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May 30, 2012
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The son of Malcolm X's biographer is asking Syracuse University to hand over a letter in…
May 29, 2012
ALBANY, N.Y. - Nearly 150 years after the last fusillade of the Civil War, historians, authors and museum curators are…
May 29, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Plessy, who was considered Creole, and his case (Plessy v. Ferguson) would set in motion a series…
May 29, 2012
theGRIO Q&A - Journalist and filmmaker Sharon La Cruise has taken a seven-year journey to tell the story of Daisy…
May 28, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Black veterans, especially those who fought in World War II, served critical roles in raising national and…
May 25, 2012
Twin Falls, Idaho (KMVT-TV) - A five year old boy who became a fan of the Tuskegee Airmen after seeing…
May 25, 2012
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group…
May 24, 2012
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African-American to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy, has…
May 21, 2012
OPINION - While the African-Americans and LGBT communities have each experienced a legacy of oppression and a struggle for equality…
May 18, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - An attorney claims a judge and two lawyers involved in a long-running dispute over civil rights pioneer…
May 17, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A second-grader at an elementary school in Colorado was told to remove makeup he wore to turn…
May 15, 2012
More than a century ago William Henderson Foote served as lawman of the highest order in his town of Yazoo…
May 11, 2012
The National Park Service has designated lands from North Carolina to Florida as protected land to be preserved in commemoration…
May 1, 2012
PBS's series 'American Experience' will honor Jesse Owens with a 1-hour look at his life and Olympic career...
April 27, 2012
OPINION - The King beating verdict and the L.A. riots were a sad and tragic taint on the Tom Bradley…
April 26, 2012
VIDEO - A museum showcasing thousands of racist memorabilia artifacts opened on Michigan's Ferris State University's Campus on Thursday...
April 26, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it happened just last week. History won't…
April 20, 2012
VIDEO - President Obama recently visited the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. While there, he sat on the bus…
April 19, 2012
OPINION - Today, when black artists readily rise to pop acclaim, it's difficult to understand Dick Clark's pioneering significance in…
April 19, 2012
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Dick Clark may have worked in bigger cities over the course of his long entertainment career, but…