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theGrio's 100: Franchesca Ramsey, 'Girls Say' she is a sensation

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Civil Rights photographer exposed as FBI informant

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VIDEO - Ernest Withers, one of the most recognized photographers from the civil rights movement, was doing double duty as an FBI informant according to recently released documents...
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This Aug. 17, 2010 photo shows Perri Jenkins, 9, of Houston, Texas, as she listens in during a tour of a new exhibit depicting the lives of slaves at Thomas Jefferson’s home Monticello in Charlottesville, Va. Jenkins is standing in front of an exhibit about Jefferson’s enslaved nursemaid Priscilla Hemmings. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Slave quarters offer new vision of Founders' lives

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - To draw more diverse visitors, museums are offering stories that resonate with visitors of many backgrounds, including people from ethnic or religious minorities...
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How civil rights movement overshadowed abuse of women

Danielle L. McGuire
OPINION - The civil rights movement is also rooted in African-American women's long struggle against sexual violence...
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One of Little Rock 9 remembers her 'quiet, funny' classmate

Christopher Nelson
theGRIO Q & A - Minnijean Brown Trickey remembers how her former Central High classmate's sense of humor got them through their struggles ...
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Little Rock Nine member Jefferson Thomas dies

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Jefferson Thomas, one of the first nine black students to enroll in desegregated Arkansas' schools, has died at age 67 ...
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‘Soul Train’ 40 years later: Appealing to Americans on both sides of the track: OPINION –  ‘Soul Train’ was a beacon, beaming raw, uncut, unapologetic black style and swagger into homes around the country…READ MORE(Photo courtesy of Amy Goldberg)

Celebrating 40 years of Soul Train's legacy

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VIDEO - It had never been done for the African-American audience and it forever changed the image of R&B music...
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'63 March on Washington couple returns to 'reclaim the dream'

Jennifer H. Cunningham
theGRIO REPORT - They said they're often asked about that day in 1963, what it was like, how they felt and what it meant...
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Early Nation of Islam documents found in Detroit

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DETROIT (AP) - More than 1,000 documents were found in the attic of a home in Detroit, the city where the secretive movement started 80 years ago, a lawyer said...
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Re-enactors keep memory of black Civil War troops

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SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - The role of black Civil War troops in gaining the freedom of black Americans was pushed to a distant corner of the national memory for decades...
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November trial set in 1965 Ala civil rights death case

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MARION, Ala. (AP) - A grand jury indicted James Bonard Fowler for murder in the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson during a civil rights protest that turned chaotic...
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