Racism

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police New Jersey Asbury Park thegrio.com
June 29, 2020
The FBI did a report on white supremacy in the nation's police departments, but it has yet to be widely…
college students black african american thegrio.com
June 29, 2020
OPINION: If we acknowledge the truth about racism in America, we must also acknowledge its impact on our children and…
June 29, 2020
Ron Thomas, director of the Morehouse College Journalism and Sports Program, says regardless of the facts, NASCAR owed an apology…
June 28, 2020
Mississippi lawmakers voted Sunday to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from their state flag, triggering raucous applause and cheers.
June 28, 2020
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed…
June 28, 2020
Trump on Sunday tweeted approvingly of a video showing one of his supporters chanting “white power,” a racist slogan associated…
June 28, 2020
Another day, another hit television show takes down an episode featuring blackface in its compendium as America grapples with race.
Ryan Cooper, Mike Fulp theGrio.com
June 26, 2020
One North Carolina racetrack owner named Mike Fulp opted to mock Wallace by posting an advertisement on Facebook Marketplace.
June 25, 2020
A woman in California got a harsh lesson in race relations when she called a Black woman in a convenience…
June 25, 2020
NASCAR released the picture of the noose that was found in Bubba Wallace’s garage stall and it left no doubt…
Juneteenth thegrio.com
June 24, 2020
“I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous.” Who said this? Was it Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. President who
June 24, 2020
Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) says now is the time to make Americans in the US territories full citizens…
June 24, 2020
NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace refutes the FBI's conclusion that the noose found in his garage was only a “garage door…
June 23, 2020
A graduate student in New York City found herself on the receiving end of an unprovoked rant by a white
June 23, 2020
According to a video published on Tuesday, Karlos Dillard, a Black man based in Seattle, was driving and was cut…
Derek Chauvin thegrio.com
June 21, 2020
A Ramsey County jail superintendent in Minnesota has been demoted after barring several correctional officers of color from guarding George…
June 20, 2020
Byron Allen, CEO of Entertainment Studios/Allen Media Group (parent company of theGrio), lays out comprehensive agenda for America to achieve…
June 19, 2020
'This Is Us' actor Lonnie Chavis, 12, is speaking up in a new essay about the racism he’s already experienced…
June 18, 2020
Denzel Skinner was fired from Taco Bell for wearing a Black Lives Matter mask but Taco Bell ended up apologizing…
June 18, 2020
A lone white male "protester" in Brooklyn demanded Thursday morning that a "Black Lives Matter" sign be removed from the…