Statue of Fannie Lou Hamer unveiled in Mississippi
theGRIO REPORT - Hamer, who would have been 95 on Oct. 6, is remembered the world over as a woman who was 'sick and tired of being sick and tired'...
50 years later, University of Mississippi marks integration
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - The black man who enrolled at the University of Mississippi 50 years ago amid violent protests says he doesn't plan to participate in the school's commemoration of his history-making step against racial segregation. James Meredith, now 79, says he doesn't see the point...
New Martin Luther King audio found
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) - A U.S. man says he has discovered the audio tape of a forgotten interview with civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that was never published...
Tapes reveal LBJ on civil rights
Over 800 hours of recently released of recordings from the Lyndon Johnson White House reveal how President John F. Kennedy's successor guided the country through the most difficult stages of the civil rights era.
Belafonte: Jay-Z, Beyoncé 'have turned backs on social responsibility'
theGRIO REPORT - Belafonte's contributions to the Civil Rights Movement are numerous -- including financially assisting Dr. Martin Luther King, who considered Belafonte to be a close confidante. He is dismayed that today's African-American celebrities do not in his opinion reflect the same level of dedication.
Sen. Robert Byrd sought civil rights FBI files
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd obtained secret FBI documents about the civil rights movement that were leaked by the CIA and triggered an angry confrontation between the two agencies in the 1960s, according to newly released FBI records...
Remembering a Montgomery bus boycott hero
VIDEO - When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to sit at the back of the bus, Thelma Glass went to work organizing a boycott of the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama...
Ala. bus boycott organizer, professor dies at 96
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Thelma McWilliams Glass, a longtime professor and civil rights pioneer who helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott, died on Wednesday. She was 96...
'67 Detroit riots revisited
theGRIO REPORT - Today, 45 years later, the 1967 Riots are seen as more than four days of destruction and mayhem; it became the seminal moment of the last half-century for Detroit...
'60s 'whites only' murder mystery revisted
VIDEO - While you won’t find Booker Wright’s name in any history books, he is an unsung hero whose legacy continues to inspire...
