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September 30, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new…
September 27, 2013
DETROIT (AP) — Obama administration officials said Friday that they are sending someone to Detroit to oversee a federal effort…
September 20, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is expanding a major change in federal drug sentencing policy to cover pending drug…
August 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The White House is hosting a forum called "50 Years Forward: Building Ladders of Opportunity" in anticipation…
August 25, 2013
Lawmakers, activists, and civil rights leaders fired up a crowd of thousands on Washington, D.C.’s national mall Saturday to commemorate…
August 14, 2013
OPINION - Holder’s announcement this week signals both his leadership and commitment to these issues as well as his capacity…
August 13, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The bottom line is that, while the aggressive enforcement of federal criminal statutes remains necessary, we cannot…
August 12, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Eric Holder will announce in a speech today that the Department of Justice will no longer charge…
July 30, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is promising not to let one election go by without protecting minority voting rights....
July 26, 2013
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Republican-backed measure that would make sweeping changes to when and how North Carolinians can vote…
July 26, 2013
ANAYSIS - Eric Holder's gambit to effectively overrule the U.S. Supreme Court is his boldest move yet as the administration's…
July 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday the Justice Department is opening a new front in the battle…
July 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The Buckeye Firearms Foundation started a fund to buy George Zimmerman "a new gun and fight attacks…
July 22, 2013
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The mother of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will speak in…
July 18, 2013
(AP) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said earlier this week that the Justice Department has an open investigation into…
July 18, 2013
NBC NEWS- Stand Your Ground laws — sometimes referred to as 'Shoot First' laws by detractors — change the legal…
July 18, 2013
OPINION - What if the races of the defendant and the victim were reversed in the George Zimmerman murder trial?...
July 17, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A White House website petition that was created on July 14th urges the Department of Justice to…
July 16, 2013
ANALYSIS - Holder, the first-ever black attorney general, has not made racial issues the sole focus of his often-embattled five…
July 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The NAACP has gathered more than 1 million signatures on their petition to the Department of Justice…