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October 30, 2012
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Two black men wrongly convicted in the 1977 murder of a white Iowa police officer…
October 24, 2012
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Authorities in east Mississippi run a 'school-to-prison pipeline' that locks up students for infractions like flatulence…
October 17, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Louisiana Supreme Court resolved a racially tinged power struggle inside its own ranks, ruling Tuesday…
October 5, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Antonin Scalia says his method of interpreting the Constitution makes some of the most hotly disputed…
August 21, 2012
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The Justice Department is establishing a civil rights unit in Alabama after the state's crackdown on…
August 7, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Mayor Ed Lee said Tuesday he was no longer considering a tactic that would allow police…
July 24, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder will announce a series of court-supervised reforms of the New Orleans Police…
July 20, 2012
AURORA, Colo. (AP) - A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into a crowded…
June 28, 2012
Roderick Clanton, 23, has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old minor in a courthouse bathroom...
June 26, 2012
OPINION - This week the U.S. Supreme Court scored a victory for reform in the criminal justice system...
June 20, 2012
The fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt, was involved in another car crash in Jamaica. This time "the most…
June 1, 2012
Florida came out Friday with a statement defending its recent voter roll purge. The state has been criticized by several…
May 21, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The University of Michigan Law School in a joint project with Northwestern University Law School has released…
April 24, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - To her family and supporters, Marissa Alexander is a woman who stood her ground...
April 24, 2012
Rodney King was infamously the victim of police brutality that was luckily captured on film. He says now that he…
April 14, 2012
MSNBC - Wyclef Jean has decided to spread Martin's story with a different approach...
April 5, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The prevalence of racial profiling, despite its prohibition by federal law, suggests that innocent black men in…
April 4, 2012
OPINION - While a lot of attention has rightly been focused on Super PACs, there's another type of organization that…
April 2, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that jailers may subject people arrested for minor offenses to invasive strip…
March 29, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The state of Florida, where Trayvon Martin was killed, covers every protected class of people except by…