Justice

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April 7, 2011
TheGRIO REPORT - Legal advocates are protesting now former mayor Bobby Higginbotham's May 2010 conviction...
March 11, 2011
OPINION - If our justice system is blind, why does it seem to be rigged for women like Lindsay Lohan,…
March 8, 2011
OPINION - The hot seat just got hotter for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas...
March 7, 2011
Lillian McEwen broke a 19-year silence last fall on a sensitive situation she found herself in as a result of…
March 1, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Holder testified under pointed questioning by newly energized Republicans who have taken control of the House...
February 28, 2011
He also lashed out at his critics, without naming them, asserting they "seem bent on undermining" the High Court as…
February 25, 2011
OPINION - To this day, African-Americans are the most likely group to be shot by law enforcement and to have…
February 14, 2011
OPINION - There's a method to his silence, and the method is to encode his retrograde court stamp on law…
February 13, 2011
In the past 40 years, no other justice has gone an entire term, much less five, without speaking at least…
February 5, 2011
OPINION - Houston seems to be a city that glorifies a particular form of racial violence as part of its…
February 2, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Judge Bates' comments came during oral arguments in an Ala. county's lawsuit targeting the law -- one…
February 1, 2011
FERRIDAY, La. (AP) - Arthur Leonard Spencer says sure, he made some mistakes back when he was a "snot-nose kid,"…
January 2, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The unusual agreement has alarmed some experts, who have raised legal and ethical questions...
December 29, 2010
OPINION - Currently there are nearly five dozen prisoners sitting on federal death row. The majority of the condemned are…
December 15, 2010
OPINION - The sharp growth in incarceration has left more black people in prison today than there were black people…
December 10, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Jimmie Lee Jackson was taking part in a peaceful civil rights protest in his hometown of Marion,…
December 3, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - No well-known people were on the list and most of the crimes seemed low-grade. Five involved drug…
November 30, 2010
OPINION - Hammering Obama as insensitive, uncaring, or timid in granting reforms, ignores the fact that he is in a…
November 10, 2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The chaotic aftermath of Katrina offers no excuse for the actions of five current or former…
November 9, 2010
OPINION - The sentence has opened old wounds, causing many to question the extent to which the justice system values…