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October 7, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of federal inmates serving sentences for drug crimes are set for early release next month under…
July 16, 2015
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Honda reached a settlement Tuesday to resolve allegations that the company discriminated against minority car buyers…
March 15, 2015
Associated Press - FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — In the days since the release of a Justice Department report that found…
March 7, 2015
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson was still on the job Friday, two days after a government
March 5, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department will not prosecute a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of
March 3, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Justice Department investigation will allege sweeping patterns of discrimination within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and…
March 2, 2015
theGrio REPORT - It's been six months since the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown sparked protests across the country, and…
February 24, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin in a 2012 confrontation with…
January 21, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has completed its investigation into the police shooting of an unarmed, black 18-year-old in Ferguson,
December 18, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is now interpreting federal law to explicitly prohibit workplace discrimination against transgender people, according…
December 6, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents who guard the border and screen passengers at airports would be exempt from new racial
December 4, 2014
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland, Ohio police officers use excessive and unnecessary force far too often, are poorly trained in tactics…
December 2, 2014
ATLANTA (AP) — Speaking at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta — the church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
September 25, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will announce he is stepping down Thursday, according to multiple reports...
August 6, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's juvenile jails are extremely violent and unsafe, the result of a culture of…
April 23, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is encouraging nonviolent federal inmates who have behaved in prison, have no significant criminal…
April 21, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is broadening the criteria it will use in evaluating clemency petitions from certain federal…
March 13, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday endorsed a proposal that would result in shorter prison sentences for…
March 6, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - President Obama's nomination of civil rights lawyer Debo Adegbile to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division…
February 8, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an assertion of same-sex marriage rights, Attorney General Eric Holder is applying a landmark Supreme Court…