NAACP claims discrimination at NYC's elite high schools

theGrio

Daily News reports the NAACP has filed a complaint with the US Department of education...

September 25th is National Voter Registration Day

theGRIO REPORT - In four days over 1100 organizations will come together in a national wide call for voter registration...

Voter registration drives adopting new methods

Bill Kaczora, Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Some organizations are turning to sophisticated data mining, direct mail, the Internet and other strategies to register voters typically underrepresented on the rolls, including young people and ethnic minorities...

NAACP blasts GOP's 'withering attacks' on voting

Joy-Ann Reid

theGRIO REPORT - At the start of the NAACP convention, the NAACP says the GOP is attacking the voting rights of people of color...

NAACP wants answers after fatal police shooting

Carrie Healey

theGRIO REPORT - Members of the state and local NAACP chapters are holding a rally today near New Castle to address the fatal shooting of James L. Green by a New Castle County police officer...

White president of NAACP at HBCU found dead

theGrio

The first white president of a student chapter of NAACP at an HBCU has been mysteriously found dead...

Chavis Carter case: Police chief's past scrutinized

Alexis Garrett Stodghill

theGRIO REPORT - The controversy surrounding the Chavis Carter case has caused the local black community in Jonesboro to question police chief Michael Yates about his department's explanation, and to unearth disturbing details from Yates' past...

NAACP: Racial motivation behind Mississippi hit-and-run?

Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi NAACP on Tuesday called on state and federal authorities to investigate whether the hit-and-run killing of a black man was racially motivated...