Justice

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September 29, 2016
Award-winning actress Alfre Woodard says she's watched the most recent shootings of unarmed black men with sadness, but the shooting…
September 20, 2016
When 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began sitting down during the national anthem in the NFL preseason, few noticed. It wasn’t
September 15, 2016
If you've seen Judge Glenda Hatchett on her court bench, you know she doesn't play...
July 7, 2016
We are tired. The shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile are tragedies that feel too much to bear. Reading
February 18, 2016
On Tuesday, three Chicago police officers were accused of manufacturing evidence in order to frame a former gang member...
August 25, 2014
The death of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old who was shot dead by a police officer, reverberated from the streets…
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…
April 11, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Lisa Bloom's "Suspicion Nation" shares a deeper glimpse at the factors and individuals that played a role…
March 31, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Shanesha Taylor, 35, of Scottsdale, Arizona, was thrust into the media spotlight following reports she left her…
March 26, 2014
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 74-year-old California woman is free after serving 32 years of a life sentence for her…
March 13, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday endorsed a proposal that would result in shorter prison sentences for…
March 12, 2014
ANGOLA, Louisiana (AP) — A man who spent nearly 26 years on death row in Louisiana walked free of prison…
February 24, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan addresses a crowd of thousands this Sunday and called for African-Americans…
January 27, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - ATLANTA - Anthony Graves, a Texas man who has freed after 18 years of wrongful imprisonment, was…
January 25, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte joined Melissa Harris Perry on MSNBC to discuss how artists and celebrities…
January 6, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A new study released today by the journal Crime & Delinquency has found that 49 percent of…
January 6, 2014
OPINION - Despite what my learned colleagues might tell you, there is nothing progressive about laws that will effectively deepen…
December 20, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The first state to allow conjugal visits to its prison population more than 100 years ago will…
December 19, 2013
OPINION - The golden age of black lawyers educated at HBCUs defending the rights of subjugated communities is waning. Thurgood…