Lincoln museum to display iconic stovepipe hat
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A stovepipe hat worn by Abraham Lincoln is going on display at the Springfield library and museum that bear his name...
Too far? 'Django Unchained' action figures for sale
theGRIO REPORT - Quentin Tarantino's latest film 'Django Unchained' may turn out to be his most successful and most controversial movie to date...
Forgotten graves at U.Va likely belonged to black slaves
theGRIO REPORT - Although the graves have not been officially confirmed as holding the remains of black slaves, the university has no plans to excavate or uncover the graves to assure respect for the remains according to UVA Today...
West African man convicted of keeping 4 boys as slaves
theGRIO REPORT - A federal jury convicted a former janitor at the University of Michigan of enslaving and abusing four West African boys on Tuesday...
Black Republican: Obama wants us to 'be his slave'
The Huffington Post reports that Allen West is doing all that he can to stay in the spotlight. During a rally on Sunday he accused President Obama of attempting to enslave the American people...
'Slave for a Day' event held at National Park
theGRIO REPORT - Since Monday, when the announcement for the event was posted, the title of the event was changed...
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...
Second-largest Native American tribe expels slave descendants
The Cherokee nation Supreme Court ruled that a 2007 tribal decision to kick the so-called "Freedmen" out of the tribe was proper.
