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South Carolina sues Justice Department over voter ID laws

By theGrio

2:10 PM on 02/07/2012

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) - South Carolina is suing the U.S. Justice Department, saying it was wrong to block the state from requiring people to show government-issued photo identification to vote...
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Justice Deptartment says recent Obama recess appointments legal

By theGrio

2:33 PM on 01/12/2012

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is defending the legality of President Barack Obama's recent recess appointment of a national consumer watchdog and other officials from criticism by Republicans...
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Justice Department blocks SC voter ID law it says 'burdens non-white voters'

By theGrio

5:33 PM on 12/23/2011

TheGrio REPORT -- The Justice Department on Friday moved to block South Carolina's voter ID law, saying it unfairly burdens non-white voters...
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Presidential pardons heavily favor whites

By theGrio

1:47 PM on 12/05/2011

ProPublica - Blacks have had the poorest chance of receiving the president's ultimate act of mercy, according to an analysis of previously unreleased records and related data...
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Closing civil rights era cold cases could haunt black America

By David A. Love

8:29 AM on 11/28/2011

OPINION - For African-Americans, the stakes are high. Black people still suffer from wounds of the civil rights movement, and remember the reluctance of FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover to go after civil rights murders...
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Justice Department to investigate Miami police shootings

By theGrio

9:19 AM on 11/17/2011

MIAMI - The U.S. Justice Department is launching a civil investigation into the policies and training involving deadly force in the Miami Police Department...
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Sharpton to call on feds to take over death penalty cases

By theGrio

9:49 AM on 09/22/2011

theGrio REPORT - National Action Network president and television host Rev. Al Sharpton is calling on the U.S. Justice Department to take over death penalty cases in the wake of Troy Davis' execution...
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Violent crime plunges 12 percent in US in 2010

By theGrio

3:57 PM on 09/16/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Experts aren't sure why. The expectation had been that crime would increase in a weak economy with high unemployment like that seen in 2010...
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How Obama has subtly reached out on race

By Mychal Denzel Smith

9:17 AM on 08/25/2011

OPINION - He is aware of the history of race and racism in this country and ingrained inequality of our social and political structures...
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RNC chair accuses Obama of 'criminal behavior'

By theGrio

8:06 AM on 07/19/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the Republican National Committee is asking for a Justice Department investigation of President Barack Obama over a fundraising video...
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'The Wire' meets Justice Dept on drugs, children

By theGrio

8:31 AM on 06/01/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Three stars from HBO's "The Wire" joined Justice Department officials in calling attention to the tragic toll of drug abuse on children and families...
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Resolution to pardon Jack Johnson re-introduced

By theGrio

5:36 PM on 05/24/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama refused to act on the call for a pardon in the last congressional session, even after the resolution passed both houses of Congress...
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Holder intervenes in gay man's deportation case

By theGrio

4:58 AM on 05/06/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Holder set aside the Board of Immigration Appeals ruling allowing the deportation to Ireland of Paul Wilson Dorman, a gay man illegally in the U.S...
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DOJ: Miss. schools still segregated despite order

By theGrio

6:35 PM on 05/03/2011

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A public school district in Mississippi and the federal government are divided over whether the schools are complying with a desegregation order that dates back to the civil rights era...
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Can Obama's gay rights agenda cure black homophobia?

By Edward Wyckoff Williams

8:00 AM on 02/24/2011

OPINION - Obama's record on gay rights, though imperfect, has been the most progressive and exemplary of any of his predecessors...
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Gov't drops defense of anti-gay marriage law

By theGrio

1:47 PM on 02/23/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a major policy reversal, the Obama administration said that it will no longer defend the constitutionality of a federal law banning recognition of same-sex marriage...
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Will Jack Johnson be pardoned on Obama's watch?

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

8:12 AM on 02/23/2011

OPINION - Obama is under an intense racial microscope, and any misstep, real, or invented, will bring instant howls as yet another example of racial favoritism...
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Backers take another swing at Jack Johnson pardon

By theGrio

11:08 AM on 02/22/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - New York Rep. Peter King and Arizona Sen. John McCain, both Republicans, plan to reintroduce a congressional resolution urging a pardon for boxer Jack Johnson...
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Why won't Obama pardon Jack Johnson?

By Zack Burgess

8:45 AM on 12/20/2010

OPINION - If and when the pardon comes, it surely will be 100 years too late...
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US sues BP, 8 other companies in Gulf oil spill

By theGrio

2:47 PM on 12/15/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration's lawsuit asks that the companies be held liable without limitation under the Oil Pollution Act for all removal costs and damages caused by the oil spill...
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