Black History

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July 22, 2011
OPINION - When it comes to preserving African-American history and culture, why are we always on the losing end?...
July 19, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The African American Civil War Museum in Washington is celebrating its grand reopening in a new, larger…
July 14, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta firefighters have put out a fire in a building at the Martin Luther King Jr. National…
June 23, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The 5-foot-2, physically challenged escaped slave is the motivation behind two national projects in the works, a…
June 16, 2011
EASTON, Md. (AP) - Abolitionist Frederick Douglass is finally getting a homecoming celebration in his native Maryland county with a…
June 15, 2011
Confederate law prohibited slaves from serving as soldiers until March 1865, when it was changed in a last-gasp effort to…
May 27, 2011
"That ceremony on May 1, 1865 was actually the first recorded Decoration Day or Memorial Day," said David Blight, author…
May 26, 2011
OPINION - What must it have been like to board segregated buses 50 years ago, when indignities and insults were…
May 19, 2011
David Barton, the Republican establishment's favorite amateur historian, claims in tax records reviewed by HuffPost to be something of an…
May 12, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Recy Taylor is touring the nation's capital nearly seven decades after she was denied justice following a…
May 9, 2011
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Charles Reed Jr. is skipping his college graduation ceremony to do something much more significant to…
April 20, 2011
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. (AP) - The museum will display rare books and documents connected with civil rights icons like Frederick…
April 15, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - King was born not far from Ebenezer and is buried across the street from the church. He…
April 14, 2011
OPINION - The attacks on the president's citizenship, combined with the personal jabs against Mr. Obama and his family, are…
March 7, 2011
OPINION - The new book "Colonization After Emancipation' portrays the former president's sincerity about racial equality in a new an…
March 1, 2011
OPINION - These men and women were part of the cultural and intellectual elite well before the Harlem Renaissance, at…
February 23, 2011
SLIDESHOW - How much did you really retain from elementary school about the origins of Black History Month?...
February 22, 2011
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is helping teachers bring history alive in their classrooms...
February 18, 2011
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Recent flaps over racially offensive language at the University of Alabama fit a pattern that's dogged…
February 18, 2011
SLIDESHOW - Joe Frazier became heavyweight champion, Morehouse was founded and Huey P. Newton was born; this is an incredibly…