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Demartravion "Trey" Reed, Delta State University, theGrio.com
September 15, 2025
The body of 21-year-old Demartravion "Trey" Reed was discovered on Monday, prompting the university to cancel classes and campus activities.
Emmett Till, theGrio
September 27, 2022
Funeral services were held Monday for the Mississippi prosecutor who worked on one of the renewed investigations into the 1955…
theGRIO.com
July 9, 2022
A white Kentucky man faces up to five years in prison after infiltrating a fifth grade Zoom class and using…
Charles Booker wears a noose in his Senate campaign video
June 2, 2022
In a newly released campaign video, U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker wears a noose in response to his Senate opponent,…
Deborah Watts and Priscilla Sterling, theGrio.com
May 18, 2022
The suit described what happened as “outrageous” and sought unspecified damages against the 3,500-student Kearney school district.
Black lives Matter thegrio.com
April 30, 2022
Hate crime charges have been filed against a Michigan man who the Department of Justice accuses of intimidating Black Lives…
March 31, 2022
According to University of Houston's newspaper, The Daily Cougar, the video appeared to be filmed by a freshman and shared on Snapchat.
President Biden signs Emmett Till Antilynching Act
March 29, 2022
TheGrio was in attendance at the historic signing ceremony at the White House attended by the families of Emmett Till…
March 13, 2022
Relatives of Emmett Till on Friday called on authorities to prosecute a white woman at the center of the Black…
March 8, 2022
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act of 2022 passed Monday night by unanimous consent. It now heads to the president's desk.
March 2, 2022
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act, introduced by Rep. Bobby Rush in 2019, passed in the House Monday, with three Republicans…
Noose, theGrio.com
December 3, 2021
It’s useful to look back at “old days” to remind us how racism can lead not just to discrimination, but…
Eric Terrell, vice president of the National Action Network
November 24, 2021
Touré writes that the verdict for Arbery's murder, while just, does not bring joy as life in prison will not…
September 18, 2021
A suspicious viral TikTok video posted by a white nurse named Dawn demonstrates the danger of performative solidarity and Black…
Noose, theGrio.com
August 9, 2021
An anti-lynching bill stalled in the Senate last year after Sen. Rand Paul singlehandedly kept it from passing into law.
Vauhxx Rush Booker thegrio.com
August 5, 2021
A Black man who was almost lynched by a mob of white males in Indiana is now being charged for…
May 9, 2021
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R) issued posthumous pardons for 34 victims of racial lynchings who were killed between 1854 and…
April 17, 2021
Colorado Democrats condemned state Rep. Ron Hanks after saying 18th century Three-Fifths Compromise “was not impugning anybody’s humanity.”
January 28, 2021
The home in West Woodlawn is where Till lived with his mother before the teenager traveled to Money, Mississippi that…
November 16, 2020
Crawford: The Man The South Forgot is a documentary that follows a woman looking into the lynching of her great-great-grandfather.