There's no excuse for not pardoning Jack Johnson
OPINION - Now is the time for President Obama to pardon the legendary heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson...
theGrio’s 100: the Moss brothers, operating on passion
theGRIO's 100 - Drs. Vincent and Vance Moss, 41, are twin surgeons who share a passion for helping others. This passion can be traced as far back as their years in the Boy Scouts of America...
New film tells story of unsung civil rights leader
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the civil rights struggle, Young was overshadowed by his larger-than-life peer, Martin Luther King Jr...
JFK's complex place in black history
(AP) - Not that many years ago, three portraits hung in thousands of African-American homes, a visual tribute to men who had helped black people navigate the long journey to equality...
Tubman relative's black history lesson
theGRIO Q&A - Pauline Copes-Johnson,85, is the great-grandniece, and her daughter Deirdre Stanford, 64, is the great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman has been giving presentations about Harriet Tubman's life for over ten years...
Obama: Rosa Parks statue dedication a 'powerful moment'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the dedication in the Capitol of a statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks will be a 'powerful moment'...
The Descendants
SLIDESHOW - theGrio decided to track down some of the living descendants of well-known African-American historical figures to find out what it is like being related to some of most the influential people in history...
Robert Smalls' great-great grandson says he's the unsung hero of Civil War
theGRIO Q&A - Robert Smalls is recognized as one of Civil War heroes who commandeered a confederate ship, the CSS Planter, freeing himself along with his enslaved crew and their families in 1862...
Why Madam CJ Walker's great-great granddaughter left family business
theGRIO Q&A - Walker is credited with being the first female self-made millionaire through her successful beauty and hair product line targeted toward black women throughout the early 1900s...
W.E.B. Du Bois' great grandson: Legacy helped me understand identity
theGRIO Q&A - W.E.B. Du Bois was a prominent scholar and civil-rights activist who co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
