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February 7, 2012
The Vanguard Award is presented to a person whose groundbreaking work increases understanding and awareness of racial and social issues,…
January 19, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - 'The Help' has been served eight Image Award nominations...
January 10, 2012
NORCROSS, Georgia (AP) = Suburban Atlanta school officials are deciding whether to discipline teachers who gave third-grade students math homework…
January 10, 2012
WASHINGTON - More anti-death penalty rallies are planned for January 16, Martin Luther King Day...
January 9, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - While the former House Speaker has disagreed with the NAACP and other groups and black leaders on…
January 4, 2012
Robert L. Carter, a former federal judge in New York who, as a lawyer, was a leading strategist and a…
December 15, 2011
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The NAACP in Las Vegas wants a federal probe and the American Civil Liberties Union of…
December 9, 2011
TheGRIO Q&A - The NAACP is currently fighting nationwide voter suppression through various initiatives President Ben Jealous told theGrio...
December 2, 2011
Martina Davis-Correia, the sister of late cause celebre death row inmate Troy Davis, has died, NAACP senior communications associate Derek…
November 30, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Civil rights groups including the NAACP and People of Faith Against the Death Penalty (PFADP) are fighting…
November 29, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The doctor who was convicted in the overdose death of Michael Jackson was sentenced to the…
November 26, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A federal court refused late Friday to block a congressional redistricting map it drew up for…
November 12, 2011
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The widow of Medgar Evers broke a bottle of champagne against the hull of a new…
November 10, 2011
OPINION - Our nation is in the midst of a 100-year flood of extremist attacks on voting rights. The goal:…
November 10, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas board has decided the state won't issue specialty Confederate license plates...
November 9, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Kansas, Tennessee and Wisconsin are among the states that passed voter identification measures this year...
November 8, 2011
In an effort to secure more African-American officials for positions on the federal bench, North Carolina's largest civil rights organization…
October 31, 2011
KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) - The House Ethics Committee announced earlier this month that it would resume a probe that began…
October 28, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Raging Elephants is linked to conservative activist Apostle Claver Kamau-Imani, who recently said that Democrats are the…
October 14, 2011
President Barack Obama has called Martin Luther King Jr. his North Star -- a standard of "bold leadership and prophetic…