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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is under fire for an ad depicting a Black student with crime scene tape around her neck. (TMJ4 News)
August 28, 2019
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has apologized for an ad that depicts a black criminal justice student with crime scene tape…
August 27, 2019
Joe Walsh, recently announced Republican primary challenger to Donald Trump says he owns the tweets he has made in the…
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August 27, 2019
A white Oklahoma City news anchor found herself in hot water after making a racist comment about her Black colleague…
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August 26, 2019
A California high school has “found no evidence” that a racist online bulletin targeting Black people originated from its website.
August 23, 2019
The student threatened to use his father’s legal team to “shut down” Harbee Liquors & Tavern for not treating “a…
New Hampshire TheGrio
August 23, 2019
There's more controversy brewing after additional videos have emerged of Pacifica High School students throwing up a Sieg Heil Nazi…
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August 22, 2019
A Black U.S. postal worker in Texas was verbally abused by an old, racist white man who called him a…
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August 22, 2019
On Wednesday, Glen Nicodemus was arraigned and charged with second-degree harassment, police said, after hosing down a 14-year-old and yelling,…
Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke(right) and Rev. Robert L. Turner Sr. pass the the Vernon AME Church while on a tour of the Greenwood District Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World
August 21, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke this week visited sites in Tulsa and Oklahoma City that were targeted by violence, and…
Slavery, thegrio.com
August 20, 2019
August 20, 1619 was the day slaves arrived on what would be continental American shores, and the date this country…
August 15, 2019
A Mississippi sheriff revealed his own thinking about African Americans, but says he is not racist...he was just "aggravated"
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, left, and Jay-Z appear at a news conference at ROC Nation on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019 in New York. The NFL and ROC Nation, Jay-Z’s entertainment and sports representation company, announced Tuesday they were teaming up for events and social activism, a deal Jay-Z said had been in the works over the last seven months. (Ben Hider/AP Images for NFL) thegrio.com
August 15, 2019
A day after Jay-Z announced that his Roc Nation company was partnering with the NFL, the rap icon explained that…
Luther Johnson V has retained legal counsel to fight for his right to play high school sports after enduring racist taunts on the lacrosse field last season. (Johnson family)
August 14, 2019
A Black high school lacrosse player says his future college scholarship is on the line after enduring violent racist taunts…
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August 13, 2019
Rob Mathis and his wife, Reyna were touring a five-bedroom home in Holton, Michigan when they stumbled upon racist memorabilia,…
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August 12, 2019
A Black man in Texas driving along a road was chased down by a white man who had a rope…
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris speaks to an overflow crowd before a Women of Color roundtable discussion, Tuesday, July 16, 2019, in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
August 12, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Friday that President Donald Trump “seems to derive joy” from provoking some Americans to
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August 12, 2019
The first black woman to serve as American University's student government president won a lawsuit Friday against a neo-Nazi website…
August 10, 2019
A Black couple in Holton, Mich. wanted to buy a home, previously owned by a police officer, until they stumbled…
August 7, 2019
[griojw id=”kB5awMyb” playerid=””] U.S Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) made quite a few heads turn at the most recent Democratic debate