Ashonti Ford

Multimedia Journalist

Ashonti Ford is a National Television News Correspondent for the Washington, DC Bureau. She joined Gray Television in August of 2023.

Ford is a well-traveled watchdog journalist who has worked for newsrooms around the nation, including; Tampa, Kansas City, Decatur, Wichita and Salisbury.

She has covered several presidential elections and spearheaded conversations that influenced positive policy change in her districts.

Outside of the newsroom, the California native has been awarded several grants through the Pulitzer Center to uncover international and domestic issues that affect migrant workers, women and children in underserved areas and aspects of untold Black history.

In her free time she enjoys traveling, trying new restaurants and exploring the DC metro area.

National

Election 2024: The cost of healthcare

Updated: Oct. 11, 2024 at 1:02 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

Healthcare is among the most divisive issues on the campaign trail, Both presidential candidates making firm stances on abortion, Medicare and the cost of prescription drugs.

National

Lawmakers address housing crisis

Updated: Oct. 7, 2024 at 3:58 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

The Farmhouse to Workforce Housing Act includes a required landlord education program, to help homeowners learn how to oversee rental housing, which ultimately puts will put more money in their pockets.

National

Gov. Tim Walz, left, and Sen. JD Vance, right.

Vice Presidential debate preview

Updated: Oct. 1, 2024 at 5:52 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

The 90-minute debate will be hosted by CBS and is projected to have millions of viewers

National

ELECTION 2024: Harris and Trump to debate

Updated: Sep. 10, 2024 at 3:25 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

THe only scheduled debate so far between Harris and Trump happens tonight.

National

Voters react to presidential candidates

Updated: Sep. 9, 2024 at 3:25 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

Ashonti Ford talks to likely voters about their pick for president

National Politics

ELECTION 2024: Kamala Harris picks Tim Walz

Updated: Aug. 6, 2024 at 12:17 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

Democratic Party presidential nominee Kamala Harris has chosen Tim Walz as her running mate.

National Politics

Biden to address the nation

Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 2:03 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office July 25th at 8 pm

National

Day Four: Republican National Convention Preview

Updated: Jul. 18, 2024 at 1:17 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

The Republican National Convention concludes Thursday night

National

Day Three: Republican National Convention Preview

Updated: Jul. 17, 2024 at 12:51 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

The theme of the day is “Make America Strong Again”

National

Day Two: Republican National Convention Preview

Updated: Jul. 16, 2024 at 4:23 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

Day two’s theme is “Make America Safe Once Again”

National

The troubled History Behind Non-Compete laws in America

Updated: May. 29, 2024 at 2:22 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

The FTC's move to ban non-compete clauses highlight the racist history of the contracts.

National

Amazon employees say unrealistic quotas threaten their safety in the workplace

Updated: May. 15, 2024 at 12:19 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

Amazon is facing backlash after thousands of employees say they’re working in harsh conditions.

National

Black market illegal grow operations set to make billions for Chinese nationals

Updated: May. 2, 2024 at 1:32 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

According to border patrol, Chinese nationals quietly built a billion-dollar operation with illegal grow houses.

National

“Trump is what the country needs” Muslim American man says Biden’s handling of Isreal/Hamas...

“Trump is what the country needs” Muslim American man says Biden’s handling of Israel/Hamas war may lose him this election

Updated: Apr. 2, 2024 at 12:22 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

The death toll in the Israel Hamas war has reached around 32,000 people

National

‘Most are living check to check’ Congress on efforts to improve public housing

Updated: Apr. 1, 2024 at 5:42 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford

Public housing is intended to provide low-income families with a safe and clean space to live but many people living in public housing say the units are in terrible condition and often located in less favorable neighborhoods.

National

Simone Boseman urges Congress to increase funding to combat colon cancer

Updated: Mar. 12, 2024 at 5:34 PM EDT

By Ashonti Ford and Priscilla Huff

Simone Boseman lobbies Capitol Hill about the disease which took her husband, actor Chadwick Boseman.

National

‘The Taliban is hunting my family’ Afghani ally says America didn’t make good on their promises to allies

Updated: Feb. 19, 2024 at 4:39 PM EST

By Ashonti Ford

78,000 Afghanistan war allies left behind, after American troops evacuated in 2021.Some soldiers who fought side by side with American troops are pleading for lawmakers to hold up their end of the bargain by bringing those soldiers to safety.

National

Billion dollar marijuana operation, illegally run by Chinese nationals in the U.S.

Updated: Dec. 29, 2023 at 4:14 PM EST

By Ashonti Ford

Illegal marijuana farms are being run by Chinese nationals across the nation.

National

Signs at a press conference on gun control

Maine Senator introduces new gun control legislation

Updated: Dec. 21, 2023 at 12:29 PM EST

By Ashonti Ford

Maine Senator introduced new gun control legislation on Thursday after a recent mass shooting in his home state.

National

Jewish students beg administrators to do something about antisemitism on campus

Updated: Dec. 7, 2023 at 1:15 PM EST

By Ashonti Ford

Students lobby Congress over tide of antisemitism

National

Rep. Kevin McCarthy to retire from Congress

Updated: Dec. 6, 2023 at 3:22 PM EST

By Ashonti Ford

Kevin McCarthy to leave Congress

National

Three Palestinian students were shot in what police are calling a possible hate crime.

Hate crimes spike in the U.S. as tensions for Israel-Hamas war rages on

Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 1:52 PM EST

By Ashonti Ford

The number of crimes against Muslim and Jewish people continues to grow here in the United States

National

President Biden signs short-term funding bill to avert gov. shutdown

Updated: Nov. 17, 2023 at 6:47 PM EST

By Ashonti Ford

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson drafted a two-part, short term funding bill to keep parts of the government open through early 2024 but the bill doesn’t include aid to Israel or Ukraine. It also doesn’t include spending cuts that hard right republican’s want.

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