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March 14, 2024
Dorie Ladner was one of the first workers to go to Natchez, Mississippi in 1964 to help people register to…
February 13, 2023
Roslyn Pope, a college professor and musician who wrote “An Appeal for Human Rights,” laying out the reasons for the Atlanta...
October 13, 2022
A 91-year-old civil rights activist and education advocate was stabbed multiple times while walking her dog in a Boston park,…
March 31, 2021
Alvin Sykes was a self-taught legal defender and known for reopening cold cases such as the murder of Emmett Till.
March 2, 2021
"The last thing he'd ever do is betray a friendship," President Clinton said of Jordan back in '96. "It's good…
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April 4, 2018
Now, 50 years after his murder, we wonder did Dr. King ever think about his own death? And, how did…
September 20, 2014
The late, great Ruby Dee was memorialized at New York City's Riverside Church
June 13, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — For Ruby Dee, acting and activism weren't contradictory things. They were inseparable, and they were intertwined...
June 12, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Ruby Dee an acclaimed actor and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio television…
August 23, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Environmental justice advocates are often excluded from green economy policy decicion-making...
December 14, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Singer and social activist Harry Belafonte went on MSNBC's 'Politics Nation' last night, hosted by Al Sharpton,…