How Harry Truman desegregated the military

theGRIO REPORT - When President Harry Truman signed an executive order on July 26, 1948, calling for the desegregation of the military, it was the beginning, not the end, of the fight for African-Americans to fight alongside white troops...

How WWII vets helped lead the civil rights fight

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theGRIO REPORT - Black veterans, especially those who fought in World War II, served critical roles in raising national and international awareness about Jim Crow...

Judge, lawyers allegedly drained Rosa Parks estate

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DETROIT (AP) - An attorney claims a judge and two lawyers involved in a long-running dispute over civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' estate conspired to drain the estate's cash.

How an openly gay man helped shape MLK's vision

Ronda Racha Penrice

OPINION - Bayard Rustin, who had worked with the original March in 1941, was a constant and steady force during the influential civil rights activities of the early 20th century. He was also openly gay...

National Cathedral to install statue of Rosa Parks

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Washington National Cathedral is preparing to dedicate a new carving of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks in a section of the church devoted to human rights...

WATCH: Obama sits in Rosa Parks' bus seat

Oelania Pena

VIDEO - President Obama recently visited the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. While there, he sat on the bus that Rosa Parks made famous by refusing to sit in the back because she was African-American...

'Mad Men' makes nod to civil rights movement

Adam Howard

theGRIO REPORT - 'Mad Men' made a rare nod to the civil rights movement, which was jarring for a show that has been criticized at times for "focusing almost entirely on an all-white...

Memphis will finally name a street after MLK

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Forty-four years after Martin Luther King Jr's death there will finally be a MLK street in Memphis, Tennessee -- ironically the city where the civil rights legend was murdered...

Brown student finds lost audio of Malcolm X

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The audiotape of Malcolm X's 1961 address in Providence might never have surfaced at all if 22-year-old Brown University student Malcolm Burnley hadn't stumbled across a reference to it in an old student newspaper...

Chris Christie needs a black history lesson

Henry Fernandez

OPINION - Last week, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie demonstrated blatant ignorance of the African-American civil rights movement in America as he tried to justify his decision to attempt to derail same-sex marriage by sending the issue to a voter referendum...

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How Harry Truman desegregated the military

How WWII vets helped lead the civil rights fight

Judge, lawyers allegedly drained Rosa Parks estate

How an openly gay man helped shape MLK's vision

National Cathedral to install statue of Rosa Parks

WATCH: Obama sits in Rosa Parks' bus seat

'Mad Men' makes nod to civil rights movement

Memphis will finally name a street after MLK

Brown student finds lost audio of Malcolm X

Chris Christie needs a black history lesson

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