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September 3, 2009
From our friends at essence.com: After 54 years, the story of Emmett Till is still making news. Till was just
September 1, 2009
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- Former Tuskegee Airman Robert Decatur, who became a judge and civil rights lawyer, will be buried…
September 1, 2009
OPINION - HBCUs are not just relevant, they are a necessary tool of educational obtainment for some black, and even…
September 1, 2009
VIDEO - For more than a century, historically black colleges and universities -- HBCUs -- have focused on educating the…
August 29, 2009
OPINION -- The last time I met with Michael, we saw each other from across the room and he made…
August 28, 2009
OPINION -- In today's age, what would Martin Luther King Jr. think about health care reform as a matter of…
August 27, 2009
OPINION - A member of Congress requested use of our church to have a town hall meeting on health care…
August 25, 2009
Politicians, business leaders, and educators gathered at the national mall in Washington, DC to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. and…
August 22, 2009
OPINION - While on the Vineyard, you're just as likely to bump into a New York City office security guard…
August 21, 2009
CASTRO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) -- Burl Toler, the first African-American official in NFL history who went on to work one…
August 12, 2009
President Barack Obama awarded the nation's highest civilian honor to 16 "agents of change" on Wednesday, highlighting their accomplishments as…
August 12, 2009
VIDEO - A civil rights icon who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and helped lead the Montgomery…
August 9, 2009
As President Obama and the nation's lawmakers tackle hot-button issues like health care reform, momentum is quietly building to honor…
August 9, 2009
More than 150 years ago this week, the Underground Railroad began, giving slaves in the South a chance at freedom.…
August 6, 2009
This afternoon, the Senate voted to make Sonia Sotomayor the first Latina and only the third woman...
August 4, 2009
Naomi Sims, the first black fashion model to appear on the cover of Ladies' Home Journal, has died. She was…
July 28, 2009
On the 141st anniversary of the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, theGrio reflects with iCue on the revolutionary bill giving…
July 22, 2009
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A boyhood home of writer Langston Hughes has been sold in foreclosure...
July 21, 2009
The NAACP announced during its convention last week that it has joined the online revolution with its new effort to
July 17, 2009
On the 50th anniversary of Holiday's death, a Baltimore statue of the jazz icon now bears images evoking the anti-racism…