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May 5, 2015
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A video taken by a Colorado Springs man during a March traffic stop has gotten…
March 27, 2015
On Thursday, two black women who say that their natural hair was patted down by airport security announced that the Transportation
March 24, 2015
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police officers initiated stop, question and frisk encounters at a much higher rate last summer than…
August 14, 2014
Local police forces are militarizing at an alarming rate using tactics of war disproportionately against people of color.
March 5, 2014
theGRIO VIDEO - From the May 2012 TIME magazine cover to Pope Francis’ declaration of support for public breastfeeding, the…
January 8, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration wants to end the apparent disparities in how students of different races are punished…
November 14, 2013
MSNBC - There are currently 3,278 people who have been sentenced to life without parole for crimes as small as…
October 9, 2013
NBC NEWS - The American Civil Liberties Union has weighed in on uniform-mounted police cameras in a lengthy blog post…
September 13, 2013
OPINION - Toni Morrison is literary royalty and though her work is fiction, it is rooted in real life, real…
August 13, 2013
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's governor on Monday quietly signed a measure into law that overhauls the state's election…
June 4, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - Black people are arrested for possessing marijuana far more often than white people, even though marijuana use…
February 6, 2013
ANALYSIS - Would law professor or senator Barack Obama have supported effectively giving a U.S. president unilateral power to kill…
January 17, 2013
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Civil rights advocates say harsh disciplinary practices at many Mississippi schools lead to children being expelled…
August 8, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A Louisiana charter schools policy on pregnant students has caught the attention of the American Civil Liberties…
July 26, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A new report commissioned by the ACLU finds that many Pennsylvania residents who would not have the…
July 24, 2012
CONNECTICUT - The mayor of Bridgeport is calling for a crackdown on illegal guns after three people were murdered in…
June 27, 2012
ATLANTA (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union will help the Ku Klux Klan in its bid to join Georgia's…
May 4, 2012
VIDEO - Viviette Applewhite, a 93-year-old African-American women from Philadelphia, will be the lead plaintiff in the NAACP and ACLU's…
April 25, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The Court's decision on the law, which will be debated in oral arguments on Wednesday, could play…
December 28, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The Justice Department's decision last week to block a new South Carolina law requiring voters to present…