Charlotte remembers 1963 desegregation 'eat-in'

Mitch Weiss, Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) - In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile (6.4-kilometer) march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown...

Medgar Evers remembered 50 years after death

Laura Tillman, Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was killed by a white supremacist outside his Jackson, Miss., home in 1963, laments that her husband is remembered primarily as an assassination victim...

National Action Network convention: Activists needed

Donovan X. Ramsey

theGRIO REPORT - This past week, Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network held its 15th annual convention in New York City...

What infamous civil rights cases need closure?

David A. Love

OPINION - America’s civil rights history evokes a sense of pride and accomplishment, given the hard-fought battles waged in the courtroom and in the streets, and those who were maimed and martyred in the process...

A post-racial US? Court poised to change race laws

Hope Yen, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind?

Harrison Ford on n-word in '42': 'It's historically accurate'

Chris Witherspoon

VIDEO - During an interview with theGrio, Harrison Ford talks about the new Jackie Robinson biopic "42," and weighs in on the film's use of the n-word....

Why we still need the Voting Rights Act

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer

OPINION - I will never forget watching President Obama unveil the statue of one of my personal heroes in Statuary Hall last week – allowing civil rights icon Rosa Parks to take her rightful place in our nation’s Capitol...

Biden leads re-enactment of voting rights march

Phillip Rawls, Associated Press

SELMA, Ala. (AP) - The vice president and black leaders commemorating a famous civil rights march on Sunday said efforts to diminish the impact of African-Americans' votes haven't stopped in the years since the 1965 Voting Rights Act...

Can escape clause save voting rights provision?

Mark Sherman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration and civil rights groups are defending a key section of the landmark voting rights law...

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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