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TheGRIO REPORT - As I finally returned to the City of Lights, I began to understand why black Americans have…
theGRIO REPORT - For decades, efforts to honor Tubman on a national level have stalled for one reason or another...
CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) - It's not the Heartbreak Hotel or the Ritz, and George Washington didn't sleep there...
OPINION - Our ancestors were beaten, maimed and killed during slavery, when it was illegal to teach a slave to…
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some were locals who've watched for years as the memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.…
OPINION - The black women who were maids in the American South before the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's…
OPINION - When it comes to preserving African-American history and culture, why are we always on the losing end?...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The African American Civil War Museum in Washington is celebrating its grand reopening in a new, larger…
ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta firefighters have put out a fire in a building at the Martin Luther King Jr. National…
theGRIO REPORT - The 5-foot-2, physically challenged escaped slave is the motivation behind two national projects in the works, a…
EASTON, Md. (AP) - Abolitionist Frederick Douglass is finally getting a homecoming celebration in his native Maryland county with a…
Confederate law prohibited slaves from serving as soldiers until March 1865, when it was changed in a last-gasp effort to…
"That ceremony on May 1, 1865 was actually the first recorded Decoration Day or Memorial Day," said David Blight, author…
OPINION - What must it have been like to board segregated buses 50 years ago, when indignities and insults were…
David Barton, the Republican establishment's favorite amateur historian, claims in tax records reviewed by HuffPost to be something of an…
WASHINGTON (AP) - Recy Taylor is touring the nation's capital nearly seven decades after she was denied justice following a…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Charles Reed Jr. is skipping his college graduation ceremony to do something much more significant to…
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. (AP) - The museum will display rare books and documents connected with civil rights icons like Frederick…
ATLANTA (AP) - King was born not far from Ebenezer and is buried across the street from the church. He…