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July 17, 2022
U.S. District Judge James Peterson said the parents failed to show evidence that their civil rights were violated by the…
July 15, 2022
A Minnesota-based printing company must enforce anti-discrimination policies and pay a former Black employee for violating civil rights laws. 
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July 12, 2022
A podcast spearhead by Derrick Alridge shares the stories of more than 300 educators in South Carolina during the Civil…
July 9, 2022
Randy Cox was paralyzed when a police van without seatbelts braked suddenly in Connecticut, leading to calls for charges against…
June 13, 2022
The death of a Black teenager at a Kansas juvenile detention center was foreshadowed five years earlier by a state…
June 7, 2022
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill cites pretrial publicity for moving the case of J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao to…
VigilCandles thegrio.com
June 4, 2022
McGee, as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, organized young people to use nonviolent protests against segregation.
June 3, 2022
The upcoming Netflix documentary produced by Kenya Barris is set to premiere later this month, and theGrio has a first…
May 19, 2022
HBCU Delaware State University filed a Civil Rights and Title VI discrimination complaint with the Department of Justice on Wednesday.
May 7, 2022
The state Supreme Court denied Rev. William Barber II's appeal of his 2019 trial when he was found guilty for…
March 26, 2022
Adam Shakoor, who made history as the United States’ first Muslim to be appointed as a judge, also served as…
February 28, 2022
One officer fired rounds through a door seconds into the raid while another broke the home's windows, all for a…
Mississippi roadblocks thegrio.com
February 26, 2022
A lawsuit says Jackson, Miss., police are violating people's constitutional rights with roadblocks in majority-Black neighborhoods
February 26, 2022
After his first high-profile civil rights case in 2006, Ben Crump is now a familiar presence at almost every major…
Floyd Former Minneapolis Police Officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. thegrio.com
February 22, 2022
The three former Minneapolis police officers accused of violating Floyd's civil rights will soon learn their fates.
February 17, 2022
J Alexander Kueng, one of the three officers charged with violating the civil rights of George Floyd, took the stand…
February 16, 2022
Tou Thao, one of the former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating the civil rights of George Floyd during his
February 13, 2022
One of the artifacts gathered from the barbershop is the receipt from the poll tax Linton paid to vote in…
January 31, 2022
The plea deal on federal hate crime charges means Arbery's killers will serve decades in better prison conditions.
January 24, 2022
A Florida history professor is speaking out after his civil rights lecture was canceled by a school district citing concerns…