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Freedom Monument Sculpture Park
Alabama’s Freedom Monument Sculpture Park is dedicated to taking an unflinching look at the country’s racist history.
Police Shooting Connecticut x Trooper Brian North
March 18, 2024
A judge has acquitted Connecticut state trooper Brian North of all charges in the 2020 death of Mubarak Soulemane.
Joseph Mensah cop
March 18, 2024
A federal judge has tossed two of three claims against former Wisconsin cop Joseph Mensah after he killed three people in five years.
March 17, 2024
The federal government requires every state to recover money from the assets of dead people who relied on Medicaid.
U.S. Supreme Court, theGrio.com
March 17, 2024
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a criminal justice overhaul does not apply to thousands of low-level drug dealers.
March 17, 2024
U.S. District Judge David Lawson said Flint is in civil contempt because it had failed to meet deadlines for pipe removal.
March 17, 2024
The April verdict was the second one reached in Owen Diaz’s case seeking to hold Tesla liable for allowing him to be subjected to racism.
March 17, 2024
The Kentucky House voted Friday to choke off funding for diversity, equity and inclusion offices at public universities.
March 17, 2024
Usher was named entertainer of the year at the 55th annual NAACP Awards on Saturday, which highlighted works by entertainers of color.
March 16, 2024
Aaron Donald spent his entire career and won a Super Bowl with the Rams, who drafted him in the first round in 2014 out of Pitt.
March 16, 2024
The project includes Freaknik founders Emma Horton, Amadi Boone, Monique Tolliver and Sharon Toomer who discuss the festival’s origin.
March 16, 2024
Six teenagers are accused of participating in “a hateful, racist online chat” that included “a mock slave auction,” investigators say.
Vaughan Gething won the Welsh Labour Party leadership race, setting him to be the first Black leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government.
March 16, 2024
David E. Harris, who flew bombers for the U.S. military and broke barriers in 1964 when American Airlines hired him as a pilot, has died.
March 16, 2024
Fulton County DA Fani Willis will remain on the most sprawling of four criminal cases against former President Donald Trump.
March 16, 2024
Kentucky fired women’s basketball coach Kyra Elzy after consecutive losing seasons. Elzy served four years as head coach.
March 16, 2024
South Africa Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor made the comment earlier this week at a Palestinian solidarity event.
March 16, 2024
Michigan fired coach Juwan Howard on Friday after five seasons, parting ways with the former Fab Five star who compiled an 82-67 record.
March 15, 2024
The bill sponsor, noting he was empathetic, said “we can’t let that empathy cloud our judgment in protecting 7 million Tennesseans.”
March 15, 2024
Sterling Heights police said Wednesday that it released the edited, nearly nine-minute-long video footage “in the spirit of transparency.”