Civil Rights Movement

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July 4, 2013
OPINION - Although it’s important to celebrate our nation’s birthday, it’s equally important to put it into proper context from…
June 28, 2013
OPINION - It's that common link, that discrimination that binds us together, gay and black, white and straight and any…
June 25, 2013
VIDEO - Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights leader for the last five decades, sharply criticized the Supreme Court’s decision…
June 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act cannot be enforced until…
June 18, 2013
OPINION - Are U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia parting political ways?...
June 17, 2013
(AP) - Six decades and myriad details separate the deaths of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin, two black teenagers felled…
June 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - It's been 50 years since Medgar Evers was murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi,…
June 13, 2013
ANALYSIS - The black community has decades of experience being monitored, so this type of surveillance is nothing new...
June 12, 2013
VIDEO - Fifty years ago, on June 11, 1963, Gov. George Wallace stood in the doorway of the Foster Auditorium,…
June 11, 2013
OPINION - Would President Kennedy think that as a nation we have made enough progress on these issues over the…
June 6, 2013
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP)- Former President Bill Clinton and Evers' widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, joined Holder for a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington…
June 6, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker may be taking on another big movie role after reports say he may…
June 5, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama met with Myrlie Evers-Williams during her visit in the Oval Office yesterday.
May 28, 2013
CLUTCH - Few are taught about Olivia Ferguson McQueen during Black History Month, but she is a Civil Rights Movement…
May 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The children were murdered when a bomb planted by white supremacists exploded at the 16th Street Baptist…
May 21, 2013
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) - In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on…
May 18, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Right wing talker Glenn Beck is at it again...
April 26, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four young victims of a deadly Alabama church bombing that marked one of the darkest moments of…
April 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - King’s letter reflected the religious challenges of his time, addressing the crisis of Christian faith for southern…
April 12, 2013
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was killed by a white supremacist outside…