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ATLANTA (AP) - Jesse Hill Jr., a civil rights leader and businessman who later became the first black president of…
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington for Civil Rights were…
theGRIO REPORT - Long before the recent FBI probe of Gen. David Petraeus, leading to his resignation as CIA director,…
theGRIO REPORT - During a debate response, Independent Mike Connelly implied Rosa Park's 1955 refusal to give up her bus…
theGRIO REPORT - Hamer, who would have been 95 on Oct. 6, is remembered the world over as a woman…
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - The black man who enrolled at the University of Mississippi 50 years ago amid violent protests…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) - A U.S. man says he has discovered the audio tape of a forgotten interview with civil…
Over 800 hours of recently released of recordings from the Lyndon Johnson White House reveal how President John F. Kennedy's…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd obtained secret FBI documents about the civil rights movement that were…
VIDEO - When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to sit at the back of the bus, Thelma…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Thelma McWilliams Glass, a longtime professor and civil rights pioneer who helped organize the Montgomery bus…
theGRIO REPORT - Today, 45 years later, the 1967 Riots are seen as more than four days of destruction and…
VIDEO - While you won’t find Booker Wright’s name in any history books, he is an unsung hero whose legacy…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A black ex-prison inmate has filed a lawsuit against reputed Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen…
theGRIO Q&A - Journalist and filmmaker Sharon La Cruise has taken a seven-year journey to tell the story of Daisy…
theGRIO REPORT - When President Harry Truman signed an executive order on July 26, 1948, calling for the desegregation of…
theGRIO REPORT - Black veterans, especially those who fought in World War II, served critical roles in raising national and…
DETROIT (AP) - An attorney claims a judge and two lawyers involved in a long-running dispute over civil rights pioneer…
OPINION - Bayard Rustin, who had worked with the original March in 1941, was a constant and steady force during…