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Where does the marijuana legalization movement stand under President Trump?

President Donald Trump‘s return to power at the White House in January has left uncertainty for the criminal justice reform movement to legalize marijuana. The status of the legalization effort was already fraught during the administration of President Joe Biden, who declined to publicly support legalization but still made critical steps toward federal decriminalization. Trump, whose tough-on-crime agenda includes calls for drug dealers to face the death penalty, has publicly given mixed signals on where he stands on marijuana. Despite […]

todayApril 23, 2025

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams makes clear he is not part of the Trump ‘resist movement’

New York City Mayor Eric Adams praised President Donald Trump’s policies and declared that he will not join the “resist movement” against the 47th president amid recent mass protests of the Trump administration and Elon Musk across the country. During a nearly 50-minute press conference with reporters on Tuesday, Adams, who announced last week he would no longer seek reelection as a Democrat but instead as an Independent, signaled he would continue to work with the Trump administration despite criticisms […]

todayApril 8, 2025 2

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Mayor Brandon Scott embraces being a ‘DEI hire,’ says today’s anti-DEI movement can be traced throughout Black history

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has personally felt the wrath of the political tide against so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion. In March 2024, when the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed—killing six and disrupting the nation’s supply chain–Mayor Scott was targeted by some Republicans and conservatives online who called him a “DEI hire.” The nickname suggested that Scott, elected by Baltimore voters in 2020 and reelected in 2024, only held his position because he is Black and was not […]

todayMarch 4, 2025 1

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The anti-Musk protest movement is expected to ramp up with Congress on recess

Donald Trump is the president, but billionaire Elon Musk is the focus for thousands of Democratic activists launching a protest campaign this week to fight the Trump administration’s push to gut federal health, education and human services agencies. Hundreds of protests are scheduled outside congressional offices and Tesla dealerships, with organizers hoping to send a pointed message to members of Congress who are on recess this week. The backlash still hasn’t approached the intensity of protests during and after Trump’s first inauguration eight […]

todayFebruary 18, 2025 1

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How Columbia University’s complex history with the student protest movement echoes into today

NEW YORK (AP) — College students taking up space and making demands for change. University administrators facing pressure to get things back under control. Police brought in to make arrests. At other schools: students taking note, and sometimes taking action. Columbia University, 2024. And Columbia University, 1968. The pro-Palestinian demonstration and subsequent arrests at Columbia that have set off similar protests at campuses nationwide these days and even internationally aren’t new ground for students at the Ivy League school. They’re […]

todayApril 29, 2024 1

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Rep. Summer Lee’s decisive PA primary win signals momentum for pro-Palestine movement

After pulling out a decisive win against her primary opponent amid a super PAC’s attempt to unseat her over her stance on the Israel-Hamas war in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., is empowering the broader pro-Palestine movement to end the more than 200-day-old conflict. U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., told theGrio of Lee’s overwhelming victory: “Organized people beat organized money every time.” The New York congressman, who is facing own primary challenge on June 25 for […]

todayApril 27, 2024

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Democrats say MAGA movement wants to take America back in time following Arizona abortion ruling

Members of Congress are blasting the Arizona Supreme Court for upholding a 19th-century abortion ban that they say threatens the lives of the most vulnerable: Black and brown women. U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., told theGrio former President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement wants “to take us back to those days when women and people of color had no rights.” U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., said the ruling is “horrible.” He told theGrio the “attack” on women […]

todayApril 11, 2024 1

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Black athletes can’t even the playing field against the anti-DEI movement. That’s white people’s job.

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 Feb. 20, 25 white Republican members of the Alabama Senate introduced SB129, a bill designed to essentially eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs at public institutions in the state.   The proposed law not only makes it illegal for any “state agency, local board of education or public institution of higher education to sponsor any diversity, equity, and […]

todayMarch 8, 2024