50th Anniversary

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November 15, 2022
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces the city will plan yearlong events and fundraisers celebrating hip-hop's 50th anniversary in…
Stevie Wonder In London
October 27, 2022
TheGrio breaks down how Stevie Wonder used synthesizers on "Talking Book" to maximize the orchestral capabilities and emotive expression of…
May 20, 2021
On its 50th birthday, let's ask: Would we rather have great music about turmoil that never ends or marginal, disposable…
The Universal Hip Hop Museum Groundbreaking Ceremony Held In Bronx Point
May 19, 2021
Showtime announced a partnership with Mass Appeal to celebrate hip-hop's 50th birthday with three years of content.
August 6, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says all Americans owe a debt to the sharecroppers and maids and ordinary Americans…
November 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Prominent black figures of the time expressed sadness and concern following the president's assassination...
August 29, 2013
MSNBC - As Wednesday’s 'Let Freedom Ring' ceremony commenced, the Dream Defenders’ executive director, Phillip Agnew, was cut from the…
August 29, 2013
theGRIO VIDEO - The couple, which had been together for ten years at the time of Rustin's death, could not…
August 29, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama and former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter were among the speakers at Wednesday's…
August 29, 2013
theGRIO SLIDESHOW - Tens of thousands gathered in the nation’s capital Wednesday to celebrate and commemorate the 50th anniversary of…
August 28, 2013
MSNBC - Bruce Davidson is a Magnum photographer and a revered master of social documentary photography...
August 28, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On the morning of festivities commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, members of…
August 28, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s youngest daughter, Bernice talked to Nightly News about the 50th anniversary of her…
August 28, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - For many, the 1963 March of Washington is the most significant event of the Civil Rights Movement.…
August 27, 2013
As part of the festivities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, first lady Michelle Obama hosted a…
August 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The White House is hosting a forum called "50 Years Forward: Building Ladders of Opportunity" in anticipation…
August 25, 2013
Lawmakers, activists, and civil rights leaders fired up a crowd of thousands on Washington, D.C.’s national mall Saturday to commemorate…
August 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On Saturday, the NAACP acted robustly in concert with various groups, 100 percent behind the cause of…
August 25, 2013
For the next 16 hours the group rumbled up I-95 and the eastern seaboard toward Washington and a date with…
August 25, 2013
These leaders have given deposits greater than themselves in the hopes that, just as after the '63 march, people today…