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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
In Arkansas Sataurday, it was a memorable reunion for a senior class that didnt exist. Classmates from the Horace Mann…
In anticipation of Barack Obama’s arrival to Ghana today, theGrio reflects on former President Bill Clinton’s twelve-day tour of Africa
ALSIP, Illinois (AP) -- While Till's grave site was not disturbed, Sheriff Tom Dart said investigators found his original iconic…
On the eve of President Obama’s visit to Ghana, theGrio looks back to when the country first celebrated its independence
KYLE HARVEY James Young recently made history in Philadelphia, Mississippi after defeating the incumbent Rayburn Waddell by 46 votes. On
As sisters Venus and Serena Williams battle each other yet again for another grand-slam title at Wimbledon, we look back
July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in the company of Martin Luther King Jr.