Tuskegee airmen honored guests at inaugural
WASHINGTON (AP) - They sat in wheelchairs as honored guests at President Barack Obama's second inaugural, attended to almost minute-by-minute by active duty members of the military...
Ebony editor who grew up black in Nazi Germany dies
MIAMI (AP) - Hans Massaquoi, a former managing editor of Ebony magazine who wrote a memoir about his unusual childhood growing up Germany, has died. He was 87...
Tuskegee Airman recalls Truman inauguration
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of the most cared for spectators at President Barack Obama's inauguration were the Tuskegee Airmen, America's first black military pilots...
Tarantino's next film may be about black WWII soldiers
theGRIO REPORT - Fans of Quentin Tarantino's last two films, Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained, should be excited about the director's next potential project...
Film about WWII black heroines needs your help
theGRIO REPORT - Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II is a documentary film, currently in production, about African-American women who played a significant role in World War II...
22 black war veteran graves to be restored
theGRIO REPORT - A local New York organization is planning a restoration project for nearly two dozen African American war veteran graves in the Town of Rye...
Tuskegee Airman Herbert Carter dead
theGRIO REPORT - Tuskegee Airman Herbert Carter died Thursday at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika...
All that jazz: A review of Mandy Sayer's 'Love in the Years of Lunacy'
REVIEW - Set in Australia in 1942, in the thick of World War II, 'Lunacy' centers on the interracial love story between Pearl -- a young, white Australian woman who plays the saxophone in an all-girl jazz band -- and James, a black American GI...
Oldest living Tuskegee Airman is finally honored
theGRIO REPORT - America’s oldest Tuskegee airman has finally been honored seven decades after he fought in World War II...
Congress honors black Marines
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of African-American veterans who helped to integrate the Marine Corps during World War II at a time segregation was an everyday reality are now proud recipients of the nation's highest civilian honor.
