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May 18, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - An attorney claims a judge and two lawyers involved in a long-running dispute over civil rights pioneer…
May 18, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting an…
May 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - It may come as a surprise to some of Huey Newton's admirers that he also articulated a…
May 12, 2012
TheGrio REPORT -- A group of civil rights leaders released an open letter Friday, applauding President Obama's "evolution" on gay…
May 8, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - An expansive constitutional amendment that could bar not only gay marriage but any kind of domestic partnership…
May 7, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Veteran NAACP leader and former professor of civil rights Julian Bond hopes that renewed interest in activism…
April 27, 2012
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The black activist and follower of Martin Luther King Jr. never made it home to…
April 20, 2012
OPINION - If you are judged by the company you keep, then Mitt Romney is an extremist for choosing Robert…
April 19, 2012
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson says his Rainbow PUSH Coalition will organize to change…
April 11, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the Justice Department will take appropriate action in the killing…
March 30, 2012
Rev. Addie Wyatt has passed away at the age of 88 at Advocate Trinity Hospital. Wyatt dedicated her life to…
March 30, 2012
SANFORD, Florida (AP) - When Benjamin Crump got his first call from Trayvon Martin's father last month, the attorney counseled…
March 29, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The state of Florida, where Trayvon Martin was killed, covers every protected class of people except by…
March 29, 2012
OPINION - Black, Latino, LGBT communities understand what it is like to fight discrimination and actually draw on each others'…
March 26, 2012
VIDEO - TheGrio's Joy-Ann Reid interviewed civil rights activist Dick Gregory at the rally for slain teenager, Trayvon Martin...
March 22, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Albert Einstein's greatness as a champion of human and civil rights for African-Americans as one of his…
March 12, 2012
The NAACP hopes that international pressure will help to reverse legislation in 31 U.S. states that has changed access to…
March 9, 2012
VIDEO - Rev. Al Sharpton will lead a march in Montgomery, Alabama Friday, in a bid to highlight what he…
March 7, 2012
Rev. Al Sharpton is leading a symbolic march from Selma to Montgomery to bring attention to controversial voting laws and…
February 27, 2012
Menard, a Republican, had apparently won a contest to complete the term of Rep. James Mann, who had died in…