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June 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In striking down one of the central planks of the Voting Rights Act, the conservatives on the…
June 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The fall of a key plank of the Voting Rights Act is an unquestionable setback to civil…
June 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act cannot be enforced until…
June 25, 2013
OPINION - The Supreme Court did not dismantle affirmative action in its long-awaited ruling on Monday. It didn’t really affirm…
June 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - As the Supreme Court deliberates on DOMA, Antonio Douthit and Kirven Boyd become the first same-sex, actively…
June 24, 2013
ANALYSIS - The Supreme Court's ruling Monday, while not the death blow to affirmative action that many of its supporters…
June 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Justice Clarence Thomas again urged the end of affirmative action on Monday, writing a fiery concurring opinion…
June 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The U.S. Supreme Court did not outlaw affirmative action in a widely-anticipated opinion today, instead issuing a…
June 24, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has sent a Texas case on race-based college admissions back to a lower court…
June 24, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court stepped into an important constitutional dispute Monday between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans…
June 18, 2013
OPINION - Are U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia parting political ways?...
June 17, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take on another dispute involving race, deciding whether people must prove…
June 13, 2013
OPINION - It's 2013 and we've yet to truly overcome. Maybe it's not the best policy. But it is much…
June 11, 2013
OPINION - Would President Kennedy think that as a nation we have made enough progress on these issues over the…
June 11, 2013
NBC NEWS - As the Supreme Court prepares to once again weigh in on the issue of affirmative action, a…
June 5, 2013
OPINION - We might first remember that affirmative action has never been very popular – mostly because it is profoundly…
May 31, 2013
OPINION - Two critical voting rights opinions will be issued by the Supreme Court this term, which ends on June…
May 20, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the…
May 13, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — In roughly 75 hours of arguments at the Supreme Court since October, only one African-American lawyer appeared…
May 7, 2013
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday evening's scheduled execution of an inmate convicted of…