Civil Rights

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July 29, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Rev. Howard Creecy Jr., has died seven months…
July 29, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Long before Rosa Parks was hailed as the "mother of the civil rights movement," she wrote…
July 28, 2011
NEWS ONE - The pew research center released a racial wealth gap study whose results caused Reverend Al Sharpton to…
July 27, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - To do that, Roger Vann, the group's chief operating officer, said the organization plans to use…
July 22, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jobs, education, health, housing -- the issues driving the NAACP these days look much like the…
July 22, 2011
OPINION - When it comes to preserving African-American history and culture, why are we always on the losing end?...
July 6, 2011
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) - The Birmingham City Council has pardoned six women who were arrested in 1963 for protesting segregation-era…
June 27, 2011
BOSTON (AP) - It's called "Can We Talk?" The film is part of the organization's years-long Boston Busing/Desegregation Project...
June 27, 2011
OPINION - The times demand concrete action, not symbolic gestures or rhetorical gymnastics...
June 9, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Malikah Shabazz was freed from jail Thursday after entering the plea at a courthouse in New…
June 7, 2011
OPINON - According to Rick Santorum, things were just fine in the U.S. before the creation of the welfare state...
June 1, 2011
SLIDESHOW - In honor of Black Music History Month, here are 25 songs that speak to music's ability to evoke…
May 19, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - There are few figures in the black freedom struggle as dynamic and complex as Malcolm X...
May 12, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Recy Taylor is touring the nation's capital nearly seven decades after she was denied justice following a…
May 11, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack arranged for the $8 million review as part of an effort to address…
May 9, 2011
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Charles Reed Jr. is skipping his college graduation ceremony to do something much more significant to…
May 4, 2011
SLIDESHOW - This week marks the start of the 50th anniversary of the civil rights Freedom Riders, who traveled by…
April 25, 2011
In a county named for a New York congressman, a uniquely Southern controversy is brewing over the Confederate flag...
April 22, 2011
OPINION - Throughout American history, faith and neighborhood groups have shown the extraordinary power they have...
April 21, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The Michigan State Police has bought the 'Universal Forensic Extraction Device', a handheld gadget which can copy…