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US Open champ Coco Gauff calls on young Americans to get out and vote. ‘Use the power that we have’

ROME (AP) — She’s the U.S. Open champion. The highest paid female athlete in the world. And a frustrated Floridian. American tennis player Coco Gauff has never been afraid to use her voice. Not when she delivered an impromptu speech at a Black Lives Matter rally at the age of 16. And not now at age 20 when she’s preparing to vote for the first time in a U.S. presidential election later this year. Gauff, who will be among the […]

todayMay 22, 2024

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As Trump eyes young Black male jurors in trial, critics pull receipts

Defense attorneys representing Donald Trump in the historic hush money criminal trial in New York City are reportedly seeking young Black male jurors who they believe could be persuaded to acquit the former president.  As the New York Times reported on Sunday, the Republican presidential candidate’s lawyers are “hoping to spot sympathizers and will focus on younger Black men and white working-class men.”  Critics told theGrio the Trump defense team’s strategy will likely not yield the results they hope for, […]

todayApril 16, 2024

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Barbara Lee, once a young Shirley Chisholm staffer, aims to take fight to US Senate

TheGrio’s “Running Black” election series profiles Black candidates running for office in the 2024 elections. If successful, each candidate profiled could make history in their state. Hear from them in their own words about what’s at stake in their races, for the country, and for Black and brown communities on the political margin. As a veteran U.S. member of Congress, U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., has lived a life of public service for over three decades. Through many years of leadership and legislating, […]

todayMarch 5, 2024

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New poll shows that for Black and young voters, reelection for Biden-Harris is complicated

A new national poll shows President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris continue to lose ground with Black, Hispanic, and young voters, the core base of the Democratic Party’s electorate that handed them their historic win in 2020.  However, political strategists tell theGrio the USA Today/Suffolk University poll should not be much of a concern this early in the 2024 election cycle. “Nothing in any of the recent polls dissuades the belief that there’s a path for Biden to […]

todayJanuary 3, 2024

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