Obama calls Abdul El-Sayed after Michigan senate primary win
“Sometimes, you really should meet your heroes,” El-Sayed said after speaking with the former president about uniting Democrats.
Former President Barack Obama spoke with Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed days after El-Sayed narrowly won Michigan’s Democratic primary for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat. The conversation signals early support from Obama as El-Sayed prepares for a general election that could put Michigan’s Democratic coalition to the test.
Black people are being found hanging from trees.
Black people are being found hanging from trees. Why are officials so quick to call it suicide?
Tasia Fortune's death is the latest in a string of cases across the country, drawing scrutiny over how officials investigate Black deaths.
In recent weeks, Black communities have noticed a disturbing pattern of Black people dying in mysterious ways, and then local officials jumping to early conclusions about the causes of death. In addition to cases like Nolan Wells, Daniel Erving, and Tyler Smith, who were found dead near bodies of water, this year, a number of Black bodies have reportedly been found hanging from trees across the country.
Thalles DeSouza is going from Wendy’s to Yale
Thalles DeSouza is going from Wendy’s to Yale after his bosses bet on his future
Two former bosses helped DeSouza pay for community college, giving him the opportunity to turn his academic ambitions into reality.
Thalles Winner DeSouza thought he had figured out his path.
The 23-year-old was working at a Wendy’s in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, while finishing high school and considering leaving the fast-food restaurant for construction work—a job he believed would help him make more money and eventually pay for college.
Rep. LaMonica McIver talks about pregnancy, and prosecution
Rep. LaMonica McIver opens up about pregnancy, prosecution and a fight she says is bigger than her
The New Jersey congresswoman discusses the $1 million legal fight she's struggling to fund, her frustrations with Democratic leaders, and why she refuses to back down.
When U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) dreamed of expanding her family, she never imagined that she’d be simultaneously fighting for her freedom in federal court.
“It is just crazy to me that I can be going through this, and this is okay, and I was doing my job as a member of Congress,” she says during an extended interview with theGrio about her more than one-year-long legal battle. Click here to read more.
Never Forget: Remembering 3 Brilliant Black Kids Lost On 9/1
A tribute to Bernard Brown II, Asia Cottom and Rodney Dickens — three Black 11-year-old scholars who sadly lost their lives on 9/11.
Every year on September 11 for the past two-and-a-half decades has been a somber day for millions across the world. The 2001 terrorist attack on New York City that collapsed the Twin Towers and caused thousands of deaths in the process will forever be a sore spot in American history, especially when considering so many of the bright futures wiped out in a single act of hatred.
Jasmine Crockett Repeated A Viral Claim About Black Women
Jasmine Crockett Repeated A Viral Claim About Black Women. Here’s Why That Backfired [Op-Ed]
While arguing that Black women have been disproportionately harmed by the Trump regime’s attacks on DEI, Rep. Jasmine Crockett repeated a viral claim about them being the most educated.
Do y’all remember back in 2007 when then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said, “We have more work to do when more young Black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America?”
That emotionally powerful statistic went viral and kept being repeated for years across social media and beyond even though it wasn’t true. In fact, Howard University professor Ivory Toldson pulled the receipts and found that more than 1.4 million Black men were enrolled in college compared to around 840,000 who were incarcerated. Click here to read more.
March on Washington 2026: Defend the Vote March on Aug. 28.
Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III Announced March On Washington The march is being held to both ma
In July, Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, and Arndrea Waters King announced plans to have another March on Washington in August to defend voting rights.
NBC News reports that a coalition led by Sharpton’s National Action Network and several other labor and civil rights groups will host the March on Washington 2026: Defend the Vote march on Aug. 28. That date is notable as it marks the 63rd anniversary of the first March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his “Normalcy No More” speech, commonly referred to as “I Have A Dream.”
Can Marjorie Taylor Green help the Dems win both chambers
Yes, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s actions have significantly enhanced the Democrats' chances of winning
The primary ways her actions are assisting Democrats across both chambers include:
1. Narrowing the House Majority and Exposing GOP Vulnerabilities
- Shrinking the Margin: Greene's resignation from Georgia's 14th Congressional District temporarily shrank the razor-thin Republican House majority.
- Democratic Overperformance: In the April runoff election to replace her, Trump-backed Republican Clayton Fuller won the seat, but Democrats drastically closed the gap. Fuller won by 56% to 44%—a massive drop from Greene’s nearly 30-point margin of victory in 2024. This overperformance serves as an alarming warning sign for the GOP nationwide.
Trump couldn't bully this Bleach-Blonde Bad-Built Butch-Body
Marjorie Taylor Greene influenced other GOP lawmakers by pushing the party's center of gravity to the right on issues like impeachment efforts and by popularizing confrontational, anti-establishment rhetoric. While she inspired a bloc of hard-right colleagues, her tendency to target fellow Republicans and criticize party leadership also alienated many.
The Rev. William Barber’s Case Against Trumpism
The 1960s-style civil rights leader preaches opposition to MAGA. But in a feuding nation that’s less
On a recent Sunday morning, the guest preacher at First Baptist-West, one of Charlotte’s oldest Black churches, has selected Isaiah 58:1 as his Scripture passage. It begins with a call to get loud. “Do not hold back,” it says. “Raise your voice like a trumpet.”
But for most of his 45 minutes at the pulpit, Bishop William Barber II rarely raises his deep voice. Instead, the architect of North Carolina’s now-famous “Moral Monday” protests chooses the tone of a Sunday school teacher as he walks the congregation through the long and sometimes bloody history of African Americans’ struggle for the right to vote and to elect representatives of their choice.
The high point of that journey, says Barber, his burly frame draped in a black robe adorned with patches of African mudcloth, was Congress’s approval of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson after a coalition of Democratic and Republican senators cut off a filibuster by their Southern colleagues.
And the latest low point? That came in April, Barber says, when a U.S. Supreme Court majority, ruling on provisions in the landmark law that had allowed for the creation of Black majority congressional districts, decided, “Let’s kill it all.” The court’s six conservative justices said that times have dramatically changed since 1965, that Black residents are no longer kept from voting, and that legislators need to be colorblind in the drawing of districts.