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President Joe Biden reacts to the death of ‘literary legend’ Nikki Giovanni

President Joe Biden eulogized Nikki Giovanni in an official White House statement on Wednesday, hailing the late poet as a “literary legend.” “Jill and I send our love and condolences to her family—including her wife Virginia, her son Thomas, and her granddaughter Kai—and all those who loved and admired that something special, her courage,” Biden said of the famed writer, activist, and educator who died on Monday.   The president recalled Giovanni’s “majestic voice” and “powerful words” in 2020, when she […]

todayDecember 12, 2024

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Nikki Haley’s entire campaign is built on assuaging white guilt

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Nikki Haley doesn’t have a chance in hell at winning the presidency.  That is, of course, my opinion, but I am willing to bet cash money that in addition to me “knowing” it, voters know it, Republicans know it and Nikki Haley for sure knows it.  When you look at the average age of the white people in power […]

todayFebruary 5, 2024

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‘She needs those racist votes:’ Nikki Haley’s gaffe exposes Republican Party’s race problem

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s now-viral comments on racism in America not only damage her standing as a presidential candidate but potentially expose a glaring Achilles heel for the Republican Party. During a Fox News interview, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador was asked if the Republican Party was racist. In response, Haley, who is Indian-American, said America has “never been a racist country” but explained she had experienced racism growing up. Black advocates and Democrats quickly […]

todayJanuary 19, 2024

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Donald Trump and Nikki Haley show us America’s ignorance about the Civil War

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. When America fails to teach society about its history, you get the Republican Party and its attitudes toward the Civil War. This country is awfully ignorant when it comes to American history because that history is not taught correctly, truthfully or with any context or sensitivity. And this is how Republican presidential candidates can exploit a public lack of […]

todayJanuary 12, 2024

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An exclusive interview with Nikki Haley’s ‘Black friends’

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.    After taking heat for telling New Hampshire voters that “the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run, the freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do,” Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley received an official endorsement from the most famous Black person in American history.  Despite the oft-repeated efforts to whitewash this country’s racial […]

todayJanuary 9, 2024

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Why Nikki Haley whitesplained the Civil War, explained

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.   Who is Nikki Haley? Nimarata Nikki Haley is the former governor of South Carolina who is currently seeking the Republican nomination for president of the United States. Haley was born and raised in Bamberg, South Carolina, to immigrant parents from Amritsar, Punjab, India. She served in the South Carolina legislature and in the Trump administration as ambassador to the […]

todayDecember 29, 2023

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Nikki Haley, asked what caused the Civil War, leaves out slavery. It’s not the first time

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was asked by a New Hampshire voter about the reason for the Civil War, and she didn’t mention slavery in her response — leading the voter to say he was “astonished” by her omission. Asked during a Wednesday night town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, what she believed had caused the war — the first shots of which were fired in her home state of South Carolina — Haley talked about the role […]

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