Eric Holder: We need national standards for voting

Morgan Whitaker, Politics Nation

POLITICS NATION - Attorney General Eric Holder said America’s election system needs to be made 'stronger and more accessible,' and defended the Justice Department’s challenges to restrictive voting laws...

Eric Holder to stay on as Attorney General

Abdul Sada

theGRIO REPORT - Eric Holder appears to have some gas left in the tank after announcing his plans to continue as the Attorney General under the Obama administration...

Queen of Soul performs for first lady

Oscar Wells Gabriel II, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Aretha Franklin says "it was fabulous" to have first lady Michelle Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder attend her show in Washington, DC...

BP moves beyond Gulf spill disaster

Jonathan Fahey, Associated Press

(AP) - BP's $4.5 billion settlement of federal criminal charges in the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the U.S. coast in 2010 is a record amount, and a significant sum of money...

BP to pay $4.5 billion in oil spill settlement

Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - BP said Thursday that it will pay $4.5 billion in a settlement with the U.S. government over the massive 2010 oil spill and will plead guilty to felony counts related to the deaths of 11 workers and lying to Congress...

Eric Holder unsure about 2nd term

theGrio

theGRIO REPORT - Eric Holder's tenure has been marked by fierce battles with Congressional Republicans (over his handling of the 'Fast and Furious' program) as well as historic successes fighting for civil rights and against domestic terrorism...

Holder vows to protect voting rights, Lucas says racism remains

Joy-Ann Reid

theGRIO REPORT - Attorney General Eric Holder was honored Saturday night at the Congressional Black Causcus Foundation's Phoenix Awards, sharing the honors with a southern mayor, a feisty congresswoman, and the man behind 'Star Wars'...

First lady at CBCF: History beckons black votes

Joy-Ann Reid

theGRIO REPORT - Michelle Obama keynotes the foundation's annual Phoenix Awards gala Saturday night at Washington D.C.'s Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

Eric Holder cleared of any 'Fast and Furious' wrongdoing

Pete Williams, NBC News

NBC NEWS - A long-awaited report on the U.S. government’s controversial gun-trafficking operation known as 'Fast and Furious' released Wednesday found no evidence that Attorney General Eric Holder knew of the botched effort to trace the flow of guns to Mexico’s drug cartels prior to its public unraveling in January 2011...

Police custody death raises doubts about LAPD

Similoluwa Ojurongbe and Joy-Ann Reid

theGRIO REPORT - On July 22nd, Alesia Thomas died in police custody after being placed in hobble restraint device and put into the back of a patrol vehicle...