Rand Paul fails black history at Howard
OPINION - During a speech at Howard University, Rand Paul made his case for blacks supporting the Republican Party. Unfortunately, he was pitching a GOP that hasn't existed for more than 100 years...
Would Frederick Douglass still be a Republican?
OPINION - This week it was sad to see Frederick Douglass’s legacy cheapened as members of the right-wing sought to use his name as some kind of political racial shield...
Harriet Tubman to receive a National Monument
TRAVEL -- The sequester may have shut down White House tours, but it hasn't stopped the president from opening up a new national park...
Melissa Harris-Perry: Obama’s biggest speeches weren’t ‘State of the Union’
VIDEO - On Sunday, Melissa Harris Perry discussed the State of the Union speech...
How to respond to Black History Month doubters
OPINION - Every February 1st, it happens like clockwork. Folks complain. On Twitter and Facebook, in idle chatter before meetings and around the water cooler someone wonders aloud why there has to be Black History Month...
Watch Nights mark Emancipation Proclamation 150th
WASHINGTON (AP) — As New Year's Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln in expectation of what he warned 100 days earlier would be coming — his final proclamation declaring all slaves in states rebelling against the Union to be "forever free."...
NC governor pardons 'Wilmington 10'
theGRIO REPORT - After years of claims that they were wrongly convicted, nine African-American men and one white women wrongly imprisoned for an arson fire in North Carolina that stemmed from racial unrest over integrated schools have been pardoned...
Melissa Harris Perry: Pardon the Wilmington 10
VIDEO - On Saturday, Melissa Harris Perry used her weekly "letter" to address out-going North Carolina Governor Bev Purdue. Her request? Pardon the Wilmington 10 ...
Frederick Douglass statue headed to Capitol's Emancipation Hall
theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama on Thursday signed a bill that will send a statue of legendary abolitionist leader Frederick Douglas to the visitors center at Emancipation Hall...
Bust of Frederick Douglass headed for Capitol
theGRIO REPORT - The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday night approved a resolution that will move the bust of Frederick Douglas to the Capitol, making him only the third African-American to be so honored...
