Voting Rights

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Joe Arpaio thegrio.com
January 10, 2018
Arpaio’s state of Arizona, like other states, provide roadblocks for ex-offenders and their voting rights...
December 13, 2017
Nuris Bigelow, 33, earned back her right to vote thanks to Definition of Moral Turpitude Act
April 4, 2017
On the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, now is time as any to ask how the civil rights…
February 17, 2017
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Van Jones didn’t pull any punches when he put his finger on just what
January 3, 2017
As the first person of color to capture the White House in the 240-year history of the United States of…
November 18, 2016
Appointing Jeff Sessions to the position of attorney general is like hiring an arsonist for fire chief.
October 4, 2016
On Monday, Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, a civil rights icon, urged a group of young leaders invited to the…
August 10, 2016
A Georgia town is dispatching police to black residents’ homes to challenge their rights to vote. According to the New York
October 6, 2015
“I’d rather be a rebel than a slave.” That’s the text on t-shirts that actresses Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan and…
August 17, 2015
The civil rights community has lost one of its greatest champions and elder statesmen with the passing of Julian Bond...
August 6, 2015
OPINION - In theory, the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution February 3, 1870 gave black men the…
March 7, 2015
theGrio REPORT - SELMA, Ala. (AP) — America's racial history "still casts its long shadow upon us," the nation's first…
March 1, 2015
For President Barack Obama, it's a week to invoke America's civil rights struggles from past to present.
January 16, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Five white Texans have come forward to sue Dallas County because, saying Dallas County Commissioner's Court does…
November 7, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A video showing Harvard students trying to pass a 1964 Louisiana Literacy test was released on Monday…
July 4, 2014
OPINION - On this Independence Day—as we celebrate the struggles that were fought and the sacrifices that were made in…
April 16, 2014
theGRIO VIDEO - In a rousing speech last week in front of the National Action Network President Obama called out…
April 11, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama says the right to vote in the U.S. is under bigger threat than…
February 28, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — In elections that begin next week, voters in 10 states will be required to present photo identification…
February 19, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) today urged lawmakers in Kentucky to change the state's laws and allow convicted…