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January 4, 2013
The study found that “racial socialization”—teaching kids about their culture and involving them in activities that promote racial pride and…
December 31, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — As New Year's Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln in expectation…
December 31, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - After years of claims that they were wrongly convicted, nine African-American men and one white women wrongly…
December 30, 2012
VIDEO - On Saturday, Melissa Harris Perry used her weekly "letter" to address out-going North Carolina Governor Bev Purdue. Her…
December 6, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - 'Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries' explores African-Americans' contributions as nurses, surgeons and hospital staff during the Civil War...
November 21, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The University of Kansas has published a historic collection of African American photos from the late 1940s…
November 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A statue of Frederick Douglass, orator, writer, abolitionist, and advocate for equality of all people, will move…
November 16, 2012
REVIEW - The film depicts Lincoln as a legend without deep exploration of his belief system, and very seldom shows…
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…