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From TheGRIO - Texas Gov. Rick Perry will attend a retreat with a controversial evangelical "historian" who doubts Martin Luther…
ATLANTA (AP) - With Lewis leaning on his shovel, and Jackson and Young leaning on each other, they wept for…
OPINION - Our ancestors were beaten, maimed and killed during slavery, when it was illegal to teach a slave to…
OPINION - To compare the noble goals of the civil rights movement to the nefarious political strategies of GOP hacks…
SLIDESHOW - The public got its first glimpse of the Martin Luther king Jr. memorial on Monday...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The road to this weekend's dedication, however, has run through hurdles of all kinds -- not unlike…
MONEY, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is providing $152,000 to restore a gas station as…
WASHINGTON (AP) - The African American Civil War Museum in Washington is celebrating its grand reopening in a new, larger…
SLIDESHOW - With the upcoming celebration of Independence Day, there are activists who paved the way for our independence as…
ATLANTA (AP) - She had been an active member of the board of directors for the Atlanta-based King Center since…
Despite the fact that the X-Men's story is based on the Civil Rights movement, racism and discrimination, there is no…
OPINION - When the Civil Rights Movement needed a soundtrack, it supplemented the hallowing sounds of gospel music to deliver…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma civil rights icon Clara Luper, who led sit-ins at drug store lunch counters in Oklahoma,…
OPINION - What must it have been like to board segregated buses 50 years ago, when indignities and insults were…
OPINION - If young people were willing to risk their lives 50 years ago for the cause of equal rights,…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Rep. John Lewis said he teared up Friday when he walked through the old Greyhound station…
theGRIO REPORT - It was Jackie Robinson's non-violent reaction to the hatred, boos, racist taunts and threatening letters that predated…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Charles Reed Jr. is skipping his college graduation ceremony to do something much more significant to…
SLIDESHOW - This week marks the start of the 50th anniversary of the civil rights Freedom Riders, who traveled by…
WASHINGTON (AP) - This month, students will retrace the Freedom Rides. Also, PBS will premiere a new documentary on the…