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November 21, 2025
Nine Black women say they were wrongly removed from a Chesapeake steakhouse after an unrelated fight. They're demanding accountability.
Donald Trump, Derrick Johnson, NAACP, theGrio.com
June 16, 2025
"It would be a waste of our time and energy to give a platform to fascism," said the nation's oldest…
hazel dukes death
March 1, 2025
Civil rights icon Dr. Hazel Dukes, former NAACP president and Harlem activist, passes away at 92, leaving a legacy of…
thegrio, NAACP, spending guide, DEI
February 16, 2025
The NAACP published a spending guide to help steering Black buying power toward companies still invested in DEI programs.
NAACP President Cornell William Brooks Discusses August March From Selma To D.C.
July 18, 2023
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin weighs whether to restore the civil rights of convicted felons who have served their time.
Kristin Kitchen, owner of the Dunns Josephine Hotel in Miami. © Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/TNS
June 12, 2023
TheGrio’s Eboni K. Williams talks to Kristin Kitchen, Black owner of Dunns Josephine Hotel in Miami about the NAACP travel…
April 22, 2023
Derrick Johnson, the national president of the NAACP, said the policing law would treat Black people as “second-class citizens.”
February 24, 2023
Republican lawmakers in Texas said DEI initiatives, which benefit the historically disenfranchised, are "forbidden" and "illegal."
theGrio highlights Queen Latifah at theGrio Awards
February 21, 2023
The NAACP Image Awards are officially getting the Queen Latifah treatment. The Emmy-, Grammy-, Golden Globe- and NAACP Image ...
February 19, 2023
Rev. T. Anthony Spearman was elected North Carolina NAACP president in 2017 and served one four-year term.
Season 3 Premiere Of Apple TV 's "Truth Be Told" - Arrivals
February 17, 2023
The NAACP and BET have announced Gabrielle Union-Wade and Dwyane Wade as the next recipients of the President's Award ...
February 8, 2023
Courtney and Nicole Mallery claim their Freedom Acres Ranch in Colorado Springs has been targeted by their neighbors for years.
Tennessee voucher program
January 26, 2023
The NAACP and the National Fair Housing Alliance found widespread bias among providers toward participants in a Tennessee voucher program.
December 24, 2022
The federal government will put $600 million toward repairing the troubled water system in Mississippi's capital city — a project that the…
NAACP President Cornell William Brooks Discusses August March From Selma To D.C.
December 21, 2022
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is perpetuating a legacy of racial discrimination because lawmakers failed to draw enough majority-Black districts
November 23, 2022
The Supreme Court says Cecilia "Cissy" Marshall has died. She was 94.
October 26, 2022
Federal investigations into public spending on the failing water system in Mississippi's majority-Black capital city are a test of President Joe Biden's…
October 21, 2022
The NAACP wants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to make sure that from now on, federal funds are distributed equitably.
Crime scene, theGrio.com
October 6, 2022
An NAACP leader was fatally shot while vacationing in the Turks and Caicos and he spent his last moments protecting…
September 30, 2022
A North Carolina sheriff was recorded calling Black employees by derogatory names and saying they should be fired, a television…