Gay marriage movement gains in and out of court

theGRIO REPORT - Advocates of gay marriage appear to have made gains both at the U.S. Supreme Court and in Congress this week, as the court's justices hinted in oral arguments in two different cases this week they would side with same-sex marriage advocates..

Supreme Court doubts Defense of Marriage Act

Mark Sherman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is indicating it could strike down the law that prevents legally married gay couples from receiving a range of federal benefits that go to married people...

Equality includes everyone

Rev. Al Sharpton

OPINION - As Americans, it is up to each and every one of us to fight injustice and inequality when we are faced with it...

Audrey Smaltz and Gail Marquis: A loving example for marriage equality

Alexis Garrett Stodghill

theGRIO REPORT - Audrey Smaltz, 75, and Gail Marquis, 68, request to be called wife and wife when they are introduced. For them, only this term connotes the tender nature of their commitment...

How affirmative action foes are borrowing from the NAACP

Nikole Hannah-Jones, ProPublica

PRO PUBLICA - When the NAACP began challenging Jim Crow laws across the South, it knew that, in the battle for public opinion, the particular plaintiffs mattered as much as the facts of the case...

Prosecutors: Man who killed 11 deserves death

Amanda Lee Myers, Associated Press

CINCINNATI (AP) — A man found guilty of killing 11 women and hiding their remains around his Cleveland home got a fair trial, and his conviction and death sentence should stand, state prosecutors told the Supreme Court.

What the New York Times gets wrong about affirmative action

Ari Melber

OPINION -This year’s Supreme Court docket could dramatically alter racial policy in America, with cases that could invalidate two key achievements of the civil rights movement: The Voting Rights Act and affirmative action...

Biden leads re-enactment of voting rights march

Phillip Rawls, Associated Press

SELMA, Ala. (AP) - The vice president and black leaders commemorating a famous civil rights march on Sunday said efforts to diminish the impact of African-Americans' votes haven't stopped in the years since the 1965 Voting Rights Act...

Supreme Court's 'post-racial' America

Perry Bacon Jr.

OPINION - The nation's first black president says race still matters, while the Supreme Court is effectively suggesting it does not. And on this issue, the Court, not the president, is the decider...

Obama urges Supreme Court to overturn gay marriage ban

Julie Pace and Mark Sherman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a historic argument for gay rights, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban...

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