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LOS ANGELES - After years of searching, it was the week before Thanksgiving that Darryl Sr. came across a man…
OPINION - The majority of the African descendant populations in Latin America, the United States, Africa and the Caribbean have…
theGRIO REPORT - More than half of states fail when it comes to teaching about the Civil Rights Movement in…
OPINION - In schools and in neighborhoods throughout this country, a new generation of history makers are budding...
VIDEO - Letters, bonds, wills and court letters are held at the Virginia Historical Society. The documents are not open…
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…