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January 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - At the age of 90, Julia Hill has stepped down as an executive board member of the…
December 20, 2012
OPINION - Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas had much in common in terms of judicial ideology...
December 18, 2012
ATLANTA (AP) - Jesse Hill Jr., a civil rights leader and businessman who later became the first black president of…
December 12, 2012
OPINION - The school-to-prison pipeline – or, the system of extreme disciplinary practices that push young people out of school…
December 11, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Ilyasah Shabazz, African-American leader, civil rights activist and daughter of Malcolm X is planning to produce a…
November 30, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Former Attorney General of Alabama Bill Baxley wrote a short and direct letter to the Ku Klux…
November 30, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The NAACP is stepping up its fight to end the death penalty in the state of Maryland…
November 28, 2012
OPINION - Ethics scandals, personal failings and a political rise cut short threaten to cloud the Jackson family legacy...
November 26, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader who survived jailhouse beatings in the Deep South in the 1960s…
November 9, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court says it will consider eliminating the government's chief weapon against racial discrimination at polling…
November 2, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - During a debate response, Independent Mike Connelly implied Rosa Park's 1955 refusal to give up her bus…
November 2, 2012
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis plans to open the balcony where Martin Luther King…
October 29, 2012
theGRIO REPORT -'Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. VOTE REPUBLICAN!' the controversial billboard reads from above Martin Luther King…
October 20, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The NAACP held a press conference Friday to send out a clear message that they will continue…
October 10, 2012
OPINION - Today, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear arguments in a case that challenges the legal…
September 25, 2012
Fox and Friends host Steve Doocy recently interviewed right wing commentator and author Ann Coulter about her new book, Mugged, which
September 24, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Ann Coulter, the right-wing conservative commentator, was interviewed on ABC's This Week with host George Stephanopolis to…
September 21, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Congressional Black Caucus chairman Emanuel Cleaver said yesterday that blacks who decide not to vote 'ought to…
September 13, 2012
HILADELPHIA (AP) - Retired boxing great Muhammad Ali will visit Philadelphia to receive the Liberty Medal, an award recognizing his…
August 28, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - A year after the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial opened to visitors in Washington, the group behind…