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EXCLUSIVE: The exhibit was presented by First Lady Jill Biden in partnership with the Library of Congress, the House Representatives, the Smithsonian, and the Supreme Court. As Black History Month comes to a close, the White House welcomed theGrio to the East Wing to exclusively view its weeks-long exhibit honoring prominent African American history makers….

“We have to fight for her,” civil rights attorney Ben Crump told theGrio. Advocacy groups and Black civil rights leaders are applauding President Joe Biden’s historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court after making his announcement official during a ceremony held at the White House on Friday.  U.S. President…

It happened during a February 3 incident in which a Black man shot at police who he thought were intruders Attorneys representing the family of a Black man who shot at police he believed to be home intruders want police criminally charged because of injuries the man’s son received while in care of officers. Additionally,…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Married couple LaQuenza Morgan and Lauren Rhoades say police officers conduct roadblocks every few months in their mostly Black, working-class neighborhood in Mississippi’s mostly Black capital city, usually during the busiest times of day when people are going to or from work. He’s Black and she’s white, and they said officers…

EXCLUSIVE: Crump, who served as the attorney for the Martin family, and U.S. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson spoke exclusively to theGrio. President Obama also shared remarks on Twitter. Ten years later, the fatal shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin remains an unforgettably tragic American story.  On Feb. 26, 2012, neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman chased down and…

Court officials walked jurors through the former crime scene in the trial of former Louisville Metro Police detective Brett Hankison The 15 jurors involved in the criminal trial of the police officer charged in the botched raid on Breanna Taylor‘s home paid a visit on Friday to the apartment where she was fatally shot nearly…

Colonial Williamsburg has begun to honor the coachmen by naming a new carriage after Benjamin Spraggins The Black men who drove horse-drawn carriages through the streets of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia were both everywhere and invisible during the Jim Crow era. Their wooden coaches helped conjure up the late 18th Century for visitors including Queen…

Breonna Taylor’s mother and sister were removed from former Louisville Metro Police Detective Brett Hankison’s wanton endangerment trial this week. The two women were kicked out because they wore the slain woman’s image on their clothing while sitting in the courtroom this week. Breonna Taylor’s mother (left) and her daughter (right) were kicked out of…