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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.
Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop" who once moonwalked above the music world, died Thursday as he prepared for a…
In 1984, NBC reporter Jack Perkins looks at the rising popularity of singer Michael Jackson and his top-selling album, “Thriller.”
The U.S. Senate urged President Barack Obama to pardon the late black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, who was sent to…
On the eve of Juneteenth, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution apologizing for slavery. The gesture sparked lots of debate
As the story goes…. there once was a dancer who showed up to the Apollo Theater for Amateur night in
In light of today’s Supreme Court decision to exempt a district in Texas from the Voting Rights Act , theGrio.com
JULIA MAYES TheGrio.com went behind the scenes at New York City’s 59E59 Theater’s “Pure Confidence,” a play about an African-American