Racial Violence

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September 26, 2024
The language of division has been weaponized against Black and marginalized communities for decades, deepening systemic inequities.
May 22, 2022
A male assailant who was filmed punching a Black woman multiple times at a Jacksonville, Florida gas station was arrested…
May 11, 2022
About 1,000 residents participated in the rebellion and more than 100 blocks of neighborhoods and businesses were vandalized. 
May 16, 2021
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security released a report on lone wolf attackers with access to weapons as…
August 18, 2020
Philonise Floyd and Rodney Floyd led a virtual moment of silence during the opening night of the Democratic National Convention…
May 27, 2020
Gwen Carr has spoken to the family of George Floyd after they have now experienced a similar loss as her…
September 12, 2017
The purpose of the meeting is for Scott to share his thoughts on issues facing people of color, according to…
June 2, 2017
Republicans are calling for violence, even threatening acts of terror themselves--a sign of a party that is off the rails…
January 9, 2017
Roof makes no apologies for the killings and has spoken extensively about his radicalization process and manifesto, helped in part…
September 18, 2016
“If you don’t love our country, get the f—k out of it,” a man in an Instagram video says as…
July 30, 2015
ATLANTA (AP) — Federal authorities and police are investigating after Confederate battle flags were found around the Ebenezer Baptist Church…
July 29, 2015
OPINION - Why can't black folks simply throw a birthday party without being approached with symbols of racism? Why can't…
July 15, 2015
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Residents in a predominantly black South Carolina neighborhood say fliers have been distributed claiming to…
July 4, 2015
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — The last of the victims of the Charleston church shooting to be eulogized was remembered…
July 3, 2015
GREELEYVILLE, South Carolina (AP) — As social media buzzed about church fires in the South, investigators announced Thursday that weather…
July 3, 2015
OPINION - The Confederate battle flag is a symbol of white supremacy and hatred. This is not some extreme left-wing,…
June 30, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A chapter of the Ku Klux Klan has been approved to hold a protest rally at the…
June 29, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Six different black churches have burned down within the last seven days, and at least three of…
June 22, 2015
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — For 15 years, South Carolina lawmakers refused to consider removing the Confederate flag from Statehouse…
June 22, 2015
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — Leading South Carolina Republicans joined calls to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds…