Black History Month

'Chickens come home to roost': Black reactions to JFK's death in 1963

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Judge gives 1st OK to end Little Rock schools suit

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Remembering the real JFK: What is the late president's legacy with black Americans?

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Alabama board approves pardons for 'Scottsboro Boys'

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's parole board wrote a new ending for the infamous 'Scottsboro Boys' rape case Thursday by…
/ November 21, 2013

'Black at the Assassination': New play illuminates overlooked voices in Dallas

theGRIO REPORT - Black at the Assassination examines what Dallas looked like for blacks in the early 1960’s and the…
/ November 20, 2013

1893 recording of black vocal group up for auction

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — One of two copies of the oldest known recording of a black vocal group in the…
/ November 20, 2013

Why Arne Duncan is talking about 'white suburban moms'

ANALYSIS - Duncan, in very impolitic terms, was trying to make an important point: lackluster American schools are not just…
/ November 19, 2013

University of Alabama sorority elects 1st black president

theGRIO REPORT - One of the University of Alabama's majority white sororities elected an African-American president for the first time…
/ November 18, 2013

2 Civil War museums in US team up for new center

RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) - The Museum of the Confederacy and the American Civil War Center are joining forces to build…
/ November 18, 2013

10 things you should know about slavery

theGRIO REPORT - Here are 10 more things to know about the institution that brought millions of people into the…
/ November 16, 2013

First lady Michelle Obama undertakes new education initiative

WASHINGTON (AP) — Edging into a broader policy role, Michelle Obama is joining President Barack Obama's efforts to get the…
/ November 12, 2013

Mike Tyson on past behavior: 'I feel like a schmuck'

TODAY - Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight champion, who electrified the boxing world in the 1980s, now regrets how the…
/ November 12, 2013

Olympic gold medal won by Jesse Owens to be sold

LAGUNA NIGUEL, California (AP) — One of the four Olympic gold medals won by track and field greatJesse Owens at…
/ November 12, 2013

UCLA has more championships than black male freshmen

theGRIO REPORT - UCLA junior Sy Stokes has created a video which calls attention to the university's lack of diversity...
/ November 11, 2013

New trial sought for George Stinney, 14-year-old executed in 1944

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — George Stinney has been dead since 1944, when as a 14-year-old black boy he became…
/ November 11, 2013