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We must resurrect the true ideals of Dr. King this MLK Day as we inaugurate a new president

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 his last full day in office, President Joe Biden spoke at a South Carolina Black church about his vision for a just society one day before the federal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “I first got involved in public life because of the Civil Rights Movement,” Biden said at the Royal Missionary Baptist Church in Charleston. […]

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President Biden posthumously pardons Black nationalist Marcus Garvey

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Also receiving pardons were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights, criminal justice reform and gun violence prevention. Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride. After Garvey […]

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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 […]

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NAACP President: With two weeks until Inauguration Day, we’re calling on Biden to take urgent action

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio In 2020, when he was officially declared as the next president of the United States, Joe Biden sent a clear message to Black America: I have your back. Now, with less than two weeks to go until Inauguration Day, President Biden still has the opportunity to cement his progressive legacy, and deliver on three critical promises he made to our community. First, […]

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Vice President Kamala Harris certifies her own election loss on Jan. 6: ‘A sacred obligation’

Kamala Harris on Monday performed her constitutional role as vice president to preside over the Jan. 6 proceedings to certify her 2024 presidential election loss to President-elect Donald Trump. In a video posted on social media prior to the congressional proceeding, Vice President Harris called the peaceful transfer of power “one of the most fundamental principles of American democracy.” She added, “As much as any other principle, it is what distinguishes our system of government from monarchy or tyranny.”  Harris […]

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Jimmy Carter, a forever president who brought decency to American politics

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, who died on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, at the age of 100, will best be remembered for bringing two Middle Eastern foes to the table at Camp David and facilitating the signing of a historic peace accord along with his post-presidency humanitarian actions. But the Jimmy Carter I knew as a teenager growing up in Louisiana was […]

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The Obamas, VP Harris and King family mourn death of former President Jimmy Carter

Tributes are pouring in from Black political leaders following the death of former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at 100 after battling cancer. Weeks after Jimmy Carter cast his 2024 election ballot in Georgia in hopes of electing Kamala Harris as the first woman, first Black woman, and first South Asian president of the United States, the historic vice president praised Carter as a man who was “guided by a deep and abiding faith — in God, in […]

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Former President Jimmy Carter, a proponent for Black civil rights, dead at 100

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and longest-lived former commander-in-chief, has died at the age of 100.   In February of this year, Carter made the decision to begin in-home hospice care without further medical treatment for brain cancer. Carter was diagnosed in 2015 and initially recovered from the cancer before it later returned. In November, Carter notably achieved his goal of living long enough to cast his ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential […]

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Exclusive: Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson and wife pregnant with second child

Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, and her wife, Becky George, are pregnant with their second child, theGrio reports exclusively. The married political advocacy duo – dubbed a “power couple” by first lady Dr. Jill Biden – is expecting a baby girl in April 2025. “It just feels amazing to have the privilege and the ability to kind of design our own family,” said Robinson, the first Black, queer woman to lead HRC, which is the largest LGBTQ+ […]

todayDecember 24, 2024 1