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February 5, 2016
Black churches are more than places of worship. They are also change agents for their communities, uniting people around the…
January 26, 2016
An Illinois GOP candidate for state’s attorney is in hot water after his opponents uncovered a photo on his wife’s…
December 30, 2015
An array of actors, musicians, athletes, activists, journalists, and other notable celebrities left us in 2015...
October 30, 2015
ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is using a Southern campaign swing to outline criminal justice proposals
October 29, 2015
In an exclusive interview, the hosts of 'The Real' sit down with Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP chapter president who…
October 21, 2015
The Pioneer Bar in Sitka, Alaska, has commemorated the sale of Alaska from Russia to the United States every year…
October 6, 2015
During an interview for Vanity Fair, Rihanna shared her opinion of the controversy surrounding former NAACP chapter president Rachel Dolezal…
September 2, 2015
Rachel Dolezal, who recently made headlines after it was discovered that she had in fact been born white despite claiming…
August 21, 2015
A debate got heated over whether or not a Georgia high school should stop using the pro-slavery "Dixie" as its…
August 17, 2015
The civil rights community has lost one of its greatest champions and elder statesmen with the passing of Julian Bond...
August 16, 2015
FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida (AP) — Julian Bond, a U.S. civil rights activist and longtime board chairman of the NAACP,…
August 3, 2015
SELMA, Alabama (AP) — An 860-mile protest march to Washington has begun in Selma, 50 years after the city's historic…
July 20, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - July just couldn't end without more 'I'm black, trust me' talk from Rachel Dolezal, could it? In…
July 7, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Spokane, Washington's current NAACP President Naima Quarles-Burnley says she is hoping the chapter can move forward.
June 16, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — The woman who resigned as head of a local NAACP branch after her parents said she
June 15, 2015
Rachel Dolezal, the former Spokane NAACP president who was recently outed as white by her parents, sued Howard University in
June 15, 2015
OPINION - My conclusion: Rachel Dolezal’s social capital goes even further as a light-skinned, blue-eyed black girl even than a…
June 14, 2015
theGrio REPORT - Rachel Dolezal had quite a week, perhaps unlike anyone you know, as her parents revealed that the…
June 13, 2015
Since news broke that Rachel Dolezal — the Spokane, Washington leader of the NAACP — is a white woman pretending to be
June 12, 2015
Rachel Dolezal, 37, the head of the Spokane, Washington, branch of the NAACP, has represented herself as an African-American woman