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September 28, 2015
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a speech on Sunday concerning racial inequality and called for broad policing reform.
September 10, 2015
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Dr. William Grier, a psychiatrist who co-authored the groundbreaking 1968 book, "Black Rage," has died at…
August 17, 2015
The civil rights community has lost one of its greatest champions and elder statesmen with the passing of Julian Bond...
June 29, 2015
theGrio REPORT - Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, compared Bree…
May 12, 2015
theGrio REPORT - Americans have spoken - they want Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.
May 4, 2015
The revolution will not only be televised but apparently it will also be uploaded, downloaded, streamed, posted and tweeted as
April 7, 2015
OPINION - It is official. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. But…
March 11, 2015
FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) — The police chief in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson has resigned in the wake of…
March 7, 2015
theGrio REPORT - SELMA, Ala. (AP) — America's racial history "still casts its long shadow upon us," the nation's first…
March 1, 2015
For President Barack Obama, it's a week to invoke America's civil rights struggles from past to present.
February 4, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act by earmarking $50 million
January 27, 2015
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nine black men arrested for integrating a whites-only South Carolina lunch counter 54 years ago may…
January 19, 2015
If Martin Luther King were alive today, he would be 86 years old, with a full 50 years since his
December 18, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is now interpreting federal law to explicitly prohibit workplace discrimination against transgender people, according…
December 12, 2014
BLADENBORO, North Carolina (AP) — A prosecutor says the FBI is looking into the hanging death of black teen Lennon…
December 11, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Director Ava Duvernay became the first black woman nominated for best director...
December 9, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and several Brooklyn players are wearing "I Can't Breathe" shirts as they…
December 1, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will discuss the situation in Ferguson on Monday with his Cabinet, civil rights leaders,…
November 25, 2014
I really wanted to write something poignant last night but all I could do was cuss at random intervals for
November 24, 2014
A St. Louis County, Missouri grand jury has decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the murder