Jim Crow

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February 10, 2016
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Gov. Jack Markell will sign a resolution apologizing for Delaware's role in slavery and wrongs committed…
October 11, 2015
A black medical student claims the manager at a New York City bar wouldn't allow him to use the bathroom…
September 19, 2015
An art student at University at Buffalo admitted to hanging "whites only" and "blacks only" signs outside the restrooms at…
June 22, 2015
On June 17, 1822, Denmark Vesey and five others were going to revolt to kill slaveholders and free the people
June 19, 2015
OPINION - Wednesday night's massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston conjures up painful memories of the 1963 bombing…
March 30, 2015
College or prison: which is more important? In 16 states in the land of the free, the answer is prison.
March 19, 2015
If you’ve spent any significant amount of time on the Internet, you’ve seen it – someone, somewhere opining about how
June 19, 2014
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas County leaders have passed a resolution supporting reparations to African-Americans for years of slavery — without…
January 22, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A child psychiatrist said it was her professional opinion that George Stinney Jr.'s alleged confession was "coerced,…
November 29, 2013
VIDEO - The events leading to the execution of 14-year-old George Stinney, Jr., began in the tiny mill town of…
October 30, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The history of blackface minstrelsy isn’t talked about regularly today, but its cultural residue is all around…
September 19, 2013
OPINION - As much as it must pain activists to agree with Republican Senator Rand Paul, who is not particularly…
July 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is calling on Alicia Keys to 'boycott apartheid' by…
June 13, 2013
VIDEO - On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights hero Medgar Evers, his widow Myrlie Evers-Williams says…
February 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word 'Negro' to…
December 6, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II is a documentary film, currently in production, about…
November 8, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Alabama voters turned down an amendment to the state's constitution in Tuesday's elections that would have removed…
October 29, 2012
VIDEO - Joanna Jenkins has never voted before and doesn't have an official state ID, but she didn't let that…
July 11, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Addressing the 103rd NAACP Convention in Houston, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder likened new voter ID laws…
June 12, 2012
OPINION - While interracial marriage pushed the marital envelope half a century ago, same sex marriage is doing the same…