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