aggressive and potentially violent policing. “One rough hour — and I mean real rough — the word will get out and it will end immediately, you know? It will end immediately,” Trump said Sunday in Erie, Pennsylvania. Trump has ramped up his rhetoric with just over a month before Election Day, describing immigrants in the U.S. […]

todaySeptember 30, 2024

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10 Things Donald Trump didn’t do for Black people

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.   On Jan. 8, 2014, Barack Obama did something for Black people. In 2012, Black students made up 16% of public school children but represented more than a third of children who were expelled, arrested or suspended from school. Black students were suspended and expelled at three times the rate of white students and were referred to law enforcement officers […]

todayAugust 27, 2024

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A year later, sprawling Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump has stalled

ATLANTA (AP) — A year after a Georgia grand jury accused Donald Trump and others of illegally trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state, the case has stalled with no chance of going to trial before the end of this year. When Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis secured the indictment a year ago Thursday, it was the fourth and most sprawling of the criminal cases against the former president. Trump narrowly lost Georgia to Democrat Joe […]

todayAugust 14, 2024