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August 30, 2024
The past decade has seen some progress in lowering suspension rates for Black students. But massive disparities persist.
June 2, 2022
"Join your local Klavern today to preserve white Christian unity before multiculturalism destroys America for good," the flyer reads.
June 1, 2022
For the first time, descendants of people enslaved at the Montpelier in Orange County have secured a majority of foundation…
April 12, 2022
Kwame Akoto-Bamfo's interactive art installation will be on display at the Montgomery, Alabama center through July 5.
April 8, 2022
A new billboard in Owensboro, Kentucky — a town with only 4,000 Black residents out of 60,000 — calls for…
hate groups thegrio.com
March 22, 2022
White supremacist groups are targeting neighborhoods in Houston which flyers that appear to be recruitment oriented.
February 24, 2022
The wave of bomb threats on HBCU campuses has reignited concerns about the rise of domestic terrorism and its connection…
January 28, 2022
The Southern Poverty Law Center's 'Whose Heritage?' project—which tracks the removal of Confederate memorials—is set for release next month.
January 12, 2022
Sites associated with Black history in five Southern states will each receive grants of $50,000 from the Southern Poverty Law…
J. Michelle Childs thegrio.com
December 24, 2021
Biden caps his first year in office with 40 federal judges confirmed to the bench, the most since Ronald Reagan…
Confederate General Robert E. Lee theGrio.com
May 27, 2021
The Southern Poverty Law Center has released new data revealing 64 additional confederate symbols associated with the US military.
Trump's family separation policy thegrio.com
February 25, 2021
Lawyers have worked to bring the families together for the past month however some parents have been deported.
February 1, 2021
The number of active hate groups in the U.S. actually declined as far-right extremists migrated further to online networks.
Kenya
December 23, 2020
A small Minnesota town sparks outrage after approving a permit for a whites-only church they say because of the First…
October 7, 2020
"We need to take away children," former Attorney General Jeff Sessions allegedly told U.S. attorneys in a 2018 conference call.
21 Savage thegrio.com
June 15, 2019
Rapper 21 Savage recently donated $25,000 to the Southern Poverty Law Center
immigration thegrio.com
April 8, 2019
Several Civil Rights groups urge Fortune 500 companies not to hire Trump officials involved in migrant family separation.
homophobic
February 5, 2019
The Southern Poverty Law Center believes that the homophobic rhetoric coming from the church's leader qualifies it to be included…
Proud Boys protest thegrio.com
October 15, 2018
We uncovered details about the alt-right, hate group called the Proud Boys and their overall agenda after a public fight…
September 5, 2018
In a new iteration of Law & Order, executive producer Dick Wolf's team will look at crimes that have to…