Civil Rights

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October 21, 2011
OPINION - Buchanan goes onto explain that during the 1950s, blacks and whites 'all had a common religion, we all…
October 19, 2011
THE HILL - Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) rejected President Obama's comparison between Martin Luther King Jr. and what he called…
October 7, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) -- An Atlanta-area mother has filed a lawsuit against a Girl Scouts organization alleging that her twin daughters…
September 27, 2011
theGRIO REPORT- An inmate in a prison near Montgomery, Ala., has filed a lawsuit in a federal court claiming that…
September 26, 2011
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Earlier this year, two solid 8-foot high wooden fences were built on either side of Annie…
September 21, 2011
OPINION - Many have advocated for a moratorium on the death penalty, and if there were ever a case that…
September 17, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - One of the most powerful chapters in the film 'The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975', involves a jailhouse…
September 7, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - In this election cycle, the Republicans' efforts to court the black vote is nowhere to be seen...
August 27, 2011
MIAMI (AP) - Author and folklorist Stetson Kennedy, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan six decades ago and exposed its…
August 26, 2011
OPINION - With the Jena 6, we stood and looked into the face of a movement, only to see it…
August 24, 2011
From TheGRIO - Texas Gov. Rick Perry will attend a retreat with a controversial evangelical "historian" who doubts Martin Luther…
August 23, 2011
OPINION - Let us pray the memorial dubbed the 'stone of hope' will someday soon be met with the action…
August 23, 2011
SLIDESHOW - This Sunday, President Barack Obama is slated to give remarks and King relatives, civil rights leaders, dignitaries and…
August 22, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some were locals who've watched for years as the memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.…
August 18, 2011
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Dunn Lampton, a former U.S. attorney in Mississippi who prosecuted a high-profile cold case from the…
August 17, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The official dedication of the memorial for the late civil rights leader is Aug. 28. President Barack…
August 16, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The Rev. Howard Creecy, who had been president of the SCLC, died last month...
August 9, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - Eleanor Josaitis and the Rev. William Cunningham founded Focus: HOPE in 1968 after the riots that widened…
August 8, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - Hundreds turned out Saturday for the Atlanta funeral of the Rev. Creecy, a third-generation Baptist preacher...
August 4, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The new memorial to the civil rights leader sits on the National Mall near the Tidal Basin,…