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January 14, 2011
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The NAACP's state director said the group felt it was being neglected by the new governor,…
January 13, 2011
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The city's NAACP chapter called Wednesday on area clergy to urge church members to keep their…
January 12, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Image Awards honor diversity in the arts…
January 5, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The word 'coon' has long been considered a racial slur directed at African-Americans...
January 5, 2011
Is it fair for an African-American to use the n-word, but not a white person? That's what a federal court…
December 26, 2010
OPINION - Today, African-American students are now over three times as likely to be suspended in school, with middle schools…
December 21, 2010
SLIDESHOW - The memory of the Civil War collided with modern-day civil rights Monday as protesters targeted a 'Secession Ball'...
December 20, 2010
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Monday's ball is like having a dance to celebrate the attack on Pearl Harbor, said Lonnie…
December 14, 2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Rebecca Glover said her family could not have been more horrified by what happened to her…
December 13, 2010
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) - In Georgia, they will re-enact the state's 1861 secession convention. And Alabama will hold a…
December 13, 2010
"I never thought I'd live to see this happen," says 88-year-old Charles Evers, a longtime Mississippi civil rights activist...
November 19, 2010
VIDEO - Council members say this has nothing to do with race. They simply wanted to have more input into…
November 9, 2010
OPINION - The most salient factor nowadays revolves around a sense that parents have nearly abrogated their responsibility to nurture…
November 1, 2010
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A black South Carolina lawmaker hopes the NAACP will end its tourism boycott of the state…
November 1, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Here, theGrio identifies some of the most common problems that voters encounter at the polls and discuss…
October 29, 2010
OPINION - The irony is that law enforcement groups which nearly unanimously oppose Proposition 19 do not dispute the racially…
October 25, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - For some of the city's 415,000 African-American residents, 62 percent of all Memphians, consolidation efforts have a…
October 22, 2010
VIDEO - The owner has said that the controversy took him by surprise, and that he didn't mean anything other…
October 21, 2010
The president of the Houston County Chapter of the NAACP wants a councilman in Georgia to resign after he made…
October 20, 2010
OPINION - If there are links between the Tea Party and racist hate groups as the report indicates, then it…