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Gloria Gaynor exposed as MAGA donor after Trump taps her for Kennedy Center Honor

After being announced by President Donald Trump as a recipient of this year’s Kennedy Center Honor, Federal Election Commission records show disco legend Gloria Gaynor donated to several MAGA and conservative political campaigns. The 81-year-old star, whose 1978 hit song “I Will Survive” has been an undisputable LGBTQ+ anthem for decades, was named among five honorees who will receive the prestigious Kennedy Center honor. The honor has been awarded to entertainers of American culture since 1978. “My hope is that […]

todayAugust 28, 2025

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Defense Department takes down, then restores ‘DEI’ webpage honoring Black Medal of Honor recipient

The U.S. Department of Defense removed a webpage dedicated to a decorated Black veteran who served in the Vietnam War, characterizing his Medal of Honor as a “DEI” medal, only to later reinstate the page after online fury. The page in question spotlighted Army Maj. General Charles Calvin Rogers, who received the Presidential Medal of Honor from President Richard Nixon in 1970. According to the 2021 Defense article spotlight, Rogers remains the highest-ranking Black American to receive the prestigious Medal […]

todayMarch 17, 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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Watch: Would Biden honor Sheila Jackson Lee with executive action on reparations?

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was laid to rest this week in Houston after losing her battle with cancer on July 19. The 74-year-old longtime congresswoman’s signature bill in recent years was HR 40, which would create a U.S. commission to study reparations for African-American citizens. Jackson Lee took up the mantle of introducing the bill every session of Congress after the late Rep. John Conyers of Michigan left office. But after more than 30 years, the legislation has yet to […]

todayAugust 2, 2024

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Jazz, justice and Juneteenth: Wynton Marsalis and Bryan Stevenson join forces to honor Black protest

NEW YORK (AP) — Black music traditions such as jazz are central to celebrations of Juneteenth, says civil rights lawyer and jazz pianist Bryan Stevenson. That’s why he and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz artist Wynton Marsalis have debuted “Freedom, Justice and Hope,” a live performance album of historic jazz records created to protest racial injustice, in time for this year’s celebrations. Along with a new arrangement of saxophonist John Coltrane’s “Alabama,” which pays homage to the four Black girls killed when […]

todayJune 18, 2024

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Watch: Martin Luther King III says this is how America should honor his father this MLK Day

If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, he would’ve turned 95 years old on Jan. 15. TheGrio‘s Washington Bureau Chief April Ryan talked to Dr. King’s eldest son and namesake, Martin Luther King III, who said his father’s birthday, now a federal holiday, is not just a celebration. King III also shared how the nation should remember his father, who is celebrated as one of the nation’s most iconic civil rights leaders in the world. Never miss a […]

todayJanuary 15, 2024