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September 20, 2013
OPINION - As the release date for the highly anticipated film, '12 Years a Slave', based on Solomon Northup’s bestselling…
September 18, 2013
RIDGELAND, Mississippi (AP) — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s personal secretary is selling a collection from the early civil…
September 15, 2013
ESSAY - The anniversary of the brutal murder of four girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama…
September 13, 2013
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Abused in life and death, an enslaved man known as Mr. Fortune will be honored…
September 3, 2013
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A Clemson University professor is convinced that Harriet Beecher Stowe might not have written 'Uncle Tom's…
September 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Although today Dr. King’s iconic 'I Have a Dream' speech often symbolizes the March for many, it…
August 28, 2013
theGRIO Q&A - Gary Younge's latest work reflects on critical moments leading up to King's powerful -- and unexpectedly iconic…
August 27, 2013
VIDEO - A lot had changed for King since 1963. John F. Kennedy was gone. He had been impressed by…
August 25, 2013
VIDEO - Watch the Aug. 25, 1963 edition of Meet the Press, featuring interviews with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.…
August 25, 2013
Thousands gathered at the National Mall Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
August 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - One of the direct descendants of legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman has launched scathing attack on Russell Simmons'…
August 15, 2013
OPINION - The endless controversies over black movies have gotten to the point where movies won’t get made, or won’t…
August 10, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In fact, what started as a husband and wife hobby to collect mementos on their travels has…
August 9, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Bayard Rustin, one of the most important, yet unheralded, figures in the civil rights movement will be…
August 8, 2013
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - After a tragedy like the Trayvon Martin killing, calls routinely arise for a conversation about…
August 6, 2013
REVIEW - Founded in 1870, Dunbar High has produced many of the nation’s pioneering black "firsts," African-Americans who broke through…
August 6, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday honored former baseball players in the Negro League, a haven for African-American…
August 2, 2013
ESSAY - In my mind Eugene Allen’s story is nothing less than a hero’s tale, forming its own distinctly American…
July 29, 2013
EASTON, Md. (AP) — Archaeology students have been sifting through a little patch of ground on Maryland's Eastern Shore this…
July 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Today marks what would have been the 72nd birthday of Emmett Till, the African-American boy whose tragic…