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September 9, 2013
OPINION - NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous recently announced he will step down from his position leading the…
September 8, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Benjamin Jealous, the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, says…
September 5, 2013
OPINION - The meeting itself produced little more than the spate of national and local news reports that covered it...
September 4, 2013
DENVER (AP) — A secret meeting between a representative of the Wyoming chapter of the NAACP and a Ku Klux…
September 3, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Leaders from local branches of the Ku Klux Klan and NAACP met in Casper, Wyoming on Saturday…
August 27, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — NAACP President Ben Jealous said Monday his organization collected petitions with more than 1.7 million signatures calling…
August 26, 2013
ANALYSIS - 1963 was a year of bold action and heartbreaking consequences that literally rocked the nation...
August 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On Saturday, the NAACP acted robustly in concert with various groups, 100 percent behind the cause of…
August 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - As people across the country prepare to converge on the nation’s capital for the 50th anniversary of…
August 21, 2013
theGRIO Q&A - The youngest King offspring took a few moments to share her thoughts on her work preserving Dr.…
August 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In an effort to be on the right side of history, the naysayers and obstacles are often…
August 13, 2013
theGRIO REPORT- Opponents of the new law fear its provisions would particularly target minorities, the elderly, the poor and the…
August 13, 2013
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's governor on Monday quietly signed a measure into law that overhauls the state's election…
August 12, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Judge Shira Scheindlin has ruled that NYPD's stop-and-frisk practice violated constitutional rights -- and the NAACP is…
August 5, 2013
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Julius Chambers, a Charlotte attorney whose practice was in the forefront of the civil rights movement…
August 2, 2013
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Oprah Winfrey helped the front-runner in the Democratic primary for New Jersey Senate raise cash…
July 30, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Representative John Conyers (D-MI) and Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) held a press conference today to introduce the…
July 29, 2013
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK - The protests began in response to a slew of bills from the Republican-controlled General Assembly, many of…
July 18, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Hundreds of teenagers and young adults gathered at the Florida State Captiol and have vowed not to…
July 16, 2013
ANALYSIS - Holder, the first-ever black attorney general, has not made racial issues the sole focus of his often-embattled five…