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TheGrio's 100: Rabbi Alysa Stanton, the new face of Judaism

Ethyln Harris
TheGrio's 100 - Alysa Stanton is the first black woman to become a rabbi in any mainstream Jewish denomination...
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TheGrio's 100: Shawna Kimbrell, first black female fighter pilot

Ethyln Harris
TheGrio's 100 - Major Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell is the first female African-American fighter pilot...
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TheGrio's 100: Kari Fulton, to be young, green, and black

Talia Whyte
TheGrio's 100 - Did you know that it's cool to be black and green? Kari Fulton has been leading the charge...
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Tuskegee Airman Lee Archer dead at 90

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Lee A. Archer, a Tuskegee Airman considered to be the only black ace pilot who also broke racial barriers as an executive at a major U.S. company...
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The Tuskegee Airmen are being honored for the new year. Not with speeches, medals or awards—but a float in a parade…

Tuskegee Airmen to be honored with Rose Bowl float

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The Tuskegee Airmen are being honored for the new year. Not with speeches, medals or awards--but a float in a parade...
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theGrio reflects: The story of Emmett Till

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VIDEO - In light of the discovery of raided graves at the cemetery where he was buried, theGrio looks back at the life of lynching victim Emmett Till...
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Museum to commemorate 'Little Rock Nine'

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Every day before heading to Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957, nine black students gathered to prepare for the angry mob they faced...
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More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, a Maryland city unveiled.

Maryland plaque reminds of historic Dred Scott case

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FREDERICK, Maryland (AP) - More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, a Maryland city unveiled...
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Time well served for black seaman in Jim Crow era

Michelle Brown
VIDEO - Elijah McKelvin, like many in his time, joined the United States military forces to fight in what was the deadliest conflict in human history...
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The Smithsonian accepts Emmett Till's casket

Christine M. Gordon

From our friends at essence.com:
After 54 years, the story of Emmett Till is still making news. Till was just 14 years old when he was brutally beaten, shot in …

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