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Ruby Bridges, part of the historic fight for school desegregation, reacts to an image of Kamala Harris walking with her…
Joe Biden plans to undo Donald Trump's executive orders on civil rights and focus instead on enforcing equality.
OPINION: U.S. Rep. Schiff introduces the Equal Health Care for All Act, a civil rights approach to bringing equity to…
After a bipartisan 33-3 vote, the state Senate passed the measure on Saturday. Next, it moves to the Assembly, which…
Hampton's work as leader of the Chicago's Black Panther Party, landed him on the FBI COINTELPRO list of "threats" to…
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, will honor the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis as his body lies in state…
theGrio spoke with Rev. Stephen A. Green, civil rights activist and leader for social justice, about activism, mentors and the…
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed…
Ida B. Wells is honored by the Pulitzer Prize committee over a hundred years after her pionnering work helped civil…
Ben’s Chili Bowl fed protesters during the Civil Rights Movement and the 1968 riots after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther…
Carlos and Thomas Williams have filed federal discrimination lawsuits against police in Rancho Cordova, California for allegedly beating and arresting them.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr is asking Congress for the ability petition a judge to indefinitely detain someone during an…
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) taught Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell a Civil Rights Movement history lesson on Tuesday.
California Gov Gavin Newsom pardoned Bayard Rustin for his arrest in 1953 that landed the civil rights leader in jail…
More than a half-century later, Tommie Smith and John Carlos are cemented into Olympic lore — their names enshrined in…
A St. Louis Circuit Attorney filed what she called an unprecedented federal civil rights lawsuit against the city, the local…
Byron Allen's Supreme Court civil rights case is being heard today and TheGrio's Deputy Editor, Natasha Alford, is on the…
The Congressional Black Caucus has weighed in on the $20B lawsuit between Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios and the media companies,…
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has released an exclusive statement in response to Comcast cable…
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee is bestowing its highest honor on Tommie Smith and John Carlos, nealry 50 years…