Civil Rights Movement

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April 26, 2011
OPINION - Even if Barbour did not tote a storage locker of personal and political baggage, his candidacy would still…
April 18, 2011
OPINION - With so much film footage documenting the real thing, it's just hard to imagine a worthy substitute...
March 11, 2011
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) - The FBI's Cold Case Initiative is investigating the 46-year-old case of a Massachusetts minister who was…
March 7, 2011
SELMA, Alabama (AP) - Thousands of marchers marked the 46th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" voting rights confrontation in Selma...
February 21, 2011
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Barbour says he denounces the Klan, but doesn't denounce specific people and that's what he…
February 21, 2011
OPINION - Had he survived into the Facebook era, his relationship status with race matters might well have been filed…
February 18, 2011
OPINION: 'The Injustice Files' underscores a key issue that shows why many unsolved murders are allowed to wither on the…
February 2, 2011
OPINION - Over fifty years later, 'The Montgomery Story' has been given new life -- in the Arab world...
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Lolis Eric Elie's passion for history and storytelling intersected with his home city's destruction at the hands…
January 16, 2011
OPINION - It is our fault, not his, that Dr. King has been placed on a pedestal so high that…
January 14, 2011
OPINION - To my parents, Martin Luther King was not some faraway figure on the page of a newspaper or…
December 21, 2010
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring young activists intent on ending segregated…
December 21, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gov. Haley Barbour spoke out a day after several liberal activists criticized his published comments about school…
December 19, 2010
OPINION - Much like those who marched the streets of Detroit, Chicago, Selma and Montgomery -- we must believe...
December 17, 2010
CLUTCH - Height, who passed away this past April at the age of 98, was one of the most significant…
December 14, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - America's neighborhoods became more integrated last year than during any time in at least a century as…
December 10, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Jimmie Lee Jackson was taking part in a peaceful civil rights protest in his hometown of Marion,…
December 6, 2010
OPINION - On this 55th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, perhaps we can finally end the myth of Parks…
December 2, 2010
VIDEO - December 1st, 2010 marked the 55th anniversary of the fateful day Rosa Parks refused to give up her…
November 9, 2010
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Hundreds looked on as an angry mob dragged a black University of Missouri janitor from his…