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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…
April 12, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The rich history of Georgia's black legislators has been captured in an exciting exhibit at an African-American…
April 10, 2012
CHICAGO - The anniversary of the Titanic holds special meaning for Palatine's Christine LeBrun, whose ancestor is believed to be…
April 9, 2012
Lost in all the hoopla surrounding the 3-D re-release of the 1997 blockbuster has been revelations about the black passengers…
April 3, 2012
Hank Aaron, one of baseball's greatest players, may be coming to theaters soon.
March 30, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is opening two new exhibits that retrace the history of the Civil…
March 27, 2012
HARRISON, Ark. (AP) - When a black man supposedly broke into a white man's home in 1905, a mob ran…
March 24, 2012
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The Black Panther party preached 'power to the people,' but in the San Francisco Bay area's…
March 15, 2012
The diploma of the first African-American Harvard graduate has been discovered in an abandoned home on the South Side of…
March 13, 2012
A Philadelphia woman found photo albums of African-American life during World War II in a trashcan...
March 9, 2012
Harlem's Lenox Lounge was once one of the most popular African-American nightspots in the country but now it is in…
March 9, 2012
Cleveland Height Patch - As part of Black History Month, students chose one famous African-American writer, musician, athlete or activist…
March 7, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - When most people think of Harley-Davidson, they rarely associate it with blacks. However, Harley-Davidson is trying to…
March 6, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared in 1857 that blacks -- enslaved or…
March 6, 2012
MADAME NOIRE - While Regina hasn't said anything about the role for some time, Kerry Washington recently let the news…