Teacher auctions black students in Civil War lesson
VIDEO - A fourth grade teacher at Sewells Point Elementary was teaching about the Civil War and auctioned off a group of African-American and mixed race students...
Ivory Coast generals pledge loyalty to president
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Five generals pledged their loyalty to President Alassane Ouattara following the capture of the country's strongman leader after a four-month standoff...
150th anniversary of Civil War: Few blacks on hand
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Cannon fired around Charleston Harbor in South Carolina before dawn, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War...
Civil War at 150: Are we whitewashing slavery?
OPINION - As pivotal as the Civil War is in our nation's complex history, African-Americans appear less enthusiastic about the sesquicentennial...
Slideshow: Unsung heroes of the Civil War
SLIDESHOW - On the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, theGrio is looking back at some of the war's most decorated and courageous people...
Should African-Americans fall out of love with Lincoln?
OPINION - The new book "Colonization After Emancipation' portrays the former president's sincerity about racial equality in a new an altogether unflattering light...
New book sheds new light on Lincoln's racial views
McLEAN, Va. (AP) - A new book by a researcher at George Mason University makes the case that Lincoln was even more committed to colonizing blacks than previously known...
Slideshow: 10 Black History Month facts you may not know
SLIDESHOW - How much did you really retain from elementary school about the origins of Black History Month?...
Confederate descendants mark 150th anniversary
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - They started at a fountain where slaves were once sold, past the church that Martin Luther King Jr. led during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and ended at the Capitol steps..
Barbour won't denounce Confederate license plate
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Asked about the NAACP's stance Tuesday, Barbour replied: "I don't go around denouncing people. That's not going to happen."...
