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May 3, 2013
NBC NEWS - The famously taciturn Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the only current black member of the court, said…
April 30, 2013
OPINION - Twelve years after the controversial Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore, former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is…
April 29, 2013
NBC NEWS - Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor expressed doubts that the nation's highest court should have…
April 18, 2013
OPINION - The justice also criticized attempts to expand the number of minority groups protected by the federal government, noting…
April 5, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - On the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Attorney General Eric Holder challenged the Supreme Court…
April 1, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind?
March 29, 2013
OPINION - In August, we celebrate the 50th year of the March on Washington. I vote for us to march…
March 29, 2013
OPINION - Some say that silence speaks volumes. And in the case of Justice Clarence Thomas, that cliché just might…
March 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Advocates of gay marriage appear to have made gains both at the U.S. Supreme Court and in…
March 27, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is indicating it could strike down the law that prevents legally married gay couples…
March 27, 2013
OPINION - As Americans, it is up to each and every one of us to fight injustice and inequality when…
March 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Audrey Smaltz, 75, and Gail Marquis, 68, request to be called wife and wife when they are…
March 19, 2013
PRO PUBLICA - When the NAACP began challenging Jim Crow laws across the South, it knew that, in the battle…
March 13, 2013
CINCINNATI (AP) — A man found guilty of killing 11 women and hiding their remains around his Cleveland home got…
March 12, 2013
OPINION -This year’s Supreme Court docket could dramatically alter racial policy in America, with cases that could invalidate two key…
March 3, 2013
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - The vice president and black leaders commemorating a famous civil rights march on Sunday said efforts…
March 1, 2013
OPINION - The nation's first black president says race still matters, while the Supreme Court is effectively suggesting it does…
February 28, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a historic argument for gay rights, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to…
February 27, 2013
POLITICS NATION - Congressman John Lewis, a hero of the civil-rights movement, said he was appalled to hear Justice Antonin…
February 27, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's conservative justices voiced deep skepticism Wednesday about a section of a landmark civil rights…