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racism thegrio.com
May 13, 2019
A Minnesota teacher has been placed on leave after repeatedly calling middle school students " f------ n------" in a video…
May 6, 2019
Sen. Kamala Harris called out president Trump on his rhetoric while calling for Election Day to become a national holiday…
May 6, 2019
Food entrepreneur and activist Olympia Auset has created a new business that will bring low-cost organic grocery service to underserved…
May 3, 2019
In a new interview with theGrio, actress Yaya DaCosta says she's happy the mainstream media is starting to catch on…
school
May 3, 2019
A suburban Pittsburgh teen was suspended from school after he retaliated to another student who racially taunted him, but his…
Children read from "The Cat in the Hat" book at a ceremony honoring the late children's book author Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 11, 2004 in Hollywood , California. (Photo by Vince Bucci/Getty Images) thegrio.com
May 3, 2019
When you say the name Dr. Seuss, for most people, weird-looking cartoons and metered rhymes come to mind. —Missouri officer
promposal
May 3, 2019
An Ohio high schooler finds himself without a prom date...and without a prom after posting a racially volatile promposal on…
Detroit Police thegrio.com
May 1, 2019
A former Detroit police officer faces two lawsuits for alleged misconduct & abuse against two Black women, who say that…
graduation thegrio.com
May 1, 2019
A Black woman last week filed a federal lawsuit against a Mississippi school district for naming a white male student…
Chrysler
May 1, 2019
A woman working at an auto plant in suburban Detroit is alleging that after she reported seeing a noose at
New Hampshire TheGrio
May 1, 2019
A white man yells at a Black woman after a fender bender, repeatedly calling her a n*gger as she asked…
Racism
April 30, 2019
An employment post plainly asked for a white applicant, but the company that posted it says it acted on the…
April 29, 2019
Uber apologized after an internet troll posed as a company representative, and replied to a user complaint with a racial…
White nationalists store DC book store reading. (WUSA-9)
April 29, 2019
Chanting 'this is our land' the racist protestors stormed the venue with a megaphone to protest the release of a…
Stephen Taubert thegrio.com
April 28, 2019
The family and legal counsel for Stephen Taubert, the man who threatened the lives of President Barack Obama and Rep. Maxine Waters, has…
United Airlines
April 24, 2019
[griojw id=”p5EhRrVc” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   A Black actress says she was humiliated and was on the receiving end of hateful racist
In this July 28, 2016, file photo, a flag with a blue and black stripes in support of law enforcement officers, flies at a protest by police and their supporters outside Somerville City Hall in Somerville, Mass. An Oregon county has agreed to pay $100,000 to a black employee who sued after a co-worker pinned up a "Blue Lives Matter" flag. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Saturday, April 20, 2019, that Karimah Guion-Pledgure alleged in her January lawsuit that the flag demeans the "Black Live Matter" movement. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) thegrio.com
April 22, 2019
On Thursday, a settlement was reached in the case of a Black employee in Portland, Oregon who said she was…
racism thegrio.com
April 22, 2019
With heightened awareness about kids committing suicide because of relentless bullying at school, Margo Boyd thinks her son had a…
16 November 2014: UNC head coach Sylvia Hatchell (left) talks with Jamie Cherry (0). The University of North Carolina Tar Heels hosted the University of California Los Angeles Bruins at Carmichael Arena in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in a 2014-15 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball game. UNC won the game 84-68. (Photo by Andy Mead/YCJ/Icon Sportswire/Corbis via Getty Images) thegrio.com
April 19, 2019
North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell is under investigation for racist remarks and as a result she has submitted
Police Car thegrio.com
April 19, 2019
[griojw id=”mXZLF83t” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   An irate customer at a Texas AT&T store was arrested after a hostile exchange with an