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Civil rights leaders won’t let Trump inauguration overshadow Dr. King’s true dream of racial justice

As Donald Trump takes the oath of office and is sworn in for a second time as president of the United States, the nation is also observing the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s contributions to the nation and the world. The civil rights leader transformed America’s consciousness and was an architect of a movement that dismantled U.S. laws sanctioning racial segregation and oppression.  On MLK Day, civil rights leaders are reflecting on the day’s ironic juxtaposition […]

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Trump’s Defense cabinet pick Pete Hegseth has a history of hostility toward racial equity

Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of U.S. Defense, Pete Hegseth, was grilled on Tuesday by Democratic senators during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, who pressed him on a range of controversial topics, including allegations of sexual assault, alcoholism, and his hostility toward anything related to DEI. While being questioned by Senate Armed Service Committee ranking member, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., about his stance on diversity, equity and inclusion in the U.S. military, Hegseth, a conservative former Fox News host, […]

todayJanuary 15, 2025

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Advocates urge Biden to apologize for slavery and take other racial justice actions before leaving office

As lawmakers and advocates push President Joe Biden to issue more pardons in his final days in office after issuing a sweeping pardon for his son, Hunter, activists are calling on the outgoing president to tackle a range of actions to advance racial justice before a Trump administration hostile to racial equity enters the White House. “We know that [Trump] going to try to reverse everything that would represent inclusion [and] people of color in the policies and programs and […]

todayDecember 4, 2024

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Racial justice experts condemn Trump’s attack on DEI in schools as preserving ‘white delusions’

Activists and education experts are slamming President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to seek “restitution” for so-called “victims” who are discriminated against by education programs related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, also known as DEI. “It is consistent in tapping into an unjustifiable feeling — whether that be rage, ignorance or animus — that people have that’s really anchored in a desire to whitewash history,” Dr. David J. Johns, CEO and executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, told theGrio. The […]

todayNovember 18, 2024

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Trump’s incoming White House is pretty white and hostile to racial equity. Here’s what you should know

A week after Election Day, President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team have named several nominees and appointees for the second Trump administration, comprised of MAGA loyalists who are overwhelmingly white and some of whom have a history of trafficking in racism or hostility toward equity programs. “These are people whose main goal is to make sure that we ‘Make America White Again,” Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross told theGrio.  Cross noted that as a candidate, Trump “ran on white supremacy” […]

todayNovember 15, 2024

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A decade of racial justice activism transformed politics but landmark reforms remain elusive

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cori Bush went from helping to lead an informal movement for racial justice to winning two terms as a congresswoman from Missouri, with an office decorated with photographs of families who lost loved ones to police violence. One picture is of Michael Brown. Brown’s death 10 years ago in Ferguson, Missouri, was a defining moment for America’s racial justice movement. It cast a global spotlight on longtime demands for reforms to systems subjecting millions of people to everything from economic discrimination to murder. […]

todayOctober 30, 2024

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Black Caucus issues new guidelines for DEI policies and urges firms to help reduce racial wealth gap

WASHINGTON (AP) — Corporate policies meant to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace are legal and should be expanded to promote broad economic prosperity and reduce racial wealth inequities, according to a new report by the Congressional Black Caucus. The report released Monday offers guidelines to corporations on the best practices to adopt to advance diversity, equity and inclusion policies in the workplace and calls on companies to recommit to advance racial justice in the workplace. The document also […]

todaySeptember 9, 2024

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Watch: Advocacy group rings the alarm for police reform and AI racial bias

For this week’s edition of theGrio’s “The Hill with April Ryan,” we explore the issue of police accountability, which is at the forefront of many Black Americans who continue to push for passage of the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act. Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, is one of those calling for federal laws in the wake of the fatal police-involved shooting of U.S. Airman Roger Fortson in Florida on […]

todayJune 16, 2024

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Battle for racial equality persists as Biden commemorates 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board

As President Joe Biden commemorated the 70th anniversary of the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka this week with a series of engagements, his administration — along with a host of experts, advocates and lawmakers — acknowledges that progress has slowed in racial equity in education.  On Thursday, the president held a White House meeting with the families of the plaintiffs in the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that ended the “separate but equal” legal doctrine and […]

todayMay 17, 2024