Politics
Michigan’s former elections director discusses "the race factor" in Detroit for the 2020 presidential election.
Leslie T. Fenwick, the former dean emeritus of the Howard University School of Education and a professor of educational policy and leadership, has emerged as one of Joe Biden's cabinet finalists to lead the U.S. Department of Education.
Byron Allen, Chairman & CEO of the Allen Media Group, signed the veteran journalist to become the Washington D.C. Bureau Chief for TheGrio.TV as well.
The notorious photo of Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler smiling with a former Ku Klux Klan leader has brought attention to her ongoing affiliation with and welcomed support from white supremacists.
Abrams had a front row seat as she conducted roll call for 16 electors to cast their votes for President-elect Joe Biden.
The news comes after voting rights activists again accused election officials of voter suppression, voicing concerns that lack of accessibility limits access for Black and Latino voters.
Former USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack's controversial firing of Shirley Sherrod in 2010 should preclude him from leading the agriculture agency under Joe Biden's administration, civil rights leaders and advocates say.
As the city's youngest mayor in more than a century, Scott, 36, brought style and flair to his swearing in ceremony on Wednesday as he launches a multi-layered effort built on progressive reform,
Nina Turner signaled her intentions to run for Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge's U.S. House seat by filing the requisite paperwork with the Federal Election Commissions for the state's 11th Congressional District.
Michigan state Rep. Cynthia Johnson was removed from her committee assignments on Wednesday over a Facebook Live where she spoke out against racist threats she received online.
Lloyd Austin was officially introduced as the Secretary of Defense-designate, allowing many Americans a first time to hear directly from the man at the center of a growing controversy over his pending nomination. Read his full speech here.
The man who could become the first Black person to lead the Department of Defense is at the center of a brewing inter-Party controversy as a growing number of Senate Democrats have signaled their opposition to his nomination.