Mary J. Blige to play Betty Shabazz
Singer turned actress Mary J. Blige will play civil rights leader Malcolm X's wife in a new TV drama...
Atlanta's historic Auburn Ave. again at crossroads
ATLANTA (AP) - The ghosts of Auburn Avenue still haunt the storied Atlanta street where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born and black wealth thrived for decades...
Gays unite with blacks to fight 'stop-and-frisk'
OPINION - This week in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City, gay rights groups protested the NYPD’s 'stop-and-frisk' policy, which targets mostly black and Latino men...
Memorial service for 1st black Naval Academy grad
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (AP) - About 200 people honored the first black graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at a memorial service Wednesday, recalling a man of courage who helped open doors for generations of minorities decades before the civil rights era...
Outcry over Romney's Mass. affirmative action move
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mitt Romney scuttled the Massachusetts government's long-standing affirmative action policies with a few strokes of his pen on a sleepy holiday six months after he became governor...
Mandela celebrates 100th anniversary of African National Congress
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Nelson Mandela's African National Congress has brought its centenary celebrations to his home village in eastern South Africa...
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...
Jealous: NAACP gay marriage stance a 'game changer'
BALTIMORE (AP) - NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said Monday he hopes the group's resolution supporting same-sex marriage will encourage blacks to support marriage equality...
NAACP backs same-sex marriage
MIAMI (AP) - The NAACP passed a resolution Saturday endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts 'to codify discrimination or hatred into the law'...
Judge, lawyers allegedly drained Rosa Parks estate
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.
