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July 3, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - As demonstrators cast the right to vote in moral terms, and link their cause to pioneering civil…
June 29, 2013
OPINION - The Supreme Court’s decision to tear out the heart out of the Voting Rights Act should serve as…
June 28, 2013
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Democratic legislator from Minnesota swiftly apologized Tuesday for a tweet he sent that referred…
June 27, 2013
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - President Barack Obama says the Supreme Court "made a mistake" in its decision to throw out…
June 27, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has thrown out lower court rulings that blocked a Texas voter identification law and…
June 27, 2013
OPINION - Wednesday's Supreme Court decisions srtiking down DOMA and Prop 8 provide our community with the opportunity for honest…
June 26, 2013
COLUMBIANA, Ala. (AP) - Much has changed in Shelby County since Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to protect…
June 26, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The Illinois House of Representatives closed its most recent session without a vote on the issue and…
June 26, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act,…
June 26, 2013
ANALYSIS - The week was not a clear victory for liberals, who were angered by the Court's gutting of the…
June 26, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California by holding that defenders of…
June 26, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that legally married same-sex couples should get the same federal benefits as…
June 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Civil rights leader, Rev. Jesse Jackson, reacted with disappointment to Tuesday's Supreme Court decision striking down a…
June 25, 2013
OPINION - The Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, is devastating, but not definitive...
June 25, 2013
OPINION - In our society, all rights are ultimately protected by the ballot box, not the sword...
June 25, 2013
VIDEO - Rev. Al Sharpton appeared live on MSNBC's Jansing and Company today to give his initial reactions to the…
June 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a key provision in the Voting Rights Act would come to…
June 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The Supreme Court's conservatives struck down a key plank in the Voting Rights Act, but still left…
June 25, 2013
VIDEO - Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights leader for the last five decades, sharply criticized the Supreme Court’s decision…
June 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he is deeply disappointed with a Supreme Court decision halting the use of…