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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…
OPINION - The new book "Colonization After Emancipation' portrays the former president's sincerity about racial equality in a new an…
OPINION - These men and women were part of the cultural and intellectual elite well before the Harlem Renaissance, at…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Recent flaps over racially offensive language at the University of Alabama fit a pattern that's dogged…
SLIDESHOW - Joe Frazier became heavyweight champion, Morehouse was founded and Huey P. Newton was born; this is an incredibly…