The Million Man March 15 years later: A movement or a moment?
theGRIO REPORT - It has since been romanticized, revered, criticized, satirized, and emulated, but the march represented for many an all too rare moment of solidarity...
'63 March on Washington couple returns to 'reclaim the dream'
theGRIO REPORT - They said they're often asked about that day in 1963, what it was like, how they felt and what it meant...
Tuskegee Airman buried at Arlington Cemetery
WASHINGTON - Col. Spann Watson, one of the famed black flyers who fought in WWII, joins the ranks of the country's fallen at Arlington National Cemetery...
Historian stages sleep-ins to save SC slave cabins
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - When Joe McGill spreads his sleeping bag on the floor of a slave cabin, he knows that spending the night there will conjure the specter of slavery...
Medal of Honor recipient Vernon Baker dies at 90
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. - The Congressional Medal of Honor Society announces that 1st Lt. Vernon Baker, Medal of Honor recipient, passed away Tuesday evening...
Benjamin L. Hooks to be laid to rest in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - After years of fighting for social justice, civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks will be laid to rest...
Slideshow: The life of civil rights legend Dorothy Height
SLIDESHOW - Height, whose activism on behalf of women and minorities dated to the New Deal, led the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years...
Height will forever be a towering figure
OPINION - Dorothy Height reminds us that even long lives are far too short, and that the time for action is now...
Dorothy Height, godmother of the civil rights movement, dies at 98
The late Dorothy Height dedicated every moment of her being to service, to create the best world possible for all...
Longtime civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks dead at 85
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Hooks took over the NAACP in 1977 and, by declaring "the civil rights movement is not dead," restored momentum that had flagged...
