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Can Black women help Doug Jones make history again in Alabama?

Former U.S. Senator Doug Jones is seeking to become Alabama’s next governor, and he’ll likely need the support of Black women to do it. Jones announced his campaign for governor on Monday, setting up a potential rematch against U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville, who is seeking the Republican nomination. Tuberville defeated Jones and ousted him from his Senate seat in 2020. But it was Black women who put Jones in office in the first place. In 2017, Jones became the first […]

November 27, 2025

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Jay Jones makes history as Virginia’s first Black attorney general

Democrat Jay Jones was elected Tuesday as Virginia attorney general, riding a wave of voter dissatisfaction with the White House to overcome the revelation that in 2022 he sent widely condemned texts embracing violence against a fellow state lawmaker. The former Virginia delegate defeated Republican incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares weeks after it emerged that Jones had texted a fellow delegate suggesting the then-House speaker should get “two bullets to the head.” Jones apologized for the private messages both in statements and […]

November 5, 2025

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Jolanda Jones is ready to channel childhood trauma to fight back for Texas in Congress: ‘If they go low, I’m going in the gutter’

Jolanda Jones is not your conventional candidate for U.S. Congress, something she quickly admits. “I’m not your traditional elected official,” said the Texas state representative running in a special election for Texas’s 18th Congressional District on Nov. 4. “I think people like my authenticity,” Jones told theGrio. Throughout the nearly hour-long Zoom interview from her car outside a Houston voting precinct during early voting, Jones stopped several times to introduce herself to voters and ask them for their support. “My […]

October 31, 2025

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Van Jones reveals the DM he got from Charlie Kirk the day before he was killed

CNN political commentator Van Jones revealed that Charlie Kirk had sent him a direct message the day before he was murdered at a speaking event in Utah. The two media personalities had been arguing publicly online about the murder of a white Ukrainian woman named Iryna Zarutska. The suspect charged with stabbing and killing Zarutska in August is Decarlos Brown, a Black man. Kirk had claimed that the attack was racially motivated, while Jones responded that those claims were unfounded. […]

September 21, 2025

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Van Jones calls President Trump ‘kindergartner’ for blaming DCA plane crash on DEI

CNN political contributor Van Jones slammed President Donald Trump’s remarks in which he blamed Wednesday’s deadly plane-helicopter collision on diversity, equity and inclusion hiring policies. “It’s appalling,” said Jones, a former Obama White House advisor who also worked with Trump’s first administration on criminal justice legislation. “I just can’t imagine what these families must be going through … it is every family’s worst nightmare to say goodbye to someone, to be texting you as they’re taking off, and then you […]

January 31, 2025

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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 […]

January 9, 2025

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Van Jones says Trump gets to be ‘lawless’ while Kamala Harris expected to be ‘flawless’

During Wednesday night’s CNN Town Hall with Kamala Harris, commentator Van Jones called out a notable double standard in coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris. On the heels of major news that Donald Trump was quoted admiring Hitler’s generals and was called “fascist” by his longest-serving chief of staff, Harris found herself being criticized by some TV analysts after the town hall for sometimes having long, nuanced answers to policy questions. Trump declined to attend the debate altogether despite multiple […]

October 25, 2024

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NY-17 Democratic nominee Mondaire Jones warns ‘high stakes’ of Trump and Republicans’ Project 2025

Former U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 17th Congressional District, aims to reclaim his seat from Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler in one of the nation’s most closely watched House races. If Jones, who made history in 2020 as the first openly gay Black American elected to the United States Congress, is successful on Nov. 5, it would mean the return of a distinctive Black and queer voice on Capitol Hill. A lot is riding on […]

July 3, 2024

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Tenn. Rep. Justin Jones to remain on 2024 ballot after GOP dispute

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One of the two Black lawmakers briefly expelled from Tennessee’s GOP-controlled Statehouse last year will remain on the 2024 ballot after overcoming a challenge from a Republican opponent. Earlier this year, Rep. Justin Jones submitted 26 signatures to Nashville election officials in order to qualify to run as a Democratic candidate. He needed at least 25 signatures from verified voters in his district. After one of Jones’ signatures was disqualified, Republican challenger Laura Nelson filed a complaint challenging […]

May 5, 2024