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theGRIO REPORT - Here are 10 more things to know about the institution that brought millions of people into the…
LAGUNA NIGUEL, California (AP) — One of the four Olympic gold medals won by track and field greatJesse Owens at…
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — George Stinney has been dead since 1944, when as a 14-year-old black boy he became…
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The painful story of a free black man lured from his home in New York in…
theGRIO REPORT - The history of blackface minstrelsy isn’t talked about regularly today, but its cultural residue is all around…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Standing near where tens of thousands of African slaves landed in Charleston, Mayor Joseph P. Riley…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi breaks ground Thursday on side-by-side museums that are expected to break ground of their own…
theGRIO REPORT - Much like 'The Butler', 'Backstairs at the White House' paints juicy portraits of the presidents and their…
DAILY BEAST - The story of Solomon Northup is a great disappointment to mythbusters and cynical editors—it’s pretty much all…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two rare documents from a fleeting time after the Civil War when the University of South…
NEW YORK (AP) — To mark the 10th anniversary of the Louis Armstrong museum in the modest brick house where…
theGRIO REPORT - Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and his collaborator Dr. Donald Yacovone have exciting findings for African-American history…
theGRIO REPORT - Several African-American landmarks and heritage sites have been forced to close Tuesday following the federal government shutdown.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Organizers of the annual Kunta Kinte festival in Annapolis, Md., say the event will not be…
OPINION - As the release date for the highly anticipated film, '12 Years a Slave', based on Solomon Northup’s bestselling…
RIDGELAND, Mississippi (AP) — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s personal secretary is selling a collection from the early civil…
ESSAY - The anniversary of the brutal murder of four girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama…
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Abused in life and death, an enslaved man known as Mr. Fortune will be honored…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A Clemson University professor is convinced that Harriet Beecher Stowe might not have written 'Uncle Tom's…
theGRIO REPORT - Although today Dr. King’s iconic 'I Have a Dream' speech often symbolizes the March for many, it…