They've set up a protest site on the Ellipse near the White House. It's been more than a month since a dozen civil rights and religious groups say they sent a letter to the White House calling on ...

Racial justice advocates are frustrated yet hopeful after meeting with White House officials earlier this week in an attempt to compel President Joe Biden, in his final months in office, to take ...

When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed a bill late last year to form a state task force to study slavery reparations, advocates won a hard-fought battle they had lost at the national level just ...

A bill reintroduced in the House this week to create a commission to examine reparations for the African American descendants of slavery is being seen by many as an early test of President-elect Joe ...

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WASHINGTON — Retiring President Biden will meet one last time with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of this week’s APEC summit in Peru — as President-elect Donald Trump threatens to slap ...

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was laid to rest this week in Houston after losing her battle with cancer on July 19. The 74-year-old longtime congresswoman’s signature bill in recent years was HR 40, which ...

“You told a reporter, ‘I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather… and I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago,'” the moderator noted. None ...

U.S. President Joe Biden signs the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law in the East Room of the White House on June 17, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) ...

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee speaks at a Washington, D.C., press conference last year calling for the expansion of the Supreme Court. (Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Take Back the Court Action Fund ...

TheGrio asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre whether the president would reconsider his position on HR 40 in his final months in office. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was laid to rest this ...