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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...
June 14, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Kathe Hambrick-Jackson has set out to bring a slice of history to kids in her neighborhood by…
June 14, 2012
The annual Juneteenth celebration in Stockton is the anniversary of Texas abolishing of slavery...
June 13, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A piece of African-American history that was once sold for just a few dollars could fetch millions…
June 12, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - University of Michigan archaeologists have resumed their dig of the home to James Holliday, a freed slave…
June 5, 2012
Founded in 1953, the African-American Museum in Cleveland was one of the firsts of it's kind...
May 30, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Emory University has secured one of the largest photo libraries of black history ever assembled...