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ATLANTA (AP) — When the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights act last week, it handed Republicans tough questions…
OPINION - On this Independence Day, everyone is dependent on the government, but African Americans are even more dependent, for…
theGRIO REPORT - In the wake of the devastating Supreme Court decision, several websites have posted examples of these tests…
theGRIO REPORT - As demonstrators cast the right to vote in moral terms, and link their cause to pioneering civil…
theGRIO REPORT - Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C,), the man House Democrats have tapped to lead their push for revising the…
theGRIO REPORT - A range of politicians, from civil rights legend John Lewis to President Obama to Rep. Eric Cantor…
OPINION - The Supreme Court’s decision to tear out the heart out of the Voting Rights Act should serve as…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Democratic legislator from Minnesota swiftly apologized Tuesday for a tweet he sent that referred…
theGRIO REPORT - Republicans are divided on how to handle both the Voting Rights Act and immigration, two politically-charged issues…
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…