Racial Profiling

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July 30, 2013
OPINION - A swift kick to the backside, or 'tough love' as CNN anchor Don Lemon calls it, will not…
July 30, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Civil rights activist and entertainer Harry Belafonte announced his endorsement of New York City mayoral candidate Bill…
July 30, 2013
OPINION - Violence is a national scourge in America – last year more people were shot and killed in Chicago…
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 30, 2013
NBC NEWS - It has been six months since Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton’s daughter, Hadiya Pendleton, was shot and killed in a…
July 25, 2013
OPINION - But as I write you today, I am angry … saddened even, because I cannot provide for you…
July 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Dr. Cornel West, author, activist and Professor at Union Theological Seminary, is not shy about expressing his…
July 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - When President Barack Obama talked about being racially profiled before he became a senator during impromptu remarks…
July 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - West may disagree with President Obama (and a majority of African-Americans) about the experience of being a…
July 22, 2013
ANALYSIS - President Obama spoke on Friday about racial profiling, the George Zimmerman verdict, the state of blacks in America…
July 21, 2013
OPINION - Black America is still grieving the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, and the sense that racial profiling…
July 19, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama emerged Friday to give voice to African-Americans' reaction to last weekend's verdict in the…
July 18, 2013
ESSAY - At the end of the George Zimmerman trial, those long suppressed memories made an unwelcomed hello...
July 17, 2013
OPINION - I hope that someday race will not be a factor in how we arrest, prosecute and ultimately judge…
July 14, 2013
OPINION - Race and the specter of racism, permeated the case from the opening to closing arguments...
July 11, 2013
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman profiled 17-year-old Trayvon Martin assuming he was up to no good, and that led…
July 2, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sheriff's deputies in two desert cities northeast of Los Angeles unlawfully targeted blacks living in public…
June 28, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg's remark that police 'disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little'...
June 21, 2013
NBC NEWS - Prosecutors will be allowed to tell jurors that George Zimmerman 'profiled' black teenager Trayvon Martin before their…
June 6, 2013
OPINION - So much wasted in time and resources, so little achieved, and so many people of color victimized over…