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August 25, 2023
An artist has lost his appeal to remove fabric panels concealing murals he painted to honor African Americans and abolitionists…
slave murals
February 22, 2023
A Black administrator and students want a white artist's murals depicting the brutality of slavery removed from a Vermont law…
January 28, 2023
Artist Sam Kerson created the colorful murals entitled “Vermont, The Underground Railroad” and “Vermont and the Fugitive Slave” in 1993.
November 20, 2022
Uganda's human rights environment has declined markedly over the past year, according to the 2022 World Report from Human Rights…
September 7, 2022
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a Vermont nursing home over allegations that it allowed racial abuse of its…
August 28, 2022
The Vermont Overland is a 59-mile dirt road bicycle race that includes nearly 7,000 feet of climbing, according to the…
June 29, 2022
The Black Lives Matter Bellows flag will no longer fly in front of Bellows Falls Union High School in Westminster,…
December 1, 2021
theGrio put together a list of the best destinations, both hot and cold, for a Christmas holiday away from home.
March 6, 2021
After three Black women recently stepped down from leadership roles in Vermont, Mia Schultz says she has no choice but…
steven gayle www.theGrio.com
February 5, 2021
Steven Gayle unknowingly had his microphone on and repeated a slur more than once during a brief intermission at a…
January 20, 2021
While the inaugural ceremony largely focused on President Biden and Vice President Harris, it was Bernie Sanders who became a…
December 26, 2020
In 1856, Martin Henry Freeman became president of the all-Black Allegheny Institute and Mission Church, later named Avery College.
November 4, 2020
Trump and Biden conclude a campaign marked by rancor and fear that will influence how the nation confronts a surging…
November 3, 2020
Vermont GOP Gov. Phil Scott said he cast his ballot Tuesday for Vice President Joe Biden, the first time in…
Tabitha Moore Rutland County NAACP thegrio.com
September 13, 2020
An NAACP chapter leader in Vermont, Tabltha Moore says she can no longer remain in her home due to racist…
Ben
September 3, 2020
The Ben & Jerry’s-backed "Who We Are" shows people links in U.S. history to modern-day systemic racism.
Chris Brown and wife theGrio.com
May 14, 2020
A Black man, a professor in Vermont is claiming that two men told him to leave the state. He was…
Court
July 24, 2019
Shawn Pratt didn't mince words when a white man went free after appearing in court on gun charges, while his…
Kiah Morris thegrio.com
January 15, 2019
"[T]he First Amendment does not make speech sanctionable merely because its content is objectionable," Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan said Monday.
Kiah Morris thegrio.com
October 12, 2018
Voters in this very liberal, very white state made Kiah Morris a pioneer when in 2014 they elected her as…