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COLUMBIANA, Ala. (AP) - Much has changed in Shelby County since Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to protect…
theGRIO REPORT - Civil rights leader, Rev. Jesse Jackson, reacted with disappointment to Tuesday's Supreme Court decision striking down a…
OPINION - The Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, is devastating, but not definitive...
OPINION - In our society, all rights are ultimately protected by the ballot box, not the sword...
theGRIO REPORT - In striking down one of the central planks of the Voting Rights Act, the conservatives on the…
theGRIO REPORT - The fall of a key plank of the Voting Rights Act is an unquestionable setback to civil…
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday used a tribute to 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass to renew the…
OPINION - Are U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia parting political ways?...
OPINION - It’s should come as no surprise that Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is taking steps to rid the states…
OPINION - Two critical voting rights opinions will be issued by the Supreme Court this term, which ends on June…
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the…
OPINION - Twelve years after the controversial Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore, former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is…
OPINION - The justice also criticized attempts to expand the number of minority groups protected by the federal government, noting…
WASHINGTON (AP) - On the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Attorney General Eric Holder challenged the Supreme Court…
OPINION - I will never forget watching President Obama unveil the statue of one of my personal heroes in Statuary…
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - The vice president and black leaders commemorating a famous civil rights march on Sunday said efforts…