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Judge: Black History Month assignment doesn’t violate rights

A federal judge is siding with the Sun Prairie School District in a lawsuit filed by two Black parents who

Associated Press / July 17, 2022

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Minnesota state human rights department found printing company violated civil rights laws

A Minnesota-based printing company must enforce anti-discrimination policies and pay a former Black employee $45,000 for violating civil rights laws. 

TheGrio Staff / July 15, 2022

Black History

Oral histories of nearly 300 civil rights era teachers reveal their activist roles in new podcast

Some of nearly 300 Civil Rights-era educators  — mainly from South Carolina — are featured prominently in a new podcast,

TheGrio Staff / July 12, 2022

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Family of Randy Cox, paralyzed in police van, seeks civil rights charges

The family of a Black man in Connecticut, paralyzed when a police van without seatbelts braked suddenly, asked federal authorities

Associated Press / July 9, 2022

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Lawsuit: Death of Black teen at juvenile center foreshadowed

The death of a Black teenager at a Kansas juvenile detention center was foreshadowed five years earlier by a state

Associated Press / June 13, 2022

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Trial of two former officers charged in George Floyd’s death delayed to 2023

A judge has moved the trial of two former Minneapolis police officers charged in relation to George Floyd’s death to

TheGrio Staff / June 7, 2022

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Mississippi civil rights activist ‘Bud’ McGee dies at 81

William “Bud” McGee, a Mississippi civil rights activist who worked to register Black voters in the 1960s, has died. He

Associated Press / June 4, 2022