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June 8, 2023
The court affirmed a lower-court ruling that found a likely violation of the Voting Rights Act in an Alabama congressional map.
June 8, 2023
About 300 infants, toddlers and older children have been rescued from an orphanage in Sudan’s capital.
June 8, 2023
United Nations judges have declared an 88-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to continue standing trial because he has dementia.
Tesla racial discrimination lawsuit
June 8, 2023
Tesla may face a class-action lawsuit after 240 Black factory workers in California described rampant racism and discrimination at the…
Being Black: The '80s, De La Soul, My Brother is a Basehead, theGrio.com
June 8, 2023
De La Soul's "My Brother's a Basehead" takes us into the impact of the 80s crack on its users and…
June 8, 2023
State prosecutors have urged the Minnesota Supreme Court to reject former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s request to reconsider his…
June 8, 2023
Americans will soon celebrate Juneteenth, marking the day when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free.
June 7, 2023
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson disclosed Wednesday that she received flowers from Oprah Winfrey and designer clothing as gifts.
June 7, 2023
The Oxford Dictionary of African American English, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr., will tell the story of Black people…
June 7, 2023
Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S prompting air quality warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside.
Damien Cameron death
June 7, 2023
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two men — one of whom was shot in the mouth by a law enforcement officer…
June 7, 2023
Smoke from Canadian wildfires poured into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest, covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy…
June 7, 2023
Federal safety regulators are urging consumers to stop using baby pillows that have been linked to 10 infant deaths but…
June 7, 2023
NOLENSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The first encounter with racism that Harmony Kennedy can remember came in elementary school. On a…
June 7, 2023
Susan Louise Lorincz now faces charges of manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery and two counts of assault.
Jodeci, best album, Diary of a Mad Band, theGrio.com
June 7, 2023
There were a lot of amazing R&B albums released in the 1990s, but the sophomore offering from Jodeci stands above…
June 7, 2023
Over 40 million people will owe federal student loan payments starting in August under the terms of Congress' debt ceiling…
Alabama redistricting, voting rights, theGrio.com
June 7, 2023
Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Texas lawmakers announced…
June 7, 2023
Of all the civil rights policies enacted by U.S President Lyndon Johnson, affirmative action is arguably one of the most…
June 7, 2023
The promotion of certain beliefs that some North Carolina lawmakers have likened to “critical race theory" is on track to be banned…