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Black leaders, from Barack Obama to Kamala Harris, react to retirement of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi

Black leaders in politics and the civil rights community are reacting to the announcement of U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi‘s retirement from Congress, marking the end of a nearly 40-year historic career. “Over nearly 40 years in the House, she advanced legislation that improved the lives of everyday Americans and served as inarguably the fiercest check on presidents from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump,” Rev. Al Sharpton said of 85-year-old Pelosi, who was the first woman to be elected Speaker of […]

todayNovember 6, 2025

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“Scares the hell out of me”: Chicagoans react and push back as Trump sends troops into Black-led city

President Donald Trump‘s deployment of the military in Chicago has resulted in clashes in court and on the streets as local leaders and activists fight to end what they say is an “invasion” of the majority Black and brown city. On the heels of what Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker described as a “military-style” ICE raid of an apartment building in a majority-Black neighborhood in Chicago that resulted in women and children being zip-tied, the state and city of Chicago filed […]

todayOctober 6, 2025 1

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‘This is their shutdown’: Kamala Harris and Jasmine Crockett react to government shutdown

The government has officially shut down, meaning that it has essentially run out of money. After both Republican and Democratic-backed bills that could have potentially funded the government to avoid a shutdown failed in the Senate, the country shut down at midnight. Now, many experts, like Claudia Grisales, NPR’s congressional correspondent, are calling this shutdown a “culmination of bitter, extreme partisan divide” in the nation’s capital.  Leading up to the shutdown, government websites like the U.S. Department of Housing and […]

todayOctober 2, 2025 1

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Barack Obama, Kamala Harris react to deadly Minneapolis school shooting

The country is reeling from yet another mass shooting after the Annunciation Catholic School community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was horrified by a deadly shooting during a church mass that left two young students dead and 17 others injured. Political leaders reacted to the deadly shooting, including some who called for stricter gun reform as America approaches nearly 300 mass shootings this year. President Donald Trump, who asked Americans to join him in “praying for everyone involved,” ordered that flags be lowered […]

todayAugust 28, 2025

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Democratic representatives react to the House censuring Rep. Al Green

Democratic Rep. Al Green is standing on business, and other democrats in the House of Representatives are standing along with him.  Earlier this week, Green made a bold move by interrupting President Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress. The decision that ultimately led to his removal was in response to Trump’s seemingly false declaration of having a mandate to cut Medicare.  “I was telling him that he does not have a mandate to cut Medicare,” Green told ABC […]

todayMarch 6, 2025 1

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Relief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to Biden’s death row commutations

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Victims’ families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions on Monday, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences. Biden converted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The inmates include people who were convicted in the slayings of police, military officers and federal prisoners and guards. Others were involved in deadly […]

todayDecember 24, 2024 1