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Civil Rights Movement

Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (R) marches with a crowd across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 1965 Bloody Sunday Voting Rights March March 4, 2007 in Selma, Alabama. During the 1965 march, which was to go from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, police used tear gas and beat back the marchers when they reached the Pettus Bridge. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

'Bloody Sunday' bridge named national landmark

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theGRIO REPORT - The location is one of 13 new sites to receive federal recognition, including the home of Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harrier Beecher Stowe and Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson N.J., which once served as a home-field to Negro League baseball teams...
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American Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) speaks at a press conference for Clergy & Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, held at the Belmont Plaza Hotel, New York City, January 12, 1968. He announced the Poor People's March On Washington at this event. (Photo by John Goodwin/Getty Images)

The stabbing of MLK: New documentary delves into Izola Curry mystery

Brittany Tom
theGRIO REPORT - A new documentary delves into the mystery surrounding the woman who almost fatally stabbed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ten years before his death...
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Statue honoring the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Rosa Parks statue unveiled at Capitol

Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rosa Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Alabama to a white man, but there's plenty about the rest of her experiences that she deliberately withheld from her family.
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The CBS News public affairs program titled Newsmakers, featuring guest, Whitney M. Young, Jr. Image dated Sunday, August 18, 1963. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

New film tells story of unsung civil rights leader

Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the civil rights struggle, Young was overshadowed by his larger-than-life peer, Martin Luther King Jr...
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In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, President Kennedy stands with a group of leaders of the March on Washington at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo)

JFK's complex place in black history

Jesse Washington, Associated Press
(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...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson (2nd L) and his wife Jacqueline Lavinia Brown (2nd R) arrive at U.S. District Court for a hearing involving his son, former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., February 20, 2013 in Washington, DC. Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandi Jackson, are expected to plead guilty to federal charges after being accused of spending more than $750,000 in campaign funds to purchase luxury items, memorabilia and other goods. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Where does Jesse Jackson's family go from here?

David A. Love
OPINION - Are we witnessing the end of the Jackson dynasty? Where does this once beloved political family go from here?...
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The Rosa Parks commemorative stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service honoring of civil rights icon Rosa Parks is unveiled February 4, 2013 at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. The stamp went on sale February 4, 2013, what would have been Rosa Park's 100th birthday. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

US Postal Service issues special Rosa Parks stamp

Mike Householder, Associated Press
DEARBORN, Michigan (AP) - The U.S. Postal Service has issued a special Rosa Parks stamp on what would have been the late civil rights icon's 100th birthday...
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DECEMBER 17: Veronika Pozner (L) leaves the funeral services for her six year-old son Noah Pozner, who was killed in the shooting massacre in Newtown, CT, at Abraham L. Green and Son Funeral Home on December 17, 2012 in Fairfield, Connecticut. Today is the first day of funerals for some of the twenty children and seven adults who were killed by 20-year-old Adam Lanza on December 14, 2012. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Newtown victim channels Emmett Till

Brittany Tom
theGRIO REPORT - Noah Pozner, one of the 20 child victims from last month's Sandy Hook elementary shooting, laid in an open casket for his wake which conjures memories of Emmett Till, the innocent African-American boy murdered by two white men...
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Rosa Parks commemorative stamp (US postal service)

Rosa Parks honored with 100th birthday US postage stamp

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theGRIO REPORT - Rosa Parks, the late legendary civil rights activist, is received a special honor this year to commemorate what would have been her 100th birthday...
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Celebrating the unvarnished Dr. King

Blair L. M. Kelley
OPINION - My 9-year old daughter came home this week raving about her class and their discussion of Martin Luther King, Jr...
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