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DNC hopeful Chris Jones: It’s time to modernize our Democratic Party

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. We need to modernize and catapult the national Democratic Party, and with an actual rocket scientist.  In 2022, I announced my Democratic candidacy for governor of the Republican-dominated state of Arkansas. I recognized that our odds were slim, but the calls for a better Arkansas could not go unanswered and my Republican opponent, Sarah Huckabee Sanders — crony of Donald Trump […]

todayJanuary 9, 2025 1

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VP Harris surprises Black legislators at conference, delivers hopeful message about 2025 and beyond

TheGrio was on the ground as Vice President Kamala Harris surprised Black state legislators in Washington, D.C., on Thursday for the National Black Caucus of State Legislators’ 48th Annual Legislative Conference, held at the Capital Hilton hotel.  The rare vice-presidential appearance came exactly one month after Harris’ defeat in the 2024 presidential election to President-elect Donald Trump. It also marked her first public in-person remarks since conceding the election on Nov. 6.  The audience of approximately a few hundred Black […]

todayDecember 6, 2024

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Advocates remain hopeful about justice for Michael Brown and police accountability

The 2014 fatal police shooting of 18-year-old unarmed Michael Brown sparked a movement that saw the emergence of Black Lives Matter and a national call for police accountability. However, for those seeking justice for Brown’s death and the end of racial police violence, the fight continues 10 years later. Although Brown’s parents, Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr., were awarded $1.5 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit settlement from the city of Ferguson, Missouri, the U.S. Department of Justice and St. […]

todayAugust 10, 2024