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Award-winning actress Alfre Woodard says she's watched the most recent shootings of unarmed black men with sadness, but the shooting…
If you've seen Judge Glenda Hatchett on her court bench, you know she doesn't play...
We are tired. The shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile are tragedies that feel too much to bear. Reading
On Tuesday, three Chicago police officers were accused of manufacturing evidence in order to frame a former gang member...
The death of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old who was shot dead by a police officer, reverberated from the streets…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is encouraging nonviolent federal inmates who have behaved in prison, have no significant criminal…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is broadening the criteria it will use in evaluating clemency petitions from certain federal…
theGRIO REPORT - Lisa Bloom's "Suspicion Nation" shares a deeper glimpse at the factors and individuals that played a role…
theGRIO REPORT - Shanesha Taylor, 35, of Scottsdale, Arizona, was thrust into the media spotlight following reports she left her…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 74-year-old California woman is free after serving 32 years of a life sentence for her…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday endorsed a proposal that would result in shorter prison sentences for…
ANGOLA, Louisiana (AP) — A man who spent nearly 26 years on death row in Louisiana walked free of prison…
theGRIO REPORT - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan addresses a crowd of thousands this Sunday and called for African-Americans…
theGRIO REPORT - ATLANTA - Anthony Graves, a Texas man who has freed after 18 years of wrongful imprisonment, was…
theGRIO REPORT - Entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte joined Melissa Harris Perry on MSNBC to discuss how artists and celebrities…
theGRIO REPORT - A new study released today by the journal Crime & Delinquency has found that 49 percent of…
OPINION - Despite what my learned colleagues might tell you, there is nothing progressive about laws that will effectively deepen…
theGRIO REPORT - The first state to allow conjugal visits to its prison population more than 100 years ago will…
OPINION - The golden age of black lawyers educated at HBCUs defending the rights of subjugated communities is waning. Thurgood…