Azealia Banks has a problem with Iggy Azalea
Azealia Banks recently took to Twitter to express her confusion over Australian MC Iggy Azalea making it to the cover of XXL's 'Freshman' issue...
Debt-ridden National Slavery Museum headed to bankruptcy court
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - An attorney for the U.S. National Slavery Museum is headed back to bankruptcy court to outline a reorganization plan for the debt-ridden dream of former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder...
'White' slave kids front schools campaign in 1860s
theGRIO REPORT - The images of three adults and five children, four of whom were dubbed 'white' slaves, were part of a drive to drum up sympathy from wealthy Northerners for potential donations...
New historical monument honors last American slave to die
VIDEO - For more than 40 years that man, Sylvester Magee, didn't have a head stone. That changed this week...
Who were America's slave-owning presidents?
Here it is again, the intersection of Presidents Day and Black History Month. Eight of our early presidents, beginning with George Washington, owned slaves during their tenure in the nation's highest office...
WATCH: Slave records link black family to 'Priscilla'
VIDEO - The Martin family knows something about themselves that few if any families will ever learn about their past. They're able to trace their ancestry back hundreds of years to a little girl. Her name was Priscilla...
West: Social safety net an 'insidious form of slavery'
OPINION - In a speech on the House floor today, Florida Rep. Allen West marked Black History Month by proving, once and for all, that he knows nothing about history...
Tarantino wraps filming on slavery-themed 'Django Unchained'
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - Director Quentin Tarantino has wrapped up filming for his new movie in Wyoming, including a scene at the National Elk Refuge...
Documentary explores 'slavery by another name'
TheGrio REPORT -- The 90 minute film, "Slavery By Another Name," based on a book by journalist Douglas A. Blackmon, chronicles how hundreds of thousands of blacks in the South continued to exist in a form of quasi-slavery well into the 20th Century...
Dem rep to Obama: Honor slaves who built White House
theGRIO REPORT - Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) has in a letter to the president asked for the role of slave labor to be recognized by displaying an appropriate acknowledgement in a public area of the White House...
