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student debt relief, student debt cancellation, theGrio.com
January 19, 2024
Dozens of groups have signed a letter asking the Biden administration to modify a plan proposed for student loan debt…
September 3, 2022
Civil Rights leaders met with President Joe Biden Friday to discuss the issues of voting rights, criminal justice and police…
Las Vegas Railroad Society Racist Display, theGrio.com
July 14, 2022
Community residents and activists are not backing down after calling out a Las Vegas organization for a "racist" display in…
VP Harris And Sec. Yellen Hold Freedman Bank Forum
January 17, 2022
'Our economy has never worked fairly for Black Americans – or, really, for any American of color,' Yellen said on…
Lyft theGrio.com
April 17, 2020
Lyft has joined forces with the Black, Latino and Asian organizations to ensure minorities get to and from essential places…
Black leaders
March 19, 2020
Black civil rights leaders are urging members of Congress to consider the needs of Black Americans and workers during the…
leaders of civil rights organizations
September 4, 2019
Writer David A. Love argues that America is waging a war on Black people and the old-guard civil rights organizations…
April 5, 2019
[griojw id=”g9Rjhkzk” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”] On today’s special episode of DC360, our Grio correspondent, Tiffany Cross, takes us inside Reverend Al Sharpton’s
Al Sharpton and Meek Mill thegrio.com
October 4, 2018
The National Action Network announced the Triumph Awards, which celebrates individuals who use their talent to empower and uplift their…
April 28, 2017
On Thursday, Omarosa Manigault spoke at the National Action Network’s New York convention, where she faced one of Trump's sharpest…
November 11, 2016
Most of us are still reeling from the post-election blues...
April 16, 2015
The National Action Network, founded by Reverend Al Sharpton, along with female civil rights leaders are staging a hunger strike until
December 13, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 10,000 protesters converged on the U.S. capital Saturday to help bring attention to the deaths
August 11, 2014
(AP) — Barneys has agreed to pay $525,000 to resolve allegations that minorities were singled out as suspected shoplifters at…
May 1, 2014
theGRIO REPORT- Reverend Lennox Yearwood is a man of faith that's been in hip hop's corner since it's inception...
April 16, 2014
theGRIO VIDEO - In a rousing speech last week in front of the National Action Network President Obama called out…
April 11, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama says the right to vote in the U.S. is under bigger threat than…
April 10, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Attorney General Eric Holder raised eyebrows last night with some unscripted remarks at the opening of Rev.…
April 10, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton opened his annual civil rights conference Wednesday, which President Barack Obama plans…
January 31, 2014
theGRIO'S 100 - Janaye Ingram, 34, is the acting Executive Director of the Harlem-based National Action Network, a leading civil…