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OPINION - A member of Congress requested use of our church to have a town hall meeting on health care…
Politicians, business leaders, and educators gathered at the national mall in Washington, DC to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. and…
OPINION - While on the Vineyard, you're just as likely to bump into a New York City office security guard…
CASTRO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) -- Burl Toler, the first African-American official in NFL history who went on to work one…
President Barack Obama awarded the nation's highest civilian honor to 16 "agents of change" on Wednesday, highlighting their accomplishments as…
VIDEO - A civil rights icon who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and helped lead the Montgomery…
As President Obama and the nation's lawmakers tackle hot-button issues like health care reform, momentum is quietly building to honor…
More than 150 years ago this week, the Underground Railroad began, giving slaves in the South a chance at freedom.…
This afternoon, the Senate voted to make Sonia Sotomayor the first Latina and only the third woman...
Naomi Sims, the first black fashion model to appear on the cover of Ladies' Home Journal, has died. She was…
On the 141st anniversary of the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, theGrio reflects with iCue on the revolutionary bill giving…
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A boyhood home of writer Langston Hughes has been sold in foreclosure...
On the 50th anniversary of Holiday's death, a Baltimore statue of the jazz icon now bears images evoking the anti-racism…
President Barack Obama paid homage to the NAACP as a pioneering civil rights group, saying that civil rights leaders from…
As the 100th NAACP Conference wrapped up, theGrio took a look at the organization to examine how it is working…
The Senate confirmed on Wednesday retired astronaut Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden as administrator of NASA, just in time for the…
In the early 1900s, vicious attacks against African Americans were almost as common in the North as in the South.
At 36 years-old Benjamin Todd Jealous is the youngest person to ever lead the NAACP. As he presented his opening…
In 1957, the campus of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, became a battleground in the fight for school