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Ballot Box 2018 Midterm Elections Manifesto thegrio.com
May 8, 2021
Texas Democratic Rep. Rafael Anchia challenged Rep. Briscoe Cain on the Jim Crow era term used for a new voter…
Joe Biden thegrio.com
April 30, 2021
President Joe Biden addressed his belief that the United States is not racist during an interview with the TODAY show.
March 26, 2021
Martin Luther King III criticized Georgia’s new restrictive voting laws which were signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp yesterday.
March 26, 2021
Raphael Warnock visited Rep. Park Cannon at Fulton County Jail after she was detained by police for knocking on Brian…
January 23, 2021
Gov. Ralph Northam, who backs the bill, said the state should no longer celebrate a man who fought integration
July 19, 2020
A fence in Cedars Memorial Garden, separating Black and white burial plots, was removed in a small town in East…
November 2, 2019
A federal judge ruled Friday not to block Mississippi’s two-step process for electing statewide officeholders, which was enacted during the…
August 3, 2019
The lawsuit led by former AG Eric Holder would dismantle rules that require candidates to win over more than half…
Die Jim Crow thegrio.com
June 21, 2018
Die Jim Crow is a collaborative, multi-media project helmed by former and current inmates in U.S. correctional facilities.
Ernest Owens thegrio.com
May 28, 2018
As writer Ernest Owens reflects on why his great-grandfather fought for this nation’s freedoms, he realizes he is feeling less…
Donald Glover Childish Gambino This is America thegrio.com
May 7, 2018
Fully ingest the key points Childish Gambino laid bare for us to witness.
August 3, 2017
The NAACP has issued a travel advisory to people of color, warning them that traveling to Missouri might just be…
December 14, 2016
During an interview with Trevor Noah, the host of "The Daily Show," President Barack Obama spoke about the state of…
October 19, 2016
Whoopi Goldberg got emotional while educating her co-hosts at "The View" about slavery and African Americans earning the right to…
July 31, 2016
On Friday, a North Carolina appeals court struck down a law that would require voters to show photo ID at
July 13, 2016
The deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, while tragic, were markers of larger problems in America. Their murders were
May 10, 2016
After Attorney General Loretta Lynch compared the North Carolina bathroom law to Jim Crow laws, former presidential candidate Ben Carson…
March 3, 2016
Stephen A. Smith wanted young black students and attendees in the crowd to know that "racism" is not an excuse…
March 1, 2016
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Four white men convicted in the 2011 beating and rundown death of a black autoworker in…
February 25, 2016
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant has declared April to be "Confederate Heritage Month."