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Defense Department webpage on Jackie Robinson goes down, then returns amid DEI purge

A Department of Defense webpage describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson’s military service was restored Wednesday after it was missing earlier in the day. That development came after pages honoring a Black Medal of Honor winner and Japanese American service members were taken down — the Pentagon said that was a mistake — amid the department’s campaign to strip out content singling out the contributions by women and minority groups, which the Trump administration considers “DEI.” The page on Robinson […]

March 20, 2025

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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+ […]

December 24, 2024

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Several Mark Robinson campaign staffers quit as fallout over online posts continues

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several top staffers in North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign for governor have quit their posts, marking more fallout from a CNN report outlining evidence that he made disturbing posts on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago. The campaign said in a news release Sunday that senior adviser Conrad Pogorzelski III, campaign manager Chris Rodriguez, the campaign’s finance director and the deputy campaign manager “have stepped down from their roles with the […]

September 23, 2024

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NC gov. candidate Mark Robinson rallies GOP at state convention

Before Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s GOP candidate for governor, even stepped on stage at the state party’s convention Saturday, several state candidates took time in their own speeches to energize the crowd by vouching for Robinson’s gubernatorial bid. When the state’s lieutenant governor did take to the stage more than an hour and a half into the NCGOP Convention’s Old North State Dinner in Greensboro, Robinson started off his fiery speech denouncing the media for focusing too much on Donald […]

May 27, 2024

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Meet Mark Robinson, the GOP’s newest bizarro politician

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 this man that Donald Trump said is “Martin Luther King on steroids”? A man Trumpy said is “better than Martin Luther King”? In fact, “Martin Luther King times two.” Meet Mark Robinson, the GOP’s nominee for governor in North Carolina. He’s currently the state’s lieutenant governor, and hey, if Trump loves him then I’m sure you’ll hate him. I do. […]

March 8, 2024

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Heated North Carolina governor’s race ahead with Democrat Josh Stein vs. Republican Mark Robinson

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Democratic attorney general and the Republican lieutenant governor won North Carolina’s primaries for governor on Tuesday, setting the stage for what will be an expensive and high-stakes November contest in a state that the two parties see as a pivotal battleground. Josh Stein and Mark Robinson, each of whom turned back multiple party rivals, will present stark contrasts for voters in the ninth-largest state’s fall elections. In separate election-night victory speeches, each candidate laid out policy and […]

March 7, 2024

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Trump calls NC gov candidate Mark Robinson MLK ‘on steroids’

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Donald Trump has endorsed North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov Mark Robinson for governor, fulfilling a pledge the former president made several months ago. At a rally Saturday in Greensboro, Trump compared Robinson, who is Black, to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the famed civil rights leader. Trump referred to Robinson as “Martin Luther King on steroids.” Trump said Robinson wasn’t sure how to respond when Trump compared him to the legendary civil rights leader, telling him: “I think […]

March 3, 2024