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November 7, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The first African American graduate from the United States Air Force Academy has passed away.
November 2, 2012
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis plans to open the balcony where Martin Luther King…
October 6, 2012
The Ghanaian-American thespian shared with us what it was like to portray a part of black history that is rarely…
September 22, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama on Thursday signed a bill that will send a statue of legendary abolitionist leader…
September 11, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday night approved a resolution that will move the bust of…
September 5, 2012
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - With their slouch hats, whiskers and time-worn instruments, members of the 2nd South Carolina String Band…
August 17, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - America’s oldest Tuskegee airman has finally been honored seven decades after he fought in World War II...
August 6, 2012
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law.
August 5, 2012
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd obtained secret FBI documents about the civil rights movement that were…
August 2, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Spike Lee has offered to pay off Malcolm X’s Manhattan estate storage debt. The Manhattan Mini storage…
July 31, 2012
VIDEO - When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to sit at the back of the bus, Thelma…
July 25, 2012
OPINION - Black viewers absolutely loved George Jefferson for telling white people off every week as well as for becoming…
July 13, 2012
If no acceptable terms are presented, a creditor plans to petition to begin selling off the Montague African American Collection…
July 9, 2012
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A group that publicizes Kansas history is planning a three-day celebration in Topeka next month to…
June 26, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - A rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation sold Tuesday at a New York…
June 22, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - One man has filled up tomes; while another has only generated footnotes. Still, their relationship, especially in…
June 21, 2012
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) - Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina forcibly sterilized about 7,600 people whom it deemed 'feeble-minded'…
June 21, 2012
In celebrating the bicentennial of the War of 1812, many historians have said that remembering the pivotal role African Americans…
June 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Welcoming over 10,000 visitors a year, the Penn Center, which has 19 buildings in all and a…
June 18, 2012
Recently a Washington Post sportswriter chronicled the reined the first African-American boxing champ, Joe Gans...