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June 2, 2017
Republicans are calling for violence, even threatening acts of terror themselves--a sign of a party that is off the rails…
February 16, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of anti-Muslim hate groups in the United States has nearly tripled since 2015, due in…
August 17, 2015
The civil rights community has lost one of its greatest champions and elder statesmen with the passing of Julian Bond...
August 16, 2015
FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida (AP) — Julian Bond, a U.S. civil rights activist and longtime board chairman of the NAACP,…
June 22, 2015
The Confederate flag and Dylann Storm Roof are perhaps the most potent and virulent symbols of racial hatred these days,
March 24, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has released a "Hate Map" that shows where active hate groups…
February 21, 2015
theGrio REPORT - Ashley Diamond, a transgender woman who has been incarcerated for three years, is suing to be allowed…
April 15, 2014
OPINION - It should come as no surprise that radical right-wing and white supremacist hate groups increased with the election…
August 16, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Though the shooting was swiftly condemned by groups across the ideological spectrum, it tapped into deep divisions…
March 8, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The Southern Poverty Law Center released a report on Wednesday stating that the number of hate groups…
November 30, 2011
A recently released FBI report details the fact that there's been a spike in Mississippi hate crimes over the past…
April 11, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Gingrich denies that AFA is a hate group, claiming instead that is a 'Christian organization' and a…
March 10, 2011
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A man accused of trying to bomb a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane…
November 9, 2010
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Hundreds looked on as an angry mob dragged a black University of Missouri janitor from his…
July 30, 2010
Black folks more upset about some white guy toting an unarguably racist sign at a Tea Party movement rally, while…