Civil Rights Movement

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June 28, 2016
CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) — Civil rights leader and former congressional delegate Walter Fauntroy has been arrested at Dulles International Airport…
February 12, 2016
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Civil rights leader John Lewis on Thursday dismissed Sanders' claims of his 1960s work on…
October 23, 2015
President Obama gets it. At the end of a White House forum about criminal justice, Obama took the time to…
August 3, 2015
SELMA, Alabama (AP) — An 860-mile protest march to Washington has begun in Selma, 50 years after the city's historic…
July 31, 2015
OPINION - If we need a "new leader," cool. But why don't we ever ask who "she" might be? If…
July 27, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Jay Z and Will Smith are ready for their next collaboration. The Hollywood/hip-hop giants will tell the…
May 22, 2015
Can you think of a better way for a black man to spend Memorial Day than to burn a Confederate
May 4, 2015
The revolution will not only be televised but apparently it will also be uploaded, downloaded, streamed, posted and tweeted as
March 9, 2015
theGrio REPORT - To highlight the President’s event in Selma on Saturday, the First Lady shared an email on the…
March 7, 2015
theGrio REPORT - SELMA, Ala. (AP) — America's racial history "still casts its long shadow upon us," the nation's first…
March 5, 2015
(AP) - They only lasted minutes, but the images of the beatings of civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, on…
February 26, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Thursday marks the third anniversary of the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin...
February 23, 2015
Meryl Streep leapt to her feet cheering, pointing and shouting, "Yes! Yes!" as Patricia Arquette ended her Oscar acceptance speech…
February 21, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Activists, actors, and politicians will remember civil rights leader Malcolm X with a ceremony at the
January 27, 2015
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nine black men arrested for integrating a whites-only South Carolina lunch counter 54 years ago may…
June 13, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — For Ruby Dee, acting and activism weren't contradictory things. They were inseparable, and they were intertwined...
May 16, 2014
Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) aggressive outreach to the black community over the last several months is dividing African-American leaders, with…
April 9, 2014
OPINION - The question remains: Will the civil rights organizers of today respond with a sustained push for voter registration…
April 8, 2014
OPINION - With four of five living presidents poised to attend the Civil Rights Summit at the Lyndon B. Johnson…
April 5, 2014
NBC News - The main section of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn. reopens to the public on…