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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Predatory lending in the African-American community is the main civil rights issue of this era, witnesses…
OPINION - Byrd renounced his racist past, demonstrating that people have the power to change and move beyond hate...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The city's police chief called Thursday for the firing of a white officer who he said repeatedly…
BOSTON (AP) - "Their struggle then is ours now," said Deivid Ribeiro, 21, an illegal immigrant from Brazil and an…
ATLANTA (AP) - Today, infighting and allegations of financial mismanagement are threatening to undermine the social justice group King co-founded…
WASHINGTON (AP) - A right to remain silent and a right to a lawyer are the first of the Miranda…
Cypress Hill, Juanes, Massive Attack, Jack Black, filmmaker Michael Moore and De La Rocha's bandmates have also joined the campaign...
OPINION - At no time in history has a single liberation movement advanced or been sustained by the interest of…
FRANKFORT, Kentucky (AP) - "It's fundamentally un-American to oppose the Civil Rights Act," said University of Louisville student Perry Green...
This is not the first time the Kentucky Republican's campaign has hit a bump in racially sensitive territory.
THE GRIO REPORT - Malcolm X's unpublished thoughts on race, his life and his work were unveiled just a few…
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul scrambled to explain his criticism of the landmark U.S. Civil Rights Act,…
OPINION - There is a quiet but glaring disconnect between civil rights leaders backing immigration reform and the antipathy many…
OPINION - Once people begin to accept that taking away this piece of our humanity and values is ok, it…
From Huffington Post: Dr. Dorothy Height, the matriarch of the civil rights movement, died today at the age of 98.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Hooks took over the NAACP in 1977 and, by declaring "the civil rights movement is not…
OPINION - In virtually every decade, African-Americans have been undercounted and by no small margin...
OPINION - So what's on Jones' mind these days? Everything from the meaning of the NAACP Image award to the…